Blog Posts

  • Busway builds on success new research shows

    New research shows that the Cambridgeshire Busway continues to succeed, with passenger numbers significantly ahead of expectation and many people choosing to leave their car at home and take the bus instead. A survey commissioned by the County Council and Akins found that passenger numbers for the first year were running around 40% ahead of… Read more

  • Social care funding

    The one issue that threatens to keep me awake at night is funding for adult social care and learning disability. Closely followed by children’s services of course. In Cambridgeshire we are facing a funding perfect storm. The numbers of people who need our services are growing very quickly, central government is cutting back our funding… Read more

  • Conservative candidate selection – Fulbourn

    Last night I was pleased to be reselected, at the first stage of the process, as the Conservative candidate for Fulbourn in next years elections. I have enjoyed my first term as a county councillor. It has been a real learning experience going from not being involved in politics, to being elected and then Leader… Read more

  • Mobilising Local Energy Investment – EU

    It was my pleasure, on friday, to host representatives from the EU on Friday. I was able to explain to them the huge advances being made in low carbon technology in Cambridgeshire. Carbon use equals high costs which we all want to avoid. We are setting up a fund, with help from the EU, to… Read more

  • Nick Clegg singing sorry.

    http://m.youtube.com/?rdm=4ozmbjrjh&reload=3#/watch?v=KUDjRZ30SNo&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DKUDjRZ30SNo Very funny but …….. I do feel a little sorry for him. I suspect he will be remembered more for this than anything he believes he has achieved. Read more

  • Lib Dems and pledges

    Interesting to see Nick Clegg now apologising for making a pledge about university fees. I have a horrible feeling that the apology suggests he won’t be making any more pledges rather than dealing with the subject matter. I need to be careful, as I am a politician, but the apology does sound like a politicians… Read more