| Cash For Trash Local Conservatives today criticise plans to introduce new charges for domestic rubbish collection and for postal deliveries. A new Downing Street report recommends that households should pa... Read More |
| Labour's Dopey Drugs Policy The Home Secretary, David Blunkett, had reclassified cannabis from a Class B drug to a Class C drug. This is a massive U-turn on drugs policy by a Labour government whose previous position was: ... Read More |
| Iain Duncan Smith Speech The following is Iain Duncan Smith's speech at the Local Government Association Conference: When it comes to raising standards in our schools, offering security and dignity for our old and ou... Read More |
| Labour Bulldozing Local Say Conservatives pledged this week to resist the Labour government’s proposals to centralise the planning system. Conservatives also reject the Liberal Democrat proposals to transfer planning decis... Read More |
| Taxpayers Lose Out Under Labour Local Conservatives this week highlight statistics published by the government showing the percentage of council tax collected by each council in England. The figures show that in the financ... Read More |
| Tories Tough On Crime Conservatives this week called for a new approach to tackling soaring violent crime. Government figures show that crimes involving violence against the person increased by 3.6% last year. Furt... Read More |
| Labour Fail On Education Labour were elected to government on a pledge to improve education. Tony Blair famously said “Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education, educat... Read More |
| Trust The Tories Public confidence in the Labour government has slipped significantly since the general election one year ago. A recent ICM poll for the BBC indicates that people believe Labour are less trustwor... Read More |
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Swindon’s two new Conservative MPs are to be ‘sworn in’ on Thursday 20 May.
The historic ceremony will mean that Justin ...
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Justin and Robert have issued the following statements, reacting to the start of the new Conservative government.
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Swindon’s two new Conservative MPs are this morning beginning their first full working week following their historic election victories last ...
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The Conservatives comfortably retained control of Swindon Borough Council at the local elections on 6 May 2010. The new make-up of the c...
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Justin Tomlinson was elected as the new Conservative MP for North Swindon with a massive majority over the Labour candidate of 7,060
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Robert Buckland was elected MP for South Swindon with a majority of 3,544, beating Labour MP Anne Snelgrove.
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