Celia Hibbert, a councillor from Wolverhampton, was the Labour candidate for the Harborough constituency at the 2017 general election. Now, reports Birmingham Live, she wants to join the Liberal Democrats and fight a parliamentary seat for us: A Labour councillor in Wolverhampton has landed herself in hot water with senior party bosses after attempting to jump ship and join the city's Liberal Democrats, it was revealed this week. Celia Hibbert, who represents Penn ward, had a meeting with the chair of Wolverhampton Lib Dems Julian Donald on August 10, to ask about joining the party and sitting as a councillor ...
Sad news dropped into my inbox this afternoon. Michael Steed, President of the Liberal Party from 1978-79, died this week. From Young Liberal anti-apartheid activist who was once prevented by the South African authorities from delivering aid to Sharpeville to eminent psephologist who provided the stats for the British General Election Guides up until 2005 to radical social liberal who was ardently pro-European but not blind to dangers of concentrated power in the way the EU worked, he spent his whole life working for liberalism, and was elected as a councillor in Canterbury in 2008. He was also one of ...
The latest edition of my weekly political polling round-up, The Week in Polls, is out. As it says: With ULEZ expansion in the news,1 let's take a look at what the polling says. First up, there's a PeoplePolling poll, fieldwork 22 August, for GB News... Find out more by reading this edition of The Week in Polls here, and you can sign up below to receive future editions direct to your email inbox:
School buildings are in crisis – we know this because they're on the front page of several newspapers today. All of a sudden the state of public buildings is part of the national conversation – this is pretty odd in the context of a multi-billion £ repairs backlog for every type of publicly owned building ... Continue reading What you need to know about School Buildings
In April 1968 Pink Floyd announced that Syd Barrett was no longer a member of the band. His mental health had been deteriorating for a while - his problems exacerbated by heavy use of drugs. In his White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, Joe Boyd recalls encountering Barrett and the rest of Pink Floyd at the UFO Club in mid-1967: I had exchanged pleasantries with the first three when Syd emerged from the crush. His sparkling eyes had always been his most attractive feature but that night they were vacant, as if someone had reached inside his head and ...
The RSPB may well have apologised for accusing Tory ministers of lying, saying that they should have focussed on the policies, not the individuals concerned, but the Guardian is not so quick to let the government off the hook. The paper points out that at the time of publication,. RSPB England's tweet has been viewed by more than five million people. As the screen shot above shows, that is now in excess of ten million. They then look in some detail at the six lies the government has been accused of. On the claim that in the 2019 Tory party ...
With the latest Lib Dem conference coming up, here are 9 tips for would-be new, and indeed, experienced, speakers at party conference.
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