Last week, Wendy Chamberlain secured a parliamentary debate following the fiasco over the standards process votes. Here she is proposing it: This is Boris Johnson's Super League moment. This corrupt government thought they could get away with rigging the system without anyone realising. Now they have been forced into a humiliating U-turn after a huge public backlash. pic.twitter.com/eIpC6d2aJY — Wendy Chamberlain MP (@wendychambLD) November 4, 2021 Ahead of tomorrow's debate, the party has given an indication of what we hope to achieve. We have called for an independent public inquiry into government sleaze and allegations of political corruption, warning that ...
Look who spent their Sunday in North Shropshire... Given positive reception @LibDems have been receiving from voters in #NorthShropshire it's no surprise @EdwardJDavey becomes first Party Leader to visit for the by-election. In Whitchurch he joined local campaigner @helenhalcrow & other activists.@mrrobwilson @alex__wagner__ pic.twitter.com/aQUIpBZ5DU — Matthew Green (@MatthewGreen02) November 7, 2021 Ed made around 16 visits to Chesham and Amersham earlier this Summer. He is the first party leader to show up in the by-election caused by the resignation of Owen Paterson over allegations of paid advocacy. The Lib Dem campaign seems to have got off to a very good ...
Last week was acutely embarrassing for the British Conservative government, led by Boris Johnson. After an excoriating report by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner, the House of Commons was due to censure former Tory cabinet minister Owen Paterson for repeated paid lobbying. Mr Paterson was popular on Conservative benches, and was vociferously maintaining his innocence – ... Continue reading The curious case of Owen Paterson
Well, I had said that I thought I might stop this series of ten-day updates once we hit the 600-day mark (counting from the first day of full lockdown last year). But we are really not out of the woods yet, so I think I'll continue for a bit longer. The worrying increase in the COVID numbers in Belgium has slowed, but not stopped. (There was a welcome day-on-day decline in the reported weekly average number of new infections between Thursday and Friday last week, but I tend to feel that was because of disruptions to the reporting cycle caused ...
Sun 7th
14:37
The Ryans of Inch and Their World: A Catholic Gentry Family from Dispossession to Integration
Second paragraph of third chapter:One concern faced by the Ryans was penal legislation, which dictated the Inch estate be equally divided between John Ryan's four sons unless the eldest converted to the Established Church and became the sole heir.6 But Egan was not just concerned with legal interference. 'I hope', he added in his letter to Frances Ryan, 'the proper care is taken of all ye papers & other Effects to prevent Embeazlem[en]t'.7 Egan was clearly aware that problems could just as easily arise among less scrupulous associates and family members. As will emerge, John Ryan's family faced many challenges ...
Word of warning. This post is going to be rather downbeat. November does that to me. It didn't always. Then midlife hit and the rolling of time got to me. November is a particular trigger because it is so close to the end of another year. The sense of getting older is exaggerated by the ... The post My midlife dislike of November appeared first on A Midlifer in London .
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It has been a week of announcements. A week of ambitions. And a week of ambiguities. And according to activist Greta Thunberg, COP26 is nothing other than "blah, blah, blah" and has failed. Is that really the case? It's rather imperialistic to argue that the countries that are trying to build their per capita wealth and standards of living should now pay for the sins of the most developed countries. The developed countries are responsible for most of the increases in atmospheric carbon. They are richer and have the ability to pay. But the reliance of countries like India and ...
It has been a week of announcements. A week of ambitions. And a week of ambiguities. And according to activist Greta Thunberg, COP26 is nothing other than "blah, blah, blah" and has failed. Is that really the case? It's rather imperialistic to argue that the countries that are trying to build their per capita wealth and standards of living should now pay for the sins of the most developed countries. The developed countries are responsible for most of the increases in atmospheric carbon. They are richer and have the ability to pay. But the reliance of countries like India and ...
There was an outstanding opinion piece in yesterday's Guardian by Jonathan Freedland in which he argues that Boris Johnson's contempt for the rule of law, and belief that he and his friends are beyond its reach, poses an extraordinary threat to our democracy. If If you're on Team Johnson, he says, the normal rules don't apply. He says Johnson does not regard even those laws he himself put on the statute book as binding. An impeccable source reports that, at the G7 meeting in Cornwall, the prime minister told French president Emmanuel Macron that he had only "sort of" signed ...
People were talking about this song on Twitter a couple of weeks ago#, because it has turned uo on a vintage edition of Top of the Pops. I remember watching that edition and was shocked to learn that I had done so 30 years ago. In those days I was still a serious chess player. Many of the county league matches took place in schools, and on the rare occasions I was in control of the game I would prowl while my opponent pondered and study the children's work on the classroom wall. My impression was that they had global ...
Sun 7th
09:00
John Major's comments are a "damning indictment" of Johnson's corrupt Conservative government
Responding to Sir John Major's comments on the Today Programme this morning that Boris Johnson's government is "un-conservative" and "potentially politically corrupt", Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper MP said: "For a former Conservative Prime Minister to describe this government as being politically corrupt is frankly astonishing and a damning indictment of the Tories under Boris Johnson."John Major is simply saying what millions of lifelong Tory voters are thinking: Boris Johnson's Conservatives no longer represent them. "This week's scandal is just the latest in a long string of attempts to undermine our democratic traditions and shared values of decency, honesty ...
COP26 finished its first week with a super abundance of world leaders making a plethora of pledges about climate change. Deforestation is to end (except maybe in Indonesia). More money is to be made available for green technology in developing countries. Eighteen countries (most of them small) have agreed to move away from coal generated energy. Now the leaders have flown home in their gas guzzling carbon emitting private jets and left it to officials to hammer out the devilish details and attempt to wring out concessions from the biggest polluters, mainly China and India who together are responsible for ...
Thousands of Liberal Democrat leaflets have already hit doorsteps in North Shropshire. Here's the first one...
The Sunday Times (£) reports today that veteran journalist and anti-sleaze campaigner Martin Bell has been approached by the Lib Dems to be our candidate in the North Shropshire by-election. The article by Caroline Wheeler and Gabriel Pogrund says: One thing that may fill older MPs with dread is the symbolic spectre of Martin Bell, who ran against Neil Hamilton on an anti-sleaze ticket in 1997. On Friday, the 83-year-old was called by the Liberal Democrats, who offered him the chance to be their candidate. This report prompted me to look out my copy of Purple Homicide, the account of ...
From the British Heart Foundation : The British Heart Foundation, in partnership with the Resuscitation Council UK and the Scottish Ambulance Service, has launched a campaign to encourage individuals who look after publicly accessible defibrillators across Scotland to register the defibrillator on The Circuit. Early defibrillation can more than double a person's chances of surviving an out of hospital cardiac arrest - but many defibrillators never get used because emergency services don't know where they are or how to access them. With around 3,200 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests every year in Scotland, it's crucial everyone who maintains a defibrillator registers their ...
