RED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHT at last!
The Sunak administration is congratulating itself on supposedly pulling off a major coup in negotiations with the EU over Northern Ireland. This is rank hypocrisy.
JD
28 Feb 2023
News Archive
Robert Court: “Save families in Derbyshire Dales from £500 energy bill rise in April”
Robert Court, Liberal Democrat General Election Candidate for Derbyshire Dales is demanding that the Government cancel plans to hike the average household energy bill by £500 in April, and bring in a tax on the "bonanza bonuses" of oil and gas bosses.
PD
27 Feb 2023
Setting the record straight
It is not often that political parties are required to set the record straight on things that happened over 25 years ago! However Ashbourne Conservatives continue to comment on the Liberal Democrats action in late 1997 without providing a suitable context (and, coincidentally, remind us of the year when the Conservatives lost more than half their seats at the General Election).
PD
26 Feb 2023
LEST WE FORGET
Today is the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
JD
24 Feb 2023
IMMIGRATION - THE BACKLOG
The issue of immigration is one of the most difficult political issues across the world. Despite the appalling language used by the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, the UK only receives a modest number of asylum applications in comparison with other European countries. In 2021 we had 50,000 applications whilst France had over 100,000 and Germany over 150,000. When you look at applications per 100,000 population we have 80 per 100,000 - behind most European countries with Austria at over 400 and Belgium at over 150. Recent reports in the press about a 'fast track processing system' and 'amnesty' are driven not by increasing numbers of applicants but Government failures since Boris's 'oven ready deal' that was enacted in 2020. We have a backlog of applications, over 120,000 up from 30,000 in 2019. This is because we are taking 15.5 months to process an application, whereas Germany takes 6.5 months and France 8.5 months. The Government blames the ECHR but this applies in Germany and France so clearly is just a
MIJ
23 Feb 2023
Where have all the HGVs gone?
A study by the Buxton Road Residents Group of Ashbourne has established that during Shrovetide there was a 40% reduction in HGVs using the highly polluted Buxton Road.
PD
22 Feb 2023