Kerry McCarthy (Lab)

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Kerry, who is MP for Bristol East, told Blogminster: "Constituents increasingly expect to find their MPs online and those that are reluctant to engage with voters in this way are disadvantaging themselves by not reaching a wider public."

Articles written by Kerry McCarthy (Lab)

Kerry backs cycling

Kerry backs cycling

By Kerry McCarthy (Lab) • on March 10, 2010

Kerry has pledged her support for the ‘Vote Bike Manifesto’ that aims to double cycle use in the UK within ten years. CTC -the UK’s national...

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Kerry supports the Every Disabled Child Matters’ Campaign

Kerry supports the Every Disabled Child Matters’ Campaign

By Kerry McCarthy (Lab) • on March 10, 2010

Kerry has pledged her support for local disabled children and their families in Bristol East by signing up to the Every Disabled Child Matters’...

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Kerry pledges to Get Serious about Diabetes

Kerry pledges to Get Serious about Diabetes

By Kerry McCarthy (Lab) • on March 10, 2010

Kerry is supporting Diabetes UK's campaign to Get Serious about Diabetes. They are raising awareness of the risks of diabetes and how it can...

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Slates, Slags etc

Slates, Slags etc

By Kerry McCarthy (Lab) • on March 4, 2010

I think I've expressed concern on here before about just what kind of Tory parliamentary party we're likely to end up with if they do reasonably...

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William, it was Really Nothing

William, it was Really Nothing

By Kerry McCarthy (Lab) • on March 4, 2010

Sometimes song titles just hand themselves to you on a plate....Obviously more than a little degree of schadenfreude at Westminster today, and...

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Many Rivers to Cross

Many Rivers to Cross

By Kerry McCarthy (Lab) • on March 3, 2010

It's quite entertaining at the moment to observe how so many organisations who seem to have taken a Conservative victory at the election for...

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Talk about the Passion

Talk about the Passion

By Kerry McCarthy (Lab) • on March 3, 2010

Here is the tribute Gordon paid to Michael Foot today. Very typical of Gordon to mention Michael's passion for Plymouth Argyle; he could be talking...

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Time for Heroes

Very sad news today about Michael Foot, although he certainly had a good innings, and a phenomenal life. I'll post Gordon's tribute to him on here as a separate...

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Blue Arrangements

Can't say I'm as shocked as Toby Helm is about the Ashcroft admission - surely today's announcement only confirms what everyone suspected all along? - but he does...

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Milk and Alcohol

Interesting little item at the end of business today. Under 'Presentation of Public Petitions' the Tory MP Christopher Chope will be presenting a petition on 'Bellamy's...

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April Skies

I'm on the last train to London. Too tired to blog about anything which requires any engagement of brain cells... There are several reasons why.Firstly, I'm having...

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Kerry calls for an end to the Stigma surrounding Single Parents

Kerry is backing the Gingerbread campaign to stop stigmatising single parent families...

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Pat-Trip Dispenser

I'm not sure whether this is one of those issues that flares up for a short period of time, gets everyone talking, and then burns itself out, or whether the Science...

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Kerry’s Guide to PMQs

Here's today's running order. Expect Cameron to get in a 'forces of hell' gag which will be met with not-at-all faked hilarity from the Tory backbenchers and over-exuberant...

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