Welcome to Broxtowe Enews, brought to you by the Liberal Democrats and edited by David Watts, the leader of the Lib-Dems on Broxtowe Borough Council. May I give a special welcome to the new readers that we have this week. 1. Tram WorksIt appears that the seemingly never ending tram works in Beeston are getting to an end. The plan now is that Chilwell Road up to the bed shop will open on May 26, from the bed shop to the Hop Pole will open by June 30 and the whole of Chilwell Road should be open by August 4th. ...
#77332272 / gettyimages.com Mary Rand and Menzies show off the uniforms for the British team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Ming took part in the 200m, winning his first round heat but going out in the second, while Mary Rand won three medals: gold in the long jump, silver in the pentathlon and bronze as part of the 100m relay team.
An email arrives from the number 2 candidate on the Liberal Democrats' list for the East Midlands Euro constituency: Just to inform you that whilst out delivering Euro-leaflets today in the Forest Fields area of Nottingham, a few of the glossy pages fell to the floor and my foot accidentally stepped onto them. I then slipped and fell with the full weight of my body falling onto my left ankle. The result is that I fell and broke my bone in two places above my ankle!Get well soon, Issan. In the mean time, readers may care to remember one of ...
An enjoyable evening at the winter gardens for those of us, still capable of free thought as Nigel Farage held a rally for those of us who have had enough b******* from the european union. A bit surprised by the miserable turnout of protesters, particularly given the encouragement from Broadstairs red hall revolutionaries to be in position by 4 o'clock, still maybe these characters are beginning to understand how democracy works, people present a case you accept or question end of story. Anyway I doubt if anyone was disappointed, speeches lasted about as long as needed, Rodger Latchford opened precedings, ...
Check out the youtube video on Cllr. Iain Brodie-Browne's blog site, it is a sobering message about UKIP.
Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 376th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere ... Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (11 – 17 May 2014), together with a hand-picked quintet, you might otherwise have missed. Don't forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging. As ever, let's start with the most popular post, and work our way down: 1. There's rather more to the ...
The Labour Party have made many claims about how much money is being cut from Birmingham's budgets. They are doing this to justify their prioritisation of cutting the green waste collection. It happens to be that Solihull spends in total around £700 per annum less per dwelling, but still provides a free green waste service (one bin - they charge for a second bin) However, these are the figures
Penwith Pioneer project is an exciting local Health and Social Care project. It is bringing together voluntary and statutory organisations to start a revolution in how we provide health care services. Their starting point is all of us who want to live well and safe, in our own homes. The project aims to break down all the separate teams and services that provide a bit of this and a bit of that and talk of 'the patient' to create a flexible service, with no rule book or barriers and remembers we are all people! Those taking part in the pilot ...
The Labour Party has said it will not reform the Coalition Government's National Planning Policy Framework rules. Mm, this certainly makes some big speeches on Sefton Council from Labour members look a little out of touch with their own Party does it not! Labour have become the party that opposes everything the Coalition Government does but then says it will not change anything! Keeping the economic policies, keeping the planning policies, keeping pretty much everything, or so it seems, except of course for the odd lick of paint over a policy here and there to try to make it look ...
[IMG: David Axelrod] Does this man's signing by the Labour Party make a difference? Edition #47 of Liberal Democrat Newswire came out last week, looking at the signing up of foreign big names by British political parties, the reaction to Jeremy Browne's recent book and more.. It's now also available online to read here. If you would like to receive the next edition of Liberal Democrat Newswire direct to your own inbox as soon as it is published, just sign up here. It's free! You can unsubscribe whenever you want using the link on the bottom of all the emails, ...
[IMG: "Demsbury" - Bekonscot Model Village and Railway - London - Some rights reserved by bortescristian] "As you all know," Melissa said in a rather officious voice, "Maxwell Tarmac-Smyth has resigned with some haste and we have a by-election on our hands." We were clustered in the back room of the Market Tavern at a hastily convened meeting of our local campaign committee. Melissa had been my campaign manager for the 2013 election and had called the meeting as soon as the news of the by-election reached Demsbury. Before she could continue with her introduction, Bess, known to all by ...
Just so people are aware , I expect to be back to regular blogging, Twitter, and Tumbling this time next week. I've always known that this month was going to be the most difficult one of the year, between the fact that my in-laws were staying for a week until yesterday and the council and [...]
