After all the shameful exposures of M.P.'s expense excesses The Times newspaper has revealed that dozens of Conservative parliamentary candidates are actually working as paid lobbyists for businesses with vested interests.
Chinese Liberal Democrats participated in their Party's Federal Conference in Bournemouth this year and celebrated with a bang. On Monday 21st September, they held their 3rd birthday dinner at the Ocean Palace Restaurant with special guests Lord Paddy Ashdown and Michael Moore MP (Shadow International Development Secretary).
In a paper brought to the Conservative council cabinet at the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead, the Conservatives revealed plans to increase parking charges in Windsor by up to 13% in some cases, far more than inflation, in another Tory Stealth Tax initiative. Meanwhile at the other end of the Borough prices in Maidenhead car parks will not generally rise at all.
Park Ward Liberal Democrats have started to deliver their September - October Focus to some 5000 homes in the Ward. There is a PDF version to be found in the 2009 file of the Park Ward section of the Download area of this site.
Rochdale MP Paul Rowen, Liberal Democrat Shadow Work and Pensions Minister this morning spoke at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference for a motion to launch a lifeboat for youth unemployment.
Lib Dem Councillor Dale Mulgrew was put on the spot for a 'Newsnight' challenge at the recent LibDem Conference in Bournemouth by the notorious Michael Crick -political editor of BBC television's 'Newsnight'.