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Headingley Green Party - Information about the activities and organisation of the party, and contact details.
Leeds Leftwing Page - Interactive resource for left wing people. Bulletin board, opinion, archive and links.
Wortley Green Party - Information on the party, councillors and surgeries, and the ward of Wortley.
Harold Best, MP - Represents the North West Leeds constituency. Includes local information and constituency work.
MP: Fabian Hamilton - Surgery, links, profile, news, constituency. Leeds North East: Chapel Allerton, Moortown, Roundhay, North.
Leeds Central Conservative Association - Profiles the constituency, gives reasons to vote Conservative and lists the association's officers.
Leeds North East Conservative Association - Profiles the constituency and local councillors. Includes press releases, and diary of past association events.
Middleton Park Ward - Information from Labour councillors Stuart Bruce, Jack Dunn and David Langham about local issues. Also includes profiles of the councillors.
Councillor Stuart Bruce - Weblog of a local Labour councillor, with details of his recent activities and opinions.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Politics If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -- Marcus Aurelius The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Politics Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Politics Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Politics If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Politics Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey Politics "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Politics Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison We must become the change we want to see. -- Gandhi Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy Politics "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair We can do not great things - only small things with great love. -- Mother Theresa "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous Politics For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch Politics Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton Politics "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Politics Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Politics In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Politics I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller Politics Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf Politics Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers Politics The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Politics When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign Politics A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill Politics "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. - Von Clausewitz Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Politics "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert Politics
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