UKIP - 496 Labour Party - 255 Putting Hartlepool First - 155 Local Conservatives - 41 Patients not profit in our NHS - 36 Independent - 26 No LD candidate UKIP GAIN
No LD candidate Labour HOLD
Conservative seat. Cause: death. LD candidate: Alex Sadiq.
Scottish Labour SNP Scottish Conservative and Unionist Scottish Green UKIP LD candidate: James Douglas Speirs.
Lab 400 UKIP 117 PC 120 LD candidate: Matthew John Kidner 42 Turnout 14.5% Labour HOLD
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Independent Scottish Labour Party Scottish Greens Independent Independent SNP Independent LD candidate – Trish Robertson SNP GAIN
Lab 2152 76.9% (+4.6) UKIP 251 9.1% (-0.9) Con 167 6.0% (-4.4) Green 126 4.6% (-0.5) LD candidate: Becky Forrest 96 3.5% (+1.2) Turnout 28.46% Labour HOLD
Lab 1177 63.6% (+12.3) Green 323 17.5% (-3.8) LD candidate: Josh Dixon 189 10.2% (+3.4) Conservative 106 5.7% (-1.3) UKIP 54 3% Turnout 20.67% Labour HOLD
Conservative seat. Cause: resignation LD candidate: Richard Mark Lilleker
Autumn SongNow the leaves are falling fast, Nurse's flowers will not last; Nurses to the graves are gone, And the prams go rolling on.Whispering neighbours, left and right, Pluck us from the real delight; And the active hands must freeze Lonely on the separate knees.Dead in hundreds at the back Follow wooden in our track, Arms raised stiffly to reprove In false attitudes of love.Starving through the leafless wood Trolls run scolding for their food; And the nightingale is dumb, And the angel will not come.Cold, impossible, ahead Lifts the mountain's lovely head Whose white waterfall could bless Travellers in ...
There are a few communities, up in northern Canada, with a dark history and a worrying future. Resolute is one of them.
Today, this amazing thing happened. A short paper based on my MSc research into the discursive strategies used by sales leaders has been included in the programme for the 2017 BPS division of occupational psychology conference. It's being held in Liverpool between 4th – 6th January. I have a 9am slot on the morning after the gala dinner. I can ... The post Discursive strategies used by sales leaders in value co-creation appeared first on ten pence piece.
I've only done a couple of posts in the past week or so, making reference to "events" keeping me away from LDV. When I came back from Witney, I found my husband very seriously ill. An ambulance dash and some very scary moments later, my worst fears were confirmed along and then some. Things have now settled down considerably. We've had a couple of boring days without medical drama now and we'd like things to stay that way. He will be in hospital for a wee while yet, though, so please bear with me if it takes me some time ...
Just to report back to residents in Simister and the Heywood Road area on some good news for morning commuters who rely on the 96 bus the morning. A number of residents had been in touch to report that the 7.17 bus was frequently running late, which will no doubt cause problems if people are depending on it to arrange at work for a specific time. Following the representations I have made, the operator (Stagecoach) have agreed to retime the service so it leaves the depot five minutes earlier in the morning. It is hoped that this change will improve ...
This morning the Liberal History Group tweeted: ON THIS DAY 6th October 1968:Death in Biarritz of Maurice Arnold de Forest, racing driver, aviator and Liberal... The Baron fought one of the 1910 elections in Southport where his Jewish antecedence played a large part in the Tory campaign Their candidate was a Col White, so you cannimagine the use that was made of his name in contrast to the foreign sounding Maurice de Forest. The postcard picture of the club was found in the Grosvenor Road garage of a Mr Williamson some years ago. I think his father was on the ...
Second paragraph of third chapter:Eventually [character] was moved by ambulance to a Sister Kenny Institute in Philadelphia, where, by this point in the summer, the epidemic was nearly as bad as it was in Newark and the hospital's wards were so crowded that he was fortunate to get a bed. There the hot pack treatment continued, along with painful stretching of the contracted muscles of his arms and legs and of his back—which the paralysis had twisted—in order to "reeducate