That this House notes that Maidstone Borough Council's Boroughline Bus Company has now gone into liquidation; regrets that the board of the company paid no attention to the advice of either the Conservative group on the Council, nor its professional consultants; commiserates with those employees who will lose their jobs; notes that the non-executive directors of the company included the leader of the majority Liberal group; and calls on the Board to make good the shortfall in the contributions to the company pension fund.

That this House notes that Maidstone Borough Council's Boroughline Bus Company has now gone into liquidation; regrets that the board of the company paid no attention to the advice of either the Conservative group on the Council, nor its professional consultants; commiserates with those employees who will lose their jobs;...

That this House notes that recent investigations into the affairs of Boroughline have revealed that during 1991 the company misused money from its pension funds, ??177,000 from the Kent County Council pension fund and ??21,000 from Scottish Equitable; notes that Boroughline has been owned and run until now by Liberal controlled Maidstone Borough Council and that three Liberal councillors, including Mrs Paula Yates, leader of the Council, have been members of Boroughline's board; expresses its concern about the effect on the pensioners had Boroughline collapsed; and calls for an investigation into the failure of the councillors to safeguard the interests of the pensioners concerned.

That this House notes that recent investigations into the affairs of Boroughline have revealed that during 1991 the company misused money from its pension funds, ??177,000 from the Kent County Council pension fund and ??21,000 from Scottish Equitable; notes that Boroughline has been owned and run until now by Liberal...

That this House, noting that Maidstone Borough Council's idea of a suitable way to entertain children as young as three or four years of age at a Guy Fawkes party for 5,000 people is to stage a video show sufficiently obscene to cause the police to intervene and impound the equipment, endorses the comments of the honourable Member for Maidstone that `the Council has offended public decency'; notes that the refunds now being offered to outraged subscribers will no doubt be added to a community charge already inflated by the folie de grandeur of the Council; and asks the voters of the United Kingdom to take due note of what happens when political control rests in the hands of a Liberal administration supported by the Labour Party.

That this House, noting that Maidstone Borough Council's idea of a suitable way to entertain children as young as three or four years of age at a Guy Fawkes party for 5,000 people is to stage a video show sufficiently obscene to cause the police to intervene and impound the...