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Caroline Lucas' Blog
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A day-to-day update from Green Party PPC Caroline Lucas!
- Added on: Oct 13th, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: CarolineLucas
- Listed in: Politics Society
Recent Posts
Copenhagen and the Pre-Budget Report
I read in the Argus this morning that the Environment Agency estimates 60 000 buildings in Sussex are at risk from flooding. It's another reason why success at Copenhagen is essential. Here in the UK, the Pre-Budget Report could have included bold pr...
Police Cuts and Sussex Police Authority
I will be writing to the Sussex Police Authority to urge them to reconsider a proposed cut of nearly 100 jobs. The meeting to discuss it is tomorrow, in Lewes. A final decision on the police budget for 2010-111 will be made in Chichester in February....
Trains to Brighton and Lewes
I'm opposed to the Lib Dem proposal (by Lewes MP Norman Baker) to divert train capacity away from Brighton. Under his idea, we would have fewer trains running between Gatwick and Brighton. The answer is not simply diverting trains to routes to Lewes,...
Lloyds job cuts brings losses to over 15,000
Just weeks after it announced over 200 job cuts, recent news that Lloyds banking group will be cutting a further 410 jobs has left me outraged. http://www.theargus.co.uk/archive/2009/11/30/Local+news+(general_news)/4767438.410_jobs_to_go_at_Lloyds_s_...
World AIDS Day
Today is World Aids Day. This has particular resonance here in Brighton, since the city has the second highest prevalence of HIV in the UK. Despite this, however, we hear news that Unisex, at the University of Sussex, faces closure due to job cuts. U...
Afghanistan
To read my latest thoughts on the situation in Afghanistan, see http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/25/humanitarian-reconst......
