Rochdale MP and former Scientist, Paul Rowen, has attacked the Government's attempts to return to nuclear power. Paul has signed an Early Day Motion (EDM) saying to the Government that 'the case for new nuclear build in the UK has not been made.'
Dundee Liberal Democrat local party secretary Michael Charlton has today (Wednesday 24th May) highlighted Dundee LibDem concerns over the great increase in Post Office closures across the UK.
Matthew Taylor, together with his fellow Liberal Democrat MPs in Cornwall, is backing a campaign to force banks to refund billions of pounds taken unlawfully from their customers' accounts.
The Liberal Democrat Home Affairs team today applied to renew their passports to prevent their details from being added to the ID cards database. Once the Government has set up the National Identity Database, everyone who applies for a passport will have to attend an interview and have their fingerprints and irises scanned. Passports issued now will be valid for 10 years, meaning people will be able to wait until 2016 before they have to register for an ID card. Passports can be renewed at any time, irrespective of their expiry date.
The *Government* is responsible for regionalisation in England, not the EU; and the EU is not responsible for most of the other "sins" that people wish to heap on it. So says Chelmsford Liberal Democrat Stephen Robinson replying to a recent letter in the Weekly News. This is what Stephen said:
The Liberal Democrat Home Affairs team today applied to renew their passports to prevent their details from being added to the ID cards database. Once the Government has set up the National Identity Database, everyone who applies for a passport will have to attend an interview and have their fingerprints and irises scanned. Passports issued now will be valid for 10 years, meaning people will be able to wait until 2016 before they have to register for an ID card. Passports can be renewed at any time, irrespective of their expiry date.
