This year’s Autumn Conference was in Birmingham (ICC and surrounding hotels for fringe events) and was particularly memorable for me personally as I was asked to speak at the Rally on the opening day (more on that later)… There was a lot of disquiet in the weeks leading up to the event because, due to […]

From March 11th – 13th I attended the Lib Dem Spring Conference up in Sheffield. This year I was pleased to attend with Councillor Chris Lloyd and fellow Three Rivers resident Peter Getkhan so we drove up in my car and shared the travel costs. It was also Chris and Peter’s first Lib Dem conference […]

This week the Government launched its consultation on a proposed second High Speed Rail line (HS2). The Government wants to provide a super fast train service (up to 300km/190m per hour) from London to Birmingham with the view to extend the line to cities in the north of England and Scotland. The trouble is that […]

When I stood for Ealing North in the General Election back in May, my Conservative opponent kept talking about “The Big Society” (henceforth called TBS), echoing his leader’s attempt to sound a rallying cry around a cause to unite the British people. Myself and Stephen Pound (the victor) both took great pleasure in rounding on […]

Sometimes those of us involved in local or national politics forget that for most ‘normal’ folk, politics isn’t their waking thought! So I shouldn’t have been shocked (as I was the other day) when I asked a friend of mine what she thought about the referendum coming up in May and her response was: “what […]

Well, I’m back from the Council meeting after just short of two and half hours. Unlike in previous years, the Tories, to their credit, did actually produce a budget of their own. Unfortunately it was grounded in the Conservative’s ideological zeal to privatise anything that isn’t bolted down! Their budget was essentially based on allowing […]

May 6th 2010 is a date I shall never forget as it was the date that the residents of Maple Cross and Mill End chose me to be their representative on Three Rivers District Council. I remember how honoured I was to have been elected and the sense of pride when I was called ‘Councillor’ […]

On Tuesday February 15th 2011, Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone came to Rickmansworth to review the recent move of the Police Station to the Council offices at Three Rivers House: (http://preview.tinyurl.com/69hz7sf). Lynne also took the time to meet with a delegation of Councillors and candidates from Watford BC and Three Rivers District Council to discuss with […]

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