The Turkish-Kurdish activst and former MP, Leyla Zana, received a heroine's welcome at the Khalili Lecture Theatre at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) this evening, in recognition of her brave struggle for Kurdish cutural and political rights. In 1991, she was the first Kurdish woman to be elected to the Turkish parliament, but [...] 
Found a letter on my return from the new Indiana Jones movie (see below), which turns out to be from the new Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. He writes: Dear Meral (no really!) I was truly honoured when Londoners elected me in as their Mayor on 1 May. It is a great priviledge to lead this city and I look forward to realising my vision for London over the coming months and years. I have already started to appoint some of the people who will work in my administration, so that we can get cracking on our plans to improve ...
Totally irrelevant stuff again ... ITV2 tonight (why is anyone reduced to this?!) but its the American Idol final and a total blast from the past (well, my past ...) on comes Donna Summer. Say what you like - superb, classic. The Gladys Knight "Midnight Train To Georgia" bit was superb too!
Taking a break from politics, work and stuff, I went to see the latest Indiana Jones movie at the Islington Vue. Harrison Ford does NOT look too old as all the commentators and critics have gone on and on about, goodness he's the same age as Ming was when he stood down last year after all the endless comments and vicious cartoons about his age- there I go again, slipping back into politics.... So there is Indy, running impossible miles, striding through jungles, brushing aside ancient skeletons, and crashing though numerous rapids in the Amazon that a man half his ...
How can I resist a website like this? This website will help you discover Shropshire's secrets. It will allow you to explore the county's local history, natural environment and archaeological treasures.. The site includes over 10,000 images from all over the county, as well as almost 300,000 records about plants and dragonflies.The photograph here (taken by John Mason) shows the spoil heaps from the lead mines at Snailbeach before they were landscaped in the 1990s.
"NORTH East Lincolnshire's Care Trust Plus is leading the way across the country." Those were the words of praise from Norman Lamb MP, Liberal Democrat shadow health secretary, who visited Grimsby and Cleethorpes yesterday. Mr Lamb requested a visit to the region after hearing about the success of the Care Trust Plus (CTP) in integrating health and social care. He said: "What is happening in the area is very exciting, I will be taking the lessons I have learnt during my visit and be encouraging Government to learn from them." During his visit, Mr Lamb toured the facilities on offer ...
Conservative MP, Grant Shapps has just admitted on Newsnight, the Tory party is about opportunism (link will only work until the next edition). Click ahead to 28minutes and 15seconds. He said,That's exactly the sober point that David Cameron was making which is that, we won this and we won it big. But actually, what we need to do is get on to showing that we have the program for Britain in two years time, and that's a program of opportunism.As Thatcher would put it,Yes, it came out. The hon. Member did not intend it to, but it did.
Two journalists, talking on different TV news programs, Friday 23rd May. One says he can't find any signs of a plot to oust Gordon Brown. The other says that people are already plotting, with talk of gathering signatures and names of possible candidates. A mite unfortunate really for the BBC's reputation that I saw these two [...]
My House Points column from Today's Liberal Democrat News. Good edukation There was a telling moment at children, schools and families questions on Monday. Jim Cunningham, the Labour MP for Coventry South, asked what steps the Government has recently taken to raise standards in schools. The minister, Jim Knight, replied with a dizzying list of government initiatives: personalised learning, progression, Every Child a Reader, Every Child a Writer, Every Child Counts, tutors, curriculum changes, academies, new 14 to 19 diplomas, raising the participation age, workforce reforms, continued investment and much else besides. There was so much detail and it was ...
Nudge is a book that looks at how government can help people make better decisions without taking all control away from them. It is discussed on the art of the possible blog. The art of the possible is a very interesting project and worth a look. The site brings "together liberal and libertarian writers who agree on certain politically and morally enlightened essentials. Their discussions here serve to delineate the reasons why basic human rights must always be defended. Their disagreements, by contrast, will illustrate why forming new alliances is hard, and perhaps serve as a reminder as to why ...
A busy Friday, mainly on the "day job", but useful meetings on refuse collection and transport matters and also a useful meeting with the new Police Inspector for our area (and a very good appointment - she was a few years ago an extremely effective sergeant in the area). At the latest meeting of the Beacon Management Group - organised by Tayside Police - we got a very useful update on "Little and Lost". This city centre scheme helps young children find their parents quickly if they become separated while out shopping . ‘Little & Lost’ builds on the links ...
