News has reached LOWA Towers from my sources in the SNP of the draft wording of the question Scots voters may be asked in the 2014 referendum. I have also been given a sneek preview of the rushes of the first SNP broadcast. However I am wondering whether either will get past the electoral authorities. "Do you agree with Scottish first minister Alex Salmond that Scotland should throw off the English yolk or do you agree with English, Eton educated toff David Cameron that they should continue to lord it over us?"
This evening I took part in a lively and well-attended debate at the University College London (UCL) Debating Society, speaking on behalf of a proposition in favour of international intervention in Syria. I pointed out that there already has been intervention of various kinds on both sides of the conflict for several months, with the Russians, Iran ...
One of my best friends, [IMG: [twitter.com profile] ] kittystryker, is suicidal and has gone missing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her cellphone is off and she's believed to be headed for one of the bridges. Her girlfriend, family and I are all really concerned about her welfare. There are people out there looking for her, including the authorities, but as her girlfriend and I live in the UK, and her family live on the east coast, we're all feeling very cut off and useless. This is her: https://instagr.am/p/QlqPMPtvjE/media/?size=l if you can do anything at all (even if it's ...
Mon 15th
22:42
Conservative party moves to exercise mass EU justice opt-out condemned as 'Tory Euroscepticism gone ...
This afternoon in the House of Commons Home Secretary Theresa May confirmed that her Conservative party in Government will look to exercise the existing opt-out of more than 130 European crime and justice measures, a move that the leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg has said he and his party will oppose. Addressing MPs on their first day back from the Conference season recess, Mrs May
St George's was designed by Joseph Hansom and his brother Charles and opened on 4 September 1850. A month later, says the church's website, the Catholic Hierarchy was re-established in England (read more on The Victorian Web) and the See of Beverley was created and St George's became the cathedral church for the whole of Yorkshire, a status it enjoyed until the present St Wilfrid's was built in 1864.The church, like its neighbouring girls' school, was built to serve the growing Irish population in the Walmgate area of York. The Walmgate Story describes what the nuns who came to teach ...
Like many, if not most, Lib Dems I strongly support the lowering of the voting age to 16. The arguments for doing so are many and powerful, and hardly need to be repeated here. Suffice to say, I cannot understand how it is justifiable to allow 16 and 17 year olds to marry, drive, join the army ...
Adrian Sanders tweeted this picture of himself and Brian May earlier today. It was taken at a Westminster meeting to plan the campaign against the cull of badgers. It reminded me that an earlier post on this blog featured a future member of Queen and a future Liberal MP.
If you are a particularly diligent stalker of mine (a) hello! and (b) you may be wondering why I've not covered the Financial Times's story about how the Liberal Democrats might back the Parliamentary boundary changes after all, in return for the introduction of party funding reforms. I've not covered it for a simple reason: it ain't going to happen. In fairness to the FT (and I mean that genuinely, as their Lib Dem stories are usually pretty well sourced*), this seems more to be a case of bizarre Conservative wishful thinking. Had some sort of deal involving party funding ...
"All they wanted me to do was abuse them, sexually, which, of course, I was only too happy to do.""Girls used to queue up outside oral sex they were particularly keen on, I remember one of my regular customers, as it were, turned out to be 13, though she looked older."Those two quotations (and they are from John Peel not Jimmy Savile) both describe life in the 1960s. Both are taken from a Julie Burchill article on Peel. She attributes the first to a Guardian interview from 1975 and the second to one he gave the long-forgotten Sunday Correspondent in ...
Commenting on the cancellation of Serbia's Pride Festival for the second year in succession, Antony Hook said, "I agree entirely with the view expressed by the Swedish Liberal Foreign Ministerst, Birgitta Ohlson, that Serbia's stated desire to join the EU cannot be entertained until progress is made on the Serbian authorities' protection of minority groups, ...
Yesterday evening I blogged about George Parker's claim in in the FT that "senior Conservatives" are preparing to offer the Liberal Democrats millions in state funding in return for Lib Dem support for their cherished plans for boundary reforms. Lib Dem HQ has been busy rubbishing the story, pointing us to Nick Clegg's "Nothing will change my mind on that" when answering questions as deputy prime minister last month. There has been another, more alarming, story going around about the Tories exploring what they could offer to the Nationalists and Norther Ireland MPs to win their support for boundary reforms. ...
Workplace rights have been hard-fought for and no circumstances on earth to justify whittling them away in exchange for financial bribes. So you can imagine how disappointed I was reading Vince Cable, in today's Lib Dem Voice, ...
