tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22552177629035432422012-02-16T22:50:21.936ZGossip, Politics, Rumours and Intrigue in CarlisleHadrian's Head, vox populi vox deihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998283314652456779noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2255217762903543242.post-68151885003229268142010-06-27T01:04:00.001+01:002010-06-27T01:04:52.762+01:00

Carlisle’s new Member of Parliament impresses with his first speech. In his own words: “We must decentralise. It is important that we take decision making back to the communities and allow local people to make local decisions for themselves. Whitehall has a role, but that role has become far too big. We now have the opportunity to return power to local people. I genuinely believe that elected

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This year is the tenth anniversary of the creation of the 'Cursing Stone' on the underpass between Carlisle Castle and the Tullie House Museum. Has the past decade been one of prosperity, for Carlisle, Cumbria and its people? Floods: Since 2000, Carlisle, Cockermouth, Keswick and Kendal have suffered the worst flooding in modern history. The devastation caused cost hundreds of millions of

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After years of discussion, years of negotiations, after repeated failures by a local farmer to stop Carlisle Airport, from, becoming an Airport, mr Gordon Brown has found a High Court judge as batty as he is. What's the mentality of someone like that? The entire Stobarts group could now leave Cumbria, who's to blame?

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This is from the Carlisle Labour Party Website: "Michael has fallen victim to the general swing to the Tories. He lost to Conservative John Stevenson by just 853votes with a swing of 7.7% from Labour to the Tories." http://www.carlislelabourparty.org.uk/index.cfm?fa=contentNews.newsDetails&newsID=544127&from=list No Michael, the general swing was 5.2%, on that figure you would have won. It

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Well done John, you ran a pretty good campaign. That was the easy bit, now you have to fill the big shoes of Eric your predecessor. Love him or hate him, he knew how to command press coverage and get what he wanted. Be careful though John, if you want to fill his trousers as well you'll have to start eating a lot more pies.

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Lets all collectively pray we dont have another election in the next six months. I really cant cope with the tedium of it all. How could four weeks of campaigning feel so long? I wish the new government all the best but it does kind of feel like we have endured a horrid pregnancy, gone through the 24 hour labour, and instead of a beautiful bouncing baby, we have ended up with a puppy that wont

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