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Do you support Steve's campaign to save Ramsgate's Maritime Museum?
The Conservative controlled Council wants to end its grant to the Maritime Museum at Ramsgate harbour. This will mean the town's only remaining Museum will be forced to close, and its exibits distributed across Kent.
| Yes - I think its important that TDC provide funding to preserve our cultural heritage |  |
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 Extra article: week commencing 5th May 2008 - British Crime Survey |
What ever you think might be happening tolevels of crime, here are the facts. The best measure of crime isthe British Crime Survey – it does not simply rely on crimes beingreported and it also...
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| Ladyman’s Thanet - 2/5/08 |
There is a popular TV add for a well knownbrand of lager that involves a company digging up a road. Someonefrom another company sees what is going on and suggests that heshould lay his cables in the h...
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| Extra Article. w/c 21st April 2008. Stephen Ladyman MP |
Extra Article. w/c 21st April 2008. Stephen Ladyman MP Getting enough young people to stay on at school after 16 has always been a challenge. Of course, some young people see th...
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| Ladymans Thanet - 14/4/08 - Tax Credits |
We all like a tax cut, except of course when it means a public service we rely on gets cut back but even then we usually expect the Government to cut a different service that is less important to o...
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| Ladyman’s Thanet - 29 March 2008 - Stability |
I can’t help taking an interest in lists. Those programmes on the TV that list the 50 best comic moments, or the 50 best songs, or for that matter the 50 worst songs, can always hold my a...
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| 14.3.08 Ladyman’s Thanet - Budget |
Budgets are often big theatrical occasions in parliament, but not this year. Alastair Darling delivered his 2008 budget speech in an almost dead pan way. Perhaps it wasn’t surprising, with most o...
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| Extra Article w/c 7th April 2008 - Investment in Education |
The problem with huge sums of money is that they are often beyond our conception. If we read a headline about a few thousand being spent on some project or another then for most of us the scale of ...
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| Extra Article w/c 24th March 2008. - Economy |
It can’t be easy being the Chancellor. Especially one that is having to steer a path for the economy through two global problems not of our own making. The first is the world wide credit squeeze....
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| Ladyman's Thanet - 29.2.08 - Schools |
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More evidence has emerged that our children are doing better than ever at school. Last year we learned that the Target of 60% of 15-year-olds getting five A* to Cs was reac...
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| Extra Article. w/c 25th February 2008 - Childcare |
The Government’s plan for children is quite simple but extraordinarily ambitious. Our aim is to make this the best place in the world for our children and young people to grow up. That is why, s...
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| Ladyman's Thanet - India Trip |
I usually try to make these articles very local. I suspect the Editor would have words if I used my column to cover world news and happenings in far off places too often. Just this once, however, I...
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| Extra Article w/c 10th March 2008 - Lisbon Treaty |
Dr Stephen Ladyman MP The debate over whether Britain should ratify the Lisbon Treaty drones on in Parliament but most of my constituents appear indifferent to the issue. Out of all the people who ...
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| Extra article w/c 11th February 2008 - My work as an MP. |
It is an honour being an MP. It is also very hard work. I don’t complain about the hard work because I know there are plenty of volunteers to take my place but that doesn’t change the fact that...
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| Extra Article. w/c 28th January 2008 - Savings |
Saving for the things we want and putting aside something for a rainy day is going out of fashion. That is a worry to the Government which is why it has tried to encourage saving by creating tax ef...
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| Extra Article. 14th January 2008 - living standards |
Before I became the MP for South Thanet I worked for Pfizer. At that time, and possibly today for all I know, they provided free private medical insurance as part of their employees’ remuneration...
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| Extra Article. 3rd December 2007 - Mental Health |
There are now more than 29million people in work in the UK. That is a record, and it’s a record I’m very proud of because the Labour Government and Labour economic policy made it possible. But ...
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| Gazette Article 23.11.07 - Climate Change |
Ladyman’s Thanet The Government has published its landmark Climate Change Bill. Once approved by Parliament we will be the first country in the world to make it a legal obligation for our Govern...
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| Gazette Article, 9th November |
Ladyman’s ThanetThe Queen’s Speech is where the Government sets out its key priorities for the year ahead. Many people will watch it for the pageantry and the spectacle but perhapsfewer people f...
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| Extra Article w/c 5th November |
The Housing Federation have published a report called ‘Home Truths.’ It makes uncomfortable reading. The Federation have used Oxford Economics to forecast the strength of the housing market up ...
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| Gazette Article 12th october - 10 years of Budgets |
Ladyman’s Thanet Another pre budget report has come and gone. These days we have pre budget reports, comprehensive spending reviews and the budget itself, all of them dissected by the media ...
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