[IMG: Clegg on tv camera Some rights reserved by Liberal Democrats] Nick Clegg takes to the comment pages of the Telegraph today to make the case for Coalition, first taking a swipe at critics on both Left and Right: For the Left, the very act of coalition is condemned as heinous moral treachery; for the Right, the Lib Dems have far too much clout, thus frustrating the birthright of the Conservative Party to do what it wishes. Unprincipled powerlessness on the one hand, ruthless power-play on the other. Both can't be right. In my view, both are utterly wrong. He ...
[IMG: 7 ver 4 full] Many thanks to the 17,300 visitors who dropped by Lib Dem Voice this week. Here's our 7 most-read posts... New ICM Poll: Do you want the okayish news or the bad news? (48 comments) by Stephen Tall WATCH: Nigel Farage come a cropper at the hands of LBC's James O'Brien (37 comments) by Stephen Tall Opinion: The Bedroom Tax: A great socialist policy (39 comments) by Patrick McAuley "Label the behaviour not the person": why we shouldn't call Ukip a racist party (107 comments) by Stephen Tall Are the Liberal Democrats any closer to embracing ...
Sun 18th
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Clegg on Marr: Liberal Democrats are the guarantors of fairness and home rule for Scotland
[IMG: st Andrews flag saltire scotland Some rights reserved by Fulla T] Nick Clegg was interviewed by Andrew Marr this morning. It was wide ranging. It appears he's back on the cigarettes again, but that's hardly surprising given his hectic schedule. He also said he wanted the Chilcott report into the Iraq War published as soon as possible, "s the leader of the party who opposed the headlong rush to war." Here's my Storify thingy of the event – and a few additional comments. [View the story "Nick Clegg on Marr 18 May 2014" on Storify] * Caron Lindsay is ...
More comedy genius from Australia's Clarke and Dawe: You can also watch this on YouTube.
Good call After a couple of years of disaster followed by catastrophe, Cllr Clive Hart has at last done us all a favour, by resigning . Iris Johnson the newly elected Thanet council leader has already proved her superior skill and judgement by saying goodbye to Michelle Fenner and Alan Poole, if anyone has seen this couple of councillors in action they will understand the benefits. It seems appropriate, that right at the start of this, Evernote (note taking app) has determined that this note is being typed at Dreamland, (actually a barbers round the corner) since the Clive Hart ...
Sun 18th
11:45Lib Dem MP on post-22 May leadership speculation: "Ashdown would cut my balls off if I criticised Cl...
[IMG: Paddy Ashdown talks on "The global power shift" in Brussels March 1st 2012 - Some rights reserved by PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE ] Lib Dems are braced for a tricky week. This Thursday will see the first UK-wide election since 2010, with voters choosing who represents them in the European Parliament. Many voters across England will also get to decide who runs their local council. Votes for the local elections will be counted on that night and throughout Friday. If this year follows the pattern of the previous three years, the Lib Dems could be expected – as I wrote here a ...
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From the Mail website this morning (and presumably in today's newspaper): I asked about Romanians, he talked about people-traffickers. I asked about Germans, he talked about easily identifiable 'difference'. I have no explanation for this save a conviction on Farage's part that one's country of origin or ethnicity determines one's values and decency. When we moved on to the question of his finances, events took an even stranger turn. Asked why he had reverse - ferreted on a pledge to publish his personal accounts, I offered him the transparency agreement employed by every Labour MEP in the European Parliament. He ...
Labour-run Haringey Council has not built any council housing for 25 years. Unforgivable! So much of my casework is to do with housing. There isn't nearly enough and people stay on Haringey's housing list for years - living in overcrowded and sometimes absolutely terrible conditions. It is not unusual for people to come to me in desperation over their living conditions to ask me to help get them moved. So often it is the parents worried about the children having to sleep several to a room and no place for a child to do homework or study – and years ...
There has been an increasing trend amongst local councils to require care workers to spend no more than 15 minutes with clients. Fifteen minutes is simply not long enough to respond properly to the needs of those receiving care. First and foremost people want to be treated like human beings. Fifteen minutes is hardly enough time to help get someone out of bed and dressed. Care visits lasting less than a quarter of an hour not only let down patients, but they also let down care workers who can't offer the full support they would like to. It is something ...
Because 26th May is a Bank Holiday, the bin collections are put back a day. So, for example if your usual collection day is a Tuesday, that week it'll be a Wednesday. I'm sure you get the drift. That week is a Green bin week, ie non-recyclable waste.
The Sunday Times wins our Headline of the Day Award.
