Councillor Joan Lambert's Personal Blog

Welcome to my blog.†

My name is Joan Lambert, Teignbridge District Councillor and Kingsteignton Town Councillor. I am the Member for Kingsteignton West Ward in South Devon, which comprises the Parishes of Kingsteignton West and Teigngrace.

My committee membership within the District Council includes the Overview & Scrutiny and Development Control Committees and the Health and Safety Forum.

My responsibilities within the Parish Council include Works & Services/Planning and Finance. I have been School Governor of Rydon Primary School, Kingsteignton, since 1990.

The purpose of this site is to try and keep you informed about my role and provide you with information about developments in Teignbridge District Council and our local Ward Kingsteignton West.

I will clarify my responsibilities in future blogs...

Sunday, 22 February 2009

Just had a good Laugh

I have just been watching the Andrew Mair show, where he was interviewing the home secretary, why is it any politicians finds it impossible to answer a straight question,at no time was and answer given, but a round about answer, trying to show innocence and diverting the answer.
When you watch these people you either laugh or cry with frustration or like me want to throw the computer out the window.
Just think what you could do with that amount of money, to have two homes, when a lot of you are losing yours.
 
I am very pleased to see a hospital taking the right action in regard to tackling infection, just be cutting down the time of visiting patients in hospital.  Patients do need time to recover.  It can be very tiring having visitors, but the next time you visit someone just look at where the visitors sit, mostly sprawled over the bed, eating the fruit and drinking the squash, how do the staff know where these people have been, and do all visitors wash their hands after using the toilet! you would be surprised at that answer.
If this can be shown to reduce infection it should be carried out at all hospitals.
 
Feel like jumping around, like the American students working as Social Workers, what knowledge do these young people have, have they come background which money is no obstacles, would they know how the system works, and are they street wise, again I think not, just taking the word of the person who they are supposed to be assessing, in other words pulling the wool over their eyes.
Could they be told that the system works like this, but in actual fact not true. I am sure we will hear a lot more on this subject.
In the bog I wrote about baby P, did I not say that a lot more cases come out in to the open, now we have more reports out and court cases reported.
 
Oh I see that those poor bankers have pull the wool over the politicians eyes, by having huge payouts when leaving, and just wait and see the amount of money that will be paid out in bonuses, when they think the public has gone to sleep. 
 
Tomorrow I will be fighting to reduce the council tax, I would like to see zero% in this time of grave monetary concern, have you seen the rise of food prices and the utilities have not put their prices down, and to see the down turn in manufacturing is a very worrying time, having said that , just round the corner is Spring and sun shine.
 

Sunday, 15 February 2009

Where is Self Respect.

I think I should stop reading the news papers and listening to the news,having written about children and babies being harmed,just look at the harm being done to young lives, babies are not dolls that can be picked up and put down at will, they are a living person, not some cash item, to fill the pockets with money,
There should be a ruling on the sale of immature children being interviewed for news papers and television, what is the IQ of this child, he had no understanding of what was being asked of him, how in gods name are both these children to look after that baby.
Will that baby grow up and suffer the same fate as the so called parents.
I would say to those parents who are acting in a deplorable state,as they fight to gain money through this boy,and just look at the picture of that father,it shows how they care, what a sick society we are living in.
Children are no longer allowed to grow up, being pushed by the media, to do this and dress like this,when they most likely can't read or have understanding of the English language.
The family life as I have known, where one had respect for others and for ones self, it worries me in that in time we will have siblings meeting and not knowing they are sharing the same DNA, and end up having deformed children,
People who have no thought as to the consequence of their actions,back to the so called easy life. Well with this economic down turn in our lives, these .people may just find there is no money in the pot,to pay for their life style
 
Will this government give into these rich banker's and let them have bonuses, well let face it, so many other people are doing just that, but there are still people who work hard for their families, who do not stoop to this deplorable state.
 
When is this country going to regain it's self respect,in morals and government.
 
 

Sunday, 8 February 2009

Easy Money and how to get it.

This government has poured billions in to the banking system, and just what has that done for you and me, have you kept your job or your business, well I and guess the answer is no.
So why have I started off with  easy money, the banks are now saying that they will have to pay out gross amounts in bonus to the high flyer's for their great knowledge, if they are so bright why are we in this state,all of this group of people should be made to pay back to the tax payer, some of the money that has been poured in to that system.
With all this money, who completes their tax returns, I don't expect that they will be asked like me, to be charged ONE penny, so I sent a cheque for the required amount, and that would have cost the tax payer more, but it comes down to people who  with small pensions and little else, will have to pay up.
One the subject of easy money, If you are out of work,and have a brain that can convoluted its self, why don't you become an MP.
I have just been reading about the MP's and the money that they claim, would I get all those thousands of pounds if I lived with my sister who lives a long way a way, answer no.
We are told that the police force is stretched and under maned, so why do they have to have protection, if protection is needed why cant the people concerned pay for it.  When we need a service from anybody we have to pay, so why the difference.
On reading the Sunday paper it states that the President of France is backing Tony Blair as the President of Europe, oh god a nasty thought came to mind, will that mean that Europe will go to War.
Serious thought, think very carefully when you go to vote,will those people really work on your behalf, all right some do a good job, but that can not be said of all, you should ask them when they come knocking what have you done for my community? you will be surprised what will be said. 
 
I have not spoken about the weather yet, I had a nasty encounter with ice, when getting out of my car, that next thing is I find myself under it, the first thought was, Oh god are my bionic hips still in working order,or my Orthopaedic surgeon would have my guts for garters,
As some body has pointed out we have become so soft, who has gritted their own garden ares, put tyres with studs on or chains, that is what is used in countries who live this way of life,
 
I had a good laugh at the education minster who is not good at spelling, with what I have said before I rest my case.
Have a good week and keep warm and think nice thoughts, and all you men out there remember it is Valentine's day on this coming Saturday.