The first by-election of 2024/25 electoral cycle took place this week in North Ayreshire. It follows a brilliant set of local election results for our party as we won 522 seats (with a net gain of 104) and pushed the Conservatives into third place in the overall result. We also gained 3 seats in local council by-elections held on 2 May which took our total net gains in the 2023/24 by-election cycle to 28. By far and away the best performance of any party with the Green Party in a distant second place with 8. Both the Conservatives and Labour ...
Pornography is notoriously difficult to define, but it is estimated that it accounts for 12% of websites and 30% of all web traffic. And while broadcast media is subject to ever more content warnings, or outright censorship, on racial or cultural grounds, explicit sexual content has become ever more acceptable on our screens. Now, porn isn't my thing. Watching porn as a blind person is akin to standing outside McDonalds, engulfed in the delicious aroma of Big Mac and fries, while not being able to find the door. Despite that, being a staunch believer in free speech, I've always supported ...
With the big round of May local elections over, a new round of council by-elections has started with one principal authority contest this week: Kilwinning (North Ayrshire) Council By-Election Result [1st Prefs]: [IMG: 🌹] LAB: 54.3% (+8.3) [IMG: 🎗] SNP: 22.9% (-12.0) [IMG: 🌳] CON: 15.5% (-0.1) [IMG: 🔶] LDM: 3.9% (+0.4) [IMG: 👨👩👧👦] SFP: 3.4% (New) Labour GAIN from Conservative*. Changes w/ 2022. — Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) May 10, 2024
Here's the list of the Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary Candidates (PPCs) for the next general election who have been publicly announced so far. If you'd like to help them, a great way to start is by joining the party. Candidate selection email alerts Sign up here to get an email alert when new selection stories are added to this site: "*" indicates required fields Email* Enter Email Confirm Email Name* First Last PhoneThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Δ You can jump to the constituency you want: A-D / E-H / I-L / M-P / ...
Our team has announced that Hina Bokhari AM is the new Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the London Assembly. She takes over from Caroline Pidgeon who was Leader for the previous 14 years. Hina is the first ethnic minority woman to lead any group on the Assembly. She was first elected to the Assembly in the last round of London elections in 2021 (postponed from 2020). She has been a councillor on Merton Council since 2018. Hina taught for 20 years and founded a couple of charities to support underprivileged young people. We have a quote from her: It ...
Here's the latest tally of seats changing hands in principal authority council by-elections held since the last May round of local elections.
With regard to the roundabouts along Riverside Drive, works were agreed at the council's Climate, Environment and Biodiversity Committee as follows : "Hard and soft landscaping improvements at Riverside East Roundabout, Riverside Inn Roundabout and Tesco Roundabout. This will entail refreshing planting areas with regional specific plants that are stress / drought tolerant. The project aims to improve visibility / sightlines along this important ambassador route into the city centre." Riverside East Roundabout is by the Tesco servicing entrance, and Tesco Roundabout is the roundabout next to the Tesco petrol station. Riverside East roundabout was improved first, with traffic management ...
The Independent reports that Keir Starmer is facing calls to let "trailblazing" MP Diane Abbott back into Labour as anger mounts over the shock defection to the party of Natalie Elphicke. They say that the Labour leader is facing a fierce backlash over his decision to welcome Ms Elphicke, a controversial right-wing Conservative who has continually attacked his party over its policies on immigration: Less than 24 hours after crossing the floor, the MP for Dover was forced to apologise for her comments about her ex-husband's victims. Labour peer Shami Chakrabarti told The Independent: "Like others, I look forward to ...
