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...

Wednesday, 20 May 2009

ABUSE OF PRIVILEGE

Why does some one get a rewarded by a massive pension and title, when they have debased the office for which they were appointed.

It was clear from the start that this man was not fit for this high office.

The next person to be appointed to this office must have a clean record in public life and have the education to understand all that is involved.

There are too many people given a peerage, who have just been given a title due to money being given to political parties, this must change to people who have given their time and money to help other through adversity.

All MP's who have been named and shamed should never hold office again, and we the voters must make sure the person on that voting paper is clean and untarnished by greed and sleaze.

Ask yourselves can we the tax payer afford to pay out these large pensions, have these people who are receiving large pensions paid into this fund, that would be very interesting to find out, perhaps some good delving journalist can find out.

Can we expect to see a return of all the money that has been taken, please don't hold your breath, no all are laughing on the way to the bank including this shamed speaker.

The most important thing that needs to be done to put this country back on it feet, is for Parliament to be dissolved and a GENERAL ELECTION TO BE CALLED

Thursday, 14 May 2009

Dig for your Health

Dig for Victory, Grow your own Food and be Healthy

 

Dig for victory was a theme that I grow up with, all gardens had vegetables and fruit trees, but now houses that are built have small or no back gardens.

I am being asked for allotment places, just one small thing no land.

Kingsteignton was a village that had allotments, but the coming of an age of concrete and housing going up regardless, these spaces were built on.

There is a very big problem now people are asking for land to have allotments to grow their own food.

It has been proven that young people respond very well to see things grow and then eat them, gives self satisfaction, to give a sense of wonder and help them experience something greater then themselves, this in turn fosters a greater quality time as a family.

Can I achieve this no, I asked the Clay company Sibelco if it would sell some land to a Land Trust the amount was 4acres three of which was for an allotment and one acre for affordable housing, that answer was a resounding NO, with all the land at their disposal, the main reason is I was asking to place this land in perpetually for the people of Kingsteignton.

This village has grown so much that it is now a Town with 12k people plus the fact the people who refused us land wish to expand us by a further 6oo houses, at present we are a concrete jungle just think what it might look like with all these people who will not be local.

From the government down we are being told we must have sustainable communities, what a load of rot when they are pushing people in just to make other people millionaires.

 

 

 

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Sunday, 10 May 2009

Broadband

Do you know how much you are paying for your broadband?

 

I have just received my bill from Virgin only to find out that the price of my broadband has gone up by two pounds, not much some might say, but I have had no letter telling me this was about to happen.

On phoning Virgin I find I am talking to a young man in India, who tells me I am now receiving 10mb,that is news to me, so I check out on the internet the speed of my machine, and what did I find not 10mb but 2.o2mb.

So I checked this out three times and with the same result, so am I feeding fat cats or what, then go to the small print, and this allows them to print money,  does anybody else have this problem, because I would like to know.

I do not like paying for something that is not happening.

Remember this is being rolled out right across the country, I wonder how much money is being made at this rate.

I wonder if some one from Virgin will be reading this and perhaps might enlighten me to this anomaly.

State of the Nation

Dissolve this Parliament

I say why not you have been in charge of this country's finance for the pass ten years, and what have we landed up with, debts for years to come.

When you look at the amount of pay they receive and when they are kicked out the massive pension they will receive.

Why should we pay for repairs to property, when it is the people living there who should pay, they receive enough salary to pay

I find it an insult to the people of this country who have lost their jobs and struggling to make ends meet, and as for paying the food bill, perhaps we should sent our bills to the said MPs.

There is some thing very rotten at the home of democracy, which has shaped not just this country but other nations of the world...

It is time that we the people called for all MPs to be sacked, new rules need to be made.

With all new members only getting a salary to meet office and communication costs all other cost to come from their salary.

Travelling cost, and to bear in mind carbon pollution, well they should, and no jollies to far flung places, remember we have massive debts to repay.

What these people should remember they are no different from the people, who they SERVE, let not that be forgotten.

I can hear it now we are not all on the gravy train, well why have you not done something about it, or about progression up the ranks.

Well just think you have taken our money from pension funds, and you are safe with a big fat pension, but then if we have politicians who do have their fingers in the pot, they just might raid you lovely nest egg. We can all dream.

The mother of Parliaments has been transformed into a personal wealth creation scheme on the moral level of Las Vegas., not just me saying this but a lot of other people.

Sunday, 3 May 2009

In Human treatment of babies and children

Why have the Perpetrators of serious crime against children not been named?

 

Please tell me what is so special with these two people that they can not be named, is it the risk of reprisals in prison, if that is the case, they have committed a grave acts to two children, one is dead but the little girl will have to live with those awful nightmares, not only with the abuse that took place, but the questioning, that will not go away.

 what else is going to come out from this authority, are there other children who at this time of writing are at risk, or even worse being raped and at this moment at risk of being killed.

 

 

I did say when baby Peters case came to light that more would be revealed, and I hate to be proved right in something like this...

These people who commit these act, should not be given any special care, they have in my book have forfeited any rights, oh I expect there will be people who say, but we must help them, question why! they have shown no mercy to children.

 

How many other children will come to light, which are suffering dreadful conditions and suffering?  Is this all due to the sixties when there was no thought of what they were producing in the way of children.

Please God if anybody out there is at this time on the point of hurting a baby or a child, please get help.

 

 

Marathon and a man with determination

 

 

In one of my first blogs I wrote about Major Phil Packer, and his determination to raise money for Headley Court, that is the rehabilitation unit for service personal, who have suffered injuries, like loss of limbs, head and body trauma,

Well just look at him up on his feet and taking part in this race, yes it will be arduous but he is of a breed that has grim determination to succeed, and to do something for others, unlike the people that I have written about above.

Go to it Phil and raise a lot of money.