It has long been recognised by communities that carers across the age spectrum need more support. Council funding cut backs have directly affected the ability of many charitable organisations to deliver crucial services at the front end. Their struggle to survive has been well documented.
Mary Scanlon MSP and Councillor Douglas Ross demonstrate continued interest and [...]
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Scottish Conservatives highlight the plight of Carers and concern for the Elderly
Election Date Speculation
No surprises. Gordon Brown will no doubt announce the Election for May 6th.
The Prime Minister and his MP’s realise they could loose this election and want to ensure their pension contributions are at maxium levels!
A fudged Budget with very clever wording and no real content to try and appease the electorate into believing they are [...]
New UK Borders Sytem Not Credible
This will NOT stop terrorism or criminality any more than ID Cards would have done. These individuals will always find other ways around the system.
No doubt another EU directive and a waste of public monies.
Frosty Welcome For UK Electronic Borders Plan
8:39am UK, Thursday March 11, 2010
Mark White, Sky News home affairs correspondent
Government claims [...]
Alan Duncan MP: A Conservative Government would not only reform prisons but also address the underlying causes of our broken society which lead people to offend in the first place
Alan Duncan is a member of the shadow Justice team as shadow minister for prisons and probation.
Prison reform by reducing reoffending is an area where a changed Conservative Party intends to make a massive difference.
Some progress has been made in the last thirteen years, but still our prisons are on the brink of crisis. The [...]
Nick Clegg fears Liberal Democrats will split if he backs minority Tory government
Nick Clegg may keep labour in power – ONLY the Conservatives will end Labour rule!
In his Saturday column Peter Oborne lists three reasons why Nick Clegg is likely to manoeuvre his party into a deal with Labour if there is a hung parliament:
“Clegg has discovered (rather to his personal dismay) that most of his party [...]
Guess what? The unions are spending more in the marginals than the Conservatives
This from Ian Kirby, the News of the World’s Political Editor (my emphasis):
“A highly confidential operation being run by Britain’s biggest trade union, Unite, is far bigger than the Tories’ own £3m marginal seats campaign. The union is using it’s own massive datatbase of members in a bid to persuade dithering former Labour voters [...]
Good government costs less with the Conservatives – David Cameron
Rt Hon David Cameron MP,
Saturday, March 6 2010
It’s great to be back in Wales. It’s four years since I first addressed this conference. Back then we were just a footnote in Welsh politics. And just look at what we’ve done since then.
We’ve won council seats in Denbighshire, in Powys, in Pembrokeshire. We’re running councils in [...]
Conservatives launch iPhone app – Jeremy Hunt, Shadow Culture Secretary
The Conservative Party has today launched a General Election iPhone app for activists and voters.
Available to download for free on the Apple App Store, the tool will help supporters keep up to date with the latest news from the campaign trail.
Jeremy Hunt, Shadow Culture Secretary and Spokesman for Online Campaigning, said “once again, the Conservative Party [...]
Dan Hannan calls for a return to sanity in the public finances and a revolutionary dispersal of power at the Brighton Tea Party
It was standing room only at the Boston Brighton Tea Party organised by the Freedom Association early this evening at which Dan Hannan was guest speaker. He said that it was time to “bring sanity and order back to the public finances” an that had to be done by reducing expenditure rather than increasing taxes.
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