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245 Article(s) Found
I congratulate all those candidates who were successful in last weeks’ local elections.
It was good to see that the...
Date Online: 15/05/2012
If it wasn’t so serious it would be hilariously funny.
Yes, there’s never a dull moment with this bunch of...
Date Online: 01/05/2012
The impact of George Osborne’s budget is becoming clearer as the hidden small print emerges.
Tax cuts for the wealthy, including...
Date Online: 16/04/2012
All political parties are now in preparation for the local elections in May. The social conditions many constituents now face...
Date Online: 03/04/2012
It was announced recently that two Police Authorities were considering off-loading aspects of policing out to the private sector. The...
Date Online: 19/03/2012
The official closure of the British Aerospace Factory in Chadderton is a massive blow to the locality. The site has...
Date Online: 05/03/2012
David Cameron appears to be undertaking a global lecture tour these days. He has travelled widely in Europe, lecturing them...
Date Online: 20/02/2012
Is it complacency or just plain arrogance that’s stopping the Tory-led Government from ditching its failing economic...
Date Online: 06/02/2012
Tax rises and spending cuts which go too far and too fast have choked off the recovery, pushed up prices...
Date Online: 23/01/2012
I was saddened to read of the sudden death of Councillor John Byrne the deputy Mayor of Bury. John was...
Date Online: 09/01/2012
Before the Parliamentary recess, I took part in a three hour debate in Westminster Hall, in defence of the Remploy...
Date Online: 26/12/2011
“We are all in this together”, sounds rather hollow now following Cameron’s Euro blunder. What a momentous week this has...
Date Online: 13/12/2011
A year ago the Tories gathered for their conference as a party of government for the first time since 1996....
Date Online: 28/11/2011
As expected, David Cameron is now blaming the Governments’ economic woes on Europe. What a surprise! He contradicts himself every...
Date Online: 14/11/2011
I received around 20 requests from constituents to support a referendum on the E.U. mostly generated by the Daily Express...
Date Online: 01/11/2011
As I write this letter the announcement of Liam Fox’s resignation appears on BBC news....
Date Online: 18/10/2011
As the global economic crisis continues across the USA and the Eurozone there is an obvious lack of leadership towards...
Date Online: 01/10/2011
The Boundary Commission has just published its proposals to begin a process that the Government hopes will present it with...
Date Online: 20/09/2011
In 1948 the Labour Government’s Nye Bevan began the National Health Service. 63 years later in 2011 a survey of...
Date Online: 06/09/2011
August, normally the beginning of the holiday period is generally a quietist month when the hurly burly of normal life...
Date Online: 22/08/2011
This economic crisis began before the last General Election. Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling had been forecasting this repeatedly and...
Date Online: 09/08/2011
The recent visit of Ed Miliband MP to Rochdale to hear about the proposed mutual policies planned by a new...
Date Online: 25/07/2011
There has been shock and disgust across Parliament at the disclosures about phone hacking with Ed Miliband branding the alleged...
Date Online: 11/07/2011
The Government are in disarray on a number of issues but have got it wrong especially on the NHS and...
Date Online: 28/06/2011
I received a letter on 3 June from the GMB Trade Union informing me that I had 4 care homes...
Date Online: 13/06/2011
I was present in Westminster Hall in the House of Commons to listen to President Obama address both Houses of...
Date Online: 29/05/2011
A year is a long time in politics as the saying goes. The people of this country will never forget...
Date Online: 17/05/2011
Our current social and economic climate has led to countless arguments and counter arguments in the media and in the...
Date Online: 03/05/2011
The Pennine Acute Trust is the second largest Acute Trust in the UK. It is responsible for managing four former...
Date Online: 18/04/2011
It is becoming apparent to the public that the Coalition is out to destroy everything that can be described as...
Date Online: 03/04/2011
