Tag: Beckenham

Sunday lunch with our two sons, Greg and Alex. Discussions ranged from football, through money and politics, to how they were getting home. A nice afternoon and proper catch up.

European Parliament Elections postal ballot form – a choice between twenty one parties/independents.

I used to like the Labour Party for their compassion and focus on ordinary peoples’ needs reflected in their welfare policies. I grew up in a council flat and house; use(d) the NHS; and completed a massively subsidised Open University degree while on welfare benefits without which I wouldn’t have got back into work after being injured.

However I have also liked the Tory Party at times for their focus on individual responsibility; protection of the citizen from too much state interference, and the recognition that the (heavily regulated) market works better in practice than socialism.

But now? The Tories appear to me as a disorganised, uncaring/cruel bunch of toffs out for their own gain, while labour seems to be too driven by an internationalist ideology that has forgotten its historical focus and core values. So who do you think I voted for?

The Three Tuns/Zizzi – it’s nice that they keep the old sign up.

Kent House Station, Beckenham

Mogador and Brownstone, Church Avenue, Beckenham