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Peter Black: Have the Tories started to unravel over Europe already?
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Welsh Liberal Democrats Councillor for Cwmbwrla Ward, City and County of Swansea - Visit my main website at www.peterblack.wales. Thursday, May 21, 2015. Have the Tories started to unravel over Europe already? David Cameron's slim majority may well be enough to see him through the next five years, but it is doubtful that the path will be a smooth one. Indeed, the Guardian is already publishing articles. There are increasing suspicions among Eurosceptics that the prime mi...
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Peter Black: Plaid Cymru gag one of their star names
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Welsh Liberal Democrats Councillor for Cwmbwrla Ward, City and County of Swansea - Visit my main website at www.peterblack.wales. Thursday, July 30, 2015. Plaid Cymru gag one of their star names. I have said many times that Plaid Cymru are not a liberal party and earlier this week they proved it by getting Dafydd Elis-Thomas' local party to prevent him speaking out-of-turn on issues he feels strongly about. The Western Mail reports. What was Lord Elis-Thomas' offence?
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Peter Black: Wales leads the way on bovine TB - without a cull
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Welsh Liberal Democrats Councillor for Cwmbwrla Ward, City and County of Swansea - Visit my main website at www.peterblack.wales. Thursday, July 23, 2015. Wales leads the way on bovine TB - without a cull. Some very good news, reporting comments by the chief veterinary officer for Wales that the various measures being deployed against the spread of TB in cattle here are starting to show results. Posted by Peter Black : 6:45 AM. Comments: Post a Comment. Highly readable a...
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Peter Black: Should we cull the House of Lords?
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Welsh Liberal Democrats Councillor for Cwmbwrla Ward, City and County of Swansea - Visit my main website at www.peterblack.wales. Monday, July 27, 2015. Should we cull the House of Lords? For those who read my views on the UK Government's badger cull, this particular conundrum is of a totally different order. The Times reports. That a group of MPs and peers have set up an inquiry into reducing the size of the House of Lords amid fears that the upper chamber is too big.
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Peter Black: Liberal Democrats should boycott peerage merry-go-round
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Welsh Liberal Democrats Councillor for Cwmbwrla Ward, City and County of Swansea - Visit my main website at www.peterblack.wales. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Liberal Democrats should boycott peerage merry-go-round. The House of Lords is the second largest revising chamber in the World, it is unaccountable and if the Lord Sewel episode is to be believed, it is out of control. Despite that the Independent reports. But enough is enough. The Liberal Democrats need to stick...
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Peter Black: The Welsh Government is letting down Wales' poorest and most vulnerable people
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Welsh Liberal Democrats Councillor for Cwmbwrla Ward, City and County of Swansea - Visit my main website at www.peterblack.wales. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. The Welsh Government is letting down Wales' poorest and most vulnerable people. Covers the report of the Welsh Assembly's Public Accounts Committee on the impact of welfare changes on social housing tenants in Wales. Claiming women, children and refugees had been particularly badly affected. While the Scottish governmen...
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Peter Black: Health and safety for cows
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Welsh Liberal Democrats Councillor for Cwmbwrla Ward, City and County of Swansea - Visit my main website at www.peterblack.wales. Friday, July 24, 2015. Health and safety for cows. The Daily Telegraph definitely has headline of the week with this eye-catching offering:. Cows 'should wear flourescent jackets and strings of lights' at night, council says. Martin Crane, the mayor of Hungerford, even went one further and proposed the animals wear strings of flashing lights.
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Peter Black: Will David Miliband return to assume the throne?
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Welsh Liberal Democrats Councillor for Cwmbwrla Ward, City and County of Swansea - Visit my main website at www.peterblack.wales. Friday, July 31, 2015. Will David Miliband return to assume the throne? It is still 43 days before we will know who the new leader of the Labour Party will be. It feels like an eternity has passed already. Can we cope with another six weeks of Labour's very public self-immolation? What is worse the Times reports. However, it is indicative of t...
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Peter Black: Now the Tories start to unpick Liberal Democrats work to tackle climate change
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Welsh Liberal Democrats Councillor for Cwmbwrla Ward, City and County of Swansea - Visit my main website at www.peterblack.wales. Saturday, July 25, 2015. Now the Tories start to unpick Liberal Democrats work to tackle climate change. Watching the Tories make cuts to welfare benefits, which the Liberal Democrats had blocked when in Government is painful enough, but having Labour collude with them in measures such as limiting child tax credit to two children. The Prime Mi...
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Peter Black: Tory u-turn on social care costs - another Liberal Democrats initiative ditched
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Welsh Liberal Democrats Councillor for Cwmbwrla Ward, City and County of Swansea - Visit my main website at www.peterblack.wales. Sunday, July 26, 2015. Tory u-turn on social care costs - another Liberal Democrats initiative ditched. The proposed delay is going to cost the government a lot of money:. James Lloyd, director of the Strategic Society Centre thinktank, said: I would estimate the ‘capped cost’ reforms have cost the taxpayer between 50m- 100m to date. This is a...