Update on 8th February 2026. The Home page was copied, to act as a viewable archive. Content editing has started. Some important page redesign will follow. 

25th February 2026

Leicester City has three parliamentary areas. I am in a neighbouring one, South Leicestershire. There are indications that a Westminster Parliament election may take place well before 2029. So I will provide some online details of current MPs and future candidates or proposals. Nothing is fixed yet or any publicity contracts offered. I have registered some internet domain names to support my intentions. They are currently parked, meaning that they are not yet arriving at any webpages which I have created.

leicesterwest.info   leicestereast.info   leicestersouth.info  and  southleicestershire.info

I have also registered  reformleicester.info  and reformleicestershire.info  Ha! Leicestershire has ten MPs, including three for the city.

This website has a contact page, presenting my Email address. You will need to type it into your Email facility.

Updated on 13/7/25  Devolution Petition. More details to follow.

We had a fairly incompetent Conservative Government recently and now an even less competent Labour one! As far as I can see, they shared one aim and that should be enough to establish its intrinsic lack of value. They want to close down District and Borough Councils and seem to be trying to force that change on England.

Well, my patience has recently run out and a key opposition to these unproven and unjustified 'Devolution' plans will begin soon, targeting over one million people in Leicestershire and seeking clear support from over 100,000, ideally from 150,000. The future is at stake here and local politicians in the county, and in nearby Rutland, seem to be either playing political games and/or lacking professional competence. 

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During the weekly Question Time, some content referred to very unpopular proposals from the City of Leicester's Council. External link.  Land Grab

26/6/25

More now on 27/6/25, under Dangerous Dramas. And on the first day of July, they will be voting hard. A poem has arrived, perhaps to satisfy a bard...

And now on the second, it is hard to see the future, except as a reflection of the past:

1. No value in our ten county MPs.
2. No competent UK parties to vote for.
3. No good reasons to rejoin a crumbling EU.
4. And local papers, all can see, are full of mediocrity.
5. No reason for archaic pay-to-view rules on behalf of the BBC.
6. November? That will surely be the time of ruin for policies of devolution.
7. And poetry won't save you from destruction. It's just a fictional production.

(To be filed as Unitary Casualties #7)

No need in Leicester for a City Mayor,
Or for a Carnival next year,
Like in Les Miserables.

Where talentless musicians arrive in droves.
And ladies take off lots of clothes.

8. Dr. Carl Jung wrote about truth in a letter. "Who looks outside dreams. Who looks inside awakes."

More or less correct in theory but unfortunately he never discovered a practical technique. Psychology is now just another half-baked religion. As ineffective and misguided as, perhaps on top of the list, the singing by Leicester's Hare Krishna devotees. Or prayers from vicars and popes. Or postures from Buddhists. Or Tai Chi's focused movements. Or Yoga breathing. Or Pilates DVDs, which can really bore you to the core.

9. Or let's explore and visit outer space. No value there to the human race.

Upto 50 DVDs will be given away in 2025 or 2026 as prizes in a political competition. Can you predict the date of the current Prime Minister's resignation and/or the date of a 2026 General Election?

The first prize might be 20 DVDs, for the most accurate and treasured entry. A second prize of 15 DVDs, for the second most accurate and treasured, etc. Ten more for third and five DVDs for forth best entries.

For every 100 competition entrants there will be five potential DVDs. We might offer more prizes than quoted already. Prize winner tie-breaker texts can also be submitted or one may simply rely on a random draw or on the webmaster's choice. His decisions are, er... final!

Entries by Email. Prizes to be collected.

A Zero-Gravity Garden Lounger chair will also become a prize, if a resignation comes before Christmas 2025. A Three Seater Garden Swing Seat and a lounger chair might become prizes for a 2026 election.

23/6/25

Updated on 24/6/25 External link.  Humiliation for Keir Starmer  108 Labour MPs are protesting about planned disability benefit cuts. The linked text from the Express includes words from the Prime Minister -  a "city the size of Leicester" but otherwise no specific local relevance was visible to me.

A controversial topic and one commentator seems to feel that the government's declared medicine is something like financial mNRA. So it looks like: "Just a quick jab in the arm and never mind that it is installing an untested therapy." External link.  Tubfuls of fatty mayo

So, don't forget how many people died as a result of taking unproven Covid-19 genetic-therapy jabs! A big exposure of government scandals, including what were arguably lies and cover-ups, is going on in the USA.

Now former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has told the Express: "This bill is a cruel and disgraceful attack on the rights of disabled people to live in dignity. It won’t get people into work. It will simply make the lives of people with disabilities harder, whether they are in work or not."

