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Mark Reckons (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Dr Evan Harris, the Lib Dem MP and science spokesperson has written a letter to Alan Johnson the Home Secretary drawing his attention to a number of factual inaccuracies in the statements Mr Johnson made to the House of Commons last Monday in the debate about his dismissal of Professor Nutt. Dr Harris charges Mr Johnson with a "litany of errors" and states it is essential that he returns...
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Liberal England (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Today's House Points from Liberal Democrat News. True to form When Labour popularised the idea of "antisocial behaviour" in the years before 1997, Liberals worried that we would see the police concerning themselves low-level nuisance behaviour by children and teenagers. Because whenever the concept was invoked by Labour politicians they bundled these nuisances together with elements of obvious...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Intrusive 'Al Capone' powers will be extended to bodies such as the Royal Mail unless we stop the government's mission creep Powers originally given only to the police and police agencies to seize criminal assets are now being extended to councils and other public bodies, including the Royal Mail. Once again, legal powers voted in to deal with terrorism and organised crime are being rolled out for...
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Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
“Alan Johnson has been forced to admit that the Government’s snoopers’ charter has got out of hand,” says Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary. Commenting on Alan Johnson’s expected announcement of changes to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which has been described as a ‘snoopers’ charter’, Chris Huhne said: “Alan...
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Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
All women deserve to live their lives without fear of violence says Chris Huhne. “It is inhumane that provisions to stop violence against women should be dependent on immigration status,” said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary. Commenting on the mass lobby of Parliament urging increased protection for all women facing violence in the UK, organised by [...]
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Wolverhampton Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne has tabled an Urgent Question demanding that Alan Johnson explain the dismissal of Professor Nutt as Chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.
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Silent Words Speak Loudest (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Quote of the day " I think the scientific evidence is absolutely clear cut. I would agree with it ". Professor John Beddington, chief science adviser to the government, backs the view of Professor David Nutt, ex chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, that cannabis is less harmful than alcohol or tobacco. The Lib Dems' Chris Huhne asked the pertinent question in the wake of...
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Scribblings, Jottings & Musings (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Raising my head above the parapet in the Liverpool-Southampton port wars (& still nursing a broken heart after David Bartlett dropped the link to this blog on his Dale Street Blues site, oh, how fickle & thin-skinned they are on Oldham Hall Street, you can forget about that Christmas card this year, David!), I see that local Hampshire MP & prominent Lib Dem Chris Huhne has written to the...
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Matt Davies (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Having just blogged about the two week silence of Conservative candidate for St.Austell & Newquay Caroline Righton... shock news, she has finally said something after all! Unbelievably, however, it is not an apology. The explanation (such as it is) that she has sent to journalists is below. But the key points are: No apology to Steve or to local residents No retraction of the smear email to those...
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Mark Reckons (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Sometimes I disagree with things that MPs and other representatives of my party say. Yesterday's debate in parliament about the dismissal of Professor Nutt from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs was not one of those occasions. Instead as each Lib Dem MP popped up to make their contribution I found myself feeling more and more proud. Alan Johnson the Home Secretary, Chris Grayling his shadow...
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ffranc sais (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Richard Baum has a very thoughtful piece on the dismissal of the head of the drugs advisory council. Having read this, and seen the short Q&A session on BBC-Parliament this afternoon, I am now not so certain that Alan Johnson was wrong to respond to the recent attacks by Professor Nutt on the subject of declassifying cannabis. The Home Secretary was responding in the Commons this afternoon to an...
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Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Lib Dem Home Affairs spokesman Chris Huhne has uncovered the figures through a Parliamentary Question: In 2007, the last year for which figures are available, the average fine for criminals convicted of possessing crack cocaine was £38.33 – less than a standard £60 parking fine or speeding ticket, and less than a quarter of the average [...]
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Mark Reckons (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
I watched the debate in the Commons earlier today where Alan Johnson attempted to defend his decision to sack Professor David Nutt from his position as chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs last week. One thing that particularly caught my attention was Chris Huhne's description of Chris Grayling, the shadow Home Secretary as Alan Johnson's "mini-me", the exact description I...
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Aberavon & Neath Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Commenting on the further resignations of Government drug advisers following the sacking of Professor David Nutt, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: “These are high profile and damaging resignations. If Alan Johnson does not backtrack quickly, he runs the risk not only of destroying his own Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs but also of undermining the integrity of...
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Boulton (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
It's simple: Advisers advise, governments decide policy - and so we see the Conservatives having to back Alan Johnson's decision to sack the aptly-named Professor Nutt. Governments don't have to take the advice their offered, they're elected to take decisions based on advice, and the scientific view on the effects of cannabis are by no means are cut and dried as the Prof would have us believe. In...
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