Rick Minter, with his customary calm reasonableness, takes us through the evidence that there are big cats living wild in the British countryside. Minter runs the Big Cat Conversations podcast, which I recommend to those with an interest in this rabbit hole, but here he's appearing on The Bearded Tit's Podcast. You may scoff, but remember this Liberal England post from a few days ago.
We have known for some months that the Federal Board was going to decide at its May meeting what to do with Federal Conference in Brighton this Autumn. Last night they discussed the matter looking at feedback from party committees and staff as well as a consultation exercise carried out in March. They had a lot to consider. What if Rishi Sunak called the General Election and we ended up having our Conference in the short campaign? What opportunities were there from having Conference just before the General Election if he didn't? And what damage could it inflict on our ...
So another set of London elections has passed, the thorny issue of housing in London has been debated again with the reiteration for more to be done about it. While recently London has seen more council housing built compared to the rest of the country it hasn't stopped private rents being higher than the national ... Continue reading London: What if we built on rich men's playthings?
The Greenwich Wire reports a new recruit to the Liberal Democrats: A Greenwich councillor who quit the Labour Party last year after accusing a colleague of homophobia has joined the Liberal Democrats. Chris Lloyd, who represents West Thamesmead, becomes the party's first councillor at Woolwich Town Hall since 2010, the last time more than two parties were represented on Greenwich Council... Lloyd said: "Here in Greenwich, the Liberal Democrats are a positive choice for improving public services, protecting vulnerable communities and tackling inequality. "Pragmatism has always been an important part of my political outlook, and I wholeheartedly reject the current ...
BBC News reports: Four outreach post offices in south Shropshire are set to close this month. Marton, Longden, Stiperstones and Wentnor only open for a few hours each week. But the Post Office has said the services will cease due to "very low customer usage". The report quotes the Lib Dem councillor Heather Kidd, whose ward includes Marton: "The pub's gone, the village shop's gone, there's nowhere else to gather. "It's a focal point for everyone to come together and have a coffee and touch base once a week." It's does make you wonder how the rural poor and elderly ...
[IMG: Elwyn Watkins] It is with profound sadness that I have to tell you that my good friend, Elwyn Watkins, passed away this weekend. I first met Elwyn at the London School of Economics & Political Science, where he took a BSc. (Econ) in Government. He preceded me as President of Carr-Saunders Hall, going on to become General Secretary of the LSE Student Union and we were flatmates for several of our formative years. Later, he attained a double-distinction MBA at Bradford University – an achievement about which he was, rightly, proud. After university, he started his career as an ...
In principle, it should not take the Conservatives' disastrous record in government for the past fourteen years for Labour under Keir Starmer, which does not seem to stand for anything other than vaguely promising change, to win by a landslide. Labour's double-digit lead unfortunately begs to differ. However, after the recent local elections in England, as well as the Blackpool South by-election, Starmer did not rule out entering coalition with our party if Labour failed to win an outright parliamentary majority at the next general election. In contrast, he categorically ruled out doing so with the Scottish Nationalist Party owing ...
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.
Nation Cymru report that a divide in Welsh Labour over the leadership of the First Minister appears to have deepened further with one senior Labour source declaring, "we can't carry on like this". They say that this source has indicated to them that some Labour MSs are making plans to move against the First Minister in a no confidence vote, claiming that "It's going to be a horrible few weeks." While another senior Labour source told the news website that: "The time will come where many of us will have to say something publicly." Gething's case cannot have been helped ...
