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Richmond upon Thames Liberal Democrats:Covering the constituencies of Twickenham and Richmond Park |
2011 June - May - April News Stories:
• Jun 27 Martin Horwood MP writes: Facing up to human rights in Chin
• Jun 25 Avenue Centre sell-off: lost opportunity for school expansion
• Jun 25 Save Heatham House youth club
• Jun 25 Council admits £4.5 million surplus - and cuts children's services
• Jun 25 Robbing schools to pay the dustman
• Jun 25 Keep cows on Petersham Meadows
• Jun 25 Inside Politics: Lib Dems' tax strategy may fox their rivals
• Jun 25 Pritchard on Wild Animals (Circuses) [2]
• Jun 25 Russell on Wild Animals (Circuses)
• Jun 25 Leech on Wild Animals (Circuses)
• Jun 25 Pritchard on Wild Animals (Circuses)
• Jun 25 Webb on the Pensions Bill
• Jun 25 Crockart on the Pensions Bill
• Jun 25 Willott on the Pensions Bill
• Jun 25 Ashdown on Reform of the House of Lords
• Jun 25 Pugh on Information Technology (NHS)
• Jun 25 Kramer quizzes Sassoon on Regulatory and Banking Reform
• Jun 25 Tonge on the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill
• Jun 25 Tonge quizzes Howe on the East Jerusalem MPs
• Jun 25 Hamwee on the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill
• Jun 23 Twickenham Station (2nd application for 115 residential units): SUSPENDED!
• Jun 20 Julian Huppert writes: Under-18s must have the right to choose their future
• Jun 20 Not above the law: the FT interviews David Laws
• Jun 20 Jenny Willott MP writes: Calling for a fair rise in the State Pension age
• Jun 19 Chris Huhne: we need smart regulation in the energy sector
• Jun 18 Cable renews call for property tax
• Jun 18 Nick Clegg is doing better - but will it be enough?
• Jun 18 Reid, Sanders and Birtwistle quiz Cameron at PMQs
• Jun 18 Kramer quizzes Taylor on the Census
• Jun 17 Pugh, Hames, Hughes and George quiz Lansley on the NHS Bill
• Jun 17 Selecting a Lib Dem Candidate for London's 2012 Mayoral Race
• Jun 17 Mike Tuffrey writes… Why I'm serious about London
• Jun 17 Liberal Democrats and Londoners deserve a three horse race
• Jun 17 Julian Huppert calls for Digital Economy Act rethink
• Jun 16 Vince Cable writes - for the Detroit Free Press
• Jun 15 Andrew Stunell writes: Buildings are the key to reducing carbon emissions
• Jun 13 Elengorn on the Twickenham Area Action Plan
• Jun 13 Shirley Williams: Lib Dems should take credit for thwarting Lansley
• Jun 12 Mike Tuffrey says he will run for Mayor of London
• Jun 11 Cable quizzed: Topical Questions
• Jun 11 Cable quizzed
June 12
June 11
- • Cable quizzed: Topical Questions
- • Cable quizzed
- • Doocey on the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill
- • Beith and Brake quiz Grieve about the death of Dr Kelly
- • Brooke quizzes Cameron at PMQs
- • Hughes on Prince Philip's 90th Birth
- • Hamwee on the Localism Bill
- • Kramer on the Localism Bill
- • Doocey on the Localism Bill
- • Doocey on the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill
- • Kramer quizzes Sassoon on Cheques
- • Bad week for cyclists and London's environment due to Conservative walk out
June 10
- • Richmond Park and North Kingston MP Zac Goldsmith's seat "threatened" by Tory constituency reforms
- • School to start four months late for St Margaret's pupils
- • Cllr Samuel is wrong - affordable housing IS high priority
- • Postal Services Bill agreed by Parliament
- • Sarah Teather writes: Share your views on the Bailey Report
June 9
June 7
June 5
June 4
- • Lack of affordable housing in Richmond a major issue for Vince Cable
- • Vince Cable speech: UK and Japan standing together for recovery and growth
June 2
June 1
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May 31
May 28
May 27
- • Cable on the Green Investment Bank
- • New Statesman interviews Vince Cable: ' . . I can see another financial bomb going off . . '
May 24
- • Boris Johnsons funny money
- • Tim Farron writes: Enough doom and gloom, we have the greatest opportunity in the history of our party
May 23
- • John Hemming MP writes: This country has allowed too much secret justice to develop
- • Stephen Williams MP writes: Backbench committees and the louder Lib Dem voice
- • Nick Clegg's speech on the green economy
- • Vince Cable: The politics of parsimony
- • News 2010: September - July
May 22
- • Teddington School: lasting legacy of Lib Dem investment
- • Tory council hit motorists
- • Lib Dems urge filming of scrutiny meetings
- • New Kings Field skate park: legacy of Lib Dem investment
- • More plans, but little action
- • Tories to turn Richmond into ˜Ryanair Council
- • Lib Dem research shows new secondary school needed by 2015
- • Huhne quizzed on Energy and Climate Change
- • Huhne on the Isle of Wights Eco Island Initiative
- • Huppert and Huhne on the Green Deal
- • Beith quizzes Cameron at PMQs
- • Huhne on the Fourth Carbon Budget
- • Clegg on House of Lords Reform
- • Kramer on the Royal Mail
May 21
May 19
- • Mike Tuffrey: A Liberal Democrat on how London should be run
- • Vince Cable MP: Young people are the future
May 18
- • Julian Huppert MP writes on Trident: We don't need to keep fighting the Cold War
- • Lib Dems urge filming of scrutiny meetings
May 16
- • John Pugh writes: is an apology in order?
