Promoting the Politics of Courage
Commenting in advance of a speech to be given today by the Prime Minister about NHS reforms, the Liberal Democrat MP and Health Select Committee member, Andrew George, warned that anything short of a major U-turn in Government policy will fail to persuade the majority of his Liberal Democrat colleagues and would ultimately be scuppered […]
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 […]
Commenting on the news that the Secretary of State for Local Government and Communities, Rt. Hon Eric Pickles MP, has decided not to ‘call-in’ Cornwall Council’s application for Listed Building Consent for Penzance Harbour, local MP, Andrew George, said:??“Whether the scheme goes forward as currently envisaged, or in some other form, it is most […]
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% […]
Andrew George MP has signed EDM number 1806 in 2010-11, proposed by Tessa Munt on 12/05/2011. The motion reads, That this House commends the work of the artist and conservationist David Shepherd on his 80th birthday and notes the launch of his worldwide movement to save the tiger in the wild, TigerTime; expresses its backing […]
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 […]
Originally posted November 21st 2006 AN ARTICLE FOR LIB DEM NEWS “Litvinenko should think himself lucky”, muttered one Government Whip as he breezed past me dragging behind him the customary gruesome instruments of torture. Whips are twitchy this week. The traditionally uneventful week long debate which follows The Queen’s Speech is grinding relentlessly to its […]