Tag Archives: Tim Farron

A Sussex MP raised Climate Change and Biodiversity


Last Wednesday Sally-Ann Hart the Conservative MP for Hastings and Rye opened a debate in Westminster Hall. The title of the event was Climate Change and Biodiversity and sadly even though this was published in the previous week no other … Continue reading

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Have a great Christmas, nice words from a great MP


A couple of weeks ago I spotted that a MP from Northern Ireland in the DUP group called Jim Shannon had submitted a document to promote Christmas for all of us. I wrote about it here. His document for this … Continue reading

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Prime Minister and DfE Ministers must respond urgently


Last week several elements emerged in our Nation that require the Government to deal with. Some of them were raised within Parliament and others were raised externally but they were all being focused to the Government and indeed to the … Continue reading

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Sewage waste disposal as described by the Government


A few weeks ago Tim Farron asked this question which was answered by Steve Double who is the Environment Food and Rural Affairs Minister and St Austell and Newquay MP. Also a year ago in October 2021 according to the … Continue reading

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An important discussion about Ghost Homes


Yesterday in the House of Commons a series of conversations took place in the department of “Levelling Up, Housing and Communities” and one of them was in Local Infrastructure. One of the people that took part was Tim Farron, the … Continue reading

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This Government Bill needs to be strongly amended


This week in the House of Commons there are some important discussions and votes that will have a serious impact on our nation and our position within the rest of the World. These occur on Tuesday and Wednesday under the … Continue reading

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When will the Government end section 21 evictions?


On Wednesday in Parliament at lunchtime, a few MPs spent an hour debating Homelessness under the heading of “Covid-19 Lockdown: Homelessness and Rough Sleepers”. Sadly there were no Sussex MPs involved in the debate although perhaps had it not been … Continue reading

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Two useful elements for next week in Parliament


It is always worth looking at what is being planned for the week ahead in Parliament, even though on far too many occasions the content is deeply disturbing. That is certainly primarily true for next week. All of a sudden … Continue reading

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Two Tims (and one Tom) with very different responses to our Test capacity


The need to Test most people in our nation to find out if they have COVID-19 is vital if we are to move on from lockdown towards some form of conventional open society. The suggestion I have read is that … Continue reading

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An intriguing line up


The voters of North West Durham went to the polls on 9th April 1992 faced with the choice of their sitting MP, Hilary Armstrong who is now Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top and two young candidates who frankly had no … Continue reading

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