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Dunwoody...? Dun Governing more like

Start plotting you Socialists because it's time to dump your leader.Whilst contemplating who the next one foisted on us without the benefit of an election will be, answer this question. Q) What’s the difference between Steve Mclaren & Gordon BrownA) One was an understudy to a far better and charismatic leader and who by skulduggery and inside trading took over the top job and in so doing proved that he was a hopeless buffoon, way out of his depth and who became a national laughing stock… the other was the England soccer ManagerI've dumped my middle initials... happy now sweetheart?

Harley Buckner ● 6742d10 Comments ● 6742d

VOTING FOR JOHNSON IS A DISASTER

What kind of human votes for someone who uses offensive terms like picanniny (wrong spelling I am sure,  but then i don't use racist language like that) and suggests the Stephen Lawrence Campaign is nothing more than witch hunt?  Someone self serving and utterly thoughtless that's who.You need to educate yourselves on the disasters this man is involved with.  Go look uo the www.theyworkforyou.com and see how that pathetic toff is a bad performer in parliament. He simply cannot be bothered to represent the people of Henley properly. HE IS RANKED IN THE BOTTOM 10% of MPs.  Are you really so deluded that you think this moron can go from being a low-ranking underperforming MP of a sleepy universally white rural Oxfordshire seat to representing the world's leading multi-cultural city? If you do you need your head examined. If he can't cope with 70,000 voters how can he cope with 7 million people? I wonder what Boris will do if he is elected Mayor and he doesn't get his way, will he arrange to have his rivals beaten up like he has tried in the past? The man has serious control issues.Then there's Johnson's pathetic promotion of the new routemaster.  The routemaster was an environmental hazard and the new one is no more efficient.  The design means less people on board by virtue oif engine position and the wheel axles are wholly unbalanced and it can't take corners. It also happens to be designed by a family friend of his.  His obsessive mantra on the the bendybus is ridiculous, it is actually a far more sustainable method of mass transit whether any of you like it or not. Boris has made hollow promises to the people of Surbiton and Kingston that he will change 18 Zone 6 stations to Zone 5 shaving 350 off their travel bills a year.  That would be fine if Boris wasn't plainly lying. These stations are not within mayoral control as TFL has no juridiction over a vast majority of SWT stations.  He can't enforce it but he'll keep on lying about it.  A horrid shallow promise he cannot keep.  This is just the tip of the iceberg of his pathetic promises. Then's there's Bogus Boris's rotten environmental credentials which are just shocking. How does removing the congestion charge from any where solve the problems we have? What's his plan? Pesronally i think we need to make sure home counties car drivers pay for clogging and damaging the roads and streets we ultimately pay for in repairs. He also wants to allow motorbikes to use bus lanes. I mean seriously, is this man really an Oxford graduate? His environmental b*llsh*t is further demeaned by his links to Veola Environment who are a company responsible for nine river fish kills incidents in the south east last year alone through mismanaging foul water services to local authorities.  The company has been found guilty of pollution incidents more than any other environmental services provider in this country. Why do you want him as mayor when he's THIS BAD?The man is an A class sh*t of epic proportions and people who vote for him are either retarded, selfish, or living in cloud cuckoo land.  I make no apologies for my harsh assessment of people who wish to vote for Boris Johnson. You will wreck London voting for this upperclass oaf.  He is a disaster like nothing we have ever seen before and we deserve better than this utterly horrendous human being.It won't be just the Polish leaving in droves if he is elected. That thing representing London on an international stage will be gut-churningly shaming for every one of us.  Oh and before the Bogus Boris fans all scream blue murder about Red ken. He really isn't all that red considering some of his policies. and no my views on Ken aren't great either.  But at least he isn't Johnson.

Conal Stewart ● 6771d148 Comments ● 6742d

Modern technology - question

Having mastered how to scan negatives and slides onto my PC - is it possible/easy to record old audio "reel to reel" tape onto digital as simply?  How would I go about it?