I don't have much time for blog posting at the moment, but I couldn't let the release of the latest Faction Paradox short story collection go without at least a short review. (Ob. disclaimer — I know several of the authors in this collection, as well as the publisher, in a friendly-on-Twitter-and-Facebook kind of way. ...
The meeting starts at 7.00 pm, Bulbourne Room, Civic Centre. 4/01039/12/FUL Change of Use from D1 Medical/Health Care to C2 Inpatients Care St Pauls Unit, Slippers Hill, Hemel Hempstead HP2 5XT 4/01667/12/LBC Remove Ground Floor Timber Boarding and Joists to Grasshopper Room, Removal of Tiled-on-Earth Floor to Dragonflies Room, Excavation of Subsoil to lay Limecrete Floor and Unglazed Quarry Tiles on Lime Mortar. Renewal of Timber Joists in Basement St Nicholas Nursery, Bennets End House, Eastwick Row, Hemel Hempstead HP2 4JQ 4/00342/11/FUL Replacement and Resiting of Side Boundary Fence 1, The Laurels, Potten End, Berkhamsted HP4 2SP 4/00965/12/FHA Demolition of ...
LibDemVoice's surveys of party members signed-up to our discussion forum have been running for well over three years now. (I posted at the weekend the final set of figures from our most recent poll.) Our surveys are a way of testing members' views on a variety of hot topics. And as they've been running throughout the first two years of the Coalition they're also an interesting record of changing views on how the Coalition is regarded within the party. If you would like to take part in the LibDemVoice surveys, there are simply two steps you need to follow: 1) ...
Progressively over the last few years, the campaigning restrictions on Liberal Democrat internal selections – such as for picking our candidates for public election or electing party committees – have been progressively relaxed. I've frequently been one of those leading the push for changes as I think more campaigning makes for a healthier party – it makes for a better informed and more engaged membership, which leads to greater support for what the party does and more enthusiastic campaigning for our candidates. The best rules in the world still require people to make good use of them. So I'm very ...
Following the Capital of the West County's great bid presentation and near success back in June for the status of European Green Capital 2014, the team behind the Bristol Green Capital Bid have been working hard to meet today's 5pm deadline for entries to compete for the 2015 title. After much effort (and much caffeine) it appears all is in order and the application has been successfully
Have you ever thought how you would live if someone you loved went missing? How would you cope? What would you do? Could you get on with your life if they were gone for a prolonged period of time? Would you be able to keep hope for their return alive? And how would you react if they did return? According to Missing People, around 250,000 people go missing in the UK alone each year. Of those, an estimated 140,000 are under 18. Whilst people will go missing for a whole host of reasons - fleeing abusive relationships within the home ...
In a Tale of Two Conferences there seems to be a desparity of thinking between the two Coalition parties. George Osborne has proposed saving another £16bn from the budget by 2016/7 harvesting from the Welfare system in savings rather than rising taxes. Vince Cable and the Libdem conference voted in favour of Mansion taxes to hit homes valued over £2m as rich internationals can hide their money abroad but they can't move their houses. Which one is more in line with the public view of things? Fair enough the Conservatives are not talking about rising taxes BUT if you are ...
Reading old news coverage with the advantage of hindsight can evoke all sorts of emotions, burnishing or rubbishing the reputations of journalists and pundits depending on how event subsequently turned out. Yet it is hard not to read old coverage of Jimmy Savile with anything other than a bitter sense of sympathy for journalists who got close but not quite there with their stories. Take this interview with Jimmy Savile, conducted by Lyn Barber for The Independent on Sunday in 1990: There has been a persistent rumour about him for years, and journalists have often told me as a fact: ...
http://www.ft.com/ reckons that the Tories are trying to hatch a plot to buy the Lib Dem vote to support electoral boundary review, but goes on to add that the LIb Dems would reject the cash if offered.
ALDC's Annual General Meeting took place on Saturday 23rd September at the Grand Hotel, Brighton. We were pleased to welcome roughly 180 members of the Association, one of our best-ever attendances! Reports Chief Executive Tim Pickstone reported on ALDC's work over the year, and on the new Development Officer roles and their work with local parties across the country. Treasurer Mike Ward gave ALDC's financial report, which will be made available for members in our online File Library. Membership Fee It was proposed by the Management Committee, and unanimously passed, that ALDC membership fees be frozen at their current level. ...
