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I was left open mouthed, but not entirely surprised this morning when headlines started coming in that a teacher had been in court for looting. As a teacher myself I tweeted that I hope this pers...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2011/08/according-to-telegraph-riots-are-all.html

The Lib Dems were for many years seen as having the most sensible and well thought out policies on education. Be this pledges to cut class sizes, a commitment to reform key Stage 2 SATS, a proper...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2011/06/is-lib-dem-education-policy-simply-let.html

In the local elections in my part of the world we (the Lib Dems) highlighted a regular concern that people have that the local Tory Council see consultation as a process to be gone through in nam...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2011/06/danny-alexander-shut-up.html

There are many who like to think that the ills the Lib Dems are suffering will, in some way, be fixed by a returning David Laws being thrust back in to the political front line. They are wrong. ...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2011/05/why-david-laws-should-not-return-to.html

Twelve months of Lib Dems in government, and what has been achieved in the areas of policy that really matter to the public ? Many senior Lib Dems and those who are regularly wheeled out to def...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2011/05/one-year-on-what-have-we-done.html

Iain Dale writes on Lib Dem Voice today an article that attempts to point the way forward for the Lib Dems in the wake of catastrophic election results. Sadly, despite the fact that Iain is actu...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2011/05/tories-desperate-to-save-their-fall.html

I heard Evan Harris on Radio 5 earlier referring to us suffering as the party of government being punished by the electorate because we are making unpopular decisions. I read on the internet that...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2011/05/lets-stop-referring-to-us-being-damaged.html

Yesterday, I made the point that I predicted the Lib Dem meltdown 12 months ago. So I'd like to summarise, without links, what my arguments were last year. 1) JUNIOR COALITION PARTNERS ALWAYS G...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2011/05/wake-up-and-smell-coffee.html

I wrote last year that we wouldn't get AV . I was right. I wrote last year that we would be the whipping boys, taking the pain for the Tories. I was right. I don't like always being right.

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2011/05/sadly-ive-been-proved-right-on.html

I've simply got to much on my plate to blog. I started blogging a few months after stepping down as a councillor in 2007 as a way to keep my hand in politically. But since being elected in March ...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2011/04/semi-retirement.html

Primary schools have found out in the last few days that their targets for this year's KS2 SATs tests are to be upped by 5%, just a few weeks before the tests are to actually take place. Anyone w...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2011/03/government-moving-goalposts-fair.html

The problems in Libya have been brewing for several weeks, so what has happened in the last few days should be no surprise, yet our government, has shown itself to be utterly useless in its respo...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2011/02/what-shambolic-government-response.html

This road “repair” was done by Norfolk County Council outside the police station in my Taverham North Ward in Thorpe Marriott. Rather than doing a proper repair, all the bits of broken ro...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2011/02/worst-road-repair-ever-how-norfolk.html

I'm going to show off a bit here, but I wrote, at length, three years ago about how the Monetary Policy Committee were totally wrong to keep raising interest rates before we went in to recession,...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-highlighted-how-mpc-got-it-wrong-last.html

Ed Miliband has criticised unions for threatening to strike on the day of the Royal Wedding. My question for Ed, since he's trying to woo Lib Dems (and if there is any leader who is as ill suit...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2011/01/will-ed-act-or-will-he-posture-again.html

I was saddened to learn of the death of Margaret Davie, a former Broadland Councillor, school teacher, and fine Lib Dem councillor for Spixworth from 1993 to 2002. Margaret taught at Hellesdeon...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2011/01/sad-death-of-margaret-davie.html

David Cameron announced today that the regressive rise in VAT, which hits the poorest hardest will be kept, but the progressive 50% tax rate for high earners (something that was for many years a ...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2011/01/keeping-regressive-taxes-scrapping.html

Not a day to feel proud of this government. Today the government announced plans to privatise and sell off vast tracts of the country by selling off Forestry Commission land. In addition to tha...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2011/01/proud-to-be-lib-dem.html

The Tories (and let's not forget the Lib Dems) are the government of the day, but have learnt nothing from the swine flu pandemic of last year and have allowed flu to become a problem again this ...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2011/01/saying-one-thing-on-flu-when-in.html

As a party, the Lib Dems are supposed to want to make Britain a fairer place. Perhaps 2011 is the year the party could start this by addressing the discriminatory way in which the English are tax...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2011/01/lets-end-discrimination-against-english.html

Whenever I have been canvassing, I have always seen signs on doors saying "We do not buy or sell at this door", or "No canvassers". These people require special thought and some local knowledge b...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-do-you-sell-something-you-wouldnt.html

At the moment, snow, ice and generally dreadful weather are causing havoc across the country. For many people there is a feeling of "What are we paying our council tax for when our roads are not ...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2010/12/local-government-straight-jacket-will.html

THIS story is yet again, another shocking example of how the law works in favour of criminals and against ordinary law abiding people. You will note that the two men who were attempting to bre...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2010/12/have-police-got-nothing-better-to-do.html

The former Labour defence minister, Bob Ainsworth, has called for the decriminalisation of all drugs, in a move that is likely to incur the wrath of the Labour leadership. When I studied in Co...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2010/12/i-bet-ed-milliband-is-less-than.html

I rarely give praise to Boris Johnson, but he deserves it for THIS action he has taken. It's clear that FIFA are utterly corrupt, preferring to talk about the evils of the English Press rather ...

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2010/12/well-done-boris.html