External link.  Keir Starmer vows to force through welfare reform  A Labour MP, speaking to the Express on condition of anonymity, predicted that the government would cave in to pressure and pull the legislation, rather than risk losing the vote. He said: "The bill is over. The bill is dead."

And I feel this inept Prime Minister is heading rapidly for a similar fate. Any dates please?

Updated on 27/6/25 Well, the Express is not exactly a fan of the Prime Minister. But they can't help but see which way the smart money is moving. External link.  this-morning-starmer-government-brain-dead

See also the Referendum link below. There are some Muppet related comments on the YouTube post to which it leads but trivial overall. If you have time...

Updated on 1/7/25 There will now be up to 80 DVDs as prizes. Maybe now two second prizes and the same for third and fourth places.

17/6/2025

Leicester City Council. Their ongoing and often unwelcome activities seem to have resulted in threats of violence in public spaces. I rely on a Leicester Mercury webpage for the related details:

the person breaching the rules displayed “threatening behaviour”, council documents reveal...
"Just three fines have been issued since the PSPO came into effect in April." 
"In addition to fines, the order aims to engage with those who are partaking in the banned behaviours and educate them..."

External link.  You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things

But to be frank, and forgetting this quote from William Shakespeare, I would neither trust nor welcome unwanted education from a council officer or from any intrusive person. I have also been subjected to threatening behaviour on one fairly recent occasion, close to the Clock Tower and was told by a quite young and apparently aggressive person that I was violating the law because I required a permit and I did not have one. He also claimed to have taken a photograph of me. So, first a question came to me and then an allegation against me, apparently a photo was taken and finally what I took to be a verbal threat of violence arrived. He wore a mask of some type, looking broadly medical in style, as far as I recall.

Legal uncertainties, amplified by various forms of harassment/dispute/disagreement may generate anger and indirectly endanger the safety of other members of the public.

As to harassment, the term is pretty vague in law but I understand that a repeated activity which is otherwise legal in style but which, for example, leads to distress or to a perceived, perhaps subjective reduction of human dignity or to a perceived, perhaps subjective spiritual oppression may become a criminal offence.

Harassment crimes are normally associated with a single victim but when numerous people are subject to ongoing or repeated distress or challenge or 'education', well the collective distress created may be actionable. And if the repeated activities involved are not in themselves lawful... Well, enough already! In fact, far too much already.

The following text comes from an archive page on this website:

Updated on 3/6/25 The PSPO is still haunting the city centre! Yesterday afternoon a crowd was enjoying a singing visitor from Birmingham, at the Clock Tower. He stopped his performance after being threatened with a large file by council officers. They said his nails were too long and were, therefore, "unauthorised structures".

In response to Anti-Social Behaviour legislation from 2014, a PSPO's content needs to be unambiguous, appropriate and proportionate.

And now back to 17/6/25.

The UK's recent unanimous Supreme Court ruling should be kept in mind. The legal definitions and references to Recreation were deemed sufficient and so there was no need to refine or to qualify the definitions and then to somehow legislate for one particular aspect.

The USA has also given a recent unanimous Supreme Court ruling about the lack of rights of a state to define or to assess the 'degree of religiousness' of a Christian Charity's actions. These single quotes are for my presentation of the key issue and are not presented as verbatim.

As for the UK, the City Council of Leicester has no right in law to refine or to qualify the definition of religious practices and then to outlaw the use of tables for presenting spiritual leaflets. Or specifically to blanket ban the use of tables, which might otherwise have held Bibles, or Korans or Bhagavad Gita copies or extracts from these. Or Yoga booklets... and I do have many copies.

There is a reference below, from 14/6/25, to a possible call for the resignation of all of the City's Councillors. I say they are not fit-for-purpose and also wonder how much money they receive in those roles. Thousands of pounds I believe but not researched, so I might be mistaken.

The City Council of Leicester has no right in law to ban me and then to fine me £100 from/for continuing a long established public space use of an A-Board to present Yoga Meditation. I recall that two Council Enforcement Officers saw the board on 1st April, in East Gates, before the PSPO was in force and I gave a copy of my website's address and asked them to record the details of our meeting. I 'teach' free of charge and do not seek donations for such activity. And this website also identifies my connection with De Montfort University and a link refers to access to a couple of their buildings.

The A-board was built in 2002 and was designed with a rare, maybe unique, double-hinge and crossbar, providing good stability. Used in public spaces in Manchester during the Commonwealth Games. One Police officer even sat for meditation there, whilst on duty. A lady officer was with him but being on duty he kept his eyes open!

