A wee bit progress in the world of collaborative politics at Health, Social Care and Housing Committee today. The administration put up their own amendment to delete my motion but I manage to persuade them to accept an amendment to their amendment (still with me!?) which really to us back to where I began; we will get …
Mar
01
Time to stand beside those whose voices have been ignored
Today I will be at Health, Social Care and Housing committee where I have invited two gentlemen to speak on an issue that is deeply worrying to many people; cuts to disability payments. These two gents know much more about the issues that I. One is the chair of Partners in Advocacy Jimmy MacIntosh about …
Feb
22
An Injustice is being perpetrated and we cannot stand by and watch
I cannot tell you how humbled I was to be part of the Partners in Advocacy conference on Friday 18th. The delegates were largely folk with some for of physical disability or learning difficulty (or both) and they are vocal and angry. The cuts to support, to mobility allowance and to others services are hurting …
Jan
12
And the people began again to suffer…
This story in the Herald about the cost to over 40,000 family’s of around £420 a year because of cuts to the Child care system, (here’s the stats that back it up) is just yet another example of how, after years of being helped by Labour, the Libdems are helping the Tory’s recreate the ideology …
Dec
28
Danny will end up with a black eye if he’s not careful
Danny Alexander might believe that he can look folk in the eye and say the Condem cuts were civilised but I think that just shows how out of touch he has become already. I think he will find the voters looking him back in the eye and saying What was civilized about breaking your pledge …
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- LAMONT: GAME ON FOR LOCAL ELECTIONS May 2, 2012
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