Promoting the Politics of Courage
From the Morning Star, May 9th 2011 “West Cornwall MP Andrew George declared that the Bill should be “stopped rather than paused. The Lib Dem added: “Saving the NHS is more important than saving a few egos in the coalition.” Mr George said the Bill was destined to fail because it undermined the NHS ethos […]
From The Independent, 12th March 2011. Last year I described the Government’s Health White Paper as “an avoidable train crash”. Since then, with the Health Bill published and GP commissioning consortia rolling out, I admit I was wrong. It will be far worse. The resulting carnage of a dismembered and disintegrated health service will provide […]
From the London Evening Standard, July 13th 2011. His comments at question time came ahead of a cross-party challenge to the Government’s plan to raise VAT from January. Liberal Democrat Andrew George, MP for St Ives, is spearheading an attempt backed by four party colleagues to peg the rise to just 0.5% – from 17.5% […]
The exoneration is welcome But MP expenses still needs massive overall Although the exoneration is appreciated – and that the fabricated media claims against me have been dismissed – I believe the Sir Thomas Legg’s Inquiry into the MP’s expenses scandal should have gone further. There’s still a need for a massive overall of the […]