ConservativeHome's Seats & Candidat (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
My sources in Lincolnshire report that Stephen Phillips QC was earlier this evening selected in the second ballot out of a field of six for the Conservative nomination in the seat being vacated by Douglas Hogg. Stephen was one of...
GENEALOGE (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Lincolnshire and Fenland Families : "Some families know a great deal about their roots; others know very little. Since starting my research I have learned a huge amount about my ancestry and those connected to it and know that there is much, more to learn about the people, where they lived and what their lives were like - and I have quite a few more ancestors to find too! I have lived in Wiltshire...
Fair Deal Phil (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Local Conservatives are outraged at a decision by their Party to parachute another Londoner into a Lincolnshire parliamentary seat. Some are threatening to quit Cameron's Conservatives after learning that all local applicants to replace disgraced North Hykeham and Sleaford MP Douglas Hogg have been excluded from the selection process - without even reaching the interview stage. Mr Hogg hit the national...
Fair Deal Phil (Free subscription) | 20/08/2009
The Lincolnshire Tory grandee famous for having his moat cleaned at public expense has backed calls by one of his Conservative colleagues for MPs pay to be doubled to £130,000. Douglas Hogg, MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham, and his wife "Lady" Hogg have both been embroiled in the expenses scandal, but Mr Hogg has joined Tory calls for MPs to receive a massive pay increase at public...
Fair Deal Phil (Free subscription) | 29/07/2009
Respects to bomb disposal officer Captain Dan Shepherd from Lincoln who has been killed in Afghanistan while trying to defuse an improvised explosive device. I never met Captain Shepherd, but I understand we had at least two things in common - we went to the same primary school - All Saints in North Hykeham, (albeit separated by some 30 years!). The Echo reports that Captain Shepherd is from Doddington...
Lancaster Unity (Free subscription) | 25/06/2009
While leading members of the BNP are afforded the luxury of having themselves pelted with eggs, those lower down the ranks are only thought worthy of cheaper alternatives. In the case of the BNP's Norwich North by-election candidate this was a jug of iced water expertly flung at pretend prelate the "Reverend" Robert West by an irate housewife in North Hykeham, Lincs, when West - sporting...
Norfolk Unity (Free subscription) | 25/06/2009
While leading members of the BNP are afforded the luxury of having themselves pelted with eggs, those lower down the ranks are only thought worthy of cheaper alternatives. In the case of the BNP's Norwich North by-election candidate this was a jug of iced water expertly flung at pretend prelate the "Reverend" Robert West by an irate housewife in North Hykeham, Lincs, when West - sporting...
Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | 20/06/2009
Esther Rantzen should not be the next MP for Luton South. Quite apart from her embarrassingly shameless populism on Question Time, and in comments to the press, she makes some ridiculous, backward and prejudiced statements. She has said Northern Ireland is "addicted to hatred" . "It's as if it gives them a sense of identity because they only know who they are if they know who they hate."...
Fair Deal Phil (Free subscription) | 19/05/2009
The unfortunately named Douglas Hogg, the Lincolnshire MP apparently caught with his snout in the trough has announced he will step down at the next General Election. So-called Grandee Mr Hogg is MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham where I grew up. When the scandal was first exposed, former Agriculture Minister Mr Hogg, or Viscount Hailsham to give him his proper title, claimed he'd done nothing wrong...
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