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Parking and poster vans provoke Coalition differences

By Caron Lindsay | Mon 29th July 2013 - 9:24 pm

There are some open differences of opinion going on in the Coalition Government at the moment. Eric Pickles was taken to task by our Norman Baker over his idea to allow people to park on double yellow lines.

The Guardian says:

Asked about the plan, Baker said on Monday that “both sides of the coalition” wanted high streets to prosper and that he agreed that over-zealous action by traffic wardens could be a problem.

But he also expressed reservations about Pickles’s idea. “The idea of actually having cars parked for a very long period of time on a double yellow line

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Posted in News | Also tagged immigration, norman baker, parking and sarah teather | 12 Comments

Exclusive…Liberal Democrats: “Go home” poster vans “disproportionate, distasteful and ineffective”

By Caron Lindsay | Wed 24th July 2013 - 2:01 pm

The Liberal Democrats, so I hear, had nothing to do with the poster vans sent by the Home Office into 6 London boroughs which have caused much anger in Liberal Democrat circles as I wrote earlier. I said that I had seen no evidence that Liberal Democrat ministers had cleared them and it seems that my instincts were right.

A party spokesman told me:

These poster vans were not cleared or agreed by Liberal Democrats in government. We are totally committed to tackling illegal immigration but this is

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Posted in News | Also tagged featured, immigration, jeremy browne and nick clegg | 37 Comments

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