Campaigners have installed blue plaques around Shrewsbury, accusing its MP Daniel Kawczynski of 'shamefully' voting to dump raw sewage into the River Severn. Kenny Anderson, a spokesperson for the Shrewsbury River Action Group, told the Shropshire Star: "You wouldn't leave a toilet overflowing for 28 years and we shouldn't do the same with our waterways. The River Severn river lies at the heart of Shrewsbury. "We all swim in it, boat on it, fish in it, and walk along it on a daily basis. So why isn't our MP fighting to stop it from being turned into an open sewer?" ...
Former Captain in the Royal Military Police Helen Maguire has been selected as the Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Epsom & Ewell.
Story #1: A Horley councillor has lost the Tory whip after posting what his party called "wholly unacceptable and grossly offensive" posts from a now-deleted Twitter account. Surrey County Councillor Andy Lynch was investigated by the Conservatives for posts made last month from an account with the handle @TheLandlorduk... In May this year Cllr Lynch was found to be in breach of the county council's code of conduct for separate posts sent in February from a different Twitter account, now also deleted, with the handle @cllrAndyLynch. [ITV] Story #2: The chairman of the East Surrey Conservative Association has resigned last ...
We missed our usual Leader's Speech in September when conference was cancelled following the death of the Queen. So instead Ed Davey will be delivering a major speech tomorrow (Sunday 6th November) from 12.50pm. You can watch the speech live here. Whilst most of the speech is under wraps until tomorrow, we have had some trailers, most notably in his proposal to make it a legal right for patients to see a GP within a week. * Mary Reid is a contributing editor on Lib Dem Voice. She was a councillor in Kingston upon Thames, where she is still very ...
Fri, 17:29: Lineage, ed. Shaun�Russell https://t.co/ISwShKatq7 Fri, 18:34: The Bandbox Plot, or how Jonathan Swift saved the British government from decapitation One of the strangest assassination attempts of British history took place 210 years ago today, on 4 November 1712. https://t.co/cFQwwWdjAW Sat, 09:22: I don't know about you, but I am downloading all my data from Twitter before it's too late. https://t.co/etGR2VwHBD Sat, 09:46: RT @williamcrawley: @nwbrux Many would think it an easy choice. Imagine being so rich you could literally end global poverty while remainin... Sat, 09:56: RT @bjhbfs: @williamcrawley @nwbrux One man could 'end global poverty'? That doesn't ...
Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro is on the cusp of being an unexpected champion of democracy – albeit an extremely reluctant one. As of this writing he is yet to utter that nasty four letter word preceded by the first person pronoun – "I lost". Nor has he graciously offered best wishes to his opponent. But, most important of all, he has not claimed – as expected – a false victory, branded the results "fake" or called on his military friends to stage a coup. He has privately told leading politicians that he accepts that he lost; ordered his staff to work ...
I have noted in the past that I have an unusual perspective on the Presidency of the Liberal Democrats. When you've been nearer the heart of a successful campaign, and then acted as Presidential Consort for two years, your sense of what is required to win the Presidency and then do the job is perhaps a little more acute than most. So, in deciding how I was going to vote, I had quite a lot to reflect upon. But here are some thoughts, both on what I think of the three candidates and on the campaign so far. Starting with ...
Abertay Historical Society is hosting a talk on "Reflections on Churchill and Dundee: 100 years after Defeat" on Wednesday 9th November at 6.30pm at the Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee. Speakers are Kenneth Baxter, Billy Kenefick and Jim Tomlinson. More information is available at
There were some interesting comments yesterday from Mark Carney, who oversaw the Bank of England as Governor during the 2016 referendum and repeatedly warned leaving the EU would damage the economy. He argued that Brexit is one of the main reasons Britain has been sucked into a prolonged tide of inflation, and the ongoing onslaught of rising prices and stagnant wages is 'what we said was going to happen'. THe Metro says that Carney acknowledged that other countries face similar difficulties due to spiralling global energy prices and the aftereffects of Covid, but he said the UK faces the 'rare' ...
