Patrick Creasey Chairman Ludlow Conservatives 54 Broad Street Ludlow SY8 1GP 7 May 2013 Dear Mr Creasey Open Letter: Request for a public apology over Ludlow Conservatives wasting police time During the election campaign, Martin Taylor-Smith made a complaint to the police over "criminal breach of copyright". This followed my use of an image from [...]
In what is almost becoming a daily update, here is the latest: 1) The Library will NOT close for repairs this Saturday after all. 2) It will be surveyed for asbestos next Friday (17th May). The survey may take a day, but it could also take two in which case it will be closed on Saturday 18th May too. 3) Planning after then depends on what the survey says. But there is another meeting next Monday (13th May) so it may well all change in a few days time... Someone badly needs to go on a project management course.
Alex Payton and Ruwan Uduwerage-Perera are duly elected Town Councillors for Newbury. Many congratulations to Alex and Ruwan! They will be first class councillors. Well done to Shaughan Dolan and team for a superb campaign! [IMG: Post to Twitter] Tweet This Post
On the Left Foot Forward blog, Phillip Souta (director of Business for New Europe) demolishes many of the Eurosceptic myths surrounding the EU. Souta warned that leaving the EU could jeopardise the 49 per cent of foreign direct investment stock in the UK that comes from other EU countries, as well incur significant import taxes for British goods entering the EU market. Souta also points out that the practical arrangments for life outside the EU simply haven't been thought through. All sound, rational arguments, which will give heart to pro-Europeans. The trouble is that most Eurosceptics aren't moved by rational ...
It was good to see Parliament Square in London ablaze with the flags of the 27 EU member states today; I hope some of more Eurosceptic MPs in the House of Commons opposite took note of where this country rightly belongs. Europe House (headquarters of the European Commission and European Parliament offices in London, in [...]
Wednesday 5 June 2013 1.30pm - 4.00pm St Patrick's Hall, Victoria Road, Consett, DH8 5AX The Churches Regional Commission has been working in partnership with Durham County Council to consider the distinctive contribution faith communities can and do make to the life of our County. The publication of 'Faith in Sustainable Communities' outlines some of this work and introduces a programme of conversation styled workshops reflecting on the Sustainable Community Strategy for County Durham. Five Key themes are at the heart of the Strategy: Altogether Wealthier; Altogether Better for children & young people; Altogether Healthier; Altogether Safer; Altogether Greener. Faith ...
I have been to Geddington and Hardingstone in Northamptonshire to see two of the three surviving Eleanor Crosses - the third is at Waltham Cross in Hertfordshire. Stamford is the site of one of the vanished crosses and a fragment of its cross used to be on show in the town museum. Now the museum has closed, the best place to try is the library. But when I was in Stamford on Monday I found that it has a new Eleanor cross. The website Stonebtb explains: It hasn't been the easiest of transitions from commission to construction but Wolfgang Buttress' ...
The House Magazine has a joint interview with these two leading Liberal Democrats on the challenges of being a female politician, what has changed in the last 50 years, and what still needs to change: Jo Swinson: Some things have changed for the better. Obviously we now have 146 women MPs - still nowhere near enough by the way, but we have significantly more. Women don't feel they can't attack other women in the chamber on a political basis. I don't think that there are as many personal attacks and I often find that if you look at the environment ...
I am not the first to link to this article, but if you have not yet read the field study of the Liberal Democrats by Fred Carver on his blog Who Rules Where you should hurry over there now. A taste: If you want to be an MP it helps to be rich, charismatic, likeable, hard-working, lucky, good with the media, have a good back story, have a solid track record with the party, and good at campaigning. But you don't need to be any of these things. The only thing you absolutely need is ridiculous, and I mean absolutely ...
Why did you decided to run? I decided to run because I felt I have something to offer basically. I am committed to the party and Liberal Youth and have the time and energy to invest in making Liberal Youth the best it can be. I decided on NPO because I feel my experience in [...]
Bristol's bid to be named 2015 European Green Capital, its third attempt, has got the full backing of the British government. Visiting the city on Wednesday, Liberal Democrat MP and Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Davey said to Bristol Insider: "Bristol did very well last time, and it's a case of making sure that all the things it is doing well are maximised - hopefully the
Labour can currently only run Calderdale Council by working in coalition, or by forming a weak minority administration. The later requires one of the other political groups to abstain and effectively hand them control. Whether we like it or not, the electorate of Calderdale have chosen (the share of the vote figures are: LD 24%; Lab 32%; Con 32%; Others 12%. ) a Council in which discussion and agreement need to be the order of the day. I was always brought up to believe that when you disagree with someone you try to seek a compromise. Coalition administrations are one ...
