Seasons greetings

Mike and all the team send seasons greetings to all our friends. We wish you all a happy and prosperous new year.

lay off attacking barnet council staff

we have seen the local bloggers whipping themselves into a frenzy of excitement. over the news that barnet council sought to contact the ICO. barnet attempted to stop one of its employees being harrassed. where is the voice of reason. the poor man was just trying to do his job. the bloggers may not agree that barnet council need someone in that role, but is it necessary to question his faith and draw attention to his personal website. the so called bloggers have recently criticised barnet for its attitude to its employees. isnt it a bit rich to then criticise the council for sticking up for one of them. by all means knock the council if you feel you must. just lay off the staff.

Mike threatened at constituency surgery

You may have seen this report about an incident at Mike's surgery yesterday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15508697

Mike issued this statement following the incident

Events at my surgery on fri in no way represents the mainstream majority at my local Mosque. I will continue to work for all constituents.

Mike was extremely frustrated that the actions of a few prevented him from helping many people who had turned up for his advice. Mike observed that it is clear such people are not interested in democracy, free speech or the rights of others. Mike was heartened by the support from the vast majority of people at the Mosque. Most of those present were extremely upset that a group of people, many not local, had turned up to cause trouble.

The tricks of the Trots !

Never trust a lefty ! Our lovable loony leftys organised organised a "residents forum", inviting all of our MP's and Councillors and then made a song and dance because no Conservatives came. They scream that this shows that we are not interested in big society in Barnet. What they didn't tell anyone is that they deliberately organised it during the Conservative Conference, when we were all away. Sadly some well meaning and sincere residents were taken in.



If anyone has any issues they want to discuss, that were raised at this meeting, please come to one of Mike's regular surgeries and he'll be only too happy to help.

Mike is out and about reassurring residents and businesses

Whilst many MP's have been on holiday during the riots, Mike has been out and about in Finchley and Golders Green. He's also been keeping in constant touch with Barnet Police and reassuring local people generally that we're on top of the situation in the constituency. Through the holidays, Mike has continued to hold regular advice surgeries. We urge anyone who has worries or concerns about the way the riots have affected them in the constituency to get in touch. Mike is out there working for you every single day. We do not want to see civil unrest, anti social behaviour or thuggery on our streets. If you know of anyone involved in such behaviour contact your local safer neighbourhood team. Mike firmly believes that local policing is the answer to many of these problems. We can only tackle these problems if we pull together as on big society!

Mrs Angry says I agree with Mike

Many years ago, Mike coined a name for various malcontents in Barnet. He described them as one handed bloggers, because you know what they are doing with the other hand. In recent times, a new breed of barnet blogger has sprung up. Seems like they also have the number of our one handed blogging friends. Amid talk of discontent in the barnet blogging ranks, we were reminded of a blog by Mrs Angry. She mentioned this blog and she took the trouble to explicitly confirm our suspicions about Mr Roger Tichborne, AKA the barnet eye. If you want a good chuckle, read the last two paragraphs

http://wwwbrokenbarnet.blogspot.com/2011/05/brian-coleman-fightback-starts-here.html

She's not the only one. Another blogger, the anonymous (in every sense) Mr Mustard, left this comment on Tichbornes blog yesterday

Mr Mustard said...

You remind me of what I said about a nameless agent in another country who I am obliged to deal with.

Company motto " We aim to displease"!

4 August 2011 23:52

It is good to see that the new breed of blogger in barnet has woken up to what the Friends of Freer have known all along. To paraphrase our good friend, Brian Coleman, Tichborne is a poisonous individual and the sooner everyone in Barnet wakes up to the fact the better.

Mike identifes nearly a billion in savings

Mike has been inundated with praise for his latest cost saving initiative, where he identified nearly a billion pounds worth of savings. Unlike some MP's, Mike isn't afraid to get his hands dirty, do some hard work and identify low hanging fruit in the form of savings. Mike's efforts will save every household in the UK £30 - quite an achievement for an MP who has only been in the job for a year.