I printed and distributed the local party supporters newsletter tonight. The media is full of the pre-budget thingy, I can’t help admiring Gordon for his master-stroke;-

1)Let the Tories think there’s going to be a general election over their conference so they announce all their policies. 

2) Call off the election and nick all the Tories most popular new policies.

Anyway, no general election gives me the chance to organise the christmas fair on the 24th November. It should raise enough to pay for a Focus leaflet. 

I think, going by the media that there’s going to be a recession. It will be interesting to see how Labour deals with it because they’ve been very lucky so far. The Tories in the last one went WHAT RECESSION? then THE GREEN SHOOTS OF RECOVERY, poor old John Major, he was a decent man surrounded by fools and took over on the eve of a massive economic downturn.

I think Labour might use a recession as an excuse to rein-in more of our traditional freedoms. I don’t know how because they own most of what we do now, so watch this space!