Alcohol pricing
I hope the Government continues to resist the clamour from some quarters to introduce a minimum price for alcohol.There are lots of laws giving the police and local...
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Local News
Anyone who believes quality local and regional news is important should be aware that the Tories have said they will pull the plug on regional...
Read this entry » UK Unemployment Falls
The latest fall in unemployment is encouraging and means the jobless total is nearly half a million lower than was predicted a year ago. It...
Read this entry » Exeter’s Met Office
Recent criticisms of the Exeter based Met Office by the Conservatives and some of the media are unjustified. Forecasting weather is not...
Read this entry » Self Defence
How telling that the lawyer of Munir Hussain, jailed for an attack on a burglar but now freed by the Appeal Court in a sensible decision,...
Read this entry » Airbrushed Dave vs Authentic Gordon?
Even the Conservative supporting Daily Telegraph thinks the touched up pictures of David Cameron have been a disaster. The Tories themselves...
Read this entry » Nuffield Trust Report on the NHS
Today’s independent report by Nuffield showing the NHS in England performing much better than in Scotland or Wales is a clear vindication...
Read this entry » Exeter Unitary continued…
We had a good meeting yesterday between the local government minister, Rosie Winterton and Exeter councillors and business community on Exeter's...
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UK set for strong recovery while Tories unravel
It was encouraging to see Goldman Sachs predicting the UK economy would grow faster than any other major country next year.Also today, the International Monetary...
Read this entry »Tories under pressure
There’s no doubt that yesterday’s session of Prime Minister’s questions boosted Labour morale.The Conservatives’ inheritance tax pledge which...
Read this entry »EU Presidency – the Tories don’t know what they want.
How ironic to see the Tory press fulminating at the appointment of the Belgian Prime Minister as EU President when they, along with the Tories, did their best in...
Read this entry »Queen’s Speech
Amusing for the Queen’s speech to be criticised for being “political” by the Tories. Isn’t politics about values and priorities? And that...
Read this entry »Economic Figures.
Encouraging figures out this week on reposessions and unemployment. Although both are up - inevitably given the global downturn - they are significantly lower than...
Read this entry »An Historic Labour Victory!
Labour won an historic victory last night – in the unlikely forum of the Oxford Union. Only twice in the last 26 years has the governing party survived a...
Read this entry »Culture success
Good news that the Government has given the go-ahead for a new UK Film centre as well as extensions to the Tate Modern and British Museum. Stonehenge is also going...
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