There are times at the County Council's Cabinet when you'd think that Derwentside District Council had never got anything right. As an ex opposition councillor in Derwentside I myself found plenty of things to criticse, but I know that a lot was also achieved within the district, particularly in the field of Economic Regeneration at a time when our economy was in ruins. I was therefore quite pleased to see that one of the braver actions of Derwentside District Council is now being recognised and rolled out across the county. That's twin-bins. As you drive round County Durham you see ...
South Glos are currently carrying out a "Micro asphalt" resurfacing programme on some of the worst roads in our area. Households affected are being notified by leaflet drops before work starts in their streets. The roads involved are Elm Close, Chestnut Drive, and Hartley Close in Chipping Sodbury, and Tyndale Avenue, Brockworth and Edgeworth in Yate.
[IMG: Kate Heywood - Brunswick Park by-election] This morning I was canvassing in Brunswick Park for my former work colleague Kate Heywood, who is standing there in the by-election on Thursday. Alas, neither Cleopatra nor Jesus were in when I rang on their bells. It wasn't just those doors - although every other door knocker in our team of five found plenty of people in, it became a running joke how for me it was nearly always no answer. Just like London buses - the empty doors all come along at once! Labour-run Southwark Council is another of the Labour ...
I was completely unfamiliar with Poe's prose before launching into this collection of his complete stories. I must say that I wish I had bought a 'Best Of Poe' rather than a Complete Poe. The sad truth is that a lot of the stories are pretty rubbish. His philosophising about death and aesthetics is dull, his humourous pieces range from self-indulgent to racist (the Dutch being particular targets) and the early romantic horror pieces are suffused with the icky self-loathing that you might get from an author who married his thirteen-year-old cousin and was then habitually unfaithful to her. It's ...
Freedom fighters, democrats, the open minded optimists for the human spirit, initiative takers who break down the barriers to progress - whether bureaucratic and arcane or privilege or poverty - we are the liberals who believe that everyone is different but of equal value and we are all the richer for their involvement in the socioeconomic and cultural life of the nation. And, by the way, no bank should be too big to fail! You were very quiet on banks except that old cherry about watching their lending practises. ref to Cameron's speech at the Tory spring conference.
The latest news on human-made climate change is grim, very grim. 2010 tied with 2005 as the planet's warmest year on record. And the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached 390 parts per million, a figure almost 40% higher than it was before we started burning fossil fuels for industrialisation. Except that it's not news. Or, at least, we don't seem to hear so much about it anymore. Almost all the UK media virtually ignored the above reports. Since 2004, Max Boykoff of the University of Colorado and Maria Mansfield of Oxford University have tracked global trends in ...
The Clegg speech was suitably defiant. Much was expected following our poor by-election showing. He reminded us that it was thanks to us that the earnings link and all that flowed from that was re-established for pensioner. He reminded us that it was thank to Lib Dems that the scandal of child detention in Dungavel was ended and he reminded us that it was us that had pushed through fundamental constitutional reform from repatriating powers to Holyrood to the AV referendum. Pretty good stuff all in all.
Very unusually the next Dulwich Community Council 7pm on Tuesday 8 March will be held at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Huge generous gift of providing the venue for free. They'd normally rent it out for £6,000 for an evening. Hugely kind gesture. Thank you Dulwich Picture Gallery. The meeting will solely focus on Village ward – which covers Dulwich Village, bits of Herne Hill and east Dulwich. We're fortunate to have the following local groups give presentations and chance to ask them questions: - Dulwich Picture Gallery – 300th anniversary this year. - Dulwich Estate - Dulwich Festival 2011 - ...
Earlier this week I passed 1500 followers on Twitter. My 1500th follower was a band from Telford called Fake Obsession, so they have earned the right to feature in this Sunday's music video. Fake Obsession would, I am sure, also like you to watch the video of their latest song "Stranded" on the Red Bull Bedroom Jam site and then vote for it. That site tells us a little more about the band: Fake Obsession were winners of the Shropshire Star's Battle of the Bands in 2010, crowning them the best live act in the county. They went onto win ...