Training This year, we offered training in three sections; Essential Skills, Local Government Policy, and E-Campaigning. We also tried a new kind of event - the workshop-style Activists Network. The format needs fine-tuning, but the idea of conversational training events for experienced campaigners was widely welcomed. We also worked with Elections & Skills to host a three hour seminar on the upcoming Police Commissioner Elections. Fringe Our Fringe schedule was a great success. On Saturday, we held our 2012 AGM (see separate report). Sunday was our main day for Fringe events. In the afternoon, we welcomed ALDC memers to our ...
Monday: "What four pledges would you put on the front of the next Lib Dem manifesto?" If you're following the Liberal Democrats internal elections at all, you'll have been reading closely the answers submitted to Jennie Rigg's questionnaire for candidates, and that is the second question. But there's a problem with this approach: those pledges have to do two jobs - they have to DIFFERENTIATE us but they also have to be DELIVERABLE. The need to have "red lines" that we can be sure the other Parties will agree to is making us pick BLAND, CAUTIOUS, "MORE OF THE SAME" ...
It is a general rule of life that the longer a document is, the less it matters. I have just read all 1,374 pages of the Strategic Environmental Assessment for the revocation of the South East Plan, published last week. Does this document matter? Not one jot, except for one important lesson, which I'll come to in a moment. Everything regional is out of favour at the moment. Quite rightly, too. When I lived in Oxfordshire I did not feel that I belonged to "the South East". Now I live in Shropshire, I do not for a moment consider that ...
I am not sure where I finally lost it with Minsk. It could have been on the corner of Lenin and Karl Marx streets or maybe walking down Kirov or Sverdlov street or any one of a dozen or so streets named after the brutal thugs who followed the gangster Lenin and his depraved Soviet creed. The Soviet demonology was of course missing its chief demon and near anagram of Satan- Stalin- but still the streets of Minsk proclaimed Soviet power unvarnished with hyphens or humanity. The Soviet era flag, the Militia, and the KGB all survive in "Europe's last ...
The government are changing housing benefits from April 2013. When ever a government changes benefits or taxes there is bound to be some anxiety from those who receive them. Whilst I acknowledge that such changes are an opportunity for opposition parties to hit the government, there is a fine line between highlighting and scrutinising the actions of government and scaring people in their
Well it has been a good what 18 months or so since the website TubeCrush made small waves in the media. If you have never heard of TubeCrush it is a website where people can send pictures they have taken of men on the underground and if these men are scored at a six out of ten or higher by the people behind the site then they will put the photo on the website for people to vote on and decide whether they are attractive or not. Seems pretty harmless enough but while the site has sporned versions in New ...
For some people, it's 'Danger: high voltage'; for others, 'This won't hurt', or 'For the children'. For me, the most threatening three-word combination in the English language is 'New and Improved'. Usually, it heralds that sinking feeling when you return from your local Giant SupermarketTM to find your favourite korma sauce, scotch eggs or even shower gel suddenly cheap and tasteless, with whatever it was you liked about them jettisoned to cut costs. After five decent-ish years with Waitrose Broadband, Richard and I returned from Brighton to the new and improved John Lewis Broadband. Can you guess what happened next? ...
According to Vince Cable "No one keeps their cash in tax havens for the quality of investment advice; these are sunny places for shady people." True to form, Vince hit the nail squarely on its head with a whammy of a quote, and how we all clapped enthusiastically. But who actually piles the cash into these rogues' coffers in the first place? It could be you. Many of our enthusiastic clappers routinely rock up outside Boots, on a sunny Saturday, aggressively jabbing angry posters-on-sticks skywards, in tandem with chants of "Boycott Boots! Boycott Boots!" Ultra-cool agitprop will require you to ...
This is a conversation Richard Kemp has had recently with a Tory councillor. RK: Why is the Tory Party obsessed with gay marriage and Europe? Tory: Yes no-one really cares about these things outside the Party RK: So where do you stand on these issues? Tory: I'm in favour of Europe and gay marriage! RK: Aren't you in the wrong Party? Tory: MMMMM!! Continue Reading
The IFS has today released initial findings from a report into the changes in Higher Education finance, saying the new system introduced by the Coalition is 'substantially more progressive'. The report says: "The average student will also be better off while at university, enjoying an increase in cash support of some 12 per cent." "The poorest 29 per cent of graduates will actually be better off under the new system [and the others will pay more]." "Low-earning graduates benefit from the increase in the earnings threshold, which (combined with the debt write-off after 30 years) ensures that the majority of ...
