How Dorset and South West England MP's voted in the Syria debate of 29th August 2013.
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...
Councillors in Dorset will consider a report in January on proposals to replace the county’s existing nine councils with two new unitary authorities by 2019. In a joint statement, leaders of the nine Dorset Councils, said: “We all recognise the mood for change strongly expressed by Dorset residents through...
For many this will not be that much of a surprise in hindsight, but for others this discussion is extremely revealing and in places jaw dropping.
A Conservative councillor, who walked across the floor to the Green party, and a man who ran to become a Tory councillor explain their...
Socialism is an idea, for some a dream, for others an impractical ideology. It's practicality in Britain however has seemed quite an underground, passive goal. It has been building in seeds of radical thinkers, oppressed class and in some cases, just people that are tired of this undying, rusting...
I sometimes wonder how deluded die-hard Tory voters are. I had a debate the other week with a Tory on the Heart of British politics page who insisted the Attlee government increased and spread poverty and Thatcher government reduced it. Despite all the information and evidence he just wouldn't...
Whilst the right wing media still has daily fits over the rise of Labour and Jeremy Corbyn, the Conservatives fall ever further into the abyss where they rightly belong.At 66 years of age I remember the post war era, of moving from an ageing prefab to a brand new...
Workfare SanctionsJobcentres - Britain's secret penal systemZero hours contractsCuts to workplace protectionsCuts to legal aidGig economyGetting rid of safety 'red tape'Scrapping social housingScrapping housing benefit for young peopleFood banksChild povertyExtreme inequalityThe 'free' market economyGovernment attacks on disabled peopleThe intention to scrap the Human Rights ActGrenfell - murderWar on the...
Dear All With reference to The Guardian on-line (https://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/15/dwp-law-change-jobseekers-poundland). I wish to it be understood that should the Labour Party support the government in the pursuit of emergency legislation to deny repayments that the English Courts have ruled were illegally with-held, then I will resign from the Labour Party....
27 December 2015 Dear Mr Corbyn Voting Reform – the Constituency Link I write as a Green Party member who nevertheless hopes you can unite the Labour Party and cope with the right wing media. I am glad that you are thinking about voting reform. The Tories must be...