I note with interest the news story on the Woking Borough Council's website about their clampdown on smoking in the town centre. While in principle, even as a smoker, I agree with the scheme, the authoritarian approach of the council ... Continue reading →
Much has been written on both the inevitability of the Barnsley result, and of its role as a harbinger of doom for the Lib Dems. The result itself just isn't that interesting, nor is the lack of time and money the Lib Dems spent on it. However, within these constraints, I'm not at all impressed with the way the Lib Dem candidate has chosen to handle it. As Jonathan Calder points out, Dominic Carman (Lib Dem PPC for Barnsley Central) seems to have a very dim view of the people of Barnsley. Here's a selection of phrases from throughout his ...
I've been fortunate with my Doctor Who books so far this month; Matrix is a Seventh Doctor / Ace Past Doctors Adventure, set not long after Survival, which couldn't really have been done as a New Adventure because by the time the series had matured to the stage where a story like this could have fitted, Ace's continuity had moved on. It has a remarkable section featuring an alternate Ian Chester and Barbara Wright in whose world the UK has been annexed by the USA, and also manages to breathe fresh life into the Sixth Doctor's trial and the Cheetah ...
There is a good article by Rowan Moore in today's Observer, about Michael Gove's recent attacks on the use of 'award-winning architects' to design schools. As Moore argues: if environment were irrelevant to learning, then Eton College, the alma mater of many of the present government, would sell its agreeable slab of Berkshire real estate and move to low-cost units in a business park in Slough Gove's attitude reminds us that even as Cameron et al. try to change the Conservative party's image, many modern Tories just can't help their visceral dislike of the public sector. So local government ministers ...
The number one wish on the FlockTogether UserVoice pages is for a mobile version of this site. The problem with this is that there are a LOT of mobile devices out there with a wide range of capabilities. Fortunately, the good people at Handset Detection have come up with an incredibly simple API that means FlockTogether knows if you're looking at it with a mobile, and knows what the capability is (screensize etc.) if you're using a mobile. (There are cleverer ways of doing this with installations like Tera-WURFL and WURFL – but they kept crashing my server so I ...
I recently reported the sorry state of the zebra crossing on Stafford Road, close to Milton Road. The road surface is cracked and pitted and the white lines are barely visible in places. As this crossing is well used it is important that it remains in good repair. The crossing has now been earmarked for ...
Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 211th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere ... Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (27 February -5 March, 2011), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed. Don't forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging. As ever, let's start with the most popular post, and work our way down: 1. After ...
I know one should never say I told you so but I did predict that Luis Suarez would be a great buy for Liverpool. See previous postings. He was the creator of two goals in Liverpool's thumping 3-1 win against Manchester United. The record books will have Kuyt as the hero with a hat trick but he was gracious enough to heap all the praise on his Uruguayan team mate. Since I last posted about the tribulations of the Mighty Hibernian the boys in green have undergone a surge in form winning five in a row and drawing yesterday. Funny ...
It is not exactly a secret that Mark Halsey is in my opinion the best referee in the British game. I have thought this for the best part of the last decade. He lets the game flow and seems to realise that it is a man's game and allows games to get physical. He isn't ...
The Co-operative Party, which runs joint candidates with the Labour Party, reports: Following last year's ruling by the Electoral Commission that precluded joint candidates from using an emblem - which was made without warning and after the nominations deadline – we have spent a long year of negotiation with the EC and the Cabinet Office to secure the necessary change to legislation. A statutory instruments laid before Parliament last week updates election rules to tackle this. The Local Elections (Principal Areas) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Rules 2011 adds the following to the rules: If a candidate who is the subject ...
[IMG: 001] Today Kirsten Bayes and I paid one of our regular visits to Hexham Road with- to talk to residents and pick up issues needing our attention. It was great to be out in the sunshine with the Lib Dem team and see the bulbs about to bloom and the new trees (pictured!) that have been planted - something we successfully campaigned for two years ago. These improvements were funded by the Decent Neighbourhoods Fund - something unique to Reading which I campaigned for after the way I saw estate areas were allowed to decline when Labour ran the Council. Thanks to the Budget ...
