Lib Dems pledge to transform parental leave with £2.4 billion investment including doubling of statutory maternity pay Hester: How low can the Conservatives go? Conservative announcement "not worth the paper it's written on" Welsh Lib Dems commemorate 80th anniversary of D-Day Temporary NHS staff spend reaches record high under SNP Cole-Hamilton: SNP Government must accept failures on M9 crash Lib Dems pledge to transform parental leave with £2.4 billion investment including doubling of statutory maternity pay The Liberal Democrat manifesto will include a plan to transform parental leave, including doubling Statutory Maternity Pay to £350 a month Proposals also include ...
Hard to beat this canvassing story from Liberal Democrat Prue Bray in the 2015 general election, which I think fully delivers on my headline: Is this a first? On the doorstep today a lady told me about some friends of hers who are so keen on me as a councillor that for Christmas the wife made the husband a board game about me, where all the pieces are made out of photos of me cut out of our Focuses. And they play it. Regularly. No parrots, though.
Eric Loveland Heath has turned his fascination with the Cambrian Railway into a CD of songs. I've lived near to railways much of my life. As a young child, I remember crossing a bridge near to my home in Clapham, south London, which spanned a fair number of lines, each running strictly parallel. I was fascinated by these, and the trains which ran along them, often running up to it if I heard a train coming, or standing for a while trying to catch sight of one before it passed underneath, the first seeds of a lifetime interest in railways ...
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The European Parliamentary Elections 2024: all EU citizens are equal, but some are more equal than o...
Between 6-9 June 2024, nationals of 27 member states are voting in the European Parliamentary elections. These are the first European elections to be held since Brexit: I had the privilege of standing in the South East of England in 2019. Millions of EU citizens living in the UK are eligible to vote in these elections, and many, like myself, will be casting their votes using postal votes, proxy votes, voting in person in embassies/consulates, and/or e-voting - the available method(s) depending on their member state's arrangements. In contradistinction, Italians would need to travel back to Italy to vote, despite ...
The witness before the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry these past two days has been has been Alice Perkins, who was chair of the Post Office board between 2011 and 2015. She also became a director of the BBC in 2014, which made here position ticklish when Panorama began investigating the Horizon scandal. As John Sweeney, journalist and now Liberal Democrat candidate for Sutton Coldfield, wrote in Byline Times in January, this mean that in May, June and July 2015, Perkins had: lived with the mother of all conflicts of interest. I have trawled through the relevant BBC minutes for ...
To Fossil Free Books : a special shout out for an entirely short-sighted, ill-informed and self-destructive campaign of pseudo-woke advocacy, waged against Baillie Gifford (one of the more enlightened fund managers in an industry not noted for its philanthropy) 🙄😖 https://fossilfreebooks.org/
Here's the list of the Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary Candidates (PPCs) for the 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 or by pledging to vote Liberal Democrat. You can jump to the constituency you want: A-D / E-H / I-L / M-P / Q-T / U-Z Liberal Democrat PPCs A-D Aberafan Maesteg: Justin Griffiths Aberdeen North: Desmond Bouse Aberdeenshire North and Moray East: Ian Bailey Aldershot: Paul Harris Aldridge-Brownhills: Ian Garrett Altrincham and Sale West: Jane Brophy Alyn and Deeside: Richard Marbrow ...
In this morning's Thought for the Day" on Radio 4 the speaker, the chief Chaplain to the Forces, quoted from King George VI's speech to the nation and empire on the actual D Day as the Allied forces landed on the Normandy beaches. The King claimed they were fighting evil in order to create a world in which "goodness and honour" would prevail There is sadly very little of either goodness or honour in our election campaign so far, and certainly not in Tuesday's "debate " between the two competing to be our leader. Sunak appeals unashamedly to our selfishness ...
Some fascinating detail from the latest Ipsos poll, their first of the election campaign proper.
Most readers of LibDem Voice, now that the election campaign is under way, will be opening its messages as they come in from leaflet delivering or canvassing. So far the weather has been good, and there's been real advantage where we've managed to be the first on the doorstep to voters disillusioned with politics and parties. In spite of the growth of social media and the internet, face-to-face discussion remains key to winning voters' support. Voters are much less willing to come out to public meetings than they were a generation ago. In the 1979 campaign, when I was mainly ...
In war, truth is the first casualty is a military maxim attributed to Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy (I admit I had to check the source). It is a maxim that already has relevance in the general election. The Independent reports that the Treasury's permanent secretary James Bowler has distanced his department from claims Rishi Sunak made to the nation in the ITV debate that Labour would have to increase taxes by more than £2,000 per household. The paper adds that this was later followed by the Office for Statistics Regulation launching a probe into the figure, which was ...
Michael's ward surgeries take place today and every Thursday during school term time. They are as follows : Thursdays at 5.45pm prompt - West End Campus (come to reception area of St Joseph's RC and Victoria Park Primary Schools) Thursdays at 6.30pm prompt - Harris Academy reception area All welcome - no appointment necessary!
