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DCC Highways rejects Lib Dem petition to ban HGVs on residential road
PD
19 Feb 2023
News Archive
Why solving the NI Protocol matters
Peace in Northern Ireland matters for the whole UK. A return to turmoil is in no-one's interest and the lack of political will to engage properly creates uncertainty, of which there is more than enough in the world already. The Conservative Party is riven with ignorance and worse indifference of the affairs of NI and Ireland. The ERG and other anti-european brexiteers unfortunately still hold a disproportionate sway within the ranks of the party. Notions of deferred sovereignty that have fixated this powerful minority of politicians are being played out, dangerously, in their opposition to any rapprochement between the UK, Ireland and Europe over trade. They cannot envisage a unique arrangement, especially not a Red/Green customs system, even though it would facilitate good relations, trouble free trade and probable increased prosperity. They are wedded to a jingoistic viewpoint. Similarly the Democratic Unionist Party belies it's name by refusing to take part in forming a functioning assembly. They have the
JD
16 Feb 2023
Promises, promises
Conservative councillors object to strategies that are in their own election manifesto.
PD
16 Feb 2023
There are no easy fixes but that should not stop us trying
The problem of air pollution in Ashbourne has been extensively reported on this website as has the disappointment felt by local residents at the actions proposed by the County Council to attempt to address the problem. Even the Deputy Leader of the County Council, Conservative Simon Spencer said at the District Council meeting of the Community and Environment Committee on 9th February that these actions "are not going to cure the issues that we face in the town of Ashbourne".
PDDH
15 Feb 2023
The blame game
When a system is failing and those in charge of it refuse to take responsibility, blame becomes their only resource.
JD
10 Feb 2023
The hidden reason the Tories are seeking to make the NHS fail
Quote from the Spectator: "The US economy, for example, is buoyed because two thirds of the country's population depend on their employer for health insurance; the fiercely competitive US workplace, in which workers accept no paid holiday, no parental leave and long hours, is partly a fight for affordable medication and hospital beds."
MIJ
10 Feb 2023