Lib Dems wage war on motorists: Minister says cars should be banished from town centres and shoppers encouraged to use public transport

Transport Minister Norman Baker said drivers should be hit with big increases in parking chargesTransport Minister Norman Baker said drivers should be hit with big increases in parking chargesCars should be banished from town centres, a Liberal Democrat minister has claimed.Transport Minister Norman Baker said drivers should be hit with big increases in parking charges so they are ‘disincentivised’ from parking near high street shops.He renewed the Lib Dems’ war on motorists at a fringe meeting at his party’s conference in Glasgow.Mr Baker admitted that higher parking charges could ‘damage town centres’ but he then claimed that pushing people onto public transport and bicycles would help revive the high street.He told the meeting hosted by the CentreForum think tank: ‘I was in Southern...

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Shameless treachery: Mr Cable is the most disloyal and dishonest politician of our times

Yesterday, Vince Cable delivered a speech at the Liberal Party Conference which for sheer bile was without precedent in modern times. No Cabinet minister has ever attacked the Government of which he is part in such vitriolic terms.The wonder is that the dyspeptic Business Secretary should wish to remain a member of a Government dominated by a Tory party that he asserted has ‘reverted to type as the nasty party’, and which, according to him, practises ‘ugly’ policies based on the calculation that ‘fear trumps hope’. Mr Cable has regularly used Lib Dem conferences to lash the ‘hated’ Tories. But this speech went much further than the usual crowd-pleasing rant. It was a despicable assault on colleagues and on the Coalition’s record, delivered in tones of insufferable moral superiority....

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Expossed: Gunman, 34, who murdered TWELVE in Washington Navy Yard rampage claimed he had 'anger issues' after rescuing victims of 9/11 and was kicked out of Navy after 2011 gun charge

Gunman: According to NBC Washington, this man Aaron Alexis, 34, from Fort Worth, Texas is the Navy Yard shooter. A background check has revealed that this is the police mugshot for Alexis who was arrested but not charged for firing a gun in his apartment in 2010The Washington Navy Yard gunman who killed 12 today has previously claimed to be suffering from PTSD after helping rescue efforts in New York following the 9/11 terror attacks. Gunman Aaron Alexis was shot dead by responding officers after he opened fire inside a Navy facility around 8:00 a.m. on Monday morning. Since he was identified as the shooter, reports have revealed that it was not the first time he was involved in a shooting. In 2004, he was arrested in Seattle for shooting the tires of a construction worker's car...

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