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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
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Jim Wallaces inaugural Charles Kennedy Memorial Lecture: Charle's legacy should be a call to refresh our radicalism

Five days before what would have been Charles Kennedy's 56th birthday, Jim Wallace, who entered the Commons on the same day as Charles in 1983, delivered the inaugural Charles Kennedy Memorial Lecture in Fort William. Seeing Charles Kennedy and Memorial in the same sentence still freaks me out slightly. It feels very wrong. Jim has very kindly provided us with a copy of his lecture so that those of us who couldn't make it up to Fort William can hear what he had to say. His subject was Charles, the legacy he left of internationalism and an example of always conducting his politics with respect and how his values were shaped by his highland background. He talks about the challenges we now face as a party and how we can learn from Charles as we deal with the challenges we face.

JW
21 Nov 2015
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John Marriott

Raising Council Tax

I hate to disabuse George Osborne; but allowing local councils to raise their Council Tax bills by 2% without going to a referendum will not help Social Care provision as far as my authority is concerned. In any case, we can already legally raise it by 1.99% without incurring his wrath. You see, even with a 2% rise, we, and I would think many similar authorities need that amount, and more, to get anywhere near the cuts that central government is expecting us to make over the next few years, before we even consider Social Care.

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