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The outrageous costs of public sector disasters
This week we read taxpayers will be slapped with a bill for £10 bn for the NHS using contaminated blood when treating patients. It has taken years to enquire into what went wrong, and to offer people compensation.
We await the full bills to compensate sub postmasters which the nationalised Post...Read More »
NATO and Ukraine
The forces of Ukraine face a larger enemy and need plenty of help from NATO with weapons, ammunition and financial support.
So far the leading money donors, the EU and US, and the leading provider of military items, the USA have given enough to Ukraine to be able to largely halt...Read More »
Wokingham Council gets a substantial uplift in money this year
I keep hearing from the Lib Dem Council that Wokingham gets little money from central government. I will use a few blogs to set out again what Wokingham Council is receiving from government. These are often areas where I have put the case for more funding to government.
The biggest sum...Read More »
Wars in Europe
The UK has fought all too many wars in Europe. Often we were fighting to defend the right of another country to govern itself, or to support political and religious freedoms. We had to fight Philip II of Spain, Napoleon and Hitler for our very national survival as we fought...Read More »