Delivered petition forms yesterday to residents of Spindletree Rise urging Walsall Council to take action as developer set to miss yet another deadline to bring road surface up to “adoptable” standard. This fiasco has gone on long enough, residents have waited around 2 years for the builder of this small development off Stroud Avenue in Short Heath, Willenhall [...]

Liberal Democrat Health Minister Paul Burstow says the new NHS 111 service will be better for patients. The Coalition Government announceded that it intends to establish a new NHS 111 service in the Health White Paper in July, which will be piloted in four areas of the country before being rolled out in 2013. Liberal [...]

The Daily Telegraph has reported yet another Labour waste of public money, and yes it is our money! The previous government announced grand plans to build nine regional “super control centres” to replace the existing smaller units but they have now been empty for up to three years partly because of problems with IT systems. [...]

In an interview in Sunday’s Observer the Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, admits that he worries about making the right decisions, and he said that when the cuts are made they are made with care. With the first Liberal Democrat Conference since the formation of the coalition rapidly approaching, the challenge for [...]

By Stephen Tall | Published on Liberal Democrat Voice, 29th August 2010 – 2:55 pm “A healthy pedestrian mowed down by a runaway omnibus” – Trevor Wilson’s metaphor to describe the fall of the Liberal Party between 1916 and 1931 is quoted approvingly by Professor John Shepherd, co-director of the Labour Research Unit at Anglia Ruskin [...]

By Stephen Tall | Published on Liberal Democrat Voice, 29th August 2010 – 4:37 pm I’ve been critical these past few weeks of the news media’s obsessional search to put a cigarette paper between Coalition politicians: mostly these have been the product of journalists’ desperation to fill space. But today’s interview in the Observer with Lib [...]

BBC NEWS Politics: 30 August 2010 New tax cuts are unlikely within the next five years, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has said. In an interview with the Observer newspaper he said the overall tax burden was likely to remain at its current level for “quite some time”, to help reduce the UK’s deficit. [...]

BBC News Politics: 30 August 2010 Labour would be left in an “electoral cul-de-sac” if its next leader tried to create a pre-New Labour party, Lord Mandelson has warned. Speaking to the Times in the week that voting begins for a new leader, he appeared to be criticising Ed Miliband. Mr Miliband has said he can [...]

Liberal Democrat councillor Ian Shires’s drop in surgery this week is at “Oakwood Lodge” Chaucer Avenue, between 7pm and 8pm today, (Friday). So if you’ve got a problem with local authority bureaucracy or (Walsall Housing Group for that matter), want to share your views on a local issue, or bring a problem to Ian’s attention why not come [...]

BBC NEWS UK: 27 August 2010 Defence manufacturers have asked David Cameron to clear up confusion over how the replacement for Britain’s nuclear deterrent will be funded. The chairman of the industry body ADS, Ian Godden, said uncertainty over the Trident missile system was unsettling both investors and the UK’s allies. There are concerns as to [...]