Monarch takes over flight routes
Monarch Airlines confirms it will start running flights to Spain and Portugal from East Midlands Airport from late summer.
Date: 19 May 2012
Caution urged over train ballot
Train operator East Midlands Trains urges RMT union members not to vote for strike action after Aslef drivers walk out for six day...
Date: 19 May 2012
The latest commons debates that Chris has been involved in are shown below:
I have to say that I am a little puzzled by the Minister’s responses this morning—[Hon.
Date: 30 April 2012
Mayoral Referendums - [Mrs Anne Main in the Chair] | Westminster Hall debates
I certainly think that the role of elected councillors is essential to local democracy. Dynamic and...
Date: 25 April 2012
Mayoral Referendums - [Mrs Anne Main in the Chair] | Westminster Hall debates
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship again, Mrs Main, and I congratulate the hon. Memb...
Date: 25 April 2012
From the Blog
TORIES SHOULD TAKE THEIR OWN ADVICE AND WORK HARDER INSTEAD OF ATTACKING BRITISH BUSINESS
The Tory-led Government refuses to listen to teachers, nurses, the police and their own MPs and to that list we can now add British business too.The Tories have traditionally liked to think of themselves of the ‘party of business’, self-deluded as that might be, but this self-regarding reputation now lies in the gutter following Foreign Secretary William Hague’s comments last weekend. In an interview in a Sunday newspaper he suggested that the Government’s business critics should stop â€...
Posted on 17 May 2012 by Chris Williamson
SUPPORT IS GROWING FOR LABOUR’S ALTERNATIVE TO AUSTERITY
THE National Housing Federation says the Government can provide a fast and wide-ranging boost to the economy by investing in new affordable homes. Investment in affordable housing would assist people languishing on housing waiting lists and provide a significant shot in the arm for sustained economic growth.Calculations by the Federation show that an investment of £1 billion in building affordable homes has the potential to: • Deliver up to 25,000 new homes for social rent, affordable rent an...
Posted on 16 May 2012 by Chris Williamson
POLICE PUT TO THE SWORD BY OUT OF TOUCH TORIES
I HAVE not been afraid to voice my concerns over the scale and speed of the cutbacks being applied by the Tory-Lib Dem government over the last two years.They have cut deep and they have cut far and wide. From councils to community groups, very few people have managed to carry on as normal in the face of such savage attacks on services.Indeed, it is only the very richest people, millionaires and those paid extortionate salaries, who have escaped David Cameron’s sword.But you really start worry...
Posted on 14 May 2012 by Chris Williamson
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