Notices have gone up announcing the closure of Clemson Street Car Park in advance of work starting on the long awaited new Morrison’s store for Willenhall and already the Liberal Democrat Focus Team are receiving phone calls from shoppers, shopkeepers and traders about the lack of information about alternative parking.  Anne Willoughby, who heads up the Willenhall South Team, [...]

Just a quick reminder, as there are 5 Friday’s this month there will be no Advice Surgery tonight. The next surgery will be on Friday 5th June at the Lighthouse Children’s Centre, Davis Road, New Invention between 7pm and 8pm. We can always be reached by phone, post or email. Details as shown

 This is a message for anyone who has a postal vote for the European Election and who hasn’t yet posted it off. Did you know that your vote won’t count if you don’t sign the slip attached to the envelope? Or that it won’t count if you don’t write in your date of birth as well? [...]

Earlier today I received a letter from Danny Alexander, Chief of staff to Nick Clegg, which I thought you might like to see:  Dear Ian Nick Clegg has had a great few weeks taking a strong stand on cleaning up Parliament and leading the call for a complete overhaul of our political system. Last week [...]

   Postal voters in Walsall have being given incorrect information about the last date they can post their votes back for the European Parliamentary Elections due to take place next Thursday 4th June reports Liberal Democrat councillor Ian Shires. In the instructions which accompany the Ballot Paper the council are telling people that if they post their [...]

Age Concern and Help the Aged are holding a week of action on 8th-12th June 2009, to promote the need for quality care for older people and they want you to be part of it! The aim of the week is to get everyone talking about the issue of care and support.   While we and thousands of [...]

Nick Clegg Warm words and rhetoric are easy. We must seize the mood and enact a radical programme of reform within 100 days. Finally the dam has broken, and everyone is talking about changing Britain’s political system. For decades reformers have been thwarted by Westminster inertia. But the MPs’ expenses scandal has overturned old certainties [...]

Wed, 27 May 2009 The expenses scandal that has rocked the country in the past few weeks is just the tip of an iceberg of problems with Britain’s political system. The exploitation of the House of Commons expenses rules has exposed a culture of arrogance and secrecy right at the heart of our democracy, protected [...]

This was the week that… ·         The Speaker of the House of Commons bowed to pressure and stood down [more] ·         The government finally backed down and granted Gurkhas and their families the right to settle in the UK [more] ·         Two Labour Lords became the first peers to be suspended from the House of [...]

Tempers are running high, public anger is palpable. So of course Cameron rides to the rescue pledging to restore real power to the people. Real power that is except of a written constitution, an elected house of lords and fair votes. This ain’t the right time to be responding to public emotions with shallow people power sound bites. [...]