Only a week after George Osborne announced it at the Tory Conference, and we finally have a public comment from a senior Liberal Democrat on it. It's Vince Cable who rides out with an article for Liberal Democrat Voice and as you'd expect from the renowned champion of the left of the party and former Labour member, it's a resounding defence of workers' right against any encroachment by the bosses. Only kidding. This time, Vince's cavalry aren't riding out to save the day but to put the boot in by announcing that the Osborne plan is absolutely fine by him. ...
Mon 15th
14:55
Final Call - Applications For Campaign for Gender Balance's "Future Women MPs" Weekend
This has already been widely publicised through CGB's mailing lists and at joint WLD/ CGB events in Brighton, but, for any LDV readers who may have missed it, here are details again. Please note the deadline for applications was today but has now been extended until Monday 22 October. FUTURE WOMEN MPs WEEKEND 23rd - 25th November 2012 London •Designed specifically for future stars of the party, no matter what stage you are at! •Offers expert women-only training on all aspects of the process of standing for Parliament. •Opportunity for individual advice and guidance from top trainers and mentors. •Fantastic ...
The Welsh Liberal Democrats voted to withdraw NHS funding from hospital chaplaincy services this weekend at its Autumn Conference. Instead it wants to see chaplaincy services funded by a charitable trust. In reality, especially in Wales, this will mean the effective end of this service within our hospitals. This is in the context of the 2010/11 ONS Integrated Household Survey which shows that 66.1% of the population of Wales identify themselves as Christian with a further 3.4% identifying themselves as followers of other faiths (predominantly Muslim). This represents not only a potential defeat for the NHS Chaplaincy Service in Wales ...
Last week at the Conservative Party conference the Chancellor announced a new equity ownership scheme. His proposed scheme, targeted at small companies, is entirely voluntary and cannot be forced upon employees. It would offer employees shares (from £2,000 to £50,000) in their business in exchange for certain employment rights. The shares are Capital Gains Tax free – which if the company grows extremely fast is a valuable offer. The scheme has had a mixed reaction. However a few important points need to be made about his proposal: This is categorically not a case of us allowing no-fault dismissal – a ...
So asked the Fabian Society at Labour conference two weeks ago. I've struggled to find the time to write in the last couple of weeks. Part of this is workload - in the last four weeks I've worked at five weddings and a party conference, which rather sounds like an idea for a film. Added to this is the inevitable effect a 13-week of baby has on both production and inclination. But I do want to discuss this matter. There are several reasons. Firstly, I am a pluralist and I believe that discussion of the nature of British politics is ...
In the 2010 general election it was the norm for all candidates to have a website, blog, Facebook page and Twitter account. Social media were spreading, even back then, and becoming a way for politicians to reach out to the people they represent, not just as a news outlet, but, as Tom Brake recently wrote on Lib Dem Voice, a method for opening a two-way communication with the electorate. But now, with the spread of smart phones, we are entering an age where the politicians can add another weapon to their arsenal. An app! In the UK we are yet ...
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Liberal Youth Scotland calls for Votes@16 Votes at 16 has been brought back onto the political agenda, with discussions about the franchise for the Scottish independence referendum in 2014 being lowered to 16. This decision is probably one of the most important ones we will take in our lives, and young people's views must be ...
The No More Page 3 Campaign hurtles towards 50,000 signatures, and has attracted the backing of some more Liberal Democrat MPs, MSPs and councillors. Julian Huppert, Tom Brake and Stephen Williams have signed up, along with Alison McInnes MSP, Sarah Ludford MEP and Ruth Dombey the Leader of Sutton Borough Council. I asked Julian Huppert on Twitter why he supported the campaign and this was his reply: I'm pleased to see this - but there are still a good 50 Lib Dem MPs who have yet to sign. If you know any of them, why not contact them and tell ...
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the EU on Friday was met with predictable derision from the likes of Nigel Farage, who described it the decision as "baffling," and leader of the Tory MEPs Martin Callanan, who said ... Continue reading →
Last Thursday Mr Cameron gave a speech to the upper echelons of the Imperial War Museum, a couple of Government ministers and the press. It was special for two reasons. 1. I was there, not in the room but down the corridor working security and holding the PM's door open. 2. A further £5m has been pledged to the Museum's regeneration project and the Centenary World War One Gallery. Indeed, in little over two years the Country will be marking and remembering the start of World War One, the largest war the world had seen since the fall of Napoleon ...