- • Williams: The line the Lib Dems won't cross on the NHS
- • News 2010: December - October
May 15
- • Tories could be real winners from return to tribalism, Vince Cable warns Fabians
- • Why adult education needs Vince Cable
May 14
- • George on the Health & Social Care Bill
- • Pugh on the Health & Social Care Bill
- • Russell and Brake quiz Cameron at PMQs
- • Huhne on the Energy Bill [Lords] 2nd reading
- • Hughes on the UK and Sierra Leone
- • Russell quizzes Cameron at PMQs
- • Tonge on the Middle East Peace Process
- • Kramer quizzes Wilcox on Personal Debt
May 13
May 11
May 9
May 7
- • Tonge speaks out
- • Richmond Council to scrap allotment and cemetery subsidies to raise £3m in revenue
- • The modest prophet: York Membery interviews Vince Cable at home
- • What the Liberal Democrats should do next
- • Farron: Failure will not deter Lib Dems
May 5
May 1
- • Nick Clegg interview: A year in the eye of the storm
- • Off The Record sacked - Jenny Tonge's protest
- • Campbell, Swinson and Hames quiz Hague on Libya and the Middle East
- • Sanders, Gilbert, Swale - and Miliband - quiz Cameron at PMQs
- • Doocey on the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill
- • Tonge on the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill
- • Kramer quizzes Henley on the Oak Processionary Moth
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April 29
April 26
April 22
- • Vote for AV to end Tory dominance - Vince Cable
- • London Assembly Leaders bulletin December 2010
- • Anyone for Nicked: the Clegg musical?
- • Caroline Pidgeons transport newsletter number 10
- • Caroline Pidgeon's transport newsletter number 11
- • Cable: Improving the trains
- • Julian Huppert writes: Digital Policy in a Coalition Government
April 21
April 20
- • Clegg: the difference that Liberal Democrat councils are making
- • 'You just don't need voting machines for AV': Jo Swinson explains why AV is not the perfect system, but an improvement on what we have now
April 18
April 17
- • The Alternative Vote FAQ: Your Questions Answered by the Electoral Reform Society
- • Tory parking scheme collapses in expensive shambles
- • Lib Dems call for scrutiny of NHS funds transferring to Council
- • Council inaction exacerbates primary school place shortage
- • All-in-one survey failed to capture views of working families
- • Tory Council hires Catholic agency to counsel the borough's teenagers
- • Ashdown: The AV vote matters " the no campaign's scaremongering shows it
April 16
- • Cable: Return of three magic words... Made in Britain
- • Dr Evan Harris fisks: What is really at stake on the health reforms
- • Tim Farron writes: Fairer Votes: so close we can almost touch it
April 12
- • Why I have joined the Liberal Democrats
- • Simon Hughes: Local elections will be the most difficult ever for Lib Dems
- • Norman Baker writes: Towards a smarter public transport system
- • Lib Dems Demand Changes To The Health And Social Care Bill
April 10
April 9
- • Clegg:AV is a very British reform: a perfect example of the British genius for constitutional evolution, rather than revolution."
- • Khan interviews Clegg:Im not a punchbag " I have feelings
- • Doocey: Finding my feet in the House of Lords
April 7
- • Norman Lamb writes The NHS: safe in our hands
- • Vince Cable speech - HEFCE Annual Conference - Aston University
- • Vince Cable Speech " British Chambers of Commerce
April 6
- • Vince Cable MP: NHS cuts
- • DPMQ: Clegg quizzed
- • Clegg quizzed on Social Mobility
- • Pugh, Birtwistle and Hancock quiz Lansley
- • Hughes quizzes Webb on pensions
- • Davey quizzed
April 5
- • Cable quizzed
- • Steve Webb writes: working for pensioners, now and in the future
- • Vince Cable: Striking a balance: economic growth versus fiscal discipline
April 4
- • Clegg: An Axis of Openness: Renewing Multilateralism for the 21st Century
- • Health & Social Care Bill 2011
April 2
- • Tories proceed with care cuts despite millions in new money
- • Kingston Hospital staff cuts - Lib Dem councillors demand answers
- • Tories scrap climate change strategy at London's greenest council
- • Mystery of Whitton's High Street improvements
- • Tory traffic policy puts speed before safety
- • Horwood and Swinson quiz Hague
- • Mulholland, Campbell and Bruce quiz Cameron
- • Kramer on the London Local Authorities and Transport for London (No. 2) Bill [HL] " Third Reading
- • Hughes, Rogerson, Leech, Gilbert and Ward quiz Gove on Post-16 Education Funding
- • Campbell, Horwood, Leech, Hames and Gilbert quiz Cameron on Libya