As of today, Michael Fabricant now has 1,000 Facebook Friends and says "This is a landmark! Most are from Lichfield and the surrounding area though I suspect a few are London journalists and Labour Party apparatchiks monitoring the site. I still have a little way to go though to catch up with Obama – apparently […]
Michael Fabricant opened the new offices of the National Farmers’ Union in Burntwood at lunchtime today (Saturday 31st January). In his opening remarks, Michael said: "The NFU is over 100 years old and it seems as if the offices in Market Street in Lichfield have been there as long. In fact it has been over […]
Michael Fabricant met up with Member of the Youth Parliament, James Greenhalgh, 18, in the House of Commons yesterday (Wednesday 29th January) to celebrate James’ award. James, who lives in Alrewas and in Michael’s constituency, won the UK Youth Parliament Award for Campaigns. Meanwhile Joe Sullivan, 16, from Leek in Staffordshire won the prestigious Andrew […]
Opinion by Michael Fabricant MP. PM?s ARROGANCE IS MISPLACED Are we ?Reykjavik-on-Thames?? The British economy officially sank into recession on Friday. We all knew it was coming. The political narrative repeated by Gordon Brown and his ministers is that this is ?a global problem?, that Britain is best placed to recover from it due to […]
Michael Fabricant initiated a debate in the House of Commons on Tuesday 27th January with Geoff Hoon MP, the Secretary of State for Transport, over the reliability of the new West Coast Mainline Service during January and took the opportunity to invite the Secretary of State to the next dinner of the Lichfield Commuters Club […]
Commenting on the attack on Michael John Eccles in Lichfield on Sunday evening, Michael Fabricant says: "The murder of Michael John Eccles is a tragedy of the worst proportions. People are stunned. How could this have happened in our Lichfield? I never met Michael, but he was a Facebook friend of mine and we had […]
Opinion by Michael Fabricant MP. IN SEARCH OF A STRAIGHT ANSWER Last week I was rebuked by Mr Speaker for shouting at the Prime Minister in the House of Commons (as were a number of others). "One doesn’t normally shout at someone answering a question across a room in one’s home" someone in Lichfield pointed […]
Michael Fabricant visited the Buddhavihara Temple last Friday (21st November) and met the Abbot, the Venerable Dr Phramaha Laow Panyasiri, and monks from Thailand. Michael says: "Having visited churches throughout the Lichfield constituency and our historic cathedral many times, it made an interesting change to visit a Buddhist Temple here in Kings Bromley. Buddhism is […]
This afternoon (Thursday 13th November) the Government announced that the contract to run the Post Office Card Account (POCA) would be awarded to Post Office Ltd. This is a reversal of policy as the Government were planning to award this to another company, threatening another wave of Post Office closures. "All this speculation has been […]
Michael Fabricant (MP for Lichfield, a keen narrow-boater, and Patron of the Lichfield & Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust) suggested in Parliament today that heavy goods could be moved off the roads and put onto canals. Michael Fabricant says: "I suggested to the Minister for Energy and Climate Change, Joan Ruddock, that non urgent freight could […]