"Iain Duncan Smith said to Conservative MPs yesterday that the last 6 weeks have been a vision of hell for him. I think I know how he feels", says Michael Fabricant. "The last few weeks have been a nightmare for all decent Conservative MPs and for party workers. "When Iain spoke to us this afternoon, […]
Michael Fabricant has broadly welcomed plans to tighten up on litter disposed of from take-away food stores. Drive-through restaurants are particularly highlighted by the Keep Britain Tidy campaign. The campaign’s chief executive, Alan Woods, said: "We’re finding burger cartons, pizza boxes and plastic cups away from the high street, on our roads and dumped in […]
Michael Fabricant said today it was "madness" to have a system which allowed the Leader of the Conservative Party to be chosen when he did not necessarily enjoy the majority support of the parliamentary Party. He has written to Tory officials urging that the present system be "stood on its head" for future leadership elections. […]
On Tuesday evening, October 21st, at the Town Meeting of the Board of Selectmen (or town council) of Litchfield, Connecticut in the United States, the First Selectman (equivalent to Executive Mayor of the Town) read out a proclamation creating a Friendship Week between Litchfield Connecticut and Lichfield England. The week will run from October 17th […]
In an impassioned plea for midlands pensioners in Parliament today, Michael Fabricant said that "Low interest rates, while welcome for borrowers, is crippling for pensioners on a fixed income. It is making the present pensions crisis in the midlands and elsewhere far worse." He added: "The Government’s policy on means testing pensioners is a disincentive […]
On Thursday 16th October, twenty-three people from the Lichfield (Staffordshire) area will be flying out to Litchfield, Connecticut in the USA. This ‘Hands of Friendship across the Ocean’ visit has been organised by Michael Fabricant who has long argued for closer economic and political ties with the United States. "I decided to go ahead and […]
Sir Kenneth Morrison CBE, Chairman of Morrison Supermarkets plc who have bid for Safeway, has told Michael Fabricant in a letter: "Neither Lichfield or Burntwood Safeway…… are on the list of compulsory disposals in the Competition Commission Report. Should things work out in the way that we hope we look forward to trading in these […]
Michael Fabricant undertook a web chat on the Conservative Party Website during the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool. Michael answered questions on rural broadband, the World Trade Organisation, the demise of manufacturing in Britain, and internet issues. Michael was answering questions as Shadow Trade and Industry Minister. The chat can be seen by logging onto […]
Following the news that a shortage of funds at the Strategic Rail Authority has resulted in the plan to upgrade 65 midlands railway stations being slashed to a mere three (they are: Erdington, Four Oaks, and Lichfield City), Michael Fabricant wrote to the Chairman of the SRA asking why Lichfield Trent Valley had been taken […]
Following success in getting BT exchanges enabled for broadband, Michael Fabricant is now calling on villagers in the midlands who cannot be supplied broadband by BT phone line because of the relative remoteness of their location, to form action groups and investigate alternative technologies. "This is not as hard as it may seem" says Michael […]