It's been too long since I wrote a blog post.We spent the last week in Norfolk and one of the things nagging at the back of my mind was that I really should get round to writing here more often. I am going to keep this website online and make it far more active.As many of you will know, I was priviliged to be elected to Sheffield City Council to represent Arbourthorne ward in May. It has been an absolute whirlwind and I am really enjoying this challenging and unique role. There has been plenty going on:

• Sheffield Council going to no overall controll, but the Lib Dems hanging on.
• The Con-Dem government slashing the loan for Forgemasters and ripping the heart out of Sheffield.   
• My maiden speech (I'll probably put it up here - modesty was never a strong point!) and several Full Council meetings, where the Lib Dems nod along to Tory propoganda.
• £6bn of cuts to deal with - £6.5m alone for Sheffield City Council, plus £3m for South Yorkshire Police.
• The so-called "Emergency Budget" - just another excuse for Tories to do what they have always done.
• The Health White Paper - which seems determined to de-nationalise and privatise the NHS
• The very sad news of my colleague's death on Monday. Jan Wilson was elected to the Councl in 1992, elected leader of the Labour Group in 1998 and was Leader of the Council for much of the time after. She was a true inspiration. I will write a proper post about Jan in the coming days.

I will do proper posts on most of the above items as well as getting better at writing regularly at what is going on at the moment. There is certainly no shortage of things to talk about.There is a lot of work to do.