Editor's note: This composite leader's conference speech was written last Thursday, well before Andrew Rawnsley published a similar piece. Today we gather in a generic city with a bit of regeneration. It is good to get out of the Westminster bubble. It's hard being outside the bubble. Some people outside the bubble don't like us. But, then, not everyone inside the bubble likes us either. What counts is that I have a photogenic wife. I have children and parents just like hard-working decent families, who do the right thing, have children and parents. I would like to congratulate everyone who ...
There are fair site owners who do not take advantage of park home residents, but too many are unscrupulous, as this BBC report shows. South Wales West AM Liberal Democrat Peter Black is fighting for park home residents in Wales. His private members' bill, aimed at reforming the civil legislation surrounding mobile home sites, is due to go before the assembly later this month.
Time was when you knew exactly what the parties' positions on secret courts would be – Labour would look to expand it as far as possible while rebranding them as 'community courts', the Tories would insist that private companies could manage secrecy better than the Government ever could and Liberal Democrats would be against it. As the vote at Conference a couple of weeks ago showed, the vast majority of Liberal Democrats remain opposed to any proposals for secret courts, but there are some within Parliament who've let themselves go native and listen to the securocratss demands for more power. ...
It has long become clear that the financial crisis has been on a scale deeper and larger than many people have suspected. It has also been exacerbated by muddled policy responses from all Governments and policy makers. Whilst the need to control debt is not in doubt, capital expenditure projects should be pursued and tighter ...
This morning the Government announced their next steps on the West Coast Main Line franchise. Virgin will continue for up to 13 months, then there will be two-year contract, then a full franchise bid. This is the right decision. I ... Continue reading →
The right-wing, who have been rocking the leadership boat for David Cameron, have been dealt with. With some PR mastery, that has relaunched him. Even the threat of Boris seems to have melted away. Cameron is now considered a "real Tory" amongst activists after Osborne provided some red-blooded Tory announcements. He has removed any questions about his leadership, for now, if he can steamroller the Lib Dems with a further £10bn of benefit cuts, the shelving of any taxes on wealth labelled as "resentful" and, their shares-for-rights resurrection of Beecroft's proposals. Will the Lib Dems lie down like good coalition ...
Reblogged from Niles's Blog: Yesterday we rang for a service at Daybrook St Pauls for the last time for a good few months. Our tower captain's decades of fundraising have finally paid off and the bells are due a big renovation, including some tuning work, and a new frame, lower in the tower. They have ...
Jo Shaw and I may currently be competitors in the elections for the Federal Executive, but that doesn't mean I can't take time out of my day to back her continuing campaign against secret courts. Her motion against the Government's Justice and Security Bill provided the only real defeat for the leadership at Conference. In a thrilling debate, Conference representatives overwhelmingly rejected the idea of secret courts. You can see my assorted collection of tweets from the debate here and Jo's proposing speech was published in full on Liberal Democrat Voice here. She said: Personally I cannot imagine being able ...
Sign up to the Dispatch Box, the new weekly political e-magzine from digitalpolitico.net Yesterday British number one Heather Watson won a WTA tournament, coming back from three match points down to win in Japan. Yesterday British number one Andy Murray ... Continue reading →
We need to talk about Ivan « sturdyblog (tags: ) Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates — NEJM I guess those of us who can't eat chocolate are doomed to go stupid then? (tags: ) How the BBC betrayed the NHS: an exclusive report on two years of censorship and distortion | openDemocracy I'm not convinced by the factual basis of a lot of the claims in this, but it's still interesting (tags: ) Peter Black: Badger cull under fire again (tags: ) [IMG: comment count unavailable] comments
Today is Blog Action Day and the theme this year is the Power of We. It is easy to feel powerless as an individual when looking at the global issues of poverty. Most people can't donate huge sums of money and, as individuals, have limited resources but, the rationale is, even if we are only able to donate a small amount regularly and other people are able to do the same, then the Power of We takes over. All those small actions add up and become a powerful force to help others. One of my favourite charities is TreeAid, who ...
Ladies and gentlemen, will someone please go and inform the people flamewarring heroically on the PHP threads, interrupt the Pythonistas from their academic seminars, and the Rubists from their investor meetings, let the C++ purists out of their caves (and let them breathe real air again): We Have Found It. The Winner. The Best Language Ever – they can stop arguing and go home. Who knew? Lisp was the answer all along. Apparently syntax has a meaning when looking at natural language. This is of course lost on computer programmers like me, who know syntax as a tangled web of ...
