David Hencke
Westminster, Whitehall and Berkhamsted village news and views

Posts Tagged ‘Liberal Democrats

Child Abuse Questions for the London borough of Richmond

January 27, 2013

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 […]

Death and rebirth? of Liberal Democrat England

March 4, 2011

  Today’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, 2010

In 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, 2010

The 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 […]

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