Responding to Conservative MP Simon Hoare telling Sky News the No.10 Garden Party was held to thank Dominic Raab, Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper MP said: "Raab must come clean now. If he attended the party then he must resign. "The public won't stomach any more lies and cover ups from this Government. "We now have a Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister embroiled in a political scandal just when the country should be focussing on the continuing pandemic. This Conservative party is clearly not fit to govern our country."
Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has written to Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Cressida Dick, calling on her to launch a full police investigation into the Downing Street Garden Party on 20 May 2020 including interviewing Boris Johnson under caution. It comes after Boris Johnson admitted at Prime Minister's Questions today that he did attend the party but claims he thought it was a "work event". The letter calls on Commissioner Dick to launch a full investigation into the illegal gathering, ensure the Prime Minister is interviewed under caution about his role and confirm that if he and others are ...
The Liberal Democrats have called on the Metropolitan Police to investigate the Downing Street Garden Party held in May 2020, after figures revealed the force has fined thousands of people in London for breaches of lockdown rules during the pandemic. Analysis of the latest official figures by the party show that the Metropolitan Police have given out 17,745 Fixed Penalty Notice fines for breaches of various Covid laws between 27th March 2020 and 17th October 2021. These include 113 fines for holding a gathering of over 30 people, more than any other police force in the country. In total, police ...
In an article in the Guardian on Monday our Batley and Spen MP, Kim Leadbeater (Labour), referred to her murdered sister's well publicised theme; "We have far more in common than that which divides us." I'm pleased that the "in common" tendency in the Labour Party is alive and well, but regret that it doesn't as yet seem to permeate the majority of the party, still less the party managers. At our Batley and Spen Liberal Democrat AGM last week our guest speaker was a friend of long standing, Baroness (Angie) Harris of Richmond, She described in detail the efforts ...
This is the latest post in a series I started in late 2019, anticipating the twentieth anniversary of my bookblogging which will fall in 2023. Every six-ish days, I've been revisiting a month from my recent past, noting work and family developments as well as the books I read in that month. I've found it a pleasantly cathartic process, especially in recent circumstances. If you want to look back at previous entries, they are all tagged under bookblog nostalgia. This was the month that my current employers offered me a job, and I accepted. There were a number of factors, ...
Second frame of third page of first volume: Second frame of third page of second volume: Famous French comic of the 1960s, on which the cult film of 1968 was based. Barbarella is a leader of men and women who biffs as much as she bonks. Her clothes do have a tendency to come off, voluntarily as often as not. Kelly Sue DeConnick has now given us an updated translation, which reads a lot more smoothly and wittily than the long-standing text by Richard Seaver. Seaver translation: DeConnick translation: It's not deep, but it is fun. You can get vol ...
The most excellent Lib Dem Pod team have just done a show on what 2022 holds for the Liberal Democrats with myself, Lib Dem chief executive Mike Dixon and party leader Ed Davey.
Tue, 17:11: RT @RobDotHutton: Just jotting this down: Theresa May: 1,106 days Gordon Brown: 1,049 days Boris Johnson: 902 days so far. Tue, 17:22: OK, it's trickier in Dutch because there are more likely to be repeated letters. (Also, in Dutch.) Woordle 206 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Tue, 18:21: Jani and the Greater Game, by Eric Brown https://t.co/SDGNWRLOMk Tue, 19:21: A bit late, I am finally reading "The Doctor: His Lives and Times" (2013) by @gossjam and Steve Tribe. Glorious. https://t.co/9dZnuyLMDa Wed, 08:33: Huh. That's not how *I* spell it. Wordle 207 5/6 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wed 12th
10:55
The damage caused by this Government now includes psychological harm - we need them gone
This morning I was looking on Twitter at the heartbreaking messages from people who had not been able to see their loved ones before they died in May 2020 due to the Covid rules in force at the time, or to attend family funerals or visit relatives in care homes. These are deeply hurtful and scarring experiences. I also thought to myself, how do most people feel about being told in the Spring of 2020 that they could, legally, only meet up with one person outdoors, now they know that there were parties with 30 or more people held in ...
A new location for two electric vehicle (EV) charging points each serving two vehicles on Mill Street will be discussed by Ludlow Town Council tonight (Wednesday). The charging provision is designed for residents but will also be used by visitors, especially those that come for overnight stays. The proposed new location for the EV charging bays will be outside the Blue Boar. To make space, the motorcycle parking will move downhill a short distance. Two of the charging bays will be for disabled drivers, and two for allcomers for whom the usual parking charges will apply. The EV installation will ...
In the agenda for next week's planning committee there is a recommendation from our chief planning officer that a planning application for the development of a bland and banal residential block on the river front at Waterloo Dock should be ... Continue reading →
Ed Davey has said that Boris Johnson must resign over the Downing Street parties. He said: "Boris Johnson has broken the law and lied to Parliament and the country, and he must now go. "Millions of people obeyed the lockdown rules, often at huge personal cost. They missed funerals, cancelled weddings and said goodbye to dying loved ones on video calls – some on the very day that Number Ten illegally hosted a garden party. "Boris Johnson has become a threat to health of our nation, and for the sake of the country still gripped by this awful pandemic he ...
As if the blatant flouting of lockdown rules while people are dying, without access to their relatives, isn't bad enough, the Independent reports that Downing Street staff were advised to "clean up" their phones by removing information that could suggest lockdown parties were held at No 10. The paper refers to two sources, who claim a senior member of staff told them it would be a "good idea" to remove any messages implying that they had attended or were even aware of anything that could "look like a party": The "clean-up" suggestion was made early last month after the first ...
I've not had a huge amount of sleep. I went to bed too late and woke up too early. Why? I'm livid. And, like many millions of people, emotions that I've been struggling with but keeping below the surface, are breaking through. We've been going through hell, and the more we hear about the culture in Government that made them think that it was fine to sit outside in the sunshine and party when millions couldn't comfort their dying or bereaved relatives, or had to endure intolerable suffering alone, the more we relive our experiences. If you watched the BBC ...
A Liberal Democrat press release says: This morning Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has called on the Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign He said: Boris Johnson has broken the law and lied to Parliament and the country, and he must now go. Millions of people obeyed the lockdown rules, often at huge personal cost. They missed funerals, cancelled weddings and said goodbye to dying loved ones on video calls – some on the very day that Number Ten illegally hosted a garden party. Boris Johnson has become a threat to health of our nation, and for the sake of ...
As reported in the Courier and Evening Telegraph earlier this week, I have been highlighting that the housing in Logie is now over 100 years old, many tenants and owners highlight how difficult to heat the houses are and there needs to be urgent action by the City Council to improve insulation in the houses in Logie. I have over the years spoken with many residents about this issue - and at other locations in the West End. In many parts of the city, council housing and ex-council houses have now benefitted from external insulation. However, because of solid wall ...
