message query for government

Alright, Mr Gordon Brown is listening to me...

Another petition, regarding a tax on plastic bags. With the news that M&S are stopping giving them away, things are rollling in a greener direction. With this, and the recent sunday newspaper story that Brucie probably WILL be getting his knighthood ...

Mr Gordon Brown refused my demand to abolish religious mythology in schools

Well fancy that. Do you think that one day a boy will ever be born who can swim faster than a shark one of these petitions will provoke anything other than a dismissal? We received a petition asking: "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister...

RE: They have accepted the petition on pm.gov.uk

Sorry, I had my Mark Thomas hat on - it was the thought of the Government choosing what we were allowed to petition for.

Up to our HIPs (geddit?!?!?)

First off, huge trouble at the quiz at The Ship last night - the wife and I were on different teams, as we had friends with us. It was looking like Clare's team was going to walk the mini quiz with a straight ten out of ten, and we'd got one wrong, s...
Rated 4.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

RE: Meet the new boss

Heyup, Pauly. I vote for a party, or a consituency MP, not for the party leader. While I'm concerned that there is no leadership election in the Labour party this time, I'm not sure if that will put of any more voters than those already disillusioned...

Trent developments are bypassing the council

They're going direct to the government for their building certificate, so the council have missed their chance to approve or reject Trent and Godden's plans...

Curse of the Titanic?

Just found this on popbitch of all places:A boat, The Nomadic, which was built and used to bring 1st class passengers from the dock to the Titanic on its maiden voyage was rescued from a scrap yard in France and is to be used as one of the main attra...

Subvert the internets!

Interesting article here about web privacy, this guy says (correctly) that all these cool Web 2.0 services are all about using us, the humble site visitors, to organise the web for the man (and give more info about ourselves than the government would...

Our council wants a casino on the Folkestone seafront?

Seafront casino plansAN application has been submitted for a casino for Shepway.The Government's casino advisory panel welcomed proposals from local authorities for regional, large or smaller venues, and on Friday, Shepway District Council put its ca...

Compulsory water meters for Folkestone in the new year!

The Government is likely to give the go-ahead for compulsory water meters in 20,000 homes in the Folkestone and Dover areas in the new year, says The Times.

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Regional fire centre site named

Saw on the local news that four Kentish fire centres are to be replaced with one in Fareham... seems like a sensible idea to me, though I might be missing something. This is only replacing the operations centres, answering calls and assigning jobs, ...

Gmail

Yes but no but yes... they've removed the ad today. I know they're thinking of increasing the storage space (so the American government can track you even more intensely based on all the information you leave there) but I still think their "infinity...

Rail For Folkestone

This site campaigning for the new high speed rail link is not good at all, not been updated for a while, and all it has on it is some 700k PDF files, rubbish, typical of local government, hope the prospects for the rail link are better... We've regis...

Secret Work for the Government

I am away doing secret work for the government again this week and someone just wheeled K9 into the office. Not the real one though (he is real) but a life sized model someone made. Cool. Anyway, just taking a five minute breather to tell you about t...

Who the flip are the Hellacopters?

Hope you got in when I first recommended it as it seems The Datsuns have sold out the Astoria... it could be the Hellacopters, I suppose, they're the headliners...Anyway, there's still a chance to get tickets for the other shows here, but you've had ...

Eve! Eve! Eve!

No, it's not the mice on the mouse organ, it's me popping back to tell you where Athlete are doing a gig on Monday 27th May - It's The Eve Club, Regent Street, right opposite Hamley's... why they doing it here? I don't know, it is odd, but you can ge...

Pistols Play the Palace!

The Sex Pistols are playing a huge show at Crystal Palace to celebrate my birthday on the 27th of July, get tickets here now... I can't, as I'm going to a mate's wedding that day, but you go, enjoy yourselves... The Cure and Neil Diamond are also put...

Secret work for the government

Hi all, I am out of the office right now doing secret work for the government, and can't get to my email...If you really want to get hold of me, please try leaving a message here...Saw Damon Albarn in the bar last night, he has a full and healthy hea...

Day of LISTS, part one

OASIS have headed up an entirely arbitrary new chart in today's Metro newspaper...To accompany a story about the Government relaxing the ban on buskers on London Underground, and said buskers being made to audition before they will be granted a licen...