And more about religions and charities in the UK. Some practitioners of yoga and meditation consider these to be exercises and simply for health and wellbeing. Other practitioners consider them to be of a spiritual or a religious nature. In the UK, the Charity laws are fairly clear and broad and make no attempt to distinguish the nature or degree of any spirituality. In fact, not unlike the recent USA Supreme Court ruling.

So, a UK registered Religious Charity is not required to have belief in God or in a God. As to yoga, in various forms, it goes back millennia. Mentioned, for example, by the God Shri Krishna, to his disciple Arjuna, in the Bhagavad Gita, maybe 5,000 years ago. And more recently, Sufi Muslims surely believe in an inner transformation. Buddhists, or most of them, do not believe in God but believe in inner transformation. Didn't Jesus Christ say that the kingdom of heaven is within, surely a focus on an inner something. And then Dr Carl Jung, see more below.

Some people wear blue jeans with holes in, while others wear suits by Ralph Lauren. Some cover most of their bodies while others wear mini-skirts. Some people eat meat and some do not. Surely the world would be rather boring if everybody wore a military uniform or if every public space was blocked by food delivery bikers.

I wonder, rhetorically, if the City Council has more money invested in Haymarket than in Highcross and... guess where there are lots of benches! Come on, let's all hear it for profit motives... Blow those whistles! They have not been banned yet.

Updated on 18/6/25

"... and young hearts shouldn't be afraid" - Cliff Richard, 1961. "Suzy was in pigtails... Like a sweet magnolia tree, My love blossomed tenderly, My life grew sweeter through the years... Oh, even if the mountain tumbles, If this whole world crumbles, By her side I'll still be standing there" - Stevie Wonder, 1967.

Update on 26/6/25 City Council attempts at land grabbing have been raised in parliament and were side-stepped by the Deputy Prime Minister, long after the Labour supporting Mayor has widely published his wishes to take over most of Oadby and Wigston. External link.  Referendum Needed Maybe 

And 27/6/25 I recall that large local councils and even small ones have some powers to hold referendums, without seeking government permission. For example, there was a Referendum when some people tried to have Broughton Astley changed from being a village and turned into a town. That possibility was firmly voted out.

Leicestershire people need to say: "No!" to the popcorn style council organisation changes being forced onto them from London. Unfortunately the MPs here are surely playing political games instead of working properly and justifying their salaries. They should be asked to resign or at least to apologise.

"Do tell us when was freedom banned,
And who's the owner of this land."

The quotation is from a CPPO reference... External Muppet related link. And here is one Unitary Chef, filmed in his New Walk kitchen

As to "don't say anything at all!", I do know where it's from. And it's not Popcorn Shrimp but Popcorn Rabbit.

Highcross Sale  Historic external link. Who owns it now, what is its legal status, who manages it and where are the included land boundaries? What specifically is the public access and public activity status of St. Peter's Square, rights of way, etc? And I wonder if it is a Mayor-free and PSPO-free zone!

External link. Including  St. Peter's Square  images.

Who are the other land owners, within the boundaries which are currently assigned to Leicester City's Unitary Council and what ideas do these owners have about the future of their area or their property?

A People's Parliament? Green space and recreation? And don't forget the recent unanimous Supreme Court Judgement. Open air Activity Zones, such as inner peace areas, musical areas, dance areas, information areas, political areas, religious areas, picnic or chat areas or a charities area?

How to use the former Marks & Spencer occupied spaces in the city centre? Who owns the property and land which M & S were using?

How about some Chugger-free zones, or at least to recall the UK law about chuggers not being allowed to follow people for more than three steps, whatever? So, they can speak out: "Do you live in Leicester?" or "Just a minute!"  What sort of financial commission rates do they get paid and should these be published?

And why do food delivery bikers generally obstruct a public seating area in East Gates, close to the main entrances of McDonalds and Highcross? Fishy, fishy, I suggest... Weren't benches for public seating removed from fairly near to these obstructed seats?

Five A-boards, more or less, are also there and no rubbish bins, not even one bin for smokers. Beyond hope, with such er... Unitary Casualties.

15/6/25

Harry and Meghan 19/5/2025

That text link has been here for many days. But today, the 6th day of the 6th month, has been quite disturbing. I had a long and wierd dream this morning, almost a nightmare. Time to stand back and review my life. So, I have archived the Home page to Big Archive and deleted much of the content from here.