Sarah Felstead ● 6747d10 Comments ● 6742d

Boris plants trees

Good idea. I think so,getting rid of that stupid free news sheet The Londoner saving £2.5millon and using £1 million to plant ten thousand trees a good start from Boris

Robert Ayres ● 6751d9 Comments ● 6743d

Isleworth Mayor and Syon Deputy Mayor

May I be the first to congratulate Cllr Dr Genevieve Hibbs from the Isleworth Ward on being elected as Hounslow's Mayor for the forthcoming municipal year,and also an extra special congratulations to my wife Cllr Shirley Fisher who represents the Syon Ward on being nominated as the Deputy Mayor. Its great news that two local Councillors are in this position and I know that they will not let us down.

Paul Fisher ● 6744d10 Comments ● 6743d

Government to spy on phone calls,texts and e:mail

Is this a step to far. Call me a cynic but I thought Stalin was dead and the KGB disbanded. Seems they are all alive and living in White hall. No doubt they will roll out the terrorism card. Save everything on a database and then lose it and at the same time run around the world telling other people how to live and preaching human rights. So beware if you are not recyling or trying to get your kids into a school outside your catchment area big brother is watching and what next any suggestions.

Robert Ayres ● 6744d4 Comments ● 6743d

Problems with all our Local Community Sites

We had a hardware failure on our server at 2pm on the 20th, in was so serious that our hosting company had to move our sites to a new server and restore our websites from backup. The site was up by 1am of the 21st, but was having problems all day such as failures in logging on. This has now all been fixed (hopefully) and you should have no problems logging and using the forum.Sorry for the inconvenience.Tony SteeleNeighbourNet Ltd

Tony Steele ● 6743d0 Comments ● 6743d

Jim is alive, well and on top form!

It was a great pleasure last night to see our old friend and dearly missed correspondent Jim Lawes at the Annual Borough Council meeting.  He explained that he has been very busy in recent months and that his private work has kept him off the forums, but I can report that he is in fine fettle.Also pleasing, as always, to see Nigel Moore and his good lady friend.

Phil Andrews ● 6744d3 Comments ● 6743d

Heathrow Night Flights up from 16 to 24 before 6am?

I don't expect anyone to do anything about this revelation.Heathrow craftily gets on with what it wants to do ..and s*d the locals if they are trying to sleep.It is my understanding that an average of 16 flights are allowed to land at Heathrow in the early morning (4.30am till 6am)..that's 5800 a year. The agreement I believe states 11.30pm till 6am.On Boxing Day morning, so I understand on good authority, 24 flights were allowed to fly into Heathrow over Brentford, Isleworth and Hounslow before 6am. That's 50% over limit.This morning..27th December there was a particularly noisy aircraft going over at 5am ish which woke me up. The sound was long drawn out and it disturbed me.Just thought you'd like to know.

Jim Lawes ● 6889d107 Comments ● 6744d

Boris is doing a grand job so far

It is early days yet but Boris is doing a grand job so far:Cutting back on unnecessary expenditure such as Livingstone propaganda, prioritising a crackdown on violent crime, guns, knives and drugs, strongly opposing Terminal 6 and Runway 3, initiating an urgent inquiry into the spending of taxpayers' funds by Livingstone, Lee Jasper and the LDA, planting trees, learning lessons from New York, firing useless Lefties and replacing them with well qualified, experienced executives and advisers,working in cooperation rather than in confrontation with the boroughs and the utilities, offering a no-strike deal to the transport unions, banning drinking of alcohol on public transport, replacing socialist ideology with common sense, extending the Oyster card scheme, appointing a black Deputy Mayor, embracing inclusiveness rather than exclusiveness, bringing Londoners togerther rather than classifying and dividing them into racial or class or national groups, consulting with residents and businesses on the Western Congestion Zone Expansion and appointing very well qualified Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority.Roll on Boris !