Brought to you courtesy of Andrea Mosaic and a Bizarre Twitter Conversation with @gutliberal.
This weekend also saw a consultation meeting for the proposed redevelopment of New Covent Garden Market. Whilst the 57 acre site sits across the border in Wandsworth, the development is of big importance to local residents in Oval, be it for the 2,500 people employed in the market, or the impact of the development in services and transport in Vauxhall. The proposals were originally consulted upon in November 2009, and since then the Covent Garden Market Authority has been further developing the plans. In total, 2,500 new homes are expected to be provided as part of the development. Artist's impression ...
A major consultation exercise is underway about the plans for the new high speed rail network proposed by the Government. It will operate at two levels The Government, is consulting about the overal principle of building a high speed rail network. High Speed Two Ltd are consulting on the detail of the route itself. They are notifying local residents and businesses close the proposed route next week. The route does not pass through Acocks Green, coming into Birmingham, to the north of Hodge Hill, from a station near Birmingham International. More information on the Government's consultation is available at: http://highspeedrail.dft.gov.uk, ...
Andrew Rawnsley in today's Observer has an interesting perspective on where the Liberal Democrats currently are: In terms of the big picture, Mr Clegg is right to argue with his party that it would be a mistake to respond to adversity by changing the broad strategy. It would look opportunistic, unconvincing and panicky if they suddenly tried to put distance between themselves and government policies that they have signed up to. It would poison the coalition. If it precipitated a collapse of the government, the Lib Dems would be hurled into an early general election at which they would be ...
The Sunday Times is reporting that this week the Government is going to announce that they will bring in regulations to force tobacco companies to put cigarettes in plain, unbranded packaging. Apparently this will make smoking less appealing to young people. I am not sure about that but I will tell you what will make smoking less appealing - stop making it look like such a rebellious act against the state and society to smoke! Anyhoo, this is not my point. I tell you who will be jumping for joy today - tobacco smugglers and counter fitters. When this regulation ...
This weekend, Sainsbury's presented revised plans for their site on Wandsworth Road, following an initial consultation late last year, which we reported on at the time. The plans remain broadly unchanged, with a new 80,000 sq. ft. store replacing the existing 45,000 sq. ft. outlet, with residential accommodation built above the store, including the construction of three residential towers. Shops and cafes would also be provided at a ground level through the creation of additional retail space. Since the last consultation, more details regarding the development have been fleshed out, including the provision of the following more detailed artist's impressions ...
The Tate South Lambeth Library will be featured in an upcoming edition of the BBC's Inside Out London, which will be discussing the importance of London's libraries. The programme will air at 19:30 on Monday 7th March, and will be viewable via BBC iPlayer shortly after, via this link. In addition, the Friends of Tate South Lambeth Library have launched a new website, which can be viewed here.
As mentioned in our previous article, Lambeth Council's Planning Applications Committee decided last month to hold a site visit with TfL at the Vauxhall "Island Site," in the centre of the Vauxhall Gyratory, to assess the impact of the proposed development by Kylun Ltd, which would see the construction of a 41-storey and a 32-storey tower at the site. Artist's impression of the proposed development, copyright Squire and Partners. The site visit has now been scheduled for Saturday 12th March 2011, and will meet at 10:15 outside Phoenix House, 10 Wandsworth Road, London SW8 2LL (the Lambeth Council office at ...
Yesterday my wife and I went on a tour around HMS Campbeltown which was docked at the Pier Head over in Liverpool. She was built by Cammell Laird shipyards in 1987. A type 22 frigate, she was kitted out with antisubmarine and antiaircraft weapons systems. She also carries a helicopter. As part of the Strategic ...
Regular readers of my blog will see that on Friday, I wrote about the folly of putting "Lesbian" as your religion on the upcoming UK census. You can read that post HERE. As I mentioned in my original blog post, this was encouraged by Amy Lame, posting on her Twitter feed on 25 February: "writing ...
