Invite your MP to do the BGBW

You may have seen my blog this morning which invited my local MP, Andy Sawford, to do the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch with me at my home on Sunday 26 January (I plan to be at Cheltenham races on the Saturday!).  I hope he says yes as I’d like to show him some birds, tell…

EDM 603

Early Day Motion 603, which calls on the Home Office to stump up its share of the cost of the National Wildlife Crime Unit has attracted six new signatures from MPs in the last week and has now reached 114 signatures.  It is now the 8th-most-signed EDM of this session of Parliament (and has risen…

The road to 10 Downing Street goes through Corby

Whoever came up with the line that makes the title of this blog did well.  Labour’s return to power may well be seen to start with this first by-election victory against the Tories in 15 years. In some ways the constituency of Corby and east Northants represents a microcosm of England.  Equally divided, or dithering,…