David Giles ● 6751d19 Comments ● 6744d

Brentford Churches

I stumbled across a very interesting website www.churchplansonline.org. It shows internal original floor plans of all the churches in Brentford and a view of what St. Georges was going to be like.

Neil Chippendale ● 6744d0 Comments ● 6744d

Report argues Mayor should be accountable to local authority leaders

Anybody got any views on this, see front page of this site, some points have merit, while others I think would be taking the GLA back to the old style GLA. Mind you the policy report does sound like its coming from one of the Tory qaungos such as the Brusel sprout group that one of Hounslow Tories belong's (no slight to brusel sprouts just can't remeber the name of that silly group), I may be wrong and it may be a genuine policy group never the less, intresting to see what other think.

Dave Hughes ● 6745d4 Comments ● 6745d

Discussion point - a case for an amnesty?

Mr. Keen's candid comments at last Saturday's Save Our Homes meeting do raise the question of whether trangressors who are now being enforced against were actually misled into thinking that they were immune from action by the Council. If this is indeed the case, one wonders whether there is not a case for an amnesty?In the interests of debate, allow me to suggest a few conditions which could form the basis of an amnesty:1. Construction took place prior to May 2006, that is during the tenure of the previous administration at the Council.2. Immediate neighbours happy with development.3. Existence of illegal construction freely volunteered by applicant.4. Full reasons provided for belief by applicant at the time of construction that development would not be enforced against.At the moment I have introduced the case for an amnesty purely as a stimulus for debate. But, who knows, we could be having this debate sometime soon at the Council Chamber?

Phil Andrews ● 6750d15 Comments ● 6745d

A case for an amnesty only when your friends are in trouble

This could be seen as very intresting for Cllr Bowen and Andrews who have been very very keen in gaining the votes of Cranford by the use of one Parmod Kad ex Cllr who was dropped from standing for the labour party, yes this the person who in fact started all this fuss in the first place with the omsbudmans report...before you start to say well prove the vote sorry chaps but a recorded vote did happen and there are some with that proof.I think all sides agree that planning should be enforced but to miss-lead the Omsbudmans by providing information that was false in order for him to form the wrong conclusion well well that takes some nerve, weather that was officers or Cllrs I am sure that will come out in the wash in due time...Now back to Parmods relationship with the Tories as far back as 2005-2006 you can see the love affair in the press of the time when letters where written saying how wonderfull it will be with these people behind him to support him getting The Meadow Bank Centre. the last election we saw good old Parmod being greeted by Camoran himself into the tory ranks...We then see a petition with chief signatory a one Mr Parmod kad de-crying how good for the Council that the ombudsman report did no go far enought...remeber this is the same report to which Parmod voted against officer recomendations..huh huh..As with all things you can see that Kama could describe this wheel of fortune as now it would seem that Parmod may be forced with the same actions of Enforcement due to the size of his own property and what Andrews is asking for is a let off clause...These coming months should get intresting for keen watchers of the council...May be at long last we will get the enquiry that is required to find out what is going on with planning are Cllrs being mislead by officers or was planning being used as a political weapon..its about time we got some real answers and not the propergander this lot would have you swallow.

Dave Hughes ● 6748d13 Comments ● 6746d

Lunatics are back again

It is reported tha one of the Afghani hijackers Nazamuddin Mohammidy is working as a cleaner at Heathrow. Not only is he given benefits, and housing as a reward for threatening to blow up a plane at Stanstead airport in 2002, he now has a job in one of the most security sensitive places in the UK.I suppose the next that we hear, is that his mates are in the SAS! Who the bloody hell allowed this to happen?Meanwhile our service people are out in Afghanistan trying to make it a safer place. I wonder if when they have finished their service they will get the same consideration from this useless government........Experience tells me that it "ain't gonna happen"!

