Prescott seeks to end light aviation?
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From: Appleby-in-Westmorland Cumbria England
Painless. Get the whole familiy to contribute - could triple + the responses.
I supose this is Prescott trying to stamp out priviledge & elitism amongst the middle classes, like big mansions, secretaries, free jags & stuff ....
h-r
I supose this is Prescott trying to stamp out priviledge & elitism amongst the middle classes, like big mansions, secretaries, free jags & stuff ....
h-r
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From: Kent UK
Done. Cheers, Beags.
".....I want to make clear that the things that I do are what I would do that that thing is what the people of this country are expect at the end of the day it is a very important matter and these airfields are there for the benefit of hindsight, as I have said all along."
Didn't he say that? Oh well, he probably will!
Kev.
".....I want to make clear that the things that I do are what I would do that that thing is what the people of this country are expect at the end of the day it is a very important matter and these airfields are there for the benefit of hindsight, as I have said all along."
Didn't he say that? Oh well, he probably will!
Kev.
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From: Washington DC
This won't work!
Petitions are a notoriously ineffective means of putting across a case to the government. An online version all the more so: it will be easy to ignore, not least because plainly very little effort is involved on the part of those signing their names.
What does occasionally work is enlisting the support of MPs who can take up your case with the appropriate government department. A brief, personally drafted letter (ie not a mass production round robin) is more likely to have the desired effect.
It is alleged in this case that the government had indicated that the inclusion of airfields from the draft wording of the bill was an oversight which would be corrected. If anyone can produce evidence that an undertaking was given it would make it that much harder for the government to wriggle out of this one. Anybody?
What does occasionally work is enlisting the support of MPs who can take up your case with the appropriate government department. A brief, personally drafted letter (ie not a mass production round robin) is more likely to have the desired effect.
It is alleged in this case that the government had indicated that the inclusion of airfields from the draft wording of the bill was an oversight which would be corrected. If anyone can produce evidence that an undertaking was given it would make it that much harder for the government to wriggle out of this one. Anybody?
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It is alleged in this case that the government had indicated that the inclusion of airfields from the draft wording of the bill was an oversight which would be corrected. If anyone can produce evidence that an undertaking was given it would make it that much harder for the government to wriggle out of this one. Anybody?
I replied at the time that this was no reassurance and have written back to her again asking her to get an explanation for the misleading reply she was given.
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From: Quite near 'An aerodrome somewhere in England'
"Sorry - it isn't a Prescott thing any more. It's now the Dept of Communities and Local Government under Ruth 'Boy' Kelly."
Hmm - I see what you mean, Lucy!
Hmm - I see what you mean, Lucy!
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In response to me letter to my MP last February, the DPM's office wrote to assure him that the omission of the airfield exclusion was a mistake which would be rectified in the final version of the document.
I have now written to my MP again to ask him to object most strongly to being deceived by the DPM.
I have now written to my MP again to ask him to object most strongly to being deceived by the DPM.
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Hopefully,Ruth Kelly will have enough on her mind without worrying about airfields for now...
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Outcry as Kelly sends child to private school
FORMER Education Secretary Ruth Kelly was today named as the minister who had enrolled one of her children in an elite £15,0000-a-year private prep school.
The move, revealed yesterday, has outraged Labour MPs.
But until today the identity of Mrs Kelly - a Roman Catholic mother of four now in charge of English Local Government in the Cabinet, was unknown. Mrs Kelly has taken one of her children out of state education near her East London home and opted for a Home Counties private boarding school that makes a priority of helping pupils pass entrance exams to Eton and Harrow - two of England's top public schools.
Mrs Kelly decided there was inadequate help in local schools for the child who is understood to have reading and learning difficulties.
Her decision to take the controversial step has been strongly criticised by backbench MPs.
Norwich North's Ian Gibson said the move was "wrong" adding: "I deprecate anybody, any minister who chooses to do this."
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Outcry as Kelly sends child to private school
FORMER Education Secretary Ruth Kelly was today named as the minister who had enrolled one of her children in an elite £15,0000-a-year private prep school.
The move, revealed yesterday, has outraged Labour MPs.
But until today the identity of Mrs Kelly - a Roman Catholic mother of four now in charge of English Local Government in the Cabinet, was unknown. Mrs Kelly has taken one of her children out of state education near her East London home and opted for a Home Counties private boarding school that makes a priority of helping pupils pass entrance exams to Eton and Harrow - two of England's top public schools.
Mrs Kelly decided there was inadequate help in local schools for the child who is understood to have reading and learning difficulties.
Her decision to take the controversial step has been strongly criticised by backbench MPs.
Norwich North's Ian Gibson said the move was "wrong" adding: "I deprecate anybody, any minister who chooses to do this."
