At 8pm on Monday 29th March, Channel 4 will stage a live debate between the would-be Chancellors, Liberal DemocratVince Cable, Labour’s Alistair Darling and Conservative George Osborne. Krishnan Guru-Murthy will be asking the questions. From 7pm on the night, Channel 4 will be hosting a discussion of the debate. You can send questions and comment [...]
YOUNG people across Milton Keynes are being urged to make sure they get their names on the electoral register. Milton Keynes still boasts one of the youngest populations in Europe, but unfortunately, it is well known that younger people are less likely to bother to vote. Cllr Sam Potts, the Youth Champion for Milton Keynes [...]
Liberal Democrat Councillor Sam Potts has slammed the Conservative Group on Milton Keynes Council for refusing to support extra money to fixing the pot holes. The poor weather which has led to so many more pot holes this year need urgent action. Liberal Democrat Cllr Douglas McCall urged the Conservatives to put politics to one [...]
National Conservative Spokesman Grant Shapps MP has said that Conservatives in Government will allow MORE expansion in our rural communities. Lib Dem Shadow MP for Milton Keynes North, Jill Hope has written to him to tell him that we don’t want the Conservative plan here, thank you very much! Sam Potts says “The proposed expansion from the Bucks Conservatives [...]
Last month Sean Barnes, the MK YouthMP (and Astwood lad) successfully argued in the House of Commons in favour of lowering the voting age to 16 in the Votes@16 Youth Parliament Debate. Sean said: “If MPs are serious about reforming and cleaning up the UK’s politics, they will take a step in the right direction and lower the voting [...]
Cllr Sam Potts and Lib Dem Local ShadowMP Jill Hope have endorsed the new Lib Dem Plans for rural communities. These include a fair deal for Dairy Farmers and a 50% cut in car tax for residents who live in the villages.
Sherington: Cllr Sam Potts has given £1,000 from his councillor’s fund for a feasibility plan for a shop, coffee bar and post office facility in Sherington Sam is delighted with the new Pavilion after working tirelessly with the Parish Council to get the building funded, built, opened and running Sam was pleased to attend the [...]
Since Councillor Sam Potts became the MK council member on the Adoption and Fostering panels for children in Milton Keynes the service has been marked as good, with no outstanding issues. Lib Dem Cllr. Sam Potts said, “The important thing here is when children need to be looked after the Council does not let them [...]
The new service from the Lib Dem run MK Council is now up and running. Food caddies and green garden waste bins have now all been delivered and the first collections started in September. All suitable properties have received a 140 litre outdoor wheeled bin (unless they already have one) and a small silver kitchen [...]
Milton Keynes Council has been awarded £107,000 by the Aggregates Levy Sustainable Fund to be spent on repairs to the Visitor Centre at Emberton Park. The funding will allow the replacement of the leaking roof, re-fit the public toilets and refurbish the building to provide a visitor/information centre and education/community space and to build an [...]