Why did you decide to run? I decided to run for Convenor because in the few months I have been doing the job I have realised just how much there is to do. Liberal Youth England is a new organisation which is just beginning to find its role in Liberal Youth and the wider party. [...]
Underground issues are causing the big puddles at the end of Ashdale Road when it rains heavily. [IMG: Ashdale-Sherburn Terrace ponding] That's the verdict of the drainage team who have been investigating the issue at my request. When they were jetting the drain they apparently came across a blockage/possible collapse. They have raised an order to carry out a drainage investigation & repair and they expect the work to be carried out in the next month. Fingers crossed that Summer really has started, then! And no doubt my older readers will recognise the reference to this sad councillor: "Johnny's on ...
A wise man said to me today: "are you going to write a new chapter for the book after you came third in your election?" The chapters in 101 Ways to Win an Election are each the same length as an LDV article so I thought, "why not!?" The first and most obvious point to make is to never stop learning. Each campaign has the potential to teach you something new. The trick is to learn the right lessons, which generally will come from listening carefully to what the voters are telling you about your campaign. In this election, in ...
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[IMG: NewMillCafeAnniversary] Thursday 9th May saw the ground floor hall at the New Mill Baptist Church filled with a greater than usual number of people who had called in for lunch and the company of their friends. This particular day was the first anniversary of the setting up of a regular Thursday lunchtime café by the Minister, Mr Andrew Openshaw and his wife Kate. Called "Le Moulin" (the Mill), a name which combines a reference to the location as well as to their years working in Northern France, the café offers a variety of hot meals and snacks as well ...
...because I know you are all dying to read them. First of all I am surprised that the Manchester United board have gone with a guy who whilst I think can do the job – has yet to prove his ability at the very top table. It is always good to bring through new blood and give (relatively) young managers a chance but Manchester United are a club listed on the NYSE and the share price is extremely important to the club. Until Moyes can prove it I suspect investors will be uneasy. Away from that though I am delighted ...
Nine months ago Nick Clegg made his Leader's speech to Conference in front of a backdrop featuring wind turbines. There followed months of speculation about the relationship between Lib Dem Energy Secretary Edward Davey and his junior Minister John Hayes, until the latter was moved. So were Clegg and Davey right to be so forthright in support? New polling numbers suggest so, despite what certain fossilised parts of the media would have us believe. Over the last year there's been a slew of opinion polls showing strong support for wind - as Davey said to the Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable ...
One of the fears many people have when getting older is the cost of care. It is often the case that people who have worked hard all their lives end up having to sell everything they own in order to pay for the cost of social care in old age. The Queen's speech contains a care bill that aims to simplify and modernize the framework for care and support. Most importantly it will implement a cap on car costs that people will spend in their lifetime. These historic reforms will give everyone more certainty and peace of mind over the ...
It is no coincidence that UKIP's rise is in line with popular concern about immigration. Or is it? It's true that Britain hasn't been quite this concerned with immigration since 2011, and everyone remembers those days two years ago when Farage's face beamed from every channel twenty four hours of the day. We've taken as [...]
Why did you decide to run? I've been wrestling with leaving the party for about 18 months, but around three weeks ago I came to the realisation that I couldn't do that and not be involved in politics. Instead I decided to take a stand for the things I believe are going wrong in our [...]
As a delegate at the last NUS conference, I was looking forward to the chance to vote for a policy motion that originated with Liberals at York University committing the NUS to lobby the government for drug policy reform, broadly in line with Liberal Democrat values on the subject. Unfortunately, the NUS conference suffers a chronic lack of time, and the motion was not debated. A procedural motion submitted just in time sent most of the undebated motions to the National Executive Council, the NUS exec. Today they met and news has just reached me that the motion (421) has ...
Writing for Public Service Europe, Lib Dem campaigner Richard Marbrow has an interesting piece on the distinctly geographical 'success' of Ukip. Here's an excerpt: For those of us who ply our politics in the north or the west of the United Kingdom, the inability of the British press to understand the existence of parts of the country more than an hour from London is a source of never ending frustration. The game changer of UKIP gains in the county council elections is a phenomenon largely contained in the South and East of England. Their breakthrough did not even extend into ...
