With much attention focused on the potential for development of the renewable energy sector on our area it is understandable that there has been much comment locally about last week’s debate and vote in the House of Commons on the Energy Bill and MPs Inboxes have been filling up with ‘round-robin’ emails prepared by various campaign groups asking us to support a formal decarbonisation target.
A local fundraising family travelled to London to receive a surprise raffle prize from the Prime Minister. David Cameron presented Joanne Heywood with a signed bottle of House of Commons wine, to be used to raise funds for the When You Wish Upon A Star charity.
It’s so easy to miss what governments and councils are actually achieving in their day-to-day delivery of services when the political headlines are dominated by who has rebelled on this or that issue or some piece of trivia picked up from someone’s Twitter account.
One of the great plus factors about the current crop of Tory MPs elected in 2010, particularly those elected to represent northern constituencies, is that they are from the areas they represent. Compare their CVs with many Labour MPs and you might be surprised.
If we are to return David Cameron to Downing Street in 2015 we need to deliver a referendum or at the very least set the arrangements into statute. Elvis would say ‘It’s Now or Never’ perhaps we can’t deliver that but it certainly needs to be sooner rather than later.
For keen‘Westminster watchers’ one of the most interesting of recent events has been the questioning by Tony Blair and his supporters of the direction that Ed Milband is leading the Labour Party.
“You say one thing and then do something else, never keep your promises”.As a politician I have, of course, heard that many times – sometimes justifiably, sometimes not. We are also told that, as seems to be the case at last week’s county council elections, politicians aren’t listening to the voters.
Martin has asked the Leader of the House of Commons, the Rt Hon Andrew Landsley MP, to arrange for a statement outlining the responsibilities of different agencies so that it is possible to understand who is responsible for the landslip repairs.
