The past week has been a slow blogging week for me and I hope that things can get back to normal in the week ahead. Apart from the party conference almost all the family have had varying degrees of catching this pretty ferocious bug that seems to be going around.
On the local political front we have also had a by election called in Grove. The good news is that we were intending to concentrate some fire at Grove over the next few weeks so our wider campaigning is not too disrupted. There are also a lot of issues around Grove that I am sure our opponents are not too pleased with at the moment.In any case the first job is to select a suitable candidate. I suppose the fact that out opponents were caught somewhat on the hop helps us a little.
I was saddened by the death of the hostage in Iraq. I am horrified by the cruel and barbaric way his life was ended I have become alarmed by the metaphor he has come to represent. There were times in the past few days when the method of his death became the focus rather than the sadness of his death. There have been many deaths over the war in Iraq but should The City of Liverpool and the England football team be holding two minute silences for him? I am not demeaning his death but it does worry me that they held these memorials when they never knew the man. What of those soldiers who died in Iraq and they never knew? What of the Iraqis who are dying? Who holds two minute silences for them?
Still on a happier note I spent an excellent Saturday morning delivering in St. Mark's ward along with 8 colleagues. We have an excellent organisation in St. Mark's that can deliver the entire ward in two days - pretty good going.
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