Blog Posts

  • HCV Strategy Meeting and Workshop – 2nd March 2011

    HCV’s or HGV’s as most of us know them by are a mixed blessing. As they move around our county it is a demonstration that our county is thriving and that business continues despite the recession we have been through. The down size is that many of our roads and country lanes were not built… Read more

  • Vicky Ford – MEP talks about Europe

    I asked Vicky how things are going in Europe and what the impact of our recent vote on prisoners right to vote was. Read her very interesting reply here: ” I believe that the decision to NOT give votes to prisoner was the right decision by MPs but won’t have much have an impact on the… Read more

  • Protests at Full Council

    I arrived at Shire Hall at 0830 to be greeted by the normal road to the car park being blocked by protesters. After a detour and some delays I made it to the car park  but I was left wondering how members of the public who had come to register a birth, death or marriage… Read more

  • Cambridge’s Lib Dem MP votes in favour of giving votes to prisoners

    Cambridge’s Lib Dem MP votes in favour of giving votes to prisoners

    People who break the law should not be in a position to make the law. It seems to me that when someone is put in prison they have to give up certain rights that we all enjoy, voting being one of them.  The right to vote is a very special right. It is at the… Read more

  • Full Council – Annual Budget

    It is rare for a budget setting council meeting to attract such attention. Of course this was the budget that was set to make significant cuts for the first time in many years. We have all become used to ever more money being spent on our behalf by a huge range of organisations,  the county… Read more

  • Can we afford AV?

    Can we afford to change our voting system and what are the benefits? Well, it is likely to cost about £250m to bring in the Alternative Voting system. It is a system that no one actually wants. We conservatives are content with the voting system that has served this country very well for a very… Read more