Matthew Taylor, together with his fellow Liberal Democrat MPs in Cornwall, is backing a campaign to force banks to refund billions of pounds taken unlawfully from their customers' accounts.
The Liberal Democrat Home Affairs team today applied to renew their passports to prevent their details from being added to the ID cards database. Once the Government has set up the National Identity Database, everyone who applies for a passport will have to attend an interview and have their fingerprints and irises scanned. Passports issued now will be valid for 10 years, meaning people will be able to wait until 2016 before they have to register for an ID card. Passports can be renewed at any time, irrespective of their expiry date.
The *Government* is responsible for regionalisation in England, not the EU; and the EU is not responsible for most of the other "sins" that people wish to heap on it. So says Chelmsford Liberal Democrat Stephen Robinson replying to a recent letter in the Weekly News. This is what Stephen said:
The Liberal Democrat Home Affairs team today applied to renew their passports to prevent their details from being added to the ID cards database. Once the Government has set up the National Identity Database, everyone who applies for a passport will have to attend an interview and have their fingerprints and irises scanned. Passports issued now will be valid for 10 years, meaning people will be able to wait until 2016 before they have to register for an ID card. Passports can be renewed at any time, irrespective of their expiry date.
Former Leader of Chelmsford Borough Council, Lib Dem Phil Harvey, has expressed sorrow at the death of Con Johnson last week, in the middle of her beloved Chelmsford Cathedral Festival. "It was highly appropriate that Peter Nardone should have dedicated last Thursday's concert to her," said Phil.
Four prisoners are walking out of prisons without authorisation every day, new figures revealed today by the Liberal Democrats show. Over 13,500 prisoners have escaped, absconded or disappeared while on temporary release in the last 10 years.