External link.  BBC #1  "A woman has vowed to fight a fine she was given for setting up a table in Leicester city centre while campaigning against city council cuts. Heather Rawling was given a £100 penalty under new rules to prevent anti-social behaviour on Saturday 31 May."  

I believe she will win the challenge if the matter goes to court, de facto against a foolish Leicester City Mayor. And he might be found responsible for organising abuses under the UK Law of Torts and/or the Human Rights Act of 1998. Council officers may be deemed to have been employed and guided to abuse the human rights of many people.

I am not qualified to give legal advice or reliable judgement but I feel there is also a potentially criminal aspect of recent city authority behaviour to be considered, which arguably constitutes harassment.

8/6/25

Updated on 14/6/25 I cannot conceive how the Leicester City Council could be successful with their attempt to impose a fine on Heather, if this case goes to court in the broadly clear and transparent UK legal system. Not a perfect system but surely good enough for the current issue.

As judges might have said recently in London, in supposed relation to one Supreme Court decision: "Heather Rawling and Dr Kumar John Peirson are both biologically legal!" And I feel obliged to repeat my belief that Leicester City Council Officers have de facto been paid to break UK laws in some of their dealings with the public, for example with myself and with Heather.

As for being paid, well perhaps some volunteers are included or should I say 'empowered' to act in council activities. Hard to see the picture with full clarity. Not very likely perhaps, but possible, that Enforcement Officers are somehow being impersonated and/or that volunteers or interns are threatening fines to the public. And Community Safety roles may be overlapping non-safety roles. Community Wellbeing is a complex topic.

And Police Officers have become engaged in some PSPO enforcement activity. I have spoken to a couple. One told me that she was checking to see if I am a person known to the police.

As to the result of her check... Well, that is unknown to me. I wonder whether or not the council knows the result of the check. Far less than satisfactory, is my politely phrased view, and the Council is surely accountable for calling these police officers and for later telling me, in their presence, that details of a fine would come to me by post. 

The local employment union(s), whichever exist, could please give some clear warnings, and better would be legally qualified guidance, to City Council staff that they are party to, or may have been party to or might become personally engaged in, organised unlawful behaviour. It is not fair for people to be expected to work with any uncertainty existing about the legality of their employment duties. 

I ask, to whoever might know and tell: "How do you investigate and, if appropriate, sack a Unitary Council's Mayor?"

This City's Mayor should resign from his post... And the City Council might be closed down or substantially shrunk under so-called 'devolution' changes, for which central government of the UK is pushing hard. The resignation of all the city councillors should be requested now by people who live in the county of Leicestershire. Or at least by anyone awake and well-informed who can trust my opinion!

[ Educational note. External links.  Well-informed  Cambridge English Dictionary  ]

No friends visible for Reform! A minority party, almost in control of Leicestershire County Council. External link.  BBC #2

"Reform UK's success in the recent local elections has propelled many councillors with limited or no political experience into council chambers across England... ...Reform UK, which isn't involved in any formal coalitions, pacts or deals in areas where there were local elections this year."

8/6/25

Updated on 9/6/25 1.19 p.m. Nigel Farage has recently finished his Welsh Press Conference. Less than one hour long and a brilliant showing... He looks the right man and having solid broad understandings and experience to support or push forward the wellbeing of the United Kingdom.

External link.  YouTube  A quote from The Valley of Fear.

"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself but talent instantly recognises genius."

Updated on 24/6/25 External link.  I have no idea  Words from a Nottinghamshire Councillor in a key position. Cabinet Member for Economic Development and Asset Management. No doubt, he has the skills required to order crisps, Pepsis, pizzas and sandwiches. So, they might train him up to be in charge of local versions of Reform's not-banned list and to act as the Nottinghamshire County Controller for the list of banned Woke Snacks.

On this page, I wrote in April about Reform UK: "I find them indescribably untrustworthy". Now visible on the Big Archive page. Also long term popularity opportunities are being claimed for the Conservatives. External link.  Real Opportunity 

Updated on 26/6/25 Meetings may move. No shortage of buildings in Northamptonshire. Mike Barton: "Yes, it is my headquarters." BBC report from 24th June. External link.  Historic Base

Warwickshire's Reform UK County Council Head has gone walkabout after just five weeks. Sounds a bit like one recent Conservative Prime Minister. Well, who can you Truss in modern politics? I would vote Trump or Musk... And many in Reform UK are ex-Conservatives and seem simply not up to the job. Guardian report, this morning. External Link.  Teenager runs Reform-led council