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
UK income based taxes are not as progressive as many think.
The chart below is the marginal tax rates for Income Tax and Employers and Employees National Insurance combined. This gives the full cost of taxes on labour, including the often forgotten Employers National insurance. When you take into account the perfectly legal ways that income taxes can be avoided with various tax reliefs like pensions etc the income based taxes are possibly flat or even regressive, rather than progressive.
19 Sep 2012
Call for rethink on Ambulance Station closure backed by Council
At a meeting on Tuesday night Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council backed a motion by Liberal Democrat Councillors Michael Mullaney (Hinckley, Trinity) and David Inman (Burbage, Sketchley, Stretton) calling on the Ambulance Service to rethink plans to close the town's Ambulance Station.
19 Sep 2012
Discussion on utility company streetworks is welcome, but action should have been taken years ago
Liberal Democrats on Surrey County Council have welcomed the setting up of a task group to look at reducing the congestion and damage caused by utility companies digging up the county's roads, but say action should have been taken years ago.
19 Sep 2012
Hinckley Lib Dems back PCSOS
Cllr David Bill, deputy leader of Hinckley and Bosworth Council successfully moved the following Motion at last night's Council meeting -
19 Sep 2012
Keep the number 7 bus says Borough Council
On Tuesday evening Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council backed a motion which called for the saving of a bus service that covers many local villages.
19 Sep 2012
MP supports local charity CancerCare by setting up a JustGiving page
MP Tim Farron has set up a fundraising page for local charity CancerCare North Lancashire and South Lakeland.
19 Sep 2012