[IMG: Papers - Some rights reserved by NS Mewsflash] Here are a few of my favourite articles from the Sunday papers to challenge, infuriate and inform. First of all, the Scotsman reports that support for independence has fallen in the last four months, with barely a third of those now in favour. Women's support for leaving the UK is also dropping like a stone, down 8 points in a month. No room for complacency, though. The polls are generally all over the place and every vote needs to be fought for. The Sunday Times (£) previews a report from the ...
Lovely heat and sun yesterday soaked up on yet another leaflet delivery session, this time in the Watergate Estate in Dunston Hill and Whickham East ward, where Labour Councillor and former debt collector Allison Chatto is defending. The debt collector bit is not mentioned in her election leaflet. Instead, she claims that, "Most of my working life has been spent working for trade union law firms.
How I bypassed 2-Factor-Authentication on Google, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn, and many others. (tags: ) Open Letter to a homophobic kipper from a gay man - witty and wonderful (tags: ) Co-op Group delegates to vote on governance restructure (tags: ) Legal Pot in the US Is Crippling Mexican Cartels (tags: ) Looks Like Environmentalists Are Probably Right About What's Killing the Bees | VICE (tags: ) The "right to be forgotten"and why it matters (tags: ) [IMG: comment count unavailable] comments
I'd not come across Andy Gill's blog before but then my friend Ed Watson posted a link to this rather good post. Gill takes issues with the "[s]elf-appointed gatekeepers of evangelicalism" who take to twitter to denounce as heretics those who fall outside a definition of evangelicalism " is becoming so narrow that it really [...]
The various controveries over UKIP have had the effect of pushing Labour's own troubles off the front pages in recent weeks, but that does not stop today's Observer highlighting the latest spat in the party's internal war. The paper reports that senior Labour figures have warned that their party risks losing the general election because of Ed Miliband's ''suicidal'' campaign tactics of "continually reciting a mantra of misery": One prominent backbencher Simon Mr Danczuk, the MP for Rochdale, said they had to stop relying on the unpopularity of the Government and come forward with a positive vision of their own. ...
Here's some of the articles that have caught my attention in the past couple of days... Chief Minister is a Liberal Hero | Isle of Man News :: isleofman.com Not much happens in the Isle of Man, eh? > "Chief Minister is a Liberal Hero" http://bit.ly/1jGDvpO A profile of Dominic Cummings, friend of Gove and enemy of Clegg | Conservative Home "He then proceeded to spend two and a half years in a bunker he and his father built for him on their farm in Durham" http://bit.ly/1k8jwVD Former Gove adviser warns of further leaks over Lib Dem 'gimmicks' | Politics ...
Electric Eden introduces us to John Renbourn: Born in London in 1944, he was encouraged to explore the medieval and Elizabethan lute tradition by his classical guitar teacher. He was drawn, by way of skiffle, to the American blues picking of Elizabeth Cotten, Brownie McGhee and Ramblin' Jack Elliott while studying at Kingston College of Art, which at that moment was a breeding ground for as many upcoming musicians as artists - undergraduates included Eric Clapton, Sandy Denny and members of The Yardbirds.Renbourn's beatnik credentials were as impeccable as his art-school grounding: in the early 1960s he lived in a ...
Sun 18th
09:11North East Liberal Democrat MEP candidate Angelika Schneider follows in the footsteps of women's rig...
Make sure you have your say in the elections on Thursday. Remember what some sacrificed in order to secure your right to do so.
I know that a regularly bang on about the excellent work that the Maghull in Bloom volunteers do, these days very much in partnership with offenders from Kennet Prison, but they keep on churning out great projects to uplift the Maghull community. This time it's new planters outside Meadows Leisure Centre. We have a lot to thank Maghull in Bloom for:- [IMG: rsz_photo0754] [IMG: rsz_photo0755-2]
May 2014 report to Mid Samford parishes from District Councillors Sue Carpendale and Kathy Pollard In this report Food Safety and Health and Safety plans for the Babergh area Changes to the eligibility criteria for community projects paid for by developer (s106) contributions New developments and the Community Infrastructure Levy Transformation agenda and headquarters review Food Safety and Health and Safety plans for the Babergh area The council has just adopted the service plans for 2014/15 for food safety and health and safety in Babergh District. The food safety service includes inspections of food premises, sampling of food and private ...
The Welsh Government's acknowledgement of the importance of promoting Welsh as a second language is welcome. At last it is being recognised that improvements are "overdue". To date, the Welsh Labour Government's commitment to our language has been luke-warm to say the least, and it is important that their revised plans are closely monitored and have clear timescales attached. If we want our language to grow and thrive then we need to be promoting it as strongly as possible, and schools have a major role to play. Consideration of Welsh as a second language needs to go hand-in-hand with an ...
