Promoting the Politics of Courage
If money for second homes went to first homes instead we’d have all but solved Cornwall’s housing problems The Conservatives have handed more than £385 million in tax subsidies to second homers in Cornwall in the last decade. If that had been granted for the delivery of first homes for locals instead there’d be […]
It’s 20 years since we secured the official recognition of the Cornish Language. Remember it well. I was surprised when I discovered I was the first to speak Cornish in Parliament in May 1997. And I considered it an honour to lead the campaign for the official recognition of our language in Parliament at that […]
• The dominant issue this week has been the vote of confidence. I refer of course to the resounding vote of confidence in Cornish Rugby. What a fantastic display by all of our Cornish teams. Our women’s team comfortably winning their Championship (tier 3) final in Richmond, the men’s team defeating Cheshire at Twickenham, […]
Post Election STATEMENT 1. THANK YOU Thank you to the many people who helped and supported our campaign. I am sorry that we were not able to get a better outcome. Also many thanks to the hundreds of people who have contacted me since the result was announced to express their disappointment and to offer ongoing […]
Andrew George, MP for West Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, yesterday presented a petition signed by over one thousand constituents to Parliament to protest against David Cameron’s block of his Private Members Bill to scrap the “Bedroom Tax”. He said he was determined to get it through in the next Parliament. On presenting the […]
Andrew George, MP for West Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, today pressed the case in Parliament for Cornwall to have devolved powers to redesign its planning system and to put local housing need above land speculators’ greed and to combat the rise of second homes. In a question to the Deputy Prime […]
Andrew George MP and Caroline Lucas MP Local MP, Andrew George, is urging local constituents to get behind his campaign for “A Greener Government”. He’s holding a public meeting at Penwith College on Friday 27th March 2015 commencing at 7pm. He has a panel of environmental experts, including former Chief Executive of the CPRE, […]
Last night’s BBC 2 documentary on the inner workings of Parliament featured local MP, Andrew George, who led the campaign in Parliament to help poor families adversely affected by the so called “Bedroom Tax”. Despite winning the overwhelming support of MPs the documentary exposed how Mr George’s success was undermined by underhand tactics to sabotage […]
West Cornwall MP, Andrew George, has welcomed the £11.3million expansion of the Cornwall and Isles of Scillies Growth Deal, but, speaking in the Commons today, pressed Government Ministers to allow Cornwall to manage its own funding. It is estimated that this funding could create 5000 new jobs and has the potential to generate a further […]
A number of constituents have asked me how I voted on Trident renewal last week (20/1/2015). I voted for the motion – “That this House believes that Trident should NOT be renewed” (http://bit.ly/15GlFE9 ). Both the Tories and Labour voted in favour of renewing Trident. I believe there are better ways of spending up to […]