Deliberately making voting more difficult
Why would the Government make it more difficult to vote? Voter apathy in the UK is increasing, and in the…
Conservative wounds are opening
Whatever is happening to the Conservative Party? Open wounds are opening in to festering sores and more ‘big-fish Tories’ are…
Unfair for workers to shoulder burden
I was delighted to represent the Liberal Democrats on ITV’s The Last Word during January where one of the…
Shapps’ anti-strike bill inflaming situation
The Grant Shapps’ anti-strikes bill published this week sets out to establish minimum service levels to be maintained during…
Abolish stamp duty to help first-time buyers
It is always gratifying in the House of Commons to have one’s ideas greeted by colleagues with ‘Hear, hear’….
Gas prices fall, yet households pay more
People seem to fall into two camps with their opinions on New Years’ Resolutions. Whether you think they are…
Government must call for pay talks now
As we reach the end of another tumultuous year in the political life of the United Kingdom it is…
Gove unsympathetic to council tax poverty
Council tax poverty is on the increase in Dorset. There are now thousands of households which have to pay more…
A New Year’s resolution for the planet
This time last year we were optimistic that we had seen the end of Covid-19 and normality was returning….
Is the blue wall crumbling here too?
For decades, many voters and pollsters have written off rural Dorset as being of any political interest due to…