John Dickie-Northampton's dissenting voice

Forty odd years in the local politics of Northampton has brought very few insights and even less understanding of the beast we know as local politics-but from the town that gave the world Bradlaugh-what the hell!

Friday, 21 October 2016

'I was so much older then,I'm younger than that now '

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A short wallow in nostalgia, with all the appropriate cheesy cliches to record the latest Nobel Literature laureate.The fact that Bob Dylan,...
Tuesday, 27 September 2016

Agitate,educate and organise!

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When we left beautiful Dubrovnik on Saturday morning we were fairly sure what the result would be from the conference in Liverpool. we wer...
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Saturday, 27 August 2016

Farce repeats itself,first as farce and then as farce

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Regular readers of my ramblings will be aware that I have a deep affection for the party of my youth-no not the Communist Party,or more prec...
Saturday, 6 August 2016

When is a movement not a party ?

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I'm getting a little concerned about the state of mind of some leading figures in the Parliamentary Labour Party. Only yesterday it was...
Sunday, 24 July 2016

Is Trump really that bad ?

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There is a sort of louche acceptance,particularly in the British press that despite the fact that Trump has captured the Republican Party th...
Sunday, 17 July 2016

Another week,more conspiracies threats and skullduggery.

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It's hard to know what will happen to the Labour party next. This morning someone called Stephen Kinnock claimed he was already in discu...
Thursday, 30 June 2016

The politics of fidget !

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Do you remember back in the days of primary school when your teacher,usually a tall lady with grey hair,glasses and a smile,used to fix her ...
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John Dickie
For 30 years I followed the teaching trade.For the same 30 years I was also a Labour Councillor on Northampton Borough Council.For ten of those years I was leader of Council.On leaving council(all 30 years representing castle ward) I went to WarwickBusiness School and completed a masters in Public Administration(MPA) which included a stint at the Kennedy School of Governance(Harvard) and Georgetown Univ. I was also for a number of years a partner ina small export orientated business.Now I write weekly for the Northampton Chron & Echo and do a little supply teaching when the mood takes me. Have been married almost 40 years to Marie- who left school at 15 and now has a PhD. and was Chair of Northants Police for over a decade and has worked nationally in a number of policing roles.Marie was awarded a well deserved OBE in the 2008 New Years Honours.
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