Fracking: Rural areas treated like guinea pigs Interest rates: Homeowners being punished by Government failure to control inflation Recession: Blame lies with Conservative MPs NHS announcement an 'A, B, C of failure' Lib Dems table motion to cancel Parliament recess and scrutinise mini Budget Kwarteng growth plan: Shocking admission of Conservative failure Fracking: Rural areas treated like guinea pigs Responding to the British Geological Survey's Report on fracking, Liberal Democrat Environment Spokesperson Wera Hobhouse said: The government's own experts have refused to say fracking is safe. That they choose to plough on regardless shows a callous disregard for our communities ...
Sarah O'Connor, in a Twitter thread, fact-checks five key assertions from Britannia Unchained (which was co-authored by our new PM and chancellor) and finds them all untrue. Putin's Western apologists don't reflect the usual conflict between left and right, argues Quillette, but offer an example of the two poles making common cause against the centre. Jeff Sparrow argues that the stronger resistance to fossil fuels grows, the more laws spring up to contain activists: "In Australia, where fossil fuel lobbyists exert tremendous influence over the major political parties, the trend has probably gone further than anywhere else." "Lord Salisbury, the ...
In an interview with the Guardian yesterday, Ed Davey discussed Liz Truss's administration ahead of tomorrow's budget that is not a budget. He said of Truss: She is saying some of the most extraordinary ideological things. She has appointed probably the most right wing government in modern history. And it seems completely out of touch. He said Truss's decision to style Friday's announcement as a "fiscal event" rather than a budget seemed to be aimed at preventing the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) scrutinising its impact. The failure to have an OBR assessment shows the economy is being run ...
Jacob Rees Mogg announced to the Commons today: "I am glad to be able to announce that the moratorium on the extraction of shale gas is being lifted." This is a bizarre announcement driven by ideology that has no basis in science or economics. It has long been apparent that Liz Truss lacks environmental credentials and ambitions. She doesn't even have Margaret Thatcher's grasp of global warming (who was the only prime minister in my lifetime to have a science degree). This a government that is not scientifically literate. It is parliament that is not scientifically literate with just 17% ...
Lib Dems have been commenting on the plans by Liz Truss, Kwasi Kwarteng and Jacob Rees Mogg to prevent household and business bills zoom out of control over the winter. This morning Kay Burley interviewed Sir Ed Davey on Sky News about the government's proposals for business and household relief. Davey said he was worried about the plans to cut corporation tax. Banks and bankers are among those that will get the lion's share of that. They are refusing to put taxes up, which I do support. Oil and gas companies are making huge profit... There should be a windfall ...
Electoral reform is a classic topic where the answers you get from polls is very dependent on the exact questions you ask. As it's a topic with conflicting tensions and which the public doesn't usually spend much time thinking about, the exact wording of a question can tip things one way or the other. Which is why it's also a classic example of when it's important to look at the trends rather than the current figure on one particular question wording. Which makes this rather interesting: The majority of British people want to see the first-past-the-post electoral system scrapped for ...
This is why I enjoy working for Lord Bonkers: here is a hitherto unsuspected episode in the history of Leicestershire and the history of popular music laid bare. And if you'd heard the stories the old boy tells me about Blaby in those days, you'd know that was the right expression. Thursday When cultural historians turn to the British pop scene it is Merseybeat and my own Rutbeat that dominate their writings. There is, however, another movement that should be given its due: Blaby Beat. Yes, this unassuming Leicestershire town has left its mark on musical history. James Taylor, for ...
"Well, I wouldn't start from here if I were you." I don't think any of us would have invented our current constitutional setup from scratch. It is something that has evolved over hundreds of years, emerging from a bloody history that includes the execution of monarchs and civil war, as well as the Glorious Revolution. And like all evolved creatures it bears redundant remnants of its past. However there are some very beneficial features of the system that we have inherited: It has given us a stable parliamentary democracy, which is rightly envied, and copied, across the world. The formal ...
