07/04/10 - One last bash at the casino economy

After the final Prime Minister’s Questions of this parliament, Member of Parliament Alan Simpson said, “The last exchanges between Cameron and Brown got lost in another bout of “who’s deceiving who.” The sterile exchanges about £6billion of cuts......

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07/04/10 "Fuel poverty awareness day" - NEA Press Release
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Alan Simpson MP is the Chair of the Parliamentary Warm Homes Group and is supporting Fuel Poverty Awareness Day 2010 a national campaign which aims to....

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29/03/10 - Budget debate 2010
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Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): I came into the House 18 years ago frustrated by a Government who had sold the pass on manufacturing in favour of a dangerous flirtation....

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25/03/10 "Notice Nottingham March 2010"
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Including: Ridley Scott, Open & shut case for leisure, Olympic flame heading to Nottingham, Reshaping University education, £9m geohospital opened, Splendour Festival.

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25/03/10 "It's the green economy stupid"
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This will be my last newspaper column as a Member of Parliament. It is without nostalgia that I want to look at the mess we’re in and how we get out of it.

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28/03/10 - "House Magazine - Eco House"
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I no longer know whether my attempt to turn a derelict shell into a house that generates 50% more energy than it consumes is a folly, a vision, an obsession…or all three.

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28/03/10 - "Meadows of hope and inspiration"
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The Meadows area of Nottingham is a mixed tenure, multi-racial area of the inner city. To the enduring dismay of the community, it has been best known for its poverty or crime.

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11/03/10 - "Food for thought"
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I no longer know whether my attempt to turn a derelict shell into a house that generates 50% more energy than it consumes is a folly, a vision, an obsession…or all three.

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04/03/10 "Chasing off George's dragon"
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Thank goodness Jeremy Leggett stepped in to correct some of the inaccuracies in George Monbiot’s ‘comment’ piece in Tuesday’s Guardian. The errors, however, are even more extensive than Jeremy highlighted.

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26/02/10 - "Office without power"
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Perhaps it wasn’t the most conciliatory way of winding up the parliamentary debate on limiting carbon emissions from UK power stations.

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10/02/10 - "Food for thought"
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The current parliament staggers towards its own lamentable end. As it does, I have been trying to reflect on what the last eighteen years has meant to me.....

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04/02/10 "Fuel poverty awareness day" - NEA Press Release
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Alan Simpson MP is the Chair of the Parliamentary Warm Homes Group and is supporting Fuel Poverty Awareness Day 2010 a national campaign which aims to....

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