New English Heritage Chair Must Fight For Future Of Our Past
Commenting on the appointment today of the new Chairman of English Heritage, Liberal Democrat Culture and Heritage Spokesman Paul Holmes MP said:
24 May 2007
Commenting on the appointment today of the new Chairman of English Heritage, Liberal Democrat Culture and Heritage Spokesman Paul Holmes MP said:
On Friday 18th May, Conservative and Labour MPs voted to exempt Parliament from Freedom of Information laws, creating one law for MPs and Lords and one law for everyone else. The Bill - introduced by a Conservative MP - will now go to the House of Lords, where it can still be stopped from becoming law.
1. Free NHS from government meddling.
Trade Secretary Alistair Darling has confirmed that about 2,500 post offices - a fifth of those left in the UK - are to close by 2009. Mr Darling said the current loss-making network was "unsustainable" and pointed out four million fewer customers were using post offices every week than two years ago and it was losing £4m a week. The Lib Dems have called for an additional £2bn investment in the Post Office that would create a thriving network.
A crucial debate in the House of Commons on Friday afternoon and WHERE WAS ROBERT GOODWILL? MP for Scarborough and Whitby, Robert Goodwill did not vote in the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill. He was registered as absent and I for one would like to know how he would have voted had he been in the house.
DELGA has given the new Stonewall survey publication 'Living Together' a guarded welcome. Chair Jen Yockney commented, "The survey gives a valuable and uplifting snapshot of public opinion in Britain on lesbians and gay men, but almost entirely misses out on attitudes to bisexual men and women - which I suspect would give a broader understanding of how social acceptance varies between parts of the LGBT communities".