Lib Dem MPs call for 5th March Cornish bank holiday
From the Business Cornwall website comes news that the five MPs who represent Cornwall, Lib Dems all, have joined forces to campaign for St Piran’s Day to be made a public holiday: North Cornwall MP,...
View ArticleLib Dem Cornwall council leader to quit
Under a somewhat misleading headline, Leader quits after critics’ abuse, the BBC reports: The leader of Cornwall County Council David Whalley is standing down as a councillor, complaining of personal...
View ArticleTory ‘fictional minister’ broke Parliamentary rules
As the BBC reports here, Tory MP for Hertford and Stortford Mark Prisk has been publicly rebuked by the Speaker of the House of Commons for for breaking Parliamentary rules in relation to political...
View ArticleTaxpayers helping to fund Tories’ Cornwall electioneering
Last month Mark Prisk, Tory MP for Hertford and Stortford, got himself into hot water with the Commons authorities for breaking Parliamentary rules in relation to political campaigning. Now Mr Prisk is...
View ArticleLib Dem MP attempts to create devolved ‘Cornwall Assembly’
A few months ago, Lib Dem Voice highlighted North Cornwall MP Dan Rogerson’s attempts to create a new Cornish bank holiday on 5th March, St Piran’s Day. Well now he’s taken up cudgels again on behalf...
View ArticleGuardian asks Lib Dems, “When did you stop beating your wife?”
The Grauniad, bastion of liberal values. But also a newspaper which today gives vent to a number of unsubstantiated smears against the Lib Dems in an article by Steven Morris – Liberal Democrats...
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Liberal Democrat victory in St Austell Bay by-election
Lib Dems in St Austell and Newquay are celebrating another win: John Oxenham has been elected Liberal Democrat councillor for St Austell Bay in the first ever Cornwall Council by-election. This comes...
View ArticleCornwall Tories accused of ‘duping’ charity choir
ThisIsCornwall.co.uk has the story: THE Conservatives in Cornwall have been accused of “duping” a charity choir into taking part in a Christmas carol concert to raise money for party funds as well as...
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Daily View 2×2: 28 January 2010
Good morning, and welcome to Daily View this morning. 24 years ago, 28 January saw the NASA Challenger disaster. It’s the date of the death of Henry VIII and the beginning of the Diet of Worms. (If...
View ArticleCornwall Conservatives veto Clegg visit
Local councillors and campaigners are flabbergasted after Conservative-run Cornwall Council decided to prevent Nick Clegg from visiting a key regeneration site in the county. The Lib Dem leader had...
View ArticleBaroness Judith Jolly’s maiden speech
In recent months, LDV has been bringing its readers copies of our new MPs’ and Peers’ first words in Parliament, so that we can read what is being said and respond. You can find all of the speeches in...
View ArticleTop Cornwall Conservative councillor defects to Lib Dems
Jeremy Rowe’s blog has the news: Jan Powell, the widely respected Chair of Cornwall Council’s Health Committee, has joined the Liberal Democrat Group at County Hall. This has been as a result of the...
View ArticleDan Rogerson MP writes… Welcoming help with water bills in the South West
This week, as part of the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, details of a Water Bills Rebate Fund were announced, with a £50 rebate to be provided on water bills for households in Cornwall and other South...
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Happy Saint Piran’s Day!
A very happy St Piran’s Day to all our Cornish readers! The website of the St Piran Trust says: Many people have claimed many things but nothing is sure, we can only ponder on who was St Piran, where...
View ArticleDan Rogerson MP writes… The crusade to protect the Cornish Pasty
As the national political debate around the Budget moves on, one specific proposal is continuing to dominate both the headlines and my inbox – the so called ‘Pasty Tax’. The Chancellor’s proposals to...
View ArticleStephen Gilbert MP writes… The Pasty Tax is unfair, unworkable and unenforceable
There’s an awful lot that we, as Liberal Democrats, should be proud of in this year’s budget: the uplift in the personal allowance that takes almost 2million of the lowest earners out of income tax;...
View ArticleA messy situation for Lib Dems over Devon and Cornwall police commissioner...
It looks like the police commissioner contest in Devon and Cornwall could be about to get a bit messy for the Lib Dems, with the news that the Lib Dem leader of North Devon Council Brian Greenslade...
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Opinion: Henry Ford and the coalition’s ‘localism’
Ford famously commented that customers could have any colour they like as long as it’s black. It feels to me that at the moment we can have any localism we like as long as it’s blue. Two particular...
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Opinion: We need a Cornish Assembly
You won’t be surprised to learn that I am working day and night to win back Truro and Falmouth for the Lib Dems. You may also know that this year marks the 40th anniversary of the first time David...
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By-election update: Lib Dems jump from 4th to 1st to take seat from Tories in...
There were five by-elections in principal authorities this week (Cornwall, Torridge, Barnsley and two in Cheshire West and Chester) and one deferred election in North Hertfordshire. The Liberal...
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