Andrew Michael John Atkinson ● 6749d13 Comments ● 6746d

National service - a question

When called for National service, did people get a choice of who they served with?  The question has arisen because my Dad joined the Royal Welch fusiliers and I wondered if he chose them (his Grandma and her family were Jones' from Wales) or if it is just a coincidence?

Sarah Felstead ● 6746d2 Comments ● 6746d

Meeting Osterley Hotel May 10th

“We are the residents of the London Borough of Hounslow. As you are aware, enforcement actions have been carried out by the London Borough of Hounslow’s Planning Department, against law abiding citizens of our borough. This has been a very disturbing development within our council. We are extremely concerned about this and would like to inform you, that we are holding a meeting to discuss these issues on Saturday the l0th of May at the Osterley Park Hotel at Great West Road from 11am to 1pm.We would be extremely grateful if you would grace us with your presence, so that you may heart he views of the local people that you represent within our council.”I understand that all Councillors in Hounslow received the above communication, and when I read it, it left me puzzled. They talk about a "disturbing development" and "enforcement actions being carried out by the planning department, against "law abiding citizens". It would appear to me as I read it, that the planning department are either acting illegally with their enforcement notices, or that they (the residents') want special/different treatment to the rest of the borough. By default, if they are "law abiding" they would not erect structures without planning permission, and any such structures should be within the planning regulations! My experience is, that councillors have to agree these enforcement notices, and I am sure that someone from the legal department would have had an input if the planners had acted illegally, before any action was taken...........or have I got it wrong? Many councillors attended this meeting, was the issue such a "serious allegation"Has anybody (councillors?) got any information about the outcome of this meeting, and the reasoning behind it? I note that Alan Keen attended, but cannot attend the Hounslow Police Consultative Group meeting EVER!!!

Andrew Michael John Atkinson ● 6752d20 Comments ● 6746d

Supporter of Suicide Bombers Supports Livingstone

A leading apologist and supporter of terrorism and suicide bombing is among the leaders of a group trying to win votes for Livingstone.Azzam Tamimi, a supporter of the Hamas terrorist organisation, is a leading member of a group called Muslims 4 Ken which is actively supporting the Labour Party's campaign re-elect Livingstone. Tamimi, has previously praised suicide bombers and even said he would volunteer personally for a suicide mission in the Middle East. In a BBC interview in 2004 he said: "If I can go to Palestine and sacrifice myself I would do it. Why not? Sacrificing myself for Palestine is a noble cause. It is the straight way to pleasing my God and I would do it if I had the opportunity." It was Tamimi who invited the radical Islamic preacher Yusuf al-Qaradawi to speak at a conference in London in 2004. Al-Qaradawi, who has defended suicide bombers and the persecution of homosexuals, was welcomed to City Hall and embraced by Livingstone. Al-Qaradawi is  a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood, the extremist organisation that supports terrorism and which was banned in Egypt in 1954. He was banned from visiting the USA in 1999 because of his support for terrorism.In spite or perhaps because of all that he was enthusiastically embraced and welcomed by Livingstone.In 2006 Tamimi was the main speaker at a London conference backed by Livingstone held the day before the anniversary of the July 7 terror attacks. Do we really want a Mayor of London who is actively supported by people like Azzam Tamimi and Yusuf Al-Qaradawi? Do we want a Mayor of London who welcomes and embrace people who support suicide bombings against innocent people like the thousands of people who lost their lives in New York, Bali, Madrid and London?

David Giles ● 6778d24 Comments ● 6746d

Post Office Closures

The list of closures is now out with the PO in Old Isleworth on the list.

Neil Chippendale ● 6756d2 Comments ● 6746d

MP`s appeal turned down

Looks like Mr and Mrs K££n will have some explaining to do by the end of next week as they will now have to reveal their 2nd home expenses at last.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7404031.stmI dont think the phrase Champagne Socialist was ever so apt.

Paul Fisher ● 6749d2 Comments ● 6746d