beloved market – let’s keep using cash

pub/hotel, best sports/dance, best school/youth organisation, best club (adult), as well as best overall, best costumes and most original entry. There are many classes that can be entered – you do not have to enter a big float (but if you do, talk to Ben at Cains farm, as they are willing to lend out their curtain siders..) there are classes for walking entries, non-motorised entries, mini floats / mobility scooters, or supporters who want to join in, but not be judged! Hopefully everyone catered for! For more information, and entry forms, visit bridportcarnival.co.uk joycedunford@yahoo.co.uk, Gill

Crump, Bridport

I don’t tend to write on party politics. There is too much to share with you about my work in West Dorset and improving day to day life for local people. But it does not escape my attention that the other political columns often repeat established party-political central office attack lines, whilst my column focusses on what is being done to deliver on the things that matter for West Dorset.

The Liberal Democrat columnist chose to attack my record as a Conservative on supporting farmers when it was his own party in West Dorset who said I had ‘lost the plot’ after I defended small farmers against predatory supermarket supply chains. It was also his party, the Liberal Democrats who alienated farmers across Oxfordshire when they banned meat and dairy products from being served at their council offices – just as Labour have done in Exeter and in Oxford in the last week! The facts also speak for themselves when it comes to sewage. Edward was in Lyme Regis and Uplyme with the Liberal Democrat MP for Tiverton and Honiton criticising the Conservative Government’s record on sewage. Then a week later, the same Liberal Democrat MP failed to vote for further measures under the Government’s motion to place binding targets to cut down on sewage pollution. It has exposed the sheer political gameplaying that the Lib-Dems, Labour and Greens have all deployed

The Lib-Dems also voted time and time again against laws I have backed that are finally exposing and dealing with water pollution. And after my own campaign in Westminster, water company dividends are now going to be tied to their environmental performance to stop shareholders being rewarded when their company is failing the planet and the fines for these companies are now unlimited. Actions speak louder than words and definitely more accurately than yellow leaflets. Chris Loder

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