Met Office issue weather warning for the Island

We’re not sure whether the Met Office are lagging behind with this warning given the weather we’ve already experienced since early this morning (don’t they read our twitter feed?), but they’ve just issued a weather warning for the Island last from 1pm to 11pm.

Isolated thunderstorms today may lead to some local torrential downpours. The public should be aware of the risk of some disruption to transport through standing water.

We guess if you’re planning to head out, make sure you take a brolly.

Image: AlmazUK under CC BY 2.0

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LooLoo
15, March 2011 11:00 am

I wish he would speak up about this rotten IOW Council and the draconian cuts to public services.

L Pinkerton
Reply to  LooLoo
15, March 2011 11:33 am

I think he is.

rosie
Reply to  LooLoo
15, March 2011 3:29 pm

i hope andrew turner is going to stand up for this island , we are trying to challenge the council on their closure of the libraries , the govt bodies are trying to underhandedly change the laws about the libraries act , we live in a democratic country or at least i thought so, we have rights to complain and ask questions, yet when we do the… Read more »

montana sliver
15, March 2011 11:11 am

Radical approach – speaking up for the rights of constituents – Turners turned over a new leaf, didn’t they put pressure on Carole in the Pughgate cover-up?

Asite 2c
15, March 2011 11:16 am

Watch your back Mr Turner. Pugh is after your job.

LooLoo
Reply to  Asite 2c
15, March 2011 11:57 am

Be aware! The knife has already been sharpened.

Racer Boy
Reply to  LooLoo
15, March 2011 12:46 pm

I don’t think that Pugh would stand as an MP on the Island, I think he’d go off to somewhere else where he isn’t known.

LooLoo
Reply to  Racer Boy
15, March 2011 12:52 pm

You are probably right. I’ve heard he is thinking of standing as the Tory candidate for Trumpton.

Asite2c
Reply to  LooLoo
15, March 2011 1:36 pm

Bad news for Trumpton. I bet he’ll close the fire station, sack Hugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert Dibble and Grub and close down the bandstand.

Don Smith
Reply to  Racer Boy
15, March 2011 7:52 pm

They need a good representative in Alaska.

Money for old rope
15, March 2011 11:49 am

At least this might be a real ‘debate’ unlike media reports a few days ago of Mr Turner ‘questioning’ an environment minister during a ‘debate’ in Westminster Hall on the Eco Island issue. What actually happened was Mr Turner read from a carefully-prepared script (possibly written for him by the Eco Island Partnership Community Interest Company) and the minister responded by reading from notes prepared by his civil… Read more »

montana sliver
15, March 2011 11:58 am

I really cant believe that they are still banging on about Eco-Island, it was just a con by Duckworth and co. nobody believed it other than the Council and they still haven’t realised they were taken in!

So if they are such a Green Council how is it that in the year 2011 County Hall hasn’t even got double glazing?

LooLoo
Reply to  montana sliver
15, March 2011 12:04 pm

Last year Pugh said he was Green and cycled to work from Shanklin to Newport and back every day. Is this true or is it just another pile of bull…t? I find it very hard to believe.

Racer Boy
Reply to  LooLoo
15, March 2011 12:44 pm

He is a keen cyclist, so it could well be true.

Haulage Bob
Reply to  LooLoo
15, March 2011 1:39 pm

They way some people now feel about him, I’d say he was at risk cycling anywhere on the Island these days!

wabbit
Reply to  Haulage Bob
15, March 2011 3:11 pm

He has probably got a Hummer as a council run around and we are paying for it!If he has it is justified on safety grounds.

No future
Reply to  montana sliver
15, March 2011 9:04 pm

Yes, & where are the wheelie bins(for proper re-cycling, electric buses, wind turbines(ha ha!)-and all the other things you would expect to find on a true eco island. It’s hilarious.

adrian nicholas
15, March 2011 12:11 pm

For this to be effective surely a right to public comment ought to be legally circumscribed nationally, in all employment contracts where a right to public info. & good practice is involved. Surely quite necessary to prevent ‘gagging’ & threat of dismissal by private corporates and councils regarding employees. This could be allied to parliamentary reform of Super-injunctions. Can’t see him bothering to raise such issues if… Read more »

Meursault
15, March 2011 7:16 pm

‘MP to speak up for constituents rights’ – er am I missing something here or is that not top of the job description for an MP?

Times must be hard if he is trying to pitch his job for a quick soundbite!

No.5
Reply to  Meursault
15, March 2011 7:36 pm

how can you tell the difference … in my expereince he ignores emails and letters. Bit rich for him to ask if pressure has been put on constituents not to contact him, as when they do, they are ignored.

I hope the days of Turner and Dennet are as limited as those of Pugh and Brown

I have no time for any of them

Don Smith
Reply to  No.5
15, March 2011 7:56 pm

Yes! He should reply to the correspondence that he receives from his constituents. Just bad manner mi thinks!

mark francis
Reply to  Don Smith
16, March 2011 10:08 am

I would have thought that only an MP can restrict constituents access to themselves.

ABC
16, March 2011 1:54 pm

This is odd, MPs touting for business like ambulance-chasing lawyers. Curioser and curioser, Mr Turner is specific when he highlights childcare and custody cases. Is there a particular problem on the Island and is he suggesting undue pressure is being put on parents/guardians who feel the system is failing them? More people might come forward if he explained in general terms what he is referring to without,… Read more »

adrian nicholas
Reply to  ABC
17, March 2011 10:40 am

he may be politically ‘getting in’ in advance of the imminent cuts to legal aid and effective closure of current family courts.
iow consequences will be likely horrendous.

Sandown Sally
16, March 2011 2:07 pm

over twenty years I have heard of many horror stories involving social services and various awful failures and mix ups. In most cases the Mps involvement has produced some answers, solutions or impovemements in their situation. Good job people get him to help I’d say.

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