Yesterday, Dr Vince Cable introduced himself as the 24th most popular cabinet minister in a recent opinion poll of Conservative members - out of 24. "It is not something I lose any sleep over," he said. He went on: "It is a pleasure to be back in Wales today and it's great to be able to return to a Wales that is so self confident and positive. "The 'yes' vote in the referendum means that the Welsh government now has the tools to do the job that is has requested and a new era of Welsh devolution begins. "The announcement ...
Councillor Malcolm Brain is the only Brain in the Labour Group in Gateshead. Whether or not he lives up to his name is a point on which I leave readers to make their own judgement. However, I throw into the melting pot of consideration the latest brainwave from The Brain Himself.At the Council meeting on Thursday last week, Cllr Brain attacked us for going in to Coalition with the Conservatives.
Banks do provide benefit to the United Kingdom. Contributions through taxation is a good example and investment into the economy, by providing employment opportunities. I do not protest the economic advantage. But, alas, I do object to the corporate world ... Continue reading →
Spent a very encouraging Saturday morning canvassing in my ward with six other Lib Dem colleagues. Whilst the Coalition continues to be battered by the right and left winged press who, following Barnsley, have started writing the Party's obituary, the feeling on the doorsteps is much more upbeat! Members of the public were happy to engage and some key issues, affecting the local community, were discussed. Pot holes, the lack of cycle racks in the town centre and inadequate toilet facilities (recently addressed and resolved by the Lib Dem Town Council) were common themes. It was apparent that the people ...
The Scottish Sunday Express this morning reported the Scottish Lib Dems' unanimous backing of the amendment I had written on diamorphine maintenance treatment. Here's the speech I gave in support of the amendment, followed by the letter to the Express in reply to their coverage and the quotes from the other parties: It is first important to place this motion in its proper context. The UN Office of Drugs and Crime report Scotland as having the highest prevalence of opiate use in Western and Central Europe. Drug related death rates here have doubled since the late 90s and are ...
Caron's Musings reports from the Scottish Liberal Democrat Spring Conference in Perth: "As party members, we'd been encouraged by Conference Committee to go and chat to any protesters who turned up. In fact, I know that some party people had even given them the string to tie their placards to the railings because they didn't have any." The Lib Dems must fight the coming Leicester South by-election hard, argues Jonathan Fryer. "Nick Clegg's and David Law's realignment of the Liberal Democrats as a right of centre libertarian party appears to be giving confidence to Tory voters to trust them in ...
The Publican reports: Live Music Bill gets government backing Baroness Rawlings, a government spokesperson, told the House of Lords the coalition will help the private members' Bill become law, but with caveats. The Bill, tabled by Lib Dem Lord Clement-Jones, includes plans to offer a licensing exemption to pubs that host gigs attracting an audience of 200 or fewer. It tallies with The Publican's own Listen Up! campaign. But Baroness Rawlings said certain criteria had to be met for the Bill to get the coalition's full support... Lord Clement-Jones said he was "delighted" the Bill had received such a "positive ...
Residents in Clovis Duveau Drive have pointed out to me that the bus shelter on Perth Road opposite their street has no bus timetable on it. I contacted the City Council regarding this and am advised : "This shelter was converted to polycarbonate due to vandalism. When Trueform installed the polycarbonate they did not fit a pane with holes in order to install a timetable case within the shelter. I will speak to Trueform and ask for them to install a timetable case asap."
On BBC Breakfast this morning [6th March] there was a piece about an advertisement from the British Humanist Association in relation to the forthcoming Census.Then there was the story of the ice cream made from breast milk that has bee banned from sale.Some people might be offended. These, and other things might be in poor taste, but I'm offended by the extent to which we must apparently pander to every hypersensitive soul of any race,colour,creed or opinion who gets offended instead of getting a life.
Many residents have contacted me about their continuing concerns about the 50mph speed limit on Riverside Drive, and the lack of any pedestrian crossings on the road - an issue I have raised on numerous occasions in the past. Having previously requested for a speed/safety survey on the roadway, I recently asked the City Council's Head of Transportation for an update on the situation and on progress towards the provision of pedestrian crossings. He advised me as follows : "The speed limit review data has already been captured and will be considered alongside all other roads in Dundee towards the ...
