Matters were drifting. There was a need to take action.
"Norman John Baker" Privy Council of the United Kingdom/PC is a British Liberal Democrats/Liberal Democrat politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewes (UK Parliament constituency)/Lewes in East Sussex since United Kingdom general election, 1997/1997.
On 7 October 2013, Baker was appointed Minister of State at the Home Office in the Coalition Government. In December of that year it was reported that Baker had encouraged the Director of Public Prosecutions to reopen or reconsider six cases involving female genital mutilation, as forbidden by the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985. There had been a law on the books since 1985, but there had been no prosecution until February 2014, when it was announced that the first was scheduled soon thereafter. It was estimated that 170,000 women had been subject to the assault until then. A doctor was the first person charged with an offence contrary to the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 in March 2014. Baker resigned from his role as Minister for the Home Office on 3 November 2014.
More Norman Baker on Wikipedia.This decision today places another stake at the heart of John Prescott's plan for a massive expansion of house building in the South East, which has taken almost no account of water supply needs.
I am disappointed that Lord Birt did not find a job elsewhere, because he will continue to give his third-rate and amateurish advice to the prime minister. Why could he not be appointed governor of the Falkland Islands?
The arrival of this spy center means that Big Brother is finally here. The balance between the state and individual privacy has swung too far in favor of the state.
Thirty years ago, on a lark, my dad took a seed from a grapefruit and planted it. I remember seeing it, a little twig sticking out of the ground. Amazingly, it grew. It's tall and huge now. It's turned into a monster.
It is all very well for the government to trumpet the merits of technology in reducing carbon emissions, but it simply isn't enough; we need robust, measurable targets, not just vague aspirations.
The suspicion must be that Tony Blair has already decided to advocate an increase in the use of nuclear power - this review will serve little purpose if the prime minister has already made up his mind.
Rather than increasing fuel costs to pay for nuclear the government should be investing in renewable energy.
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