Mark Foster

The furore over the British schoolteacher in Sudan; Ms. Gibbons who allowed her class to name a teddy bear after a boy in her class who just happened to have the same name as the Islamic prophet is really toe-curling.  

The people I feel most sorry for now are the decent British muslims who are now certain to suffer a backlash from the ignoranti.

The Christmas Fair at Wick Hall on Saturday raised £126.56 for the constituency Liberal Democrats. There is something incredibly democratic about fundraising honestly in the community, in contrast to the big business donations to the red and blue management teams.I delivered the raffle prizes of those who were not there for the draw on Saturday, they were all extremely grateful, one woman even offered to donate some unwanted stuff for the next fair!  

Bliar is talking about his religious convictions. I have always admired people who have a belief in something and use it to guide their way through their life and work.

Gordy may have signed the cheques but Bliar has the blood of thousands of innocent people permanently stained on his hands, no amount of praying to any God will ever remove that. Also I seem to remember something in the bible about a camel and an eye of a needle? Bliar spent ten years accumulating his own wealth and power at the expense of our individual liberty and freedom. I am not religious so I’ll see you in hell Bliar!

Today’s Christmas Fair at Wick Hall went well, the weather held off for long enough and quite a few people turned up, one of whom wanted to join the party so it’s all looking up for us!

 I posted my ballot paper yesterday with a clear ‘1’ in the Nick Clegg box. I’d hope to say that Cleggy has it in the bag but I don’t want to tempt fate!

I went along to the hustings in
Worthing on Monday. Monday was probably one of the worst-weather days this year and on the way back the Rustington by-pass was like a river! Work is very hard at the moment but I do enjoy it, but with all the Lib –Dem work I’m doing at the moment it has left me feeling absolutely creamed at the end of the day.I am enjoying all the media attention that the child benefit data-loss at the HMRC has got. A lot of ordinary people are coming to realise that the Government cannot be trusted with personal information.  

Revenue and Customs has lost the details of 25 million Child Benefit recipients. I hope that this may start to change peoples minds about the ID database, now is the time to fight this scheme before it’s too late.

 It all comes down to the Government doing too much and not doing anything well. I honestly believe that this Government is not fit for purpose and needs to be replaced by a slimmed down organisation (sic)

I went to Worthing to the leadership hustings. Cleggy was brilliant, really made an impression. I can’t wait until he’s elected now, I think British Liberalism will change for the better, for good. It was good to see quite a big delegation from Arun, sadly though, I was the only person from Littlehampton.

Driving home, the rain was atrocious and was very dark but people were still driving like it was a dry, bright July morning.

I’m very busy at the moment trying to get everything done for Christmas. The Christmas fair is next Saturday, which should be interesting! A new Focus newsletter has just arrived for delivery.

 The leadership hustings is being held in Worthing on Monday which I shall be attending, even though I’ve already made up my mind for Cleggy.

Something the Government has mooted which I am very interested in is the American style school bus. I believe these would be good for three reasons;-

1)Environmental - cut car journeys and congestion.

2)Independence - encourage kids to be free of their parents for once. 

3)Choice - parents could choose the best school for their kids, poorer parents without cars need’nt worry about getting their kids to school.

I went to the war memorial in Littlehampton today to pay my respects. I’m glad to say that most of the Conservative and Liberal Democrat councillors were also there.

 It is great to see all the generations uniting in memory of those who died so that we may enjoy freedom.

I got my copy of the ‘Progress’ newsletter from Littlehampton Town Council today and was reasonably impressed. When the town was run by Labour, Progress was just packed full of photos of Labour councillors. Now the council is ‘hung’, Progress is now actually what it’s supposed to be – about the town and it’s citizens.

 I ran at work today and felt a ripple of fat on my back, I seriously need to do some leaflet delivery!