I’m finally home, fed and watered after what has been a totally exhilarating day! It feels like a lifetime ago that Don Foster announced he was standing down at the next election, so it’s almost seems surreal that the campaign to find his successor has finally begun in earnest. I’m so immensely grateful to my amazing family and friends who […]

  Last Friday (11 April) I helped organise a celebration of European wines held by the Bathwick & Widcombe Liberal Democrats. I arranged for my friend and neighbour Angela Mount, Bath’s foremost wine expert, to host a wine tasting evening for members and their guests in a lovely guest house in Widcombe. It was a brilliant night! […]

There was a time when the term “Stay At Home Dad” (or “StAHD”) would elicit strange looks, derision or even pity. “A real man goes out to work and puts bread on the table” and “a woman’s place is in the home” are two stereotypes that are still prevalent within society today. Indeed, I used […]

Ask any Bathonian and they’ll tell you that their biggest complaint about the city generally falls under one category: transport! 50,000 cars enter the city every weekday meaning traffic jams, noise and pollution are all on the increase. In fact, according to the latest study, the number of cars on our roads is set to […]

Last night I watched the first instalment of the ‘Nick v Nigel’ debates on whether or not we should to be a part of the European Union, and I also followed the debate on Twitter. Hands down I thought that not only did Nick Clegg win it but I thought he TROUNCED Nigel Farage! So […]

Another Lib Dem win in last week’s budget was a huge boost to apprenticeships, with at least 100,000 new apprentices being created over the next two years. £85m has been allocated for both 2014-15 and 2015-16 to extend the Apprenticeship Grants for Employers scheme, giving businesses incentive payments to take on apprentices and £20m to support apprenticeships up […]

Introducing the winners and defending champions of the Abbey Quiz Cup… The WWW. (that’s Weston, Widcombe with a bit of support this year from Walcot) Alliance! Winning contestants were:   Weston – Chris Lucas & Celina Lucas Widcombe – Cllr. Ian Gilchrist & Linda Hawes Walcot – Cllr. Lisa Brett   Due to the judges allowing a fifth member on […]

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has praised the “sense of buoyancy” in Bath – and says his party is determined to hang onto the city at local and national political levels. The Liberal Democrat leader was on a private visit to Bath, where his party has begun the task of finding a successor to long-serving […]

At the last election, one of the Liberal Democrats’ flagship policies was to give low and middle earners a £700 tax cut by raising the point at which people start paying income tax to £10,000. I’m proud to say that as of next month, we will have not just delivered on that policy but surpassed it! Nobody will […]

On 15th March, I joined @DonFosterMP and loads more Lib Dem activists in Bath as we started our campaign for the European Parliament elections on May 22nd. I started off for a briefing in Don’s James Strreet West office, then off to Oldfield ward in the morning for some canvassing followed by more of the same in […]