Robert Hutton has been to the National Conservatism Conference: "The country is in a terrible mess, and Rees-Mogg is just trying to find the guys who did this. He denounced the Budget and the failure to scrap EU regulations. He even denounced Voter ID, a policy he shepherded through Parliament, as a failed attempt to rig the vote. It wasn't clear whether he had always been against it because of the rigging, or simply was now because it hadn't worked." "Between 1946 and 1950 ... around 35,000 Ukrainians came to the United Kingdom as part of the European Volunteer Workers ...
It took less than the 14 minutes of Mhairi Black's opening speech in the SNP Opposition Day debate on the cost of living crisis today for her to reveal what the debate was really about. Independence. I guess we should expect no better from a nationalist party, even one that has the power to do much more than it is doing to alleviate poverty and help those struggling at the moment. Our Christine Jardine was there to keep them honest. In a blistering speech, she pointed out where both SNP and Conservatives were going wrong. I have often stood here ...
Wikipedia explains:The Anglesey Central Railway (Welsh: Lein Amlwch, Amlwch Line) was a 17.5-mile (28.2 km) standard-gauge railway in Anglesey, Wales, connecting the port of Amlwch and the county town of Llangefni with the North Wales Coast Line at Gaerwen. Built as an independent railway, the railway opened in portions from 1864 to 1867. Due to financial troubles the railway was sold to the London and North Western Railway in 1876, which invested significantly in the infrastructure. Operation continued under various companies during the 20th century, but passenger services were withdrawn in 1964 as part of the Beeching Axe. Industrial freight ...
Rachel Bentley has been selected by Lib Dem members in a seat where the MP's behaviour saw him suspended from both Parliament and Labour.
Tue 16th
10:24
"I fought them in government, I'm fighting them now. They're beyond the pale" - Ed Davey on the Cons...
In a moving interview in The Guardian, Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey talks about some of the challenges and tragedy he's faced: He describes a "relatively humble" background: his father from a mining family; his mother the daughter of domestic servants. ... When he was four, and his brothers were nine (Charles) and seven (Henry), John Davey died of Hodgkin's disease at the age of 37. "Diagnosed in November, he died in March. I didn't really know him. When you're young, you roll with it. The big thing was seeing my mother's grief, hearing it, knowing something tragic had happened." ...
Tue 16th
09:45
LibLink - Ed Davey: "We will not put the Conservatives back into government or do any deal with them...
There's an Ed Davey double page spread in the Guardian today. Zoe Williams narrates a visit to Ed's home and a thorough and wide-ranging interview. There's this comment about serving in government with the Tories: "I didn't trust them an inch. I didn't trust George Osborne an inch. We didn't tell people how much we were fighting the Tories, that was by design, from Nick [Clegg]. He wanted to show that coalitions work. I argued that we should show the bit of the Liberals that's anti-establishment, that's reformist, that's internationalist. But he was the leader. We served at his pleasure." ...
Well, we've been saying it long enough, but now a senior Conservative has confirmed that the introduction of mandatory voter ID by the Government was an attempt to "gerrymander" future elections for the Conservative Party. AS the Bylinetimes reports, the ex-Brexit Minister, Jacob Rees-Mogg, who was part of Boris Johnson's Government which introduced plans to force voters to present photo ID at polling stations, told the National Conservatism Conference in London that the plans were a "clever scheme" by his party to swing voters in their favour. It's just a shame that the plans had "backfired" due to more older ...
Some weeks ago, a lorry damaged a tree in Tullideph Road near the junction with Ancrum Road. The tree was badly damaged and had to be removed. Residents asked us that a new tree is planted and the council's Forestry Officer has responded positively as follows : "Yes, we will look at this during the planting season 2023/24 or earlier if we can."
