I recently ran a competition to name one of my lambs. Members of the public were invited to submit proposed names for this little lady (actually, not so little now) via local residents' Facebook sites. We boiled all the suggestions down to a shortlist of 3 which we announced at the Whickham Library Easter fair on 1st April. Click on the video to find out the 3 names and which one was chosen.
"It was an absolute stain on our country that we once kept children locked up in immigration removal centres, such as Dungavel in Scotland. To make the mistake once was bad enough. To return to the policy would be unconscionable." Alistair Carmichael says detaining child migrants is a stain on our country will not deter small boats. "The review's findings suggest that, although Washington has since 2014 imposed multiple rounds of sanctions on Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine, the Justice Department under the Obama and Trump administrations did not prioritize prosecutions related to that war - filing relatively ...
Alder Hey hospital and the whole of the NHS performed excellently for my family yesterday. That's why I fight for the NHS and its staff. For the last week Erica and I have had two of our grandchildren here who ... Continue reading →
Last Wednesday, I Whatsapp'd my mum a screenshot of a BBC Breaking News article with the headline "Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell arrested in SNP finance probe", along with the message, "What a way to start the day!". As someone deeply involved in politics and with some strong opinions on the SNP, I will admit I was rather gleeful. The news came just a day after Donald Trump was arrested over "hush money" payments, Robert Jenrick was disqualified from driving for 6 months for speeding, and on the same day that Blackpool South MP Scott Benton was was reported to ...
Embed from Getty ImagesParmjit Singh Gill, who won the Leicester South by-election for the Liberal Democrats in 2004, is our candidate in next month's mayoral election in Leicester. He overturned a Labour majority of 13,243 to win the 2004 contest, but lost the seat back to them at the following year's general election. Parmjit's Labour opponent in Leicester South both times was Sir Peter Soulsby, who is seeking a fourth term as mayor next month. Meanwhile, all Conservative candidates in the city, including the party's mayoral candidate, are standing as Local Conservatives. Presumably this is an attempt to distance themselves ...
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A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine asked me about an article in the Telegraph by Iain Dale entitled "Trans activism is eroding tolerance in politics" which included this passage: Last weekend, in a little noted decision, the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference passed a motion which urged anyone in the party who didn't subscribe to full self ID and the wider trans agenda to leave the party. How very "liberal" of them. The original article is behind a paywall but an amended version can be found on Dale's website. My friend asked me why the Lib Dems would ...
One of the consequewnces of the UK Government's immigration policy is the impact it is having on the country's economy. Not only do we have farmers who can't get workers to pick their crops, a hospitality industry struggling to recruit workers and other labour shortages, but people with key skills are being left to languish in temporary accommodation, all because there are no longer any legitimate routes to claim asylum, while red tape prevents or puts off people coming over here to work, as they once did. The Observer reports that there are more than 160,000 asylum seekers still waiting ...
As the school Easter holidays are currently taking place, please note that Fraser's ward surgeries at Ancrum Road Primary School and Blackness Library do not take place today. Surgeries return after the holidays next week, but we can be contacted at any time at westend@dundeelibdems.org.uk
