Brian Paddick is on MySpace

Brian Paddick is campaigning interactively big time;

1. Website - www.brianpaddick.org

2. Facebook - www.brianfacebook.notlong.com

3. My Space - http://www.myspace.com/brianpaddick <http://www.myspace.com/brianpaddick>

4. Twitter (follow him by text) - send "follow brianpaddick" (without the quotation marks to 07624 801 423

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Oh my god - John Reid kissed Margaret Thatcher!

Not a headline you'd thought you would ever read.

Not a headline I thought I'd ever write.

Went for a meeting in Portcullis House yesterday morning with Alistair Carmichael MP, we sat down with our coffee and got over the shock the woman who caused so much trouble in our country was so close.

But, worse was to come.

John Reid MP was sat at a neighbouring table having a meeting and then got up ambled over, shook her hand, leaned in and kissed her on the cheek and then sat down and proceeded to chat!

The Lib Dems always said Blair and Browns Labour Party was just the Tories in disguise, now we have the proof.

What with the Vote Green puppets in London and you get a Labour Mayor, now this, there is only one alternative.

Brian Paddick's Liberal Democrats in London - vote Brian Paddick on the Mayoral ballot paper, vote Liberal Democrats for the list and vote for your local Lib Dem candidate on the last one.

Remember when you go to the polling both - vote Lib Dem and you get Lib Dem - just look for the bird.
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Quiet day at the office

As Brian Paddick's campaign continues to gather momentum I had to laugh at Harriet Harman, who I've run a campaign against. Harriet from leafy Dulwich now she feels she needs a stab vest to walk round with the Police in Peckham! What an insult.

Brian Paddick was in Peckham this weekend to chat and more importantly listen to young people at the Damilola Taylor Centre.

The other story that's wound me up today is from the MP for Dulwich who doesn't feel people should demonstrate when the Olympic torch comes to London on Sunday - so Tessa, are you happy about all the Human Rights violations in China and Tibet then?

Final flurry from me today - Brian Paddick will be the first politician to hold an interview via Twitter - a text message service.

If you want to follow Brian Paddick by text either send "follow brianpaddick" (without the quotation marks) to 07624 801 423 or visit the website www.brianpaddick.org
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London - vibrant, liberal, awesome and needs Paddick for Mayor

I wasn't feeling too well this morning but knew I really needed to go into work, even if it was only for a short while.

The last 2 weeks have been stressful with nominations - and thanks to all those who helped, especially Sarah Morris, Chris Leaman and Ashley Lumsden. Those people who have never had to deal with such things don't usually understand!

So, left work after doing a load of diary stuff to help Oz out, walked through St James's Park where I saw the pair of black swans with their two cygnets - see picture.

Then walked up to Piccadilly Square and watched hundreds of people roller skate past - see second picture!

London is just so diverse and fun on one hand and then there all these tragic teenage murders on the other. London needs Brian Paddick today!
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The other side of Heathrow!

Forget the headlines about Heathrow Terminal 5 - what a farce it is now to get Terminal 4 on the Heathrow Express.

Saturday morning I head off to Paddington from Cowley Street, get my return ticket for standard class travel on the Heathrow Express.

Now, I've called ahead to see which Terminal I need to go to - so the train pulls into Terminals 1, 2 and 3 I then have to change onto a slow train which isn't due for 15 minutes.

Into the arrivals hall I go and after about 10 minutes the flight disappears off the screen and I'm told to head off to Terminal 5!!!

So back down to the slow train to go one stop then change again to get to T5 - from the Heathrow Express platform I went up two escalators in a mass wasted space up to the arrivals hall - BUT I never saw one security guard or policeman in my short visit to T5 - and then I had to go all the way back to T4 as BA had messed up!

Forget the baggage - BA and BAA and now Heathrow Express are just a nightmare.

Rock on City Airport, Luton and even Gatwick!
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Deep clean of hospitals

I was watching the story on the BBC about deep clean of hospitals and the fact a lot will miss their targets.

After spending a lot of time in the PFI funded Darenth Valley Hospital I can agree that the hospital was filthy!

Skid marks on the chair next to the bed until we washed it, the day room has never been hoovered in months and was stacked high with spare tvs and equipment, the ward and corridors were generally grubby.

The doctors were all in civvies which just seems the most backward way of keeping hygiene a priority.

Nurses were overstretched and there were patients there that should have been in a care home not a hospital ward!

The Labour government has run our NHS into the ground - an absolute disgrace!
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