Promoting the Politics of Courage
In a vote in Parliament this week, Liberal Democrat MP for St Ives, Andrew George voted for a bill paving the way to give compensation to WASPI women. It follows an independent report that found they had suffered an injustice due to a failure to properly inform them of pension age changes. Andrew George said […]
Local MP, Andrew George expressed disappointment that Labour and Conservative MPs failed to back Liberal Democrat proposals to protect customers from footing the bill for water company bailouts in a House of Commons vote last night. On average, a third of customers’ bills are spent servicing water company debt. Andrew said, “Customers should not have […]
In today’s debate at New County Hall, Cornwall Councill overwhelmingly (56 votes for and 4 against) passed a motion that Cornwall should press for devolution on a Cornwall-only footprint. Andrew George, Liberal Democrat MP of the West Cornwall and Isles of Scilly constituency of St Ives attended the debate in his Cornwall Councillor role, where […]
It should worry all of us when a succession of immensely powerful Silicon Valley and media billionaires pay homage (suck-up) in Mar-a-Lago to the anointed “leader of the free-world”. It suits the new regime that fact-checkers have been sacked, to be replaced with the shoutiest social media bullies (“community moderation”) to advance the “alternative fact” […]
In response to today’s government announcement that funding for the Women & Children’s Hospital at Treliske has been secured, and will be delivered as part of ‘Wave 1’ of the New Hospital Programme – ie 2025-2030, Commons health select committee and Liberal Democrat MP for the West Cornwall and Isles of Scilly constituency of St […]
The Care Quality Commission received its own inspection report this week and was rated “inadequate”. The troubled Inspectorate was before the Commons Health Committee this week – with the newly appointed chief executive, Sir Julian Hartley, and the outgoing chair Ian Dilks. The troubled organisation has lost staff, mishandled its commissioning of new technology, and […]
Speaking in response to suggestions from Plymouth City Council that Cornwall join a ‘super region’ with neighbouring authorities, Liberal Democrat MP for West Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Andrew George said: “Plymouth City Council seems to believe it can instruct Cornwall, that we must be swallowed up into a Southwest ‘super region’ with a directly […]
Pictured (from left to right) is Andrew George MP, local Liberal Democrat campaigner, Ruth Gripper, Ben Maguire MP (North Cornwall) outside Treliske to celebrate the news Local MP, Andrew George, warmly congratulated hospital staff, managers and campaigners following news that the green light has been given by government to deliver the much-needed Women & Children’s […]
West Cornwall MP, Andrew George, is urging health ministers to end the practice of ‘corridor care’, not to let it become normalised. He made his remarks as Liberal Democrats publish analysis which reveals there were a record 518,000 “trolley waits” of 12 hours or more last year in Emergency Departments (A&Es). It follows a media […]
There is no higher priority than to stop the scandal of child abuse in any form. To do that we need ACTION now. Not yet another lengthy Inquiry. I’ve been asked why I didn’t back the Tory motion to Parliament on Wednesday 8th January. The answer is simple. If the Tories succeeded it would have […]