Lib Dems announce plans for free school meals for all primary school children NHS Confederation survey: Conservatives have run our health service into the ground Premier League season tickets spiral as Lib Dems call for free-to-air football Towns funding: Conservatives aren't fooling anyone Rennie responds to M9 crash after "unforgiveable" wait for findings Cole-Hamilton commits to keeping triple lock on pensions Lib Dems announce plans for free school meals for all primary school children The Liberal Democrats have announced their ambition to extend free school meals to all primary school children, beginning with all children in poverty. The party will ...
First past the post means that what really matters for electoral seats is getting over the winning line in the most winnable seats.
Embed from Getty ImagesEd Davey has given his first major newspaper interview of the campaign to Eleni Courea at the Guardian. He again rules out coalition with the Conservatives, but would not be drawn on possible deals with Labour: "I'm not talking about anything beyond what I've just said on the Tories for the simple reason that I want to campaign on Liberal Democrat policies ... I think it was right that we've made it very clear that the Conservatives are anathema to us. I've fought the Tories all my life, I fight them every day." On which high-profile Conservatives ...
As is usual, as soon as the local elections were over, we began work on our "Thank You Focuses". The first off the production line was for Whickham South and Sunniside. It contained an article about a general election having to be held by January 2025. The file was sent to the printer and 4000 Focuses landed on my doorstep some days later. In the afternoon, the general election was
The general election may be underway but our usual work in the community still goes ahead. So on Sunday I was at Church Green in Whickham helping out with Planting Up Whickham where they were stripping the flowerbeds ready for replanting. My job, as usual, was to bring my pickup and remove all the stripped out plants to take to my farm to be made into compost. The next planting session is
Here we go again! Elections: endless campaigning, debates, discussions with friends, family members, plenty of promises from all parties to convince the electorate to vote for them. I find the whole election process fascinating. How do people vote? Do they vote in line with their conscience and political beliefs? Do they, to deselect the opponent, decide to support the "lesser evil", as we often say in Poland? Do we actually believe in what we hear? Do we trust our politicians? These elections will be no different. They will, in my opinion, magnify the political polarization. We will inevitably be talking ...
The constituency boundary changes in Gateshead have resulted in something of a complicated mess. Previously we had two constituencies fully in Gateshead (Blaydon constituency and Gateshead constituency). Now we have one fully in Gateshead (Gateshead Central and Whickham) and bits of three other constituencies (Jarrow and Gateshead East, Blaydon and Consett and Washington and Gateshead South). The
The beautiful memorial to the Holocaust which was unveiled in the grounds of King David School yesterday. Yesterday (Thursday 30th) I attended a moving event at King David School here in Liverpool. It was to see the official unveiling of ... Continue reading →
The low rate of council by-elections continued this week with just the one principal authority contest, in Birmingham: Kingstanding (Birmingham) Council By-Election Result: [IMG: 🌳] CON: 47.9% (+4.7) [IMG: 🌹] LAB: 39.3% (-6.1) [IMG: 🔶] LDM: 4.7% (-0.0) [IMG: 🌍] GRN: 4.2% (-0.0) [IMG: ⚙] WPB: 2.7% (New) [IMG: 👨🔧] TUSC: 1.2% (-0.5) No WM (-0.6) as previous. Conservative HOLD. Changes w/ 2022. — Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) May 31, 2024
As you might expect members of the Lib Dem Voice team are fully involved in the election. Caron Lindsay is standing in Livingston. Caron is a veteran of many elections, and will also be supporting Christine Jardine's election campaign. Charley Hasted is our PPC in Barking. Charley works as an emergency ambulance dispatcher and is Chair of LGBT+ Lib Dems. Paul Walter is bundling leaflets in the Newbury constituency office plus doing loads of leaflet delivery and canvassing locally. Mary Reid is no longer able to deliver or canvass but is doing a lot of backroom tasks for Kingston & ...
Now the weather is getting warmer and warmer, there is more work to do in the gardens and all volunteers are welcome. Please meet at the gardens at 301 Blackness Road every Friday from 2.30pm until 4.30pm.
