Four Liberal Democrat candidates for the five principal authority council by-elections this week, which is one up on the last time these seats were up. Tuffley (Gloucester) council by-election result: CON: 34.9% (-13.5) LDEM: 33.8% (+28.3) LAB: 31.3% (-2.7) Votes cast: 1,440 No Independent (-12.1) as prev. Conservative HOLD. — Britain Elects (@BritainElects) October 13, 2022
Reece Stafferton reveals the plans for the Great Central Gazette, a not-for-profit newspaper for Leicester launching in 2023. Leicester - a city which was served by a sole regional newspaper until a few months ago - is on the brink of change. I'm helping to launch the Great Central Gazette: a not-for-profit newspaper, written by and for local people in Leicester. Our ambition is to hold power to account, work with the community to fix big issues, and partner with local groups to present journalism workshops for anyone hoping to learn new skills. It'll be run as a co-operative, a ...
The local Liberal Democrat website brings the news: Ealing Liberal Democrats have selected long-term Ealing resident and community campaigner Alastair Mitton as our Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (PPC) for Ealing Central and Acton... [He] said, "I am incredibly honoured to have been selected to carry the Liberal Democrat standard for the next General Election. I look forward to making the case for the decent, sensible politics that everyone yearns for. "The Conservatives are in complete disarray with more abrupt turns that a finalist on Strictly. The public must be getting dizzy – no one can plan their life. The markets have ...
"Growth" as a substitute for willingness to pay for what you want, has been around for at lest 60 years. It is a prize example of "having your cake and eating it." I first came across it in the campaign for the 1964 election when the Labour leader, Harold Wilson, argued that the UK could build the New Jerusalem with a modern infrastructure, effective social services, vibrant local government, well financed health and education services, without it costing the voters a penny. It would be financed out of growth. Growth would be achieved by setting up a government planning department ...
One of the most stunning non-answers in the House of Commons of late was Liz Truss's response to Daisy Cooper at PMQs yesterday on the danger of collapsing hospital buildings. The here today, and possibly gone tomorrow, prime minister either didn't hear the question or did not know how to respond (Hansard). In a debate in Westminster Hall, Daisy Cooper was again in action, this time on the preventive covid-19 drug Evusheld. This is a pre-exposure prophylactic drug administered by injections that gives a degree of protection against catching Covid-19. There are around half a million immunosuppressed people in the ...
As Prime MInisters go Liz Truss has not so much hit the ground runnng as got bogged down in quick sand. Within days of taking over she has plummetted in the polls and judging by her recent meeting with backbenchers, even Tory MPs don't seem to want her. Who could blame King Charles then, in capturing that mood in her recent audience with him? The Guardian reports that the new PM's first weekly audience with King Charles offered little respite from a week of political disaster and economic ruin: It took just 15 seconds of video from the meeting at ...
Wed, 12:56: RT @anandMenon1: OUT NOW. Brand new @UKandEU report: The Northern Ireland Protocol Bill: Context and Consequences. It's about the Northern... Wed, 13:47: RT @NewStatesman: The Russian president is desperately trying to demonstrate to his hardline critics that he is up to the task. https://t.c... Wed, 16:05: "It's a bleak, embarrassing clown show, and I say this as someone who used to date an actual clown." https://t.co/1Jz7eAogTF Wed, 17:11: Robert Allen (Bob) Madle (June 2, 1920 — October 8, 2022) | File 770 https://t.co/j9elXgYzjA The man who gave the Hugo Award its name. Wed, 19:33: June 2018 books https://t.co/5SuN66Q1Vy ...
What an excellent question from Daisy Cooper at Prime Minister's Questions.
Liberal Democrats were delighted that a motion that we moved at Council, and which was referred to the last meeting of the Climate Change Select Committee, was approved unanimously and the series of actions which we had proposed therefore in ... Continue reading →
The economic and social impacts of Liz Truss's bid for 'worst PM ever' rightly take our attention. But there's an important lesson too about how our politics works, or rather doesn't work. Checks and balances, independent sources of power and authority, processes and timetables can all be frustrating if you think you know what needs doing and just want to get on with it. But they have a valuable purpose. They are the protection against the whizzy idea you've had and only thrashed out with close colleagues being not brilliant, but full of flaws, or even worse, a disaster. Having ...
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Blackness Road / Blackness Avenue / Balgay Road junction safety and resurfacing update #dundeewesten...
Further to our August update on planned road safety improvements at the Blackness Road / Blackness Avenue / Balgay Road junction, we can advise this work will take place starting next Wednesday - 19th October. The junction will be closed from Wednesday for three days to allow the safety work to be completed and road resurfacing works to be undertaken across the junction. Residents will have noted that preliminary electrics works for the new electronic signage have already started. Here is the Temporary Traffic Order from the City Council : THE ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14(1) THE ...
The latest edition of the Low Fell eFocus was published recently. Issues covered include:Covid Booster delay 'not good enough' for people with allergiesTime running out to sign petition about Kells Lane ParkNew arrangements for Council ElectionsRemembrance Day ServicePavement parking on Durham RoadYou can read eFocus on this link.