South West Liberal Democrat MEP Sir Graham Watson has said enough is enough and is calling for Polyisobutylene, the chemical thought to be responsible for killing birds off the South West of England, to be banned. The senior MEP is urging the government and the European Commission to take action on the source of major pollution that has led to the washing up of nearly 3,000 birds off the Devon,
The British Eurosceptics are on the march again. Much of this is the usual stuff and nonsense, based on Ukip's good electoral performance last week, though that has more to do with an anti-politics mood, and worries over immigration, than EU membership. But of the noise has a more substantial basis. Former Conservative Chancellor and Europhile Nigel Lawson joined the fray with an article in The Times, shamelessly promoted by the BBC, advocating Britan's departure from the EU. I see today that another former Tory cabinet minister, Michael Portillo, has joined in, though I'm not sure if he was ever ...
This second in my present series of Maghull in Bloom postings concerns that piece of land outside the Royal Mail Sorting Office in Liverpool Road North Maghull. Readers will know I have often commented on the need to get this most prominent of grot spots sorted out. It looks as if further progress will soon be made as the Maghull in Bloom volunteers have been working on a plan to get the area properly landscaped. This was how it looked a few days ago; hardly attractive! Let's hope the volunteer's plans bring about that long required spruce up. I am ...
By most accounts you wouldn't think so. But he was one of the most successful managers in Scottish football before he took the helm at Manchester United. As manager of Aberdeen he broke the stranglehold of the old firm - winning three Championships, four Scottish cups, a League Cup and the European Cup Winners Cup - beating Real Madrid in the final. He also managed Scotland, St Mirren and East Stirlingshire.
[IMG: Princes Parade Meeting notice] Venue: Hythe Bay School - Main Hall, Cinque Ports Ave, Hythe CT21 6HS Date and time: Tuesday 14th May 6.30pm. The purpose of this meeting is to gather local people's views regarding the future of Prince's Parade and agree a course of community action. Refreshments will be available. www.saveprincesparade.org Saveprincesparade@yahooo.co.uk Tel: 01303 239159 Published and promoted by Tim Prater, 98a Sandgate High Street, Folkestone, CT20 3BYPrinted (hosted) by Prater Raines Ltd, 98 Sandgate High Street, Folkestone CT20 3BY
[IMG: EU flag - Some rights reserved by European Parliament] In Lancing in early 2013, in the heart of the Adur Valley region of English South Coast, our campaign team was putting together a strategy for the May 2013 county elections. Not long ago, Lancing and Sompting were Liberal-run towns. Lib Dem councillors had recently brought a French market to Lancing, and a local entrepreneur has just introduced direct flights to Paris from our airport in Shoreham. Local businesses export their products to Europe through Shoreham Port. Hundreds leave the South Coast in mobile homes, trains and planes for European ...
The Council is now ready to take in comments on the application for new housing at the junction of Greenhill Road and Booker Avenue (L18) The link for comments and other details are here. Most of the relevant information is in the "related documents" section which you'll find at the bottom of the page. The deadline for on line comments is shown as 6th June.
The snoopers charter is dead. Hurrah! Much consternation was caused yesterday, however, by this article from Mark Wallace on Conservative Home who picked up on this BBC story that the snoopers charter may not be quite as dead and buried as we thought. Cue much consternation in some Lib Dem circles and Stephen Tall swung into action and got some very firm assurances from Tim Farron and Julian Huppert that said charter is dead for this Parliament. One thing is certain; the Home Office will not be taking this setback lying down. After all, as I pointed out in March, ...
Here's today's hand-picked selection that caught my interest... EBuzzing Top Lib Dem Blogs, May 2013: hello again to three Lib Dem blogs | Mark Pack I'm still there, my existence validated > EBuzzing Top Lib Dem Blogs, May 2013 via @markpack > http://bit.ly/10sqOH0 Major North East Lib Dem figure quits to join with Labour – Chronicle Live Lib Dem ex-PPC Andrew Duffield quits party to join Labour http://bit.ly/10k7Zoe (Familiar figure from @libdemvoice comment threads) CentreForum: Three headliners for an alternative Queen's Speech | CentreForum Blog 3 good suggestions from @CentreForum for an alternative Queen's Speech http://bit.ly/10k7JFQ Queen's Speech: Lib Dem ...
I teach American politics to second year University students, and we recently discussed ballot fatigue in US elections. Ballot fatigue, or roll-off occurs when voters only fill out part of their ballot sheet. US voters get a much lengthier ballot sheet than us, and they have the opportunity to vote in a far greater number of elections... Upper-house, lower-house, Presidential, judicial, and so on... As a result, voters don't bother to vote at every opportunity... The average member of the electorate doesn't care about Lords Reform at the moment. They (and by they I include myself) are far too busy ...
