Archive for gordon birtwistle
Gordon Birtwistle makes it 34 Liberal Democrat MPs on Twitter
Gordon Birtwistle, MP for Burnley and PPS to Danny Alexander, is the latest Liberal Democrat MP to join Twitter. He is @GBirtwistle. You can follow all of the Liberal Democrat MPs on Twitter via the list I curate at twitter.com/markpack/libdem-mps and, if you have more of a London interest, you can follow the Liberal Democrat GLA members and [...]
The Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Private Secretaries (UPDATED)
The appointments of various LibDem MPs to be PPS to ministers have been rather low-profile, so in case you have missed any here is the complete list: Gordon Birtwistle – PPS to Danny Alexander Mike Crockart – PPS to Michael Moore Duncan Hames – PPS to Sarah Teather Jo Swinson – PPS to Vince Cable [...]
Kitty Ussher: unrepentant over expenses
By way of introduction, a sample of what Kitty Ussher (Labour MP for Burnley) had done:
Kitty Ussher used allowances for £20,000 house make-over
The records reveal that Miss Ussher, the MP for Burnley, contacted the Commons fees office within 12 months of being elected, with a detailed programme of work for the property she had already [...]
Attempt by Tories, Labour and BNP to oust Lib Dem fails by one vote
News just in from Burnley where the local Liberal Democrats have put out this press release:
COUNCIL DRAMA: BNP, TORIES AND LABOUR IN UNHOLY ALLIANCE
Councillors from the BNP, Tories and Labour parties tonight joined together to try to unseat Coun Gordon Birtwistle as leader of Burnley Council - but failed after one opposition councillor abstained.
There was [...]
