Breaking Britain returns, this time it’s the schools
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13 Sep 2023
News
Press release on the Autumn Statement.
Lib Dems condemn “chaotic and incompetent” budget
17 Nov 2022
Sewage in our Rivers
The sheer quantity of raw sewage being dumped into Britain’s rivers and coastal areas is a scandal and a disgrace.
14 Sep 2022
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
Henry George is the most famous American popular economist you've never heard of, a 19th century cross between Michael Lewis, Howard Dean and Ron Paul. Progress and Poverty, George's most important book, sold three million copies and was translated into German, French, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Hebrew and Mandarin. During his lifetime, George was probably the third best-known American, eclipsed only by Thomas Edison and Mark Twain. He was admired by the foreign luminaries of the age, too -- Leo Tolstoy, Sun-Yat Sen and Albert Einstein, who wrote that "men like Henry George are unfortunately rare. One cannot image a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form and fervent love of justice." George Bernard Shaw described his own thinking about the political economy as a continuation of the ideas of George, whom he had once heard deliver a speech.
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25 Oct 2012
Bus Station Area Regeneration to Include New Surface Car Park
I am pleased to be able to confirm that as part of our regeneration of the bus station area in Bedford Town Centre, we will construct a brand new surface car park to serve the town. The car park, which will be located on the site of the former Gwyn and Patteshull Court blocks of flats, will be constructed next year.
25 Oct 2012
Footpath resurfacing in Lynwood, Folkestone
Kent Highways are to carry out footway surfacing works at Lynwood, Folkestone. These works will involve the replacement of the existing footway surface with a newly constructed bituminous footway. The works are due to take place along Lynwood, between Beech Close and Coniston Road on the south side of the footway.
25 Oct 2012
Road Closure on the A2 near Canterbury
The coastbound A2 will be closed for two nights near Canterbury in Kent for resurfacing.
25 Oct 2012
Farron and SLDC councillors push minister on second homes
South Lakes MP Tim Farron yesterday met with new Liberal Democrat Communities and Local Government Minister, Don Foster, as well as councillors and officers from South Lakeland District Council to discuss the issue of loop holes in second home council tax rules.
25 Oct 2012
MP battles for victims of Equitable Life
South Lakes MP Tim Farron took part in the Equitable Members' Action Group (EMAG) rally yesterday afternoon, in support of their campaign to get full and proper compensation for all the policy holders affected by the collapse of Equitable Life at the turn of the 21st Century.
25 Oct 2012