Breaking Britain returns, this time it’s the schools
Why is so much of Britain’s infrastructure literally falling apart?
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
Pitfalls in 24 languages
As Mrs. May was busy signing her Article 50 letter to Donald Tusk, which will have the effect of revoking my citizenship of the European Union, I was on a business trip to Indonesia. On returning to Frankfurt airport I went through passport control using the accustomed short queue labelled EU/EEA/CH. This made me conscious of the fact that in two years time I will have to use the longer queue together with my American, Chinese and Indonesian friends. That is unless the signs are changed. However there is not sufficient space on those signs to add a simple "/UK" sticker, so it will involve completely changing the signs at considerable expense. As a local taxpayer I can hardly approve of such expenditure, even if it does cause me personally some inconvenience. So it is probably the long queue in future.
CHLDEGG
6 Apr 2017
Cumbrian conservatives fail to back call for more social care funding
Social care is not safe in the hands of the Conservatives, according to Cumbrian Liberal Democrats. The Conservatives today were in disarray as they failed to back a Lib Dem call for more social care funding.
6 Apr 2017
MP pays tribute to police following armed arrests
Local MP Tim Farron has paid tribute to the police following an incident today which saw armed police arrest six people in Grange-over-Sands.
6 Apr 2017
MP welcomes cash for school repairs but warns of 'vast cuts' to come
Fourteen schools in Cumbria, including five in South Lakeland, are among those which have been awarded cash to upgrade school buildings that are in poor condition or have health and safety concerns. Local MP Tim Farron has welcomed the funds, but warned that they are a "drop in the ocean" compared to what's needed, adding that local schools face vast cuts by 2020.
6 Apr 2017
Farron calls for immediate bird-flu review for free range chickens
Today local MP Tim Farron has written to the Environment Secretary calling for an immediate review into the emergency housing of free range chickens in South Lakeland.
6 Apr 2017
Lib Dems Deliver: Fairer Pay
In the coalition government the Liberal Democrats pressed for the publication of the gender 'pay gap' for large firms - from today it is law.
6 Apr 2017