David Cameron came to meet helpers and supporters last week. He met with over 400 people, answering questions, offering much needed answers to the country’s growing problems and putting forward clearly and succinctly the Conservative vision. A vision much needed as we flounder under this exhausted Labour government.

David Cameron with Geoff Gubb our Council candidate for Upton

Becky, Geoff and I helped the Friends of Warwick Park tidy up the park for the forthcoming Summer Fair this Saturday. After which we went into Upton meeting with local residents. We went canvassing from door to door and met with over 100 local residents. There was a whole host of issues raised; from the release of Al Megrahi and Brown being unavailable for comment while happy to comment on the cricket, to the poor equipment and support our service men and women are getting in Afghanistan as well as the continued anger aimed at the banking community. All in all people felt abandoned. They felt the country was lacking proper leadership and direction.

What a week it’s been. Last week I was accepted to start my PhD at Liverpool John Moores University. Like thousands of students up and down the country I was waiting expectantly to find out about my course. 3 years is the minimum time to complete a PhD – max time as the Chancellor of JMU and guitarist of Queen Brian May has proved can be closer to 30!

Being a huge fan of Brian May and Queen and having worked with his wife Anita Dobson whilst Brian was completing his PhD I have nothing but admiration for his musical and academic accomplishments. 

May studied physics at Imperial College London, graduating with a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in both Physics and Mathematics and ARCS with Upper Second-Class Honours. He then proceeded to study for a Ph.D degree, also at the Imperial College London departments of Physics and Mathematics, and was part way through this Ph.D programme, studying reflected light from interplanetary dust and the velocity of dust in the plane of the Solar System. When Queen became successful he abandoned his physics doctorate but did co-author two scientific research papers: MgI Emission in the Night-Sky Spectrum (1972) and An Investigation of the Motion of Zodiacal Dust Particles (Part I) (1973) which were based on May’s observations at the Teid Observatory in Tenerife. He is the co-author of Bang! – The Complete History of the Universe with Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott, which was published in October 2006. More than 30 years after he started his research, in October 2007 he completed his Ph.D. thesis in astrophysics entitled A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud. 

On 17 November 2007, Brian May was appointed Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University.

Asteroid 52665 Brianmay was named in his honour on 18 June 2008 

I’m hoping it won’t take me 30 years but this PhD will be a labour of love!

Well done Becky for organising the ‘Overchurch It’s a knockout Fun Day’.  All the local community took part forming teams with parents and kids and on top of which there was a team from Wirral Partnership Homes and the Police. Gunk flew and gundge was waded through and Becky won a medal!

The Action Team in Pensby with local MEP Jacqui Foster (far left)

The local Conservative Action Team – lead by Dr Adam Sykes (pictured above)  has been working in Pensby all this week and Wirral resident and local MEP Jacqui Foster was out helping us.

We’ve a big team of helpers out this Sunday 11am- 12 – If you’d like to join us then please contact the office on 0151 632 1052 or email me directly on esther@wirralwestconservatives.co.uk – Or if you have any issues you’d like us to look into please contact me directly.

Last Thursday I went to the premier of Colour Blind, the film directed by Lenny Henry for The Antony Walker Foundation in memory of Anthony Walker.

I went with Gee Walker, Anthony’s mum and his sister Dominique. I helped set up with Anthony Walker Citizenship Award and Ball and introduced Lenny Henry to the Foundation.

What a remarkable woman Gee is how she has dealt with the death of her son and established in his name a foundation that teaches diversity, integrity and racial harmony through sport, music and education. Gee and Dominique spend their time going into schools delivering workshops and programmes and this film Colour Blind, funded primarily by Liverpool FC is another addition to their schools programme.

It was great to see Lenny talking about how he directed the film as well as explaining where the idea for the film came from. Sat along side Lenny was Steven Gerard, who like Anthony Walker came from Huyton. Liverpool Football Club in addition to sponsoring the film and are also key supporters of the Anthony Walker Foundation.

Mayor & Mayoress Andrew & Kathy Hodgson, me and Robbie

The Mayor and Mayoress of Wirral, Andrew and Kathy Hodgson officially opened Great Meol’s Bowling Club extension (and viewers gallery!)  last night. Local community fundraiser and member of the club Roy raised the funds for the much needed extension. The bowling club is a jewel in the community has over 250 active members. The extension allows friends, family and visiting guests to watch the game in a sheltered environment.

Yesterday one of Wirral’s most popular tourist destinations officially re-opened after a £750,000 refurbishment.

West Kirby Marine Lake, a popular sailing, windsurfing and recreational water park, has been closed for repairs since March after  an engineers’ report which said the lake’s outer wall, an attraction for thousands of walkers, was crumbling, and that it was only a matter of time before it became too dangerous to allow visitors to continue walking along it.

The popular walk along the outer wall of the lake has become a feature of the promenade in west Wirral since it was built more than a century ago and it continues to be so.