Sunak interview: Most people worry when they are hit with a surprise £1,000 bill, the PM does not even register it PopCon: Tory MPs at launch pocketed £85,000 in severance payments Dental plan "too little too late" for people desperately queuing in Bristol "No child deserves to go hungry"- Welsh Lib Dems Mid and West Wales MS Jane Dodds urges for more support for rural GP's "Simply papering over the cracks in our services"- Welsh Lib Dems Sunak interview: Most people worry when they are hit with a surprise £1,000 bill, the PM does not even register it Responding to ...
I've been looking deeper into the destruction wrought upon Desborough in 1970, both online and at the town's heritage centre. It turns out that the catalyst for the demolition of the High Street was the widening of the A6, yet this road scheme need have affected only a small part of it. Demolition on the scale that took place must have been done with money from the county council and central government, but the old Desborough Urban District Council seems to have been thoroughly on board. It's job advertisements from this period all contain this boast: Desborough has a population ...
The people of Bridgnorth have given their town council the go ahead to borrow half a million pound to fund repairs that will allow the town's cliff railway to reopen. As a result of this funding for work on an unstable retaining wall, the railway is due to reopen later this month. The vote in favour of the borrowing is a reflection of the fact that the cliff railway isn't just a tourist attraction. Because of Bridgnorth's unique geography - half the town lies on the banks on the Severn and half on an outcrop that overlooks it - it's ...
Welcome to 2024, which will almost certainly see a general election. If you want to promote a policy or make your predictions, why not write a guest post for Liberal England? As you can see from the list below, I'm happy to cover subjects far beyond the Liberal Democrats and British politics. I don't have to agree with every word in a guest post, but I'd hate you to spend your time writing something I really wouldn't want to publish. So do please get in touch first. These were the last 10 guest posts on Liberal England:Abandoning the War on ...
Many states around the world, such as the USA and Germany, are federations made up of relatively individual regions that enjoy varying degrees of autonomy. Here in the UK, we have devolution. Powers given to elected representatives (separate from those in the House of Commons) in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and a handful of "combined unitary authorities" in England. Each have had different successes and failures and each have their own problems and strengths. So how do we learn from these to make them, and new ones, better in the future and what form should that take? I, for one, ...
Following the sad passing of Wandsworth activist and former councillor David Patterson last April - reported here on Liberal Democrat Voice – readers might like to know that there will be a memorial service for him later this month. This will be held at the Quaker Meeting House, 59 Wandsworth High Street, London SW18 2PT on Monday 26 February at 7pm. This meeting will follow the Quaker format of an introduction by an elder, with an invitation to anybody present to speak, to share their memories of David and any reflections. David was a Quaker, but this is not a ...
There can be nothing more insavoury than a British Prime Minister placing a £1,000 bet on the fate of people fleeing war, torture and famine, but the fact that Rishi Sunak took up the wager with Piers Morgan demonstrates better than anything I can say how truly heartless his immmigration policy is. The Guardian reports that the £1,000 bet on whether deportation flights to Rwanda will take off before the general election has been critised as a Prime Minister who is "out of touch" with working people. One Labour MP said that "Not a lot of people facing rising mortgages, ...
Fraser's weekly ward surgeries take place later today and every Tuesday during school term time. They are as follows : Tuesdays at 5pm prompt - Blackness Library Tuesdays at 5.45pm prompt - Ancrum Road Primary School All residents welcome - no appointment necessary.
