Went to a meeting in Exeter today. Talking about the general election….. after which there was the inevitable Lib Dem photo…..

Have you seen the latest news from the Labour Party, as the whole country starts getting ready for the next general election?   And that election cannot come too soon, we would add…. The Labour Party is getting its last candidates in place. As part of the process, they have published a list of seats where […]

iDaisy Cooper, MP, Deputy Leader of the Lib Dems has sent us this message: In Parliament, in their constituencies, and even at the highest level of the Government, the Conservatives are running scared. Today was supposed to be the vote on the flagship Liberal Democrat amendment on sewage to the Retained EU Law Bill in […]

One thing that really does annoy me is when Conservative councillors make excuses and say there is no money to do things. They conveniently forget that it is their own Conservative government that is underfunding local councils. Especially bad in this respect are the Conservative county councillors. And the Conservative MPs too, of course, who […]

This is a question that somebody asked me recently.The short answer is that I don’t. What I detest is what their leaders have been doing to the country in recent years. Previously, I disagreed with some of their policies, though some then were reasonable enough. What they have been doing recently is not just deplorable, […]

The availability of appropriate housing is very important. Do you remember the great Thatcherite experiment of selling off council housing stock cheaply? After which the Conservative government refused to let councils build any replacement housing. Instead, they grabbed all the money and used it for tax cuts, which were of greatest benefit to those with […]

When we were in the EU, they kept very strict control over pollution of our waterways and beaches. Following Brexit, the Conservative Government allowed the water companies to get away with murder. So we English taxpayers are now facing high charges for water – plus having polluted streams. This is the price of Conservative incompetence […]

The current Conservative leadership contest has been absolutely fascinating to watch. There is so much that one can learn from it – but not in the way they would have wanted. Most striking is the ruthless way most of the candidates have set about destroying their opponents. Dirty tricks aplenty, briefing negative gossip about them […]

The newly elected Liberal Democrat MP for Tiverton and Honiton Richard Foord will use his first day in Parliament today to urge the Government to cut fuel duty for rural areas like Devon. Richard Foord will be tabling the parliamentary motion calling for a rural fuel duty cut immediately after being sworn in as an […]

Figures have revealed Devon has the worst NHS 111 service in the country, ahead of the crucial Tiverton and Honiton by-election on Thursday. Over one third of callers to the NHS 111 number in Devon gave up before getting through in April, more than anywhere else in England. It also took callers an average of […]