As promised (to Sandra) a copy of her appearance on the Sunday Politics last week discussing the NHS Bill.
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Category: Sandra Gidley
Up bright and early yesterday to join the campaign to save the Romsey-Winchester rail-link bus. This entailed getting the 7.04 a.m. bus to Romsey, putting on a Santa hat, and travelling back at 7.35 a.m. with Sandra Gidley and a bus full of protesters from the Save Our Bus campaign – before collecting signatures on the concourse from local travellers. Eleanor Bell joined us as the bus came back through Hursley.
It seems hard to believe that, so soon after all the County Council’s previous bus cuts, we’d be seeing another but cut – this time from South West Trains. As with all the bus cuts so far, it puts pressure on the environment, parking and congestion and severely impacts off-peak travel for people without cars (generally pensioners and the young). In this case, it will also cause major problems for people commuting to and from London before and after peak hours. It follows on from SWT’s off-peak fare hike at the beginning of the year and the upcoming closure of the travel centre and makes a mockery of the various promises from the County and the Government to have a joined-up travel system.
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Meridian TV report
As mentioned on Facebook, I spent much of last week wandering around Lib Dem conference with a small Sony video camera – filming a range of things from fun through to serious on behalf of ITV Meridian’s “Last Word”.
They weren’t looking for my day-to-day political views, but rather a sense of what it’s like behind the scenes at a party conference.
Only a small selection of what I’d filmed made it through to their final edit – here is the result!
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We’ve been getting a great response to our campaign for ’20s plenty’ right across the constituency. It makes sense in many residential streets in urban areas, especially outside schools. As you can see below, we’ve already been campaigning on it in Chandler’s Ford (with Sandra Gidley), Harestock, St Bartholomew’s and St John’s.
We’ve also been campaigning on it in St Luke – and Mark and I will be doing some further campaigning about speeding in Stanmore later in the month. Please let me know if there are any streets or lanes near you that you think would benefit from a 20 mph limit.