Is your makeup drawer or cosmetic bag, if you are a minimalist, a stain on your midlife feminist self or is your collection nothing more than your right to beautify yourself as you see fit? I am guilty of being a makeup fanatic. I wear lots of make up when I venture out. Even at ... The post Do Feminist Midlifers Use Makeup? appeared first on A Midlifer in London .
This post covers the key events from 2010 to 2022 which I included in my presentation on the 70 years of HM The Queen's reign to the Sunniside History Society earlier this month.2010General election is held in which for the first time there were leader debates Election result - Conservatives are 20 seats short of a majority in a hung parliament. Coalition government is formed with David Cameron
This post covers the key events in the 2000s which I included in my presentation on the 70 years of HM The Queen's reign to the Sunniside History Society earlier this month.2000 The Millennium Bug failed to happen Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother celebrates her 100th birthdayDavid Copeland is found guilty of causing the three nail bomb attacks in London last year. He is sentenced to life
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Liz Truss has just handed Liberal Democrat campaigners a powerful set of questions to put to Tory MPs. She insists that tax cuts are the answer to Britain's economic problems - amounting to 1-2% of GDP, perhaps more once the full package of proposed cuts emerges. She's pledged to raise defence spending by 1% of GDP - for which, sadly, there is a case when Russia intervention in Ukraine threatens European security. She's promising to provide financial support for household and business energy bills, likely to amount to between 2% and 4% of GDP over the coming year, without offsetting ...
Yesterday there were some improvements in the way Council behaved and worked but there is still a long way to go. The Council meeting started after a pre-meeting between the Lord Mayor and the Group Leaders (well three of the ... Continue reading →
Interesting and useful data from the Electoral Commission in their report on the 2022 local elections: At the 2022 elections, people continued to receive information about candidates and parties from a range of different sources, and in a variety of formats. The most common ways people reported seeing information on parties and candidates were: leaflet or flyer, either from a candidate / political party (49%) or another source (23%) word of mouth / mentioned by friends / family / carer (12%) social media (generic posts or adverts which did not seem targeted) (10%) newspapers (10%) posters or billboards (10%) I ...
King Canute (or Cnut in its correct spelling) fanously demonstrated his piety, proving to his fawning subjects that he was no better than any other man, by demonstrating that no matter how hard he might try, he could not control the elements and turn back the sea. Jacob Rees-Mogg, it seems, is aiming to prove Cnut wrong by single-handedly changing the geography of the United Kingdom. The Independent reports that the new Business Secretary is set to allow higher levels of seismic activity at shale gas drilling sites as part of its plan to lift the ban on fracking, Jacob ...
Shropshire Council's Southern Planning Committee meets next Tuesday at Shirehall to discuss two solar farms, both of which have attracted strong objections. The solar farms at Greete and Ledwyche are recommended for approval by planning officers. As a member of the committee, I will be voting on both proposals. In line with protocols, I will not express an opinion before the meeting. This article is alert people to the imminent decision, to point up why ministers should get their facts right before they speak and to note that nearly all supporting comments for Grete solar farm result from the developer's ...
Welsh Liberal Democrat Leader Jane Dodds MS has today outlined her key priorities for the Senedd to address during its new term. These priorities are: Addressing the cost-of-living crisis. Tackling backlogs in the NHS and NHS dentistry. Fixing problems in the Welsh housing sector. Jane Dodds warned that the Welsh Labour-Plaid Cymru partnership in Cardiff Bay was failing to tackle these key issues and emphasised that strong action needed to be taken immediately. Despite an announcement of an energy price freeze by UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, energy bills are still expected to be double that of last winter for ...
Michael is pictured at the Roasengle/Perth Road junction where there are concerns about pedestrian safety crossing. One resident advised : "My husband and I have been finding the crossing at Roseangle and Perth Road especially unnerving for pedestrians. Specifically when crossing the top of Roseangle going east/west. The geometry of the road means that cars traveling along Perth Road westwards and making a left turn onto Roseangle don't need to slow down. I had a car cut me off like this when I was half way through crossing the other day at intimidating speeds. Changing the shape of the sidewalk ...
