Got up today still not feeling well but glad I forced myself out of bed and arrived at Cllr Kevin Wilson's house on Truby's Garden, Coffee Hall at 8:50am with ten minutes to spare.
Cllr Wilson was trying the batteries out in the digital camera (which always helps) and were just charged up, a slight worry at one stage as he put the batteries in the wrong way round and so the camera did not start!
He also gave me some returned survey's to give to Andrew Pakes and to tell him that someone in the Broughton area was willing to give some help which is also welcome.
Opened the door to Cllr Martin Potter as Cllr Wilson had gone upstairs and chatted a while after Cllr Wilson contacting Dr Starkey it appeared she was going to drive straight to our next venue so we went in convoy to Chervil Beanhill to see Cllr Margaret Roberts.
We were expecting Cllr Tina El-Shabrawy but she did not turn up so I got in the picture, Dr Starkey took charge as she thought that one chair should be moved closer in to the other settee to give the impression of an animated conversation I was tasked in sitting in said Chair while we play acted talking about the Tories lies of the crime statistics (which involved Milton Keynes North East MP Mark Lancaster who in his leaflet said violent crime had risen by 239% in Milton Keynes and was mentioned in yesterdays Guardian Newspaper) while Cllr Wilson clicked away.
Then we left to have photograph's taken of Dr Starkey on her own at the new affordable housing being built on Wastel, Beanhill next to Bracken House and the new Ashlands surgery, I nearly run over Cllr Wilson while trying to find a parking space amongst the builders cars and vans.
As Dr Starkey was crossing the road to have a photograph taken outside the surgery she quickly asked if I would hold on to her handbag, which I did whilst chatting to Cllr Martin Potter his street cred vanished as we were getting funny looks from blokes in cars driving by with me holding a handbag chatting to a shaven headed young guy (Cllr Potter).
Next stop the new Milton Keynes Academy on Leadenhall we all tried parking and was approached by a steward who let us use (for five minutes only he said) the disabled parking, Myself and Dr Starkey stood in front of the Academy and was asked to look at each each other but look past each other all to get the right effect and was told to get very close which with my cold I felt uncomfortable and sorry for Dr Starkey as I did not want to past my germs on I felt we were acting as close lovers with the closeness and the looks she told me to do the buttons up on my long coat and apologised for being so bossy but I found it amusing and took no offence.
Then back in our cars to Milton Keynes General Hospital on Eaglestone and had no choice but to use the visitors car park thankfully the first 15 minutes are free I do get angry that Hospitals charge for parking I wish the Labour Government would ban this as I am sure it would get us some more much needed votes.
I felt a spare part as Dr Starkey was photographed outside the main entrance next to what she called the two fat ladies statue on the roundabout.
Last stop was Netherfield and to the local centre on Farthing Grove, and Leaf It Out run by Cllr Donna Coventry and Ann Scott while Dr Starkey was being photographed with them amongst their flowers I was asked by Dr Starkey to hold her hand bag again guess I have found my niche in life!
Escorted Dr Starkey in to the Woughton Parish Council offices so she could use the facilities and then walked with her to the Subway to join Cllrs Kevin Wilson and Martin Potter for coffee (I was very good declining a doughnut while they tucked in to the choclate ones) where she made the comment to me how Netherfield had improved since she had been elected as an MP in 1997 and how wrong the Tory Leader David Cameron was to talk about a broken Britain.
We sat down and I sat next to Dr Starkey while she took a phone call on her mobile from Theresa who works in her Westminister office and then told us about the £53,000 the Government had given for a Lettings Officer and her annoyance about the Liberal Democrat Administration carping about the lack of money allocated to Milton Keynes Council.
She told us about her spat with the Tories Local Government spokeswoman Justine Greening the member for Putney, and lectured her about how Local Government finance worked as she was clearly out of her depth and how other tory members left her in the chamber clearly embarrassed, and that the Independent Conservative for Croydon Central Andrew Pelling who normally sits near to the door, when rebuffed by Justine Greening to make a intervation from the floor of the chamber upped sticks and sat on the Labour side of the chamber, Dr Starkey said how she was rebuked from the speaker John Bercow for speaking on Tory policy and not on the main debate.
With that we all said our goodbyes and I went to go home to Heelands to get something to eat and get ready to meet Andrew Pakes for leafleting in the afternoon.
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