Across the 9 days leading up to polling day Dorset Eye will publish the answers to the questions set by local people for some of the local candidates standing in the 2015 General Election. Some candidates have yet to reply and should we receive their responses then they will...
I am sick of this Tory story,The dead “line” of a Blue wave,Tsunami-like in its destructionOf ravens and starlings, magpies and crows,Of badgers and foxes, buzzards and pigeons,Of red deer, red robins, grey squirrels, Now deemed “vermin”…When it’s the politicians Who should take a good look in the mirror.I am sick...
Across the 9 days leading up to polling day Dorset Eye will publish the answers to the questions set by local people for some of the local candidates standing in the 2015 General Election. Some candidates have yet to reply and should we receive their responses then they will...
Lies , damn lies and manifestos? Let's not be unkind. To hold to account or an insomniac's dream (pun) here they are. Of course any coalition or pacts would complicate them significantly. Labour Party Green Party Conservative Party Liberal Democrats UKIP
I want to be upfront from the start. I am very much in the Russell Brand camp when it comes to voting in the forthcoming election. I have voted in every election since 1987 starting with the Conservatives, moving on to Labour in 1992 and then finally in 2010...
April Fools’ Day marked the 21st anniversary of the privatisation of the railways in Britain, and the local Green Party joined others from Action for Rail in a campaign to re-nationalise the railways at Weymouth, Dorchester and Sherborne stations. They handed out leaflets to travellers and staff and raised...
Labour MEPs voted today for European action to promote greater equality between women and men. Conservative MEPs voted against. MEPs voted by 441-205 to adopt a report by Belgian MEP Marc Tarabella that addresses a number of key issues, including: reducing the gender pay and pension gaps; combating violence...
On the morning of Thursday 19 February, Green MEP for the South West, Molly Scott Cato, Peter Barton, Green Party Parliamentary Candidate for West Dorset, members of West and South Dorset Green Party and local residents of Charminster visited Higher Burton Farm, site of Broadview Energy’s proposed development of...
As the parliamentary candidate for the Labour party in the North Dorset constituency, I totally support the Save Dorset NHS campaign to veto the NHS from TTIP. My experience from talking to the residents of North Dorset is that once the TTIP agreement is explained, they are not in...
"I support safeguarding the NHS from TTIP competition rules. I believe that international agreements - and in particular the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) being negotiated - should not lead the NHS to be exposed to competition and privatisation. Whilst it has been confirmed to Lib Dem President...