I have recently discovered StoryBoard. The site is run by Robin Reed and Eric Winick. I met Eric in Edinburgh when he was directing a play at the Festival a good few years ago. So, I must declare an interest. We are friends and I have always admired his directing work and the plays he has written. During those years, Eric has become more and more interested in storytelling. StoryBoard is the result. The site has a range of stories told by people about incidents in their lives. It is a glorious celebration of the mundane, profound, romantic and quirky. ...
The Economist carries an interesting piece celebrating the recent success of British teams in the Champions League. Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United have all reached at least one Champions League final in the past four years. If you add in Rangers making the UEFA Cup final this year then that is an impressive record. However, as the article rightly notes that is not due to the success of home grown talent - something attested to by the fact that none of the Home Nations will be present at the European Championships this summer. The article lambasts the comments of ...
In the politics of recent times, there has been only one miracle, that is the survival of the Liberal Party’. (Roger Fulford, The Liberal Case, 1959) This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Torrington by-election, when Mark Bonham Carter won the Devon seat, only to lose it again in the following year’s general election. So [...]
I've held off talking about the election results so far. So here goes... The Tories are back in business, no doubt about it. This is prompting a lot of Lib Dems to wave their arms around and wail things along the lines of "ZOMG OH NOES". Some of these people really dislike Tories and can't stomach the idea of a Conservative government. Others assume that a Conservative revival will inevitably mean we will get squeezed out of the picture. Both are wrong. Many Lib Dems have an atavistic hatred of Conservatives. In the circumstances this is probably quite helpful. A ...
OK, I'm over Crewe and Nantwich. Lets get on with Henley. The latest news from the website is that the Henley by-election will most likely be called for 26 June or 3 July, which makes it only 4 or 5 weeks away. As you will see from the illustration above we start from second place in this by-election, whereas we started from third place in Crewe. Go on, take a good look, it's an exact reversal of the Crewe second and third results, and this is our starting point not the finish! Gavin Whenman is pleased over on his blog. ...
Having read other comments ranging from it's all getting better to let's watch out my own view is Danger! First, the 14% is neither here nor there - loads of our supporters voted Tory to give Brown a good kicking. Our vote held up due to a lot of new people coming on board. For those who are in charge now of these campaigns i have to say a few things: 1. The campaign was old-fashioned. We need to get [...]
Norman Baker is Member of Parliament for Lewes, and has been since 1997. In that time, he has asked over 8000 parliamentary questions, he has held over 500 surgeries and dealt with tens of thousands of individual cases. In 1998 he won 'Best Newcomer' award, in 2001 he was awarded 'Inquisitor of the year' and in 2002 was name Channel 4's 'opposition MP of the year'. In 2008 he was a runner-up in the Channel 4 'Political book of the year' for The Strange Death of David Kelly . In the past year alone he has exposed East Sussex County ...
Its not just the Democrats who're having an interesting race for presidential nomination. The Libertarian Party is too. Various factions are up against each other (in what I'm sure is a fairly common scenario). A lot of this is probably due to the candidacy of Bob Barr, a former Republican Congressman from Georgia. I share the view [...]
Well I promised the occasional update from the Facebook House of Commons so here it is. The Liberal Democrats have been made the official opposition and Nikki Thomson, the leader of the Liberal Democrat group is now the official leader of the opposition. The Commons itself now has 383 members with 115 of them are Liberal Democrats. Suspiciously the Conservatives seem to be almost entirely absent or inactive. Currently the our position on Iraq is being considered for submission on Monday. Perhaps unsurprisingly this is not a particularly controversial issue. The question has been raised over striking a balance between ...