The Guardian reports : Nick Clegg has declined to back the campaign to ban page 3 girls from the Sun, on the grounds that the state should not dictate the content of newspapers. In an interview on BBC Radio 5 Live, the deputy prime minister said it would be "deeply illiberal" for the state to dictate what appears in newspapers...Clegg was asked by Shelagh Fogarty, the Radio 5 presenter, if he would support the page 3 ban during a live broadcast from Sheffield. "No, no, no," he said. "I've got three little sons so I don't have page 3 showing ...
I am standing for election to the Lib Dem Federal Policy Committee in the party elections this month. The main plank of my platform is that I will fight for the connection between party members and national policy-making to be maintained whilst we are in government. My key policy priorities are: Further economic stimulusCivil libertiesEvidence based drugs policyElectoral reform I have a Facebook campaign page here where I have outlined my views in other policy areas too and I have answered Jennie Rigg's excellent and probing candidate questions here. You can find answers from some of the other candidates on ...
Haven't done one of these for a few weeks, because I've not been notified of any new applications over the last couple of weeks, which means we have just one: 121499: Advertisment consent for fascia sign and advertising, Queen Street. Please note that I am a member of the Council's Planning Committee for the next municipal year. This means that I'm required to act in a 'quasi-judicial' manner with regard to applications before the Committee and as such, can't make comments in favour or against planning applications as I may then have pre-judged them before they come to Committee. I ...
Come and see Bury town centre in a whole new light from 6pm until late on Saturday 20 October. Venues across the town will open their doors and invite you to enjoy a wonderful mix of arts, music, performance, workshops, tours and much more. There will be plenty to entertain explorers of all ages and interests. Bury Light Night programme of events The Bury Light Night programme of events is being supported by: The Rock Retail and Leisure; Mill Gate Shopping Centre; The Met Arts Centre, East Lancashire Railway, Manchester Airport, Visit Blackpool and Pennine Telecom. Organisers of Bury Light ...
You can tell that Tories are in Government – suddenly, everything has a price and nothing has a value. After last week's discussions over the 'trade your employment rights away for a handful of magic beans shares' proposal, we now have reports that Nick Clegg has been offered a deal over state funding of political parties in exchange for letting the boundary review go through. What would be interesting to find out about this policy is who leaked it, because the very act of reporting it has made the likelihood of it happening drop down to effectively zero. It's clear ...
The BBC reports: The Botswana High Court has overturned a customary law which prevented women from inheriting the family home. The judge ruled that the law contravened the constitution, which guarantees equality for men and women. Edith Mmusi and her sisters have fought a five-year legal battle after their nephew said he was the rightful owner of their house.
Corby station closed in 1966, reopened between 1987 and 1990 for a shuttle service to Kettering and was rebuilt on an adjacent site in 2009. It now enjoys an hourly service to St Pancras, with occasional trains venturing north to Oakham and Melton Mowbray. If it had been reopened a few years earlier (or today), Corby might have got no more than a couple of bus shelters. But it had the good fortune to have its station built at a time when there was money to throw at such projects, so it got a substantial building complete with coffee bar. ...
I have voiced concern at the continued lack of road safety markings at the very busy Logie Street/City Road junction. The junction used to have a "yellow box" painted at the junction to allow throughput of vehicles turning right from Logie Street into City Road and to assist road safety, but these have worn away and I have requested the City Council tackles the issue as soon as possible given the heavy vehicle use of this junction. I have raised the matter several times with the City Council's Roads Maintenance Partnership since March of this year and have now asked ...
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Charles says he has been driven to stand for these Federal committees by two key concerns:One is the diminishing internal democracy that I perceive in the Party, with Conference being increasingly manipulated and controlled. The other is what I perceived as a totally unnecessary debacle that was the Health Bill and our Party's response to it. His answers for FCC are( under the cut ) His answers for FPC are( under the cut ) You can find links to all the other candidates' answers here [IMG: comment count unavailable] comments
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Chris White, Liberal Democrat county councillor for St Albans Central, has called for action over the junction between Victoria Street and St Peter's Street. Chris said: 'This junction was never ideal, with large numbers of pedestrians and vehicles. 'But lately I am hearing more and more concerns about safety. Pedestrians find it very difficult to read traffic movements and cars are often caught straddling the junction because of queues along Chequer Street and Hatfield Road. 'At the very least the county council needs to look at providing a yellow box junction and I have written to ask them to do ...
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