10 Most Recent Stories From Roger Harmer
Big Increase in Visits to Birmingham’s Museums.
A great success was noted at today's Leisure Services Scrutiny meeting, as the figures for visitor numbers to the City's museum's were reported. The total number of visits increased from 866,904 in 2008/9 to 1,095,683 in 2009/10 - an increase of 26.4%. The Staffordshire Hoard was clearly responsible for part ...
The Tough and Fair Budget we needed.
Today's Budget is the predicted tough package of measures - raising taxes and cutting spending to address the huge deficit that the Coalition Government inherited from Labour. It is a budget which will set the tone of the debate until the next General Election. Its toughness will make it controversial, but ...
Good Progress in Cutting Birmingham’s Carbon Emissions.
Good progress has been made in cutting Birmingham's carbon emissions during the past year. A total of 120,745 tonnes of CO2 recorded savings were made in the 2009/10 financial year, up from recorded savings of 103,039 tonnes in 2008/9. With current energy prices, the Carbon Trust estimates that saving a tonne ...
Its an Equitable Life - at last.
One of the things I am very glad has been written into the national Coalition deal is proper compensation for former Equitable Life policy holders. I must declare an interest here as I had an Equitable Life pension for a few years. In fact its unlikely to be much of ...
A Special Conference discussing the Coalition.
Today I attended the special conference of Liberal Democrat members at the NEC. It was organised a few days ago when the coalition with the Tories was being negotiated. Under the Lib Dem Constitution any coalition has to be approved by strong majorities of 2 out of 3 of the ...
A Fantastic Deal for Britain!
I have had to pinch myself several times today. First at the sight of Nick Clegg being introduced as the Deputy Prime Minister and then again and again as the 4 other new Lib Dem Cabinet Ministers were announced. The much more significant excitement came when I read the joint agreement on ...
The Leaders’ Debates.
Well the Leader's Debates are over and we are into the final week of the election campaign. What impact have they had and where is the election going now? After Nick Clegg's clear victory in the first debate, Cameron and Brown improved their performances, so that while the first debate changed the nature ...
Lib Dems surge in the polls after Leaders’ Debate.
Following Nick Clegg's success in the first Leaders' Debates last Thursday, there has been a dramatic shift in the national opinion polls. The sheer scale of the increase in Lib Dem support has taken everyone by surprise and has changed the whole tone of the election campaign. To put things ...
Lib Dem Manifesto Launched.
Today the Liberal Democrat General Election Manifesto was launched. There are four key elements are: 1) Fair taxes: Raising the personal tax allowance to £10,000 which would reduce taxes for everyone earning £10k or more by £700. This is not an overall tax cut - but a redistribution with those on high earnings paying more. They ...
Conservative economic plans exposed.
As we get closer and closer to the General Election being called (most likely on Tuesday), this week has seen some interesting developments in the key economic debate between the political parties. Last Monday we saw the televised debate between the three would be chancellors of the exchequer. Vince Cable, for ...
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