Who is the best choice to vote for if you want to see the Conservatives lose in the Wimbledon constituency?
This is a wonderful discovery, and a reminder that even a chocolate-box estate village like Lamport - which I know so well it has its own label on this blog - has an industrial history. Many more videos like this from Steve at LeiceExplore on YouTube.
Anna Tarrant praises Ed Davey's celebration of fatherhood and says we are all better off when men do more of the caring. "Looking back to that December morning in 2019 I don't think any of us could have imagined that it would come to this. That picture of Boris Johnson, arms aloft celebrating victory, was a painful one for those of us on the opposition benches. Five years later his ejection from the scene has not saved the party whose reputation he did so much to damage, and the divisions he encouraged threaten to engulf them." Christine Jardine asks if ...
There's always something to distract you during a General Election campaign. And, in my case, that's the ALDE Party Council meeting that will take place on Saturday in Vilnius, Lithuania's capital. Yes, we'll be sending a full delegation, albeit with an element of substitution, including a guest Baroness, but flights have been rearranged to keep absences as short as possible. The main topic of conversation is going to be the fallout from the European Parliament elections last week, and the impact on Europe's direction in the coming years. Whilst Renew Europe might not have had a great result, ironically that ...
Mon 17th
13:27
Cole-Hamilton and Chamberlain launch Scottish Manifesto with focus on carers, warm homes and agricul...
Alex Cole-Hamilton and Wendy Chamberlain have launched the Scottish version of our manifesto. At a farm inAlex's Edinburgh constituency (photo of Alex driving a tractor to follow), they set out plans to fix the broken care system, invest in Scottish agriculture and ensure everyone has a warm home. At the heart of the proposals is a £500 million rescue package for care, enabling people to be released from hospital, relieving pressure on the NHS and giving a fair deal to family carers. It will: Create a new Carer's Minimum Wage, boosting the minimum wage for care workers by £2 an ...
I wonder how often any of us actually read political parties' manifestos. I agree; we have much better things to do. I also know that so many of us are simply fed up with reading stuff that promises lots and delivers very little. However, I do believe that it is our democratic responsibility to ensure that we educate ourselves and vote in any elections in line with our moral, social and political conscience. This can be achieved by being well informed and not only by voting with our gut feeling. Although this issue will not entertain a lot of people ...
Mon 17th
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EXCLUSIVE: Man, 21, turned 'downhill' life around and now goes viral for teaching grannies how to bo...
Well done to the Mirror for winning our Headline of the Day Award. The judges have again recommended a video to accompany this post. It's not that it's a bad choice, it's the principle of the thing. This is my blog. But I shall have to make enquiries about the extent of their powers before I tell them to stick it up their wigs.
Lord Bonkers pretends he doesn't read this blog, but I see he's picked up my interest in the idea that there are big cats living wild in the English countryside. And I hadn't heard of the Gloucestershire Incident until now. The orchard doughty, a rough club with which Lord Bonkers' gamekeepers are routinely armed, is named after Susan Doughty (who sometimes called herself Susan Orchard Doughty), who was Liberal Democrat MP for Guildford between 2001 and 2005. And despite Lord Bonkers fervent belief, there is no truth in the rumour that Paul Tyler metamorphosed into the Beast of Bodmin whenever ...
It's been an unexpected campaign in many ways. And whilst, as a member of the Party's Federal Council, I've been fortunate to be in receipt of briefings from the centre about campaign strategy for some time, my expectations were not high. It was feeling like a bit of a grim slog to pry loose a bunch of limpet Tory MPs for, the most part, somewhere far from my corner of East Anglia. Certainly worthwhile, and certainly necessary, but not necessarily designed to make spirits soar. Discipline was, and still is, the watchword. But, there was the consolation that we were ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR THE WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 17 JUNE 2024 Riverside Drive/Riverside Avenue - road closure for 5 nights from 16 June (7.00pm to 6.00am) for carriageway resurfacing, including Invergowrie slip road and Perth Road slip road. Blinshall Street (Douglas Street to 50 metres south) - closed until December 2024 for construction works. Douglas Street (Blinshall Street to Brown Street) - temporary traffic lights until December 2024 for construction works. Brown Street (south of Douglas Street) - closed until December 2024 for construction works. Seafield Road, Dundee - closed from ...
Just when you thought that the Tory election campaign couldn't hit new depths, the Deputy poliical editor of the Daily Mail tweets that Rishi Sunak has managed to upset some major Tory donors. Anna Mikhailova reports that Sunak has pulled out of attending his party's Black and White Ball this week, despite the fact that tickets were on sale at £1,500 each, with him as the main guest. Already this week the shambolic Tory campaign has had to contend with a betting scandal involving the Prime Minister's parliamentary private secretary, an expenses scandal in the Welsh Senedd involving a shadow ...
