David Powicke's Page

David. All I can say is that it took 7 - 10 days for each of my blogs to be accepted and presented on my page. They were not edited but when I am writing about "todays" subjects the delay is more than a lot annoying!

If you go back to the page with your blog on and look in the bottom right there will be a choice of the date you want it to be submitted. I tried this, it did not really make any difference, but you might be more lucky than me.

Thankyou David. Please let me know if you post anything yourself or find something interesting in the site.

Raymond

David. Do not worry too much, I have been on this site for about 6 months and I am still not sure how it works!

I do not agree with your comment about Vince Cable, because the reality is that there has been a compromise between the parties and even between different opinions in each party and this is the "best of the worst".

The big issue to me as a Liberal Democrat is that our party did not make a serious attempt to build this compromise on the base of our principles regarding, and commitments to, students and universities.

In the end the compromise was built on the Conservative “principle” that I have highlighted as the base for everything the coalition has done and are preparing to do.

If you have not read my blogs you may get a clearer picture as it is clear that the avoidance of responsibility (blame!) is the only common feature.

The basis of this “principle” can be traced at least to when Peel was leader in 1832 and is the essential explosive of the Thatcher years.

I do not suggest that you now start studying any of the many books and sources of the Conservative history where you can track this. A few years ago, after Thatcher, I hoped it was lost, but Camerons Co has just taken it off the shelf, blown the dust off and started shouting it out loud.

Thankyou for your comment David.Of course it is never easy to follow the details of such conplicated issues, but if you have heard this mornings news you will have heard that it may cost students as much as £9,000 a year at university.

So if you are a 16 year old looking to go to university and looking at costs of £45,000 or more, not including the daily costs of living which will also get much higher in the "recovering economy" would you be motivated to go an get it?

Effectively it would be 10-15 years after gradutaion before you could take your quality of life anywhere near the level you have been "promised" by your further education.

The coalition, an many other parts of politics are infected by the Oxbridge bunch, to whom £9,000 is the small change in the thier piggy bank saving box!

Hello David, my name is Raymond, and I am just catching up with all the new ACT members.

I have not had a lot of spare time in the last few weeks. Now I have a bit of time I am very pleased to see that we have more than 80 new members!

I have been signed up for a few months now and have joined a few of our groups, left a few comments, managed to get 3 blogs approved and posted an August Update of these on Comments of my page.

In September I posted a comment with an alternative proposal to the semi-privatise of the Royal Mail on my own page and the Liberal Democrat Co-operators page. Now that the government has raised this again I would be happy for any of your comments

In the last few weeks there has been so much politics going on regarding so many issues that I cannot prioritise them for pasting on the site!

In hope I will get some time this week to put together some comments on some of these issues, but if you get in ahead of me please let me know.
I would be quite happy to visit your page, and you can visit mine if you have the time.
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Of course you are at no obligation to read anything on the site, but if you do I would be grateful for your comments regardless of them being positive, negative, confusing or creative!

Thankyou