Arriving back to England after a long and uncomfortable flight with the night shortened by the time change but disembarkation and the journey home by car went well. Some personal problems for the Council candidates but our Priory Park campaign was going well in my absence.
John Major’s TV interview is uninspiring and highlights his lack of education. Belated UK humanitarian aid has been flown into the Kurds in Northern Iraq and the "Son of Poll Tax" measures divide the cabinet ministers over its balance of personal and property elements.
We arrived overnight in England on the Tuesday with the night shortened by the time change. The plane journey was indeed long and uncomfortable, but we arrived safely in England at Heathrow Terminal 4. No trouble with the arrival, luggage claim and long-term car park access and we were soon driving home in the fully loaded Range Rover on clear roads. I used the journey to make several long telephone calls to my political colleagues to assess the state of the local elections. I followed this up with longer calls later and ascertained that the Priory Park campaign was going well but in Eaton Socon, a number of personal/business problems were prevalent amongst our team.
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Two candidates' businesses in danger from the recession, one marriage on the rocks and, to cap it all, John Matthewman’s daughter's boyfriend is killed in a motorcycle accident and his mother-in-law (already seriously-ill with a stroke brought on by a broken hip) has now broken a second hip in a fresh accident and has an operation delayed by the state of the health service. Back home in England, John Major has given a TV interview on himself which leaves as many personal mysteries as it answers - in particular, he cannot remember how many "O"-level GCE exam passes he had and rather undervalues Higher Education as being "often useless". Belated UK humanitarian aid has been flown into the Kurds in Northern Iraq and the government is also plagued by the continued problems of the "Son of Poll Tax" measures with the cabinet ministers divided on whether the property or personal element should predominate and whether a "charge register" should be maintained or the electoral register used.