As the police investigation Operation Fernbank continues apace, questions are mounting over the role of the London borough of Richmond and its social services department over the scandal. A report by David Pallister and me on the Exaro News website (http://www.exaronews.com/articles/4817/police-probes-richmond-council-over-vip-paedophile-ring ) that the police have requested and obtained documents from the council’s records dating […]
Posts Tagged ‘Liberal Democrats’
Child Abuse Questions for the London borough of Richmond
January 27, 2013Death and rebirth? of Liberal Democrat England
March 4, 2011Today’s humiliating result for the Liberal Democrats -coming sixth with just 8.25 per cent of the vote in Barnsley,Central is a harbinger of a deeper change facing British politics. Anybody keeping abreast of local council election results in Labour strongholds will not have been at all surprised to see this collapse of a party […]
Going Downhill fast: The Liberal Democrats bankrolled by RBS
December 6, 2010In the week when student protest over tuition fees reaches a climax, public support and money for the Liberal Democrats is collapsing all the time. And it is now even more in hock to one of the banks that provoked the financial crisis in the first place In article in the Tribune this week http://bit.ly/eC4Xb5 I […]
Election Campaign:What the politicians and civil servants didn’t tell us
May 5, 2010The election is virtually over. Tomorrow you can cast your vote. The parties will concentrate on their key messages over the last hours before polling day. But have all the issues been covered? No way. Just as there is a black hole in all the parties’ planned spending cuts, there are lots of issues […]