John Pugh and IBB outside the Town Hall The ruling Bootle Labour cabal at Sefton council are keen to pile on to Southport residents extra taxes. We will soon have the Green Wheelie Bin Tax- a flat tax of £46, then we have the massive hike in car parking charges aimed at bring in £500,000 which will hit Southport's economy hard-85% of all parking charges are paid in Southport. So here are a few ways the could save some money. Southport Town Hall has been practically empty for months. I have raised this several times. I am repeated told there ...
In September waiting by the phone finally paid off, I was given my first ministerial position: Deputy Leader of the House of Commons. If I am perfectly honest, when the position was offered to me, I wasn't exactly sure what it would entail. I had to phone a friend (David Heath in case you are wondering) to find out! I have since learnt that my lack of awareness was at least partially excusable; much of what the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons does goes unseen, with its principal task, one of managing the precious resource that ...
guess the date? I'm writing this in the certain belief that Ronnie Fearn 'doesn't do computers'. 2013 marks his 50 years as a Southport Councillor and tonight at the Mayor Making there will be presentation to mark that achievement.So if you bump into him before the meeting this evening don't spoil the surprise. I did start writing up a fuller history of his contribution but it began to sound like an obituary and that seemed totally inappropriate as Ronnie is still very much alive. But just consider 50 years, 24 years longer that Alex Ferguson, and he topped the poll ...
Launching a civil society initiative on local election day might not be the best way to grab the attention of the party political, so I thought I'd mention the Fair Deal for Your Local campaign by CAMRA and other groups.This is essentially an opportunity to contribute to the government's consultation on Pubco reform (filling in the online survey doesn't take long at all); although there are also other elements to the campaign - yesterday there was a demonstration yesterday outside a pub in Witney where the landlord is threatened with eviction. Pubs at their best are based on face-to-face local ...
With his Severn Barrage project slowly sinking into the Severn Estuary, it seems that Peter Hain needed something else to keep him occupied yesterday so he decided to offer unsolicited advice to the Labour frontbench. Whether Ed Balls will appreciate being told that he and his team "need to get out on the stump now and work even harder" is a valid question. A poor work rate has never been one of the Shadow Chancellor's problems, rather he needs to adjust his policies so as to accept current economic realities. The former Secretary of State for Wales was keen to ...
This is the latest in my series of Random Thoughts posts with links, things found on the web and other stuff that has occurred to me between 30th April 2013 and 9th May 2013: Historical Figures for the 21st Century – Telegraph This gallery shows portraits of historical figures updated as if they were alive today. It is a really interesting and thought provoking idea — although I think in most of these examples they've got it wrong. For me the one that really does work is Nelson. The updated portrait is striking and seems to make him appear even ...
Cambridge MP Julian Huppert has been nominated to serve as a Vice President of the Local Government Association for the coming year. His nomination is expected to be ratified by the LGA General Assembly in July. He has held this post since 2010. Every year the four political groups at the LGA invite parliamentary representatives from the House of Commons, House of Lords, and European Parliament to be its Vice-Presidents Julian, who represented East Chesterton on Cambridgeshire County Council and was leader of the Lib Dem group before being elected at Cambridge's MP, said: "I am delighted to be nominated ...
So, I bunked off on Tuesday. I'd always half intended to, especially as it was a school holiday, and an opportunity to spend some time with Anna, but the fantastic weather meant that the laptop stayed firmly switched off and we headed off to the zoo. Earlier, I'd woken with a start. Maybe it was the unfamiliar surroundings. I'm not used to waking in my parents' spare room, seeing as we live just a few minutes' away, but we are staying here with my wonderful niece Laura, who's down for her uni exams. Anyway, I woke up thinking I should ...
This morning, I had a go at setting out some of the strange experience it has been writing on class. You can read it on Lib Dem Voice: There was I trying to weave a new political narrative that could potentially unite most classes behind it, and the interest and support has been wonderful - but the abuse has been extraordinary too. I got 750 comments on my Comment is Free article for the Guardian earlier in the week, some of them supportive, some of them downright insane. Part of the problem seems to me that any mention of ...
