MP View 13th March 2019
Another big week for Brexit – perhaps the biggest week so far. Reading the Sunday press, and chatting through things with my colleagues, it rather looks as if the week will end without resolution.
Brexit rumbles on, getting ever closer to B-Day – just three weeks away. Or maybe not the end? I’m getting lots of emails about it.
Last week’s meaningful vote was kicked down the road yet again. Parliament will now have up to three meaningful votes on the 12th, 13th and 14th of March.
Just when you thought politics had got crazy enough, it gets even madder. The seismic events in Westminster last week demonstrate just how broken our system is. I write this column on Sunday morning, ahead of a week with a significant statement form the Prime Minster, followed by important votes.
There were a couple of stories, last week, about teenagers bunking off school. The first was about a 15-year-old schoolgirl, Shamima Begum, plotting with friends to save money, organise the trip and then run away to Syria to become an ISIS bride. Now 19, she wants to come home.
Finally! The parliamentary Brexit tectonic plates have shifted just a little. A series of backbench amendments resulted in one defeat for the government, and one significant victory.
Mark Garnier met with the Chief Execute, Simon Dunn and Director Bob Baker of Diamond Buses on Thursday, to discuss the services within Wyre Forest and in particular the No 2 and 2A which travels between Bewdley and Kidderminster. Residents in Bewdley and on the Habberley Estate, where the ser
Few who have followed the case of 12 year old Billy Caldwell will not have felt angered by the action of Home Office officials, who confiscated his treatment for epilepsy when entering the country recently.
This week in Parliament is the lull before the storm. A few uncontroversial bills have got started – including one to protect elephants through tighter measures on the ivory trade. But the real attention is focusing on the debate next Tuesday.
