Politics
The village is in the North East Cambridgeshire constituency and is represented in Parliament by Mr. Steve Barclay MP (Conservative), he stood in the 2010 General Election after the retirement of Malcolm Moss (Conservative). The village Polling Station is in the Community Centre to the west of the village.
In local politics the village is in Roman Bank - Wisbech Ward of Fenland District Council. The councillors for Roman Bank are: Councillor Phillip Hatton (Conservative), Planning and Staff committees Chairman, Councillor Michael J. Humphrey (Conservative), and Duputy Leader Councillor Christopher J. Seaton (Conservative), portfolio holder for open business. On 5 May 2011 there was a local election, the ward recorded no change.
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self- Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practise politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)