I'm currently working my way through Alex Haslam's book Psychology in Organizations – The Social Identity Approach. One of the more intriguing pieces of research it presents is on the impact of systematic and random leader selection on group performance. A study conducted by Haslam and others(*) came to the conclusion that if a group has a specific goal to achieve and you want to maintain or strengthen that group, you're better off choosing your leader at random – provided that the group already has a salient social identity and actually wishes to achieve the goal set. Paradoxically however, leaders ...
South Central Region have discussed (or is it more appropriate to say disgusted) and passed a motion against Pay Day Loans at our Regional conference in the autumn of 2012. The notion of such loans is valid: provide a small short term loan for those in need to help them through immediate financial hardship. Unfortunately, exploitation is what we get. Here are some facts about these loans: • Which estimates over 800,000 UK households have taken out payday loans; • The Consumer Credit Counselling Service says over 2,000 of their clients in 2012 have had five or more payday loans, ...
I have been trying to weave a new political narrative out of the plight of the middle classes. I've no idea whether I'll be successful or not, but I have learned that you gargle with the word 'class' at your peril. One fact alone should tell the story. If house prices rise in the next three decades like they did in the last, the average home will be worth £1.2 million. Does anyone really believe average wages will rise enough for our children or grandchildren to afford to buy or rent a home, certainly in London and the south east? ...
This morning it is hitting the news that Nick Clegg is opposing or Not convinced by the Government's proposals to adjust the ratios of Children to staff in nurseries across the country. The ratio will be increased to 1:4 (from 1:3) for babies and up to 1:6 for two year olds. There are some concerns that your child will not necessarily get the attention they may need. Two year olds are exceptionally boisterous and into everything - which I am finding out for myself - and I have trouble keeping up with one let alone six! The level of quality ...
As we expected, the Queen's Speech yesterday did not include a revised "snooper's charter". Well, mostly – the Guardian thinks otherwise, but whilst there are areas where the Civil Service are still pushing for better tools to tackle the war-on-terrorists-and-paedophiles they've chosen a different tack this time. The general impression I've received from the briefing notes is that whoever prepared them has no idea what they are asking for. Here is the except from the Queen's Speech Briefing Notes (PDF link, page 74). I am quoting this at length because the language is important to the following discussion. When communicating ...
This article appeared in last week's Rail Professional. There have been three major Railway announcements in the past couple of months, and on two of them I believe ...
American Media is fascinating, with a culture of talk shows, personality, and partisanship that we just don't have here in the UK. My favourite is the quite brilliant Rachel Maddow, not particularly because i always agree with her (although I often do,) but because she makes deals with serious issues in a way that is ...
One element missing from the Queen's Speech was the Communications Data Bill, aka the 'snoopers' charter'. No surprise to Lib Dems: Nick Clegg torpedoed it last month. So I had a momentary spasm of concern to see on ConservativeHome this story from Mark Wallace: The Snoopers' Charter comes sneaking back. Again. I asked Lib Dem MP Julian Huppert (who's played a crucial role in safeguarding civil liberties this parliament, including on this Bill) if there were any truth in it, and got an immediate reply... @stephentall @wallaceme it's not coming back. At least this parliament. — Julian Huppert (@julianhuppert) May ...
posted The Blood is The Life 08-05-2013 http://t.co/42ekfzlh2e on #dreamwidth (tags: (from twitter) dreamwidth ) Snoopers' charter reemerging | Digital Politico Gah. Kill it with fire! Stupid zombie legislation. (tags: ) Controlling immigration: the snake oil of our time "The British economy is in deep distress and crying like a baby, not conscious of or unable to express the source of its discomfort. The other leaders were standing over the cot arguing about whether it is hungry or thirsty or teething or has colic. Farage has stepped into the nursery, picked it up, and put a dummy in its ...
[IMG: Lynne Featherstone MP at Alexandra Palace, with the television tower in the background] What fantastic news to wake up to - Alexandra Palace has been awarded an £800k grant to get its restoration plans off the ground! This will be followed by a whopping £16.8million for construction work, once the plans have been finalised. The team at Ally Pally want to transform the eastern wing, by bringing the Victorian theatre and BBC studios back to life and making it accessible to the public. The local Liberal Democrats have been campaigning for 15 years for proper plans to revamp the ...
Deep down, what is the true source of UKIP's appeal? Recent posts here have discussed UKIP supporters' resentment at everything that's happened since 1963 and that the only thing they like about Britain is the past. 1963 seems to be a key turning point, and not just because of Philip Larkin's poem. The significance of that year was analysed in an article by Stuart Jeffries in the Guardian. Jeffries acknowledges that everything didn't suddenly change in 1963. But 1963 was significant as the year of the Profumo scandal, when the hypocrisies of the establishment were laid bare. It was also ...
