Decision on Incinerator in September

The County Council have stated on their website that the decision between the 2 tenders for the new Energy from Waste facility - and thus the decision on whether it will be located near Calvert - will be made in September

Another successful Village Fair

This year's theme for the Steeple Claydon village fair in the Recreation Ground was 'Toytown' The sports pavilion was transformed into a toy fort complete with soldiers on guard, and a lot of work went into other decorations and costumes to complete the theme. A great afternoon and the weather stayed warm and dry. And I even won a prize in the raffle ! (free tickets to the Leighton Buzzard steam railway). Congratulations and thanks to all who worked so hard to make it a success.

35th Anniversary of the Centre for Policy Studies

It is 35 years since the Centre for Policy Studies was founded by Sir Keith Joseph and Margaret Thatcher to promote timeless Conservative principles of freedom and individual responsibility.
To celebrate this anniversary, Lord Saatchi has restated some of its key principles as follows:


A rising tide lifts all ships.
A bigger cake means a bigger slice for everyone. But first you have to create the wealth to make the cake bigger.
Caring that works costs cash – the Good Samaritan shows that first you need to money in order to do the good works.
Lower tax is good – for moral reasons, because it means more freedom and choice for individuals; and for economic reasons, because lower tax rates can mean higher tax revenues and more wealth creation.
A smaller state is required; the Government is already far too big.
A man or woman has a right to spend what he or she earns, to own property, to have the State as servant and not as master; that these are the essence of a free country and on that freedom all our other freedoms depend.
People are not numbers in a State computer; they should be seen as individuals.
Everyone has the right to be unequal. No one, thank heaven, is quite like anyone else.
The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
The essence of mankind is the power of choice; the glory and dignity of man is that it is he who chooses, and is not chosen for.
Human dignity resides in independence, individuality, self-determination.
The greatest restriction on the liberty of the citizen is a complete absence of money.
It is wrong that the majority of people in Britain are financially beholden to the State. This makes the State the master; the complicated tax and benefit system the chief instrument of its power.
A paternalist government, based on the benevolence of a ruler who treats his subjects as dependent children, is the greatest conceivable despotism and destroys all freedom.
When a man or a woman stands up for an ideal or strikes out against injustice, people are filled with hope; which is why idealism is more satisfying than pragmatism.
People have been tortured and died for these principles which, so at any rate they believed, were universal and binding on all men; part of the human essence in virtue of which men were rightly called men.
We cannot break these principles, without feeling that we had forfeited all rights to human respect. We could not betray them and face ourselves or others.

See:www.cps.org.uk.

Amen to all the above.