This post* is my reaction to the Crewe and Nantwich by-election and my current thoughts on the general political situation. What does the result of the Crewe and Nantwich by-election mean for the Liberal Democrats? Well according to leading Lib Dem bloggers the answer is "not a lot" (James Graham) or "not a whole lot" (Stephen Tall). So take your pick. Looking forward James is optimistic,
According to the BBC, the Prince of Wales has had a non-cancerous growth removed from his face. I wonder if it was a monstrous carbuncle? I've been waiting 20 years to type that. Share This
A Birmingham City Council spokesperson said: “A serious case review into the death of Khyra Ishaq has been officially started today (23 May 2008) after a meeting of the Birmingham Safeguarding Children Board (BSCB), an independent, cross-agency body. A serious case review will always be conducted when a child dies and abuse or neglect is known or suspected to be a factor. “The death of Khyra
At their first monthly meeting after the May 1st elections, Neath and Port Talbot Liberal Democrats welcomed Joanne Foster, the new Chief Executive of Welsh Liberal Democrats. There were congratulations for John Warman (Cimla) and Keith Davies (Coedffranc North), who retained their seats, and for new councillors Des Sparkes (Cimla) and Frank Little (Cadoxton). It was felt that the strengthened Liberal Democrat group (now third-largest on the council) would increase its effectiveness out of proportion to the increase in its numbers. The meeting resolved to campaign on behalf of the people of Baglan, who had been denied a democratic choice ...
For once I agree with David Cameron who summarised the result of the Crewe and Nantwich by-election as being the end of New Labour. We can only hope he is right. For me, New Labour was always the very last thing this country needed. We had one very successful Conservative Party and the last thing we needed was a second one. New Labour in many ways was all about the Emperor's new clothes. Seemingly shiny, new, different, but was actually very very conservative, very "safe", indeed very much about centralising. Ahh, I hear Torie's cry, that's not what we're about, ... 
As you might well expect the Labour Home site is not exactly in celebratory mood today. Let's pay a visit to the house of wounded feeling. Mike Ion is the lucky person who gets to answer the question 'Where do we go from here?' He feels that the "the real challenge to the continuation of the pursuit of a progressive political agenda" is not a "a resurgent Tory party" but "defeatists, pessimists and cynics that exist within the Labour party itself." He calls for Labour to 'renew itself' and it's message but doesn't offer any concrete way to do this ...
The Dalai Lama met Nick Clegg and Lib Dem MPs yesterday. My colleague Kate took thiese photos on my camera - I was doing video.
What has been bothering me this morning (as I tried to focus on statistics, and failed) is the following question: If the Tory victory in Crewe & Nantwich was about voting for the default "NotLabour" option, then we could have won it if we were in second, right? But that logic depends on it being Labour who are in first. So what do we do in Henley, where, by all appearances, voters are quite
Having been in despair about the Tories apparent march back to power, this article by James Graham - http://tinyurl.com/67llkd [I still can't do hyperlinks I'm afraid...] - gives me more confidence. He makes two excellent points. First, there is all to play for in Henley and the Tories are going to have to give it everything to hold on to the Blond Bombshell's seat. Second, and perhaps most significant, is the fact that the Tories remain a largely mindless, divided bunch with about as much to unite them as a room full of Frenchmen discussing cheese. If Dave manages to ...
Redcar and Cleveland Council is ready to encourage residents to recycle more household waste during Recycle Now Week from Monday, June 2. The Council's Community Waste Liaison Officer Barbara Webster will be at Asda, South Bank on Tuesday, June 3, from 10.30am-1pm promoting bags for life. She will be at Morrisons, Redcar on Thursday, June 5, from 10am-12.30pm and at Station Square, Saltburn on Friday, June 6, from 10am-2pm, promoting waste minimisation and the benefits of recycling Monti, the Council's recycling mascot, visits three primary schools, Skelton, Ormesby and John Batty, Redcar on Wednesday, June 4, encouraging children to reduce, ...
A lovely quote today from that most persistent thorn in Gordon Brown’s side: “I’m pretty interested in politics, but I couldn’t name you half the Cabinet”. Frank Field MP
Seeing a Tory win a by-election is somewhat akin to drinking from a cup of slurry. It leaves a very nasty taste in your mouth and promises worse to come, as the animal waste works its way through your system. A long night perched on the edge of the toilet bowl of destiny looms. Perhaps the old New Labour joke can be revisited: How many Tories does it take to change a lightbulb. Answer: the Tories won't change anything.
If you believe most of the people commenting in response to my CiF article this morning, and Bob Piper, you would think the Lib Dems were about to shuffle off this mortal coil. I seem to remember a remarkably similar bunch of people assure me of this at this point in the Parliamentary cycle every time over the last 13 years. No-one seems to believe me when I point out that the Lib Dems always got squeezed in contested Lab-Con by-elections in the run up to 1997. So, without further ado, I thought I'd list them here and include how ...
Liberal Democrats in Bath have expressed their delight at the news that the huge public out-cry has led B&NES Council to review the unpopular extension of car-park hours. Commenting, Don Foster MP said: "The decision to extend the hours of charging was completely crazy. It shows how out of touch our Conservative Council leaders are. The decision has hit hundreds of people,...
WARD MEETING Just Richard & I at this meeting as Colin had another appointment. We discussed a number of planning applications to which there was considerable local opposition. We also talked about bringing pressure to bear on an unapproved building erected on garden land in Hawthorn Road. Today was the day it was supposed to come [...] 
The result in the Crewe & Nantwich by-election was:
Last night's result, though disappointing, was quite predictable. With a resurgent Cameron, the Tories with their tails up, Labour rapidly falling into the hole of their own making, us in a poor third place, we were in for a classic squeeze. So why did the party insist on continuing to "big it up"? OK, don't be despondent but be measured. Last night will not be a disaster if it leads to some clear headed re thinking about the whole of our campaigning strategy. What worked in a different political climate (and all credit to Chris Rennard) may not work now. ...
Absolutely classic post from Alwyn ap Huw, well worth wider circulation. I was also amused by a line in a later post too in which Alwyn states: My great grandmother was an "industrial accident", a child born to a prostitute.
Tuesday: As the IFS (Institute for Funny Statistics) takes Chancellor Sooty to task for his one-year fix that will leave people worse off again next year… And Mr Balloon – once more choosing the ANCIENT BRITON approach to policies: going naked but for his blue war paint(!) – tackles the Prime Monster on the same subject… …it's GOOD to know that at least the LIBERAL DEMOCRATS have got some IDEAS for making the TAX a bit fairer and bit simpler and – dare we say it – a bit less! Mr Clogg has made a speech explaining HOW and WHY. ...
James Graham has written (obviously burning the 2am oil) on the Crewe and Nantwich result over at the Guardian's Comment is Free. What a star Mr Graham is! He's even gamely replied to some of the commenters. James particularly gets the blood jolting through the veins of this old Liberal with this passage, which echoes something Nick Clegg emphasised at the recent bloggers' interview: One other
I have stuff I have been meaning to do entries about for a couple of days now: prepare for link dumpage. Firstly: sexism is rife. All you good, intellectual, decent blokes who don't believe that women experience random, low-level sexism every day? We do. Just because you, personally, do not perpetrate it does not mean it doesn't happen, from crap in the media to crap in the classroom. Of course, the problem of what to do about it is something else entirely... Speaking of feministy concerns... {[info]} tyrell makes a good point about the idiots who bleat that criticising X-female-author ...
Mark Thatcher (no relation to the son of Lady Thatcher) has been a very energetic and affable Chair of Newbury branch Liberal Democrats for several years. He has also been a stalwart campaigner and deliverer for the LibDems in West Berkshire, contributing particularly energetically to our great victories in Thatcham Town Council by-elections over the last few months. Mark moved with his family
Parliament met in Strasbourg this week. At this time of the year fresh asparagus is on the menu of every restaurant and the weather is almost warm enough to eat outside, so most people were in a good mood. We held an unscheduled debate on the attacks in Italy against immigrants, mainly but not exclusively from the Roma (gypsy) community. A populist election campaign by right wing forces now in government seems to have created a climate of impunity in which the mob (in Naples) and the police (in Rome) could enter immigrant ghettoes with the aim of forcible eviction. ...
Balls: That's it man, game over man, game over! What the f**k are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do? Brown: Maybe we could build a fire, sing a couple of songs, huh? Why don't we try that? So the Tories won, and won convincingly in Crewe and Nantwich. Where does this leave the Liberal Democrats? We had our share of the vote in Crewe and Nantwich decline compared to the last general election in 2005, reasons for this have been made elsewhere, so I won’t repeat them. Only to say that finding an excuse is easy, but ...
Well done Vince! (Pic from Federal Conference LGA Reception)
Following the Tories* by-election win in Crewe yesterday, it seems the rumours I mentioned yesterday could be true and the Henley by-election will take place late next month (26th) or early July (3rd). At least, that's what the Times is reporting today. Of course, the reason for holding the by-election so soon is to capitalise on [...]
I've received the following invitation to a speaker meeting - Nick Clegg on Education & Social Mobility - coming up, er, somewhere in London. I think it's interesting for a couple of reasons. Firstly, because it's the IPPR. They were set up to be, basically, a new Labour think tank. They push some very new [...]
You want my honest view? Not a whole lot. But, first off, congratulations to the Tories, and their candidate Edward Timpson on a pretty stunning victory. An 18% swing from Labour is an impressive achievement by any measure. And it was good to see a relatively high turnout of 58%, only 2% down on the [...]
The Western Mail's Chief Reporter, Martin Shipton has published his verdict on the first year of Wales' Labour Plaid Cymru Coalition Government. It is a fair and interesting analysis: Much of the One Wales agreement, in fact, seems deliberately vague when it comes to specific, practical commitments. A typical phrase is “working towards”: “working towards reforming NHS Trusts”; “working towards eliminating the use of private sector hospitals [by the NHS] by 2011”, a commitment that some would see as mere ideological posturing, with the get-out that a failure to achieve the aspiration does not represent a broken promise. From the ...
Anybody who thought that the Welsh Labour Party has changed in the face of its recent drubbing at the polls need only look at this morning's Daily Post to learn that they are still the same old arrogant demagogues. Former Labour Minister, Alun Pugh now works for the Snowdonia Society in which capacity he is campaigning against plans to expand an airport. He has called for a a judicial review over Welsh Assembly-backed proposals to open up the airfield at Llanbedr, Gwynedd for commercial use, creating between 40 and 50 jobs. This is contrary to the views of the Dwyfor/Meirionnydd ...
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What do I have in common with Gemma Garrett, the Beauties for Britain candidate in the Crewe & Nantwich by-election? We have both got exactly 113 votes the only time we have stood for election. However, since I was standing in a Council election, I didn't lose my deposit.
For the second time this month, I've stayed awake until the bitter end of the election night results, watching Labour lose to the Tories. Many hope (and plenty fear) that this is the beginning of a pattern of loss for Labour that will culminate in a thundering landslide at the next General Election. While not buried beneath the rubble last night, the Lib Dem vote in Crewe and Nantwich escaped with a grazing, down to 14%. Once again, this election was seen as a chance to send the Government a message. Votes cascaded straight from Labour to Conservative, just as ...
Welsh Education Minister, Jane Hutt is making a bit of a meal out of her role, particularly on the Foundation Phase. She started off by arguing that she had allocated enough money for the scheme only to be forced to back down and put in another £5 million. When schools, teachers, local Councils and opposition politicians pointed out that this was still not enough she tried to hold the line. Then she attempted to pass the blame onto local authorities who, she said had failed to provide the necessary statistics. Now she is being forced to scale back the scheme ...
All the focus in this morning's reportage of the Crewe & Nantwich by-election has, naturally, been on what it signifies for the next general election. My interest is somewhat nerdier but potentially, I think, more significant for the future of politics than the question of whether Tweedledum or Tweedledumber will be running the country after [...]
Well done to the Crewe and Nantwich team for avoiding the "London Nutcracker" - the sort of two party squeeze we saw in London on May 1st. - and achieving a 7.1% swing from Labour which points towards wins for the LibDems off Labour in a general election. I am very grateful to Darrell on Moments of Clarity for passing on this hilarity from Eric "Branston" Pickles: in order to get Liberal
BBC Radio 4 comedy at its most cutting: The video is an animated version of a sketch featured on The Odd Half Hour, part of the station's Happy Mondays strand.
Male candidates using heavily-sexualised pictures of women to boost their campaign? So. Not. Cool.
We now have the prospect of the battle of the supermarkets breaking out on the Lower Bristol Road. Lidl's have now set out their plans to redevelop the former Herman Miller site that they bought nearly a year a go and has been left abandoned ever since. Lidl have announced that they want a store of about 14,000 square feet of shopping space for their own store and are also looking to...
Well, the by-election is over and the predictable result is in. People were cross with Gordon Brown's Labour party and decided to give them a bloody nose. How to do that? Change and vote for the party which came second last time. As a result they now have a Tory MP. Will life change for the people of that constituency? Not a lot! To parody an old saying, one MP does not a government make.
Occasionally, only occasionally, Lib Dem Blogs can be a highly predictable place. As in the last 24 hours, one blogger has posted a piece about the Cheeky Girls yet again, and another has hailed the Crewe and Nantwich Lib Dem campaign as 'a waste of money'. I don't think anyone with an ounce of political sense would have piled their money into Crewe and Nantwich if they were thinking of donating to the Lib Dem campaign, when Henley is a much safer bet. To say we can't afford an election campaign where we actually gain 14% of the votes is ...
Just woke up to the rather depressing, although not totally unexpected, news that the Conservatives have taken Crewe and Nantwich from Labour with the Lib Dem’s coming home a distant 3rd. Am I disappointed? Yes, of course I'm bloody disappointed! Not just at the result, I always expected that, I'm disappointed by the news that, despite having invested considerable amounts of money, time and resources on this campaign, we somehow managed to come away having polled some 2043 'fewer' votes than we did back in 2005. So, why did we do so badly? Did we have the wrong candidate? Should ...
By Election Results For Crewe & NantwichAt the By Election in Crewe & Nantwich on 22nd May 2008, 41856 votes were cast (approximately 58% of the total number of eligible voters) with the following result:49.1%Edward Timpson (Conservative): 20539 votes (+16.5%).30.3% Tamsin Dunwoody (Labour): 12679 votes (-18.5%). 14.4%Elizabeth Shenton (Liberal Democrat): 6040 votes (-4.2%).2.2%Mike Nattrass (UK
It might be considered sentimental, it might be slightly daft, but my deep affection for local independent shops is at the core of my political beliefs. This fishmongers in Kilburn, on the High Road, encapsulates it for me - local, genuine, fresh, popular. The whole notion of what makes up a strong thriving community is demonstrated by this fishmonger - for me it is as important as the butchers was in Hampstead (before it closed!). So it's really very simple - use it or lose it. I use it - please do go along - they're friendly, helpful, informative, great ...
Conservative 20,539 (49.5%, +16.9%) Labour 12,679 (30.6%, -18.2%) Liberal Democrat 6,040 (14.6%, -4.0%) UKIP 922 (2.2%) Green 359 (0.9%) English Democrats 275 (0.7%) Monster Raving Loony Party 236 (0.6%) Mark Walklake 217 (0.5%) Cut Tax on Petrol and Diesel 118 (0.3%) Gemma Garrett 113 (0.3%) Conservative majority 7,860 (18.9%) 17.6% swing Labour to Conservative 7.1% swing Labour to Liberal Democrats UPDATE: You can watch Elizabeth's thank you message in the video [...]
So, the votes are counted and result is in and I have had a healthy couple of glasses of wine to keep the eyelids from drooping. Incidentally, quote of the night has to go to Eric Pickles who said on the BBC results programme that "in order to get Liberal Democrat policies people were realising they had to vote Conservative." So, it is not Tony Blair's clothes that David Cameron is stealing but Nick Cleggs. Seriously, the first statistic of note is the high turn-out - 58%. Previously discontented Labour voters have sat on their hands and stayed at home; ...
The Voice's Lib Dem sources are saying it is likely to be Conservative 45-50% range, Labour 25-30% and Liberal Democrats 15-20% range, which is in line with what's been said elsewhere. Big Conservative win, massive drop in the Labour vote, Liberal Democrat vote little changed from the general election. First verdicts: good news for the Conservatives, [...]
Monday: (In fairness, they're more like TaliPAPISTS in this country.) Yes, obviously, it's the return of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill and the attempt by an alliance of Social Conservatories and Roman Theocrats to HIJACK the issue as an excuse to start a CULTURE WAR against science. The media are, typically, giggling about the fact that several of Mr Frown's own Cabinet DEFIED his personal plea and voted PRO-LIES. But surely the far more worrying development is the Conservatories AS A BLOC throwing their weight behind a discrimination, superstition, anti-choice agenda straight out of the book of Victorian values. ... | < | May 2008 | > | ||||
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