The credible news that Labour's canvass contact rate in the South Shield constituency before its recent Parliamentary by-election was just 0.2% has triggered a debate in the party about the importance of canvassing. Over on LabourList, Jessica Assato makes this point which is applicable to all parties: Street stalls, noisy protests, community clean-ups and coffee mornings are important in the mix. But what about all those people who you miss?... It is no surprise that people feel disengaged when no one political has ever knocked on their door and spoken to them about their noisy neighbours or their need for ...
The Guardian's Martin Kettle has an acute analysis — This is the beginning of the end for the coalition — of what the Queen's Speech has revealed about the Coalition Government. It's 20 years since Norman Lamont, smarting from being sacked as Chancellor by John Major, accused the Tories' last majority government of 'giving the impression of being in office but not in power'. Well, the Coalition is in office and it is in power (the big long-term reforms from Steve Webb on pensions and Norman Lamb on social care show that). But it is no longer in harmony. Instead ...
Leaving aside the pure coincidence of the timing of Nadine Dorries' readmission into the Parliamentary Conservative party...nothing to do with last weeks election results noooo. One is compelled to ask what precisely was the point of the suspension she received and did it really achieve anything? I think its time to confess to a guilty secret - I quite like Nadine. Don't get me wrong, I don't like the vast majority of her views, her policies or her politics. But in a Parliament of time servers and drones (even if this is by recent standards a rebellious Parliament) she shows ...
Since the election last week produced a council in which no single party has overall control, there has been much speculation about how an administration might be formed. The Liberal Democrats have said that we are seeking to be part of a 'rainbow alliance' comprising all of the groups on the authority. With discussions on-going, it is not helpful to give a running commentary, but our aims are set out in a letter that newly re-elected Lib Dem group leader Jeremy Rowe* sent to other groups last night. To: All members of the Council Dear Colleagues I am writing to ...
Yesterday, I was one of a number of councillors who met with disability campaigners at County Hall. The campaigners were protesting about the re-election of Collin Brewer to the authority after his well publicised comments about disabled children. One of the councillors who spoke was my colleague Jade Farrington. Jade is disabled having had her left femur replaced with a metal prosthesis following cancer as a child. Jade said that she is deeply ashamed to be sharing a council chamber with Collin Brewer. Jade went on to acknowledge that, having been re-elected by the voters of Wadebridge East, there is ...
[IMG: Container Ship] Congratulations to Roberto Azevedo, who, it has just been announced, will take over from Pascal Lamy as the head of the World Trade Organisation later this year. Azevedo, a Brazilian diplomat, beat off Herminio Blanco, a former Mexican finance minister who had the backing of many developed countries. The most obvious and pressing task facing Azevedo is to rescue the so-called Doha Round of world trade talks, which stalled in 2008 and have made little progress since. In the absence of global progress, a number of bilateral trade talks have sprung up, most recently between the European ...
The Dundee Festival of Volunteering takes place during the first week of June and the festival brochure is now available and can be downloaded here. It is great to see the large number of events that are taking place right across the city and the West End figures prominently in these, including : * An older people's drop in event * A Tayside Museums event* Skillshare's Bicycle Repair Class* Starter Packs' drop in events* Bonnie Dundee Group litter pick - Perth Road, University Campus, Seabraes and the Science Centre* Graffiti clean-up - in the Douglas Street area
It will take more than a £9.5 million fleet upgrade for the Welsh Ambulance Trust to improve performance and service delivery. Whilst the Welsh Liberal Democrats have welcomed the cash boost for the ambulance fleet, they have highlighted the deep rooted and systemic problems within the Welsh Ambulance Trust and the Welsh NHS. A performance report for April 2012 to January 2013 revealed that the Ambulance Trust has an internal target for 52% of ambulances to arrive within 4 minutes if a patient has suffered from cardiac arrest, yet only 30% of ambulances reached this target. The 100% target for ...
Here is the shorter Nick Clegg: "The members of my party are a bunch of romantic amateurs with no interest in winning power. They've been useful in the past delivering the leaflets but, now we modernisers have taken over and single-handedly put ourselves in government, they can all fuck off." Here is the longer version. Following the Liberal Democrats' net loss of councillors in last Thursday's local elections, Clegg made a dubious claim: "The Liberal Democrats are on a journey from a party of protest to a party of government."This questionable narrative was demolished yesterday in a post on Liberal ...
