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Staines Guardian reader Geoffrey Virr gives his pensioners perspective on life and the world today.

Council Tax Hero - a pensioners with guts

The media always tell us that ‘good news’ is not what interests the public. Perhaps that is true. But sometimes the ‘bad news’ is really ‘very good news’ for the public even if not for the person at the centre of the story.

Council Tax and the Police Levy third edition

The Surrey Police Force themselves continue to provide all the evidence needed to prove that they are irresponsible in the use of both money and man/woman power.

Council Tax and the Police Levy second edition

With such conceit that my three score years and ten plus had left me with, I thought I had done a reasonable job in showing how the Surrey Police Force wasted the funding they receive from our hard earned taxes.

Council Tax and the Police Levy

The softening up period prior to the announcement of yet another year’s exorbitant increase in Council Tax and the Police Levy has started in the media. So far, unless I overlooked it, The Staines Local Guardian has spared it's readers from the opening 'whinges' from those who waste so much of our hard earned money each and every year. My police record should already show that I believe that the production and distribution of the unnecessary and glossy 'Policing Surrey' magazine can in no way be justified. That is one saving that could be made releasing money and personnel for real policing work out on the streets.

Further Expansion of Heathrow

Communication

One advantage of the several ways the Local Guardian gives it's readers to 'have their say' is that one is no longer dependent on winning the competition to appear in the print edition. One can also ensure one can respond in any exchange of views without 'stewing' for a week and competing for the limited space in the printed edition.

Campaign Report

Having argued it was time for pensioners to make their presence felt in my first blog entry it must be time for a campaign report to show that I have at least been making some effort to make my own contribution.

Remembrance

When this, and every other year’s, poppy wearing days are over and you take it off to bin it, spare a thought for the Forgotten Prisoners whose awful fate was to be captured by the Japanese during World War II.

A Trip to London

Starts with a very crowded early Sunday morning bus ride to Hounslow.

A Trip to the Post Office.

Last Monday was pension day. A cheque received by post, at the end of the previous week. Cashed cheque at the local, (or any post office).