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New car registrations; cash for honours; Bluestone; PATS
New car registrations
We’re
more than half way through March and I can’t help noticing how few 0-10 registered
cars there are on the road. Even including a trip to the Midlands and back
I’ve only seen about 6 new cars on the road. Not so long ago one would see
a rash of new cars as soon as the new registration plate came into effect.
Probably the back lash from the car scrappage scheme.
Cash for honours
The Lord Ashcroft affair won’t go away with fresh evidence that the Tories
and William Hague may have known about it long before he admitted.
The Observer quoted a source close to Tony Blair saying that he felt he had
been “misled”. Now he knows how we feel about him.
The same source went on to say that the “deal was that he would pay millions
in taxes [in return for the peerage]. The exchange of money for honours was
made illegal in the 20’s following the Maundy Gregory /Lloyd George scandal
but the practice seems to be flourishing and the price has rocketed.
Bluestone
An article in the Times compares the pleasures of Center Parcs and Bluestone,
the new holiday park in Pembrokeshire. I’ve not been to either but the Bluestone
project gets a great review. I must confess I was dead against when it was
being planned. This was because it was being built partly in the National
Park but also because a huge amount of public money was going into it, yet
local people would not be allowed in. Maybe I was wrong.
PATS
Next week we are off to PATS (Pets and Aquatics Trade Show) at Sandown Park
where, according to the programme I am “hosting a seminar on both days, each
of which will cover a different topic. [my] aim is to offer stockists a solution
to the restricted sale of veterinary and prescription diets and [my] vision
of how the continuing development and marketing of pet food will affect the
industry.” I don’t recognise myself.
