Raab resigns: By-election now Ed Davey on way to Raab's constituency to a demand a by-election 10 million people give up on getting a GP appointment creating "ticking time bomb" for NHS Raab resigns: By-election now Responding to the news of Dominic Raab's resignation from Cabinet, Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper said: Dominic Raab has shown he is not only unfit to serve as a minister, but is totally unfit to represent his constituents in Parliament. He should resign as an MP and trigger a by-election so the people of Esher and Walton can finally have the MP they ...
Posting Paul Whitewick's video of the aqueduct over the Great Ouse at Cosgrove in Milton Keynes the other day reminded me of something. I snapped my very first photograph from it as we crossed in a boat. I must have been 10 or 11 when I took it on the family camera and, to be honest, it's not one of my best. As Google Street View includes the towpath of the Grand Union, I can revisit the scene today. Milton Keynes barely existed when I took my photo., and I feared that the scene would now be an urban jungle ...
Yeovil Liberal Democrats have chosen their prospective parliamentary candidate for the next general election. It is Adam Dance, who runs his own gardening and landscaping business and is a Somerset councillor. He holds the public health and equalities portfolio on the Lib Dem-run authority. Mike Hewitson, the chair of Yeovil Lib Dems, told Somerset Live: "We are thrilled to have selected Adam as our candidate for the next general election. Adam is a passionate local community champion who makes things happen. He brings real world experience, common sense and hard work to his campaigning. "Adam has a long track record ...
I want this Liver Bird to look out at a city where debate is conducted with a sense of decorum and decency not like a brawl at chucking out time at a boozer! In an unprecedented move, the Leaders of ... Continue reading →
The Lib Dems have launched a petition calling for Dominic Raab to go as Esher and Walton's MP. You will have seen that the report into bullying allegations against Raab has concluded and Raab has now resigned. Despite him resigning as a minister, people in Esher and Walton still have him as their MP. The Lib Dems think Raab is unsuitable to be the MP for Esher and Walton, if you agree please join our campaign to unseat him. Whatever help you can give will be one more way to give Esher and Walton the MP the area deserves. Lib ...
Back in 2015 Lib Dem Voice had an interesting "conversation" with Dominic Raab, which we would like to share with you again. The trigger for this was a post we published in February 2015 by Roisin Miller: Opinion: An MP who takes me for granted has left me feeling disenfranchised. In it she wrote: Confession time. I'm a political activist and I'm not currently registered to vote. I have dropped off thanks to individual voter registration and I haven't sought to redress it. This is something which I find reprehensible, yet I am lacking the motivation to correct it. I ...
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It's a light period for council by-elections as usual in the run-up to the first Thursday in May. But after a couple of weeks without any principal authority by-elections, we had two this week: Latchford West (Warrington) Council By-Election Result: LAB: 40.8% (-6.8) CON: 30.1% (-11.5) LDM: 16.9% (+6.0) IND: 12.3% (New) Labour HOLD. Changes w/ 2022. — Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) April 21, 2023
One of the things about narrowly losing a Federal Committee election is that you're potentially on standby to step in if a successful candidate implodes, resigns or, tragically, dies. Indeed, that's how I found myself back on Federal International Relations Committee two years ago, after Jonathan Fryer's sad demise. And that was not the only such loss, as FIRC Vice-Chair, Ruth Coleman-Taylor passed away last year. I miss both of them, if truth be told. But given how close I got to being elected to Federal Council last year, and given the number of directly elected members, I had the ...
Lisa Smart has made The Guardian in a story about an issue we all love to hate – sewage: Sewage-soaked field stops creation of new woodland in Greater Manchester where you can view of photo of Lisa gamely inspecting the mess. Lisa is a councillor on Stockport Council and our PPC for Hazel Grove. The article tells us: Plans to plant a new woodland have been cancelled after local councillors discovered a field was so saturated with sewage the soil could be too toxic for the trees. The woodland was to have been planted in a council-owned field located by ...
Welsh Liberal Democrats have long made the case for those policing the ministerial code to be independent of the First Minister, and the same argument applies to all the UK's Parliaments. It's just that whichever party happens to be running the show, in whatever country, whether it is Labour, Tory or the SNP won't allow it, because they don't want to lose control of the governmental process, no matter how badly ministers have behaved. The Dominic Raab bullying case is yet another example of a Prime Minister being reluctant to sacrifice a colleague, despite allegedly damning evidence suggesting that he ...