I've sat here for almost a year and watched my party, the Liberal Democrats slip further and further down the poll ratings. I've seen and watched media slatings on a daily basis. I've seen Labour successfully attack us as lap ... Continue reading →
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Because I felt like tarnishing my soul and hurting my eyes, I had a look at the Guildford Labour Party's website recently. Here's what I found: Let's have a look at that in detail shall we?Labour in government has already done much to help older citizens. The next step is to link the annual state pension increases with the increase in earnings. But with huge Tory - LibDem cuts promised, will it have to wait for the next Labour government for the link to be restored? The next step is to link the annual state pension increases with the increase ...
Last night we went to a screening of this classic 1970 film at the BFI, followed by a Q&A session (which we hadn't been expecting) with the film's director Nicolas Roeg and two of its stars: Jenny Agutter and Lucien John, who play the innocent English girl and boy. It's a wonderful film about the encounter between two English (definitely not Aussie) children, she on the transition to adulthood, and an aborigine boy on walkabout. It is a clash of cultures, but one suffused with the innocence of its characters; there was bonding, but there could be no reconciliation outside ...
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The primary focus of the reporting of the Barnsley Central by-election result has been on the fact that the Lib Dems came sixth. This is bad news for the party and there is no point in Lib Dems claiming otherwise. There has been plenty of coverage of that elsewhere though. In terms of how the result may affect politics more broadly I think the fact that UKIP went from fifth last year to second with over 12% of the vote is even more significant. It is difficult to be sure of the motivations of those who voted UKIP and doubtless ...
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I have to confess to more than a slight annoyance at the lack of coverage of the Scottish Liberal Democrat conference in today's press. A couple of articles in Scotland on Sunday and the Herald barely scratch the surface of what was going on. They were happy enough to mention the relatively small number of protesters who were outside, but they completely missed this story behind them. We were expecting a fair few protests on various issues. So, it seems, were the Police, who had cordoned off a vast area around the Perth Concert Hall. As party members, we'd been ...
The NHS always gets people going. It's an emotive subject where everyone seems to be able to give good examples and bad examples of care but basically the majority of people have no desire to see it become an insurance based system. But whilst we're here, let's not kid ourselves that National Insurance is a hypothicated tax. It is an employment tax which goes into the general taxation fund. the NHS is funded by general taxation. As examples of treatment I have two cases: A 63 year old man was admitted to hospital having suffered a sudden stroke. A known ...
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I have so much to tell you from Scottish Liberal Democrat Conference that I hardly know where to start. Maybe this little anecdote will be an amuse bouche for what's to come. You might remember last October, when they let me loose on Lib Dem Voice, I had a chat with Alexandra White, who, at just 14, had wowed the Conference with a passionate speech on education. Well, she did it again yesterday morning in the debate on sentencing for drugs offences. Unfortunately, I didn't see her speech as I had to be somewhere else at the time, but I'm ...
This morning I see the Daily Mail has brought up our poll defeat in Barnsley. So far they have said members and the party are despondent, humiliated and today they say a business lunch at conference is failing. Most other news agencies and outlets have said similar. Personally I woke on the morning after the night before thinking 'That's no surprise' and said as much on Twitter. We are a small political party in monetary terms, we have to pick and choose our battles. Of the members I have spoken too - no-one was surprised. So, put your hands up ...
Delivery slips are the neglected corner of Liberal Democrat literature. They should be a crucial tool - being a key communication with helpers, making it easy for them to help and keeping them informed - but far too often they are a poorly laid-out mishmash of minimalist content and third-rate layout. So here are six tips to make your delivery slips more effective: more effective at keeping helpers happy, more effective at gathering in useful information and more effective at getting the right work done. Design the slips well: they are a communication between the party and our helpers. A ...
His Grace has written a superb article in the Guardian on the Christian foster parents story. It is a beautifully written piece which succinctly shoots the canard around this case. It's worth reading in full here. Here's a snippet of what he wrote: Ask a legal question and you will get a legal answer - ask a legally silly question and you will get a flea in your ear. This week a Pentecostal couple, Eunice and Owen Johns, were denied a judgment stating that their views on homosexuality were no bar to fostering children. This case could inspire tremendous hufflepuff ...
