Ist May !

1st May is a May Day holiday! For me it would be a great holiday apart from the weather as this morning it was damp and very grey! Still it is usual for many in our Ward to see me trundling around with election leaflets! But not this May Day you won't.

There are Local Elections on Thursday, and it is everyone's civic duty to vote!

I am being asked why no political posters in the window of your home? Aren't you standing again?

Well the answer to these questions are. The Mayor is unable to canvass Party political support, he is very much seen as a neutral during his year of Office. Hence no tramping the streets, no kissing babies, and no political posters in the window!

With regard to my own political career. Following the last election I fought, and as I finished 'top of the poll' in 2004, I am not due to stand again until 2008.

Yesterday Mary and I attended the ANZAC memorial service at Brocton on Cannock Chase at the War Graves Commission site. It was a very moving service and it was very well attended by British Legion and other representatives, including Mayors and Civic dignatories from East Staffordshire DC, Stafford Borough Council, Staffordshire County Council,Tamworth. South Staffordshire DC, Lichfield DC, Lord Mayor of Stoke On Trent, Mayor of Dudley, Walsall, Solihull, and Wolverhampton. The Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire in full regalia was also in attendance.

It was a very cold day and the damp was certainly etching its way in to these 'old soldiers' as they paid tribute to their fallen comrades. Mary and I certainly were very pleased to play our small role, and we laid a wreath on behalf of the people of the City of Wolverhampton.

Just a note on the Web Site....I have been delighted with the statistics for April
with 1790 hits being the daily average, and a massive 53,703 hits for the whole month makes this a record figure for the rolling year. I would like to break the 500,000 viewers target I set myself during the course of the year.