My Canadian brother and I enjoy reminding our brother, who lives in Philadelphia, about the quick and efficient 6 week general election campaigns held in Canada (the most recent one 11th September to 21st October, 2019, since you ask) and…
Category: Politics
North of Tyne Mayor visits . . .
In a great publicity coup, Higher Ground entertained the new mayor of the combined North of Tyne authority, this past Friday at their garden space. Jamie Driscoll, the successful Labour candidate at the 3rd of May election, is in charge…
The Dalek wins a reprieve . . .
The news came through yesterday afternoon about 4:00pm from the Hexham Courant as Breaking News after the Tynedale Local Area Council (ie the West Northumberland subsection of Northumberland County Council) had voted for a year’s reprieve, but was then featured…
The butcher is closed . . . but WMH Meats steps up
It must have been the end of July the butcher shop closed, since that’s the first notice from WMH Meats in Allendale area notices, that the Haydon Bridge firm would be delighted to take orders from, and deliver to, Allendale…
As mundane as the electoral roll
Across NE47 yesterday, the electoral register forms dropped through letterboxes, seemingly informally addressed to The Householder, and yet bearing a warning that legally the recipient(s) must reply. The electoral roll is an important compilation, used by a variety of governmental…
Polling Stations, Number 3
I had to think quite hard to remember what the first elections of this year were about. I remembered the second — those were for MEPs, of course, but what were the first ones about? Oh yes, the erstwhile North…
Oh yeah, the MEP election
This was the second election process this year, so we’d better at least mention it in the diary, even though it actually happened a week ago. That’s the way it kinda goes in Allendale anyway — the world catches us…
Election today . . .North of Tyne mayoralty
So we’ve got the blurb from county, and a few bits and bobs from one or two candidates, but basically, trying to figure out what the point of this one is, feels like an endeavour for the legendary Sisyphus. For…
Wait forever for a fuss . . .
. . . and three come round at once! Well, in Allendale time, three fusses in less than six months rates as slightly extraordinary, when there’s been no fuss to speak of for years now, that I can remember, anyway….