Whilst the world's attention is focussed on the horrific but also exhilarating revolutions occurring in the Arab countries of the Middle East and North Africa, other equally disturbing images have been coming from within our own midst. Hate Comes To Orange County I find this video almost too upsetting to watch. Muslims families being tormented and insulted by protesters waving American flags whilst elected US officials spread hate among the crowd. I can almost hear the echoes of the fascists in the 1930s and their anti-Jewish rhetoric. Awful stuff, and we are just not condemning this enough. EDL Thugs
Having just read the best of the Holmes novels, I turn now to what is definitely the worst. There is one really good twist, as Holmes works out what really happened in the shooting incident (though I must say I'd have expected a bit more evidence of it at the scene of the crime). But we take quite a long time getting there, and several other bits of the story have been done better before; Homes and Watson are off-stage for quite a lot of the book; and we never quite sort out the Moriarty connection either. It's clear that ...
A surprising defence of Stockwood's present councillor Jay Jethwa, was launched by way of an attack on me by Stockwood's perennial Green Party candidate, in the comments section of my last but one blog. Agreeing with an anonymous commenter, the once fierce critic of Cllr Jethwa "our Pete" rubbishes my blog saying that if I have nothing worth saying it's best to say nothing. He states that it's speculative inaccurate claims and urges me to turn over a new leaf, a Green leaf no doubt! If he or Jay can prove that anything I have written is untrue, I will ...
i) broadcast anniversaries 6 March 1965: broadcast of "Crater of Needles", fourth episode of the story we now call The Web Planet. Ian and Vrestin meet the Optera; Barbara tries to link with the invading Menoptera but they are massacred by the Zarbi. 6 March 1971: broadcast of sixth episode of The Mind of Evil. The Thunderbolt missile and the Keller machine are both destroyed, but the Master escapes. 6 March 1976: broadcast of sixth episode of The Seeds of Doom, ending Season 13. The Krynoid grows to enormous size but is destroyed by the RAF. ii) date specified in ...
I was shocked to be linked to what I can only describe as the only decent article ever to appear in the Daily Mail. It's by Dominic Carman, the Lib Dem candidate for Barnsley. All I can say is that he's my new hero. Also, the people of Barnsley (or the majority) are fucking stupid. Here's an extract from the article: Local sentiment is summarised by one man who tells me: 'No one is gay in Barnsley. If they are, they leave.' A white man approaches me in panic on the street. He tells me he is from Luton, and ...
TL;DR: if you're coming along to the trip to the Prime Meridian, meet outside Greenwich Picturehouse tomorrow (Sunday 6th) at 1pm. More details, you say? Okay, here is a vague plan, though feel free to suggest amendments if you wish: We'll go to the Royal Observatory, to take silly photos on the Prime Meridian and get excited by SCIENCE.We'll go geocaching the Gates of Greenwich - most of which are nano-sized, though there is 1 micro and 1 regular sized cache as well. This means there may be souvenirs and prizes to be found in the caches, so try to ...
Ideally I would like to see University tuition fees scrapped, but if we can't have that (and in the current economic climate and with the limits imposed by coalition government, we can't) then the important thing is to ensure that any system we do have is progressive - that it is based on ability to pay, so that bright students aren't prevented from fulfilling their potential because of money concerns. Liberal Democrats have achieved that, and quite spectacularly too. No-one has to pay up front, and students will only begin to pay when they are earning £21K or more. Monthly ...
Friday: So, Mr Rupert Stavro Murdoch gets to gobble up BSkyB thanks to the decision of one his biggest fans: the Hulture Secretary, Mr Jeremy Spoonerism*. Be fair! In return, Mr Jeremy got a promise from Mr Murdoch that he will not interfere with the Sky News... Just like EMPEROR PALPETINE promised he'd never interfere with what DARTH VADER was up to. But only an ABSOLUTE IDIOT would believe that Sky News will be REALLY fair and balanced and... and... ...and Daddy's done WHAT? Again? Oh bottom! So, that Barnsley by-election then... Run Sky VT... *And congratulations to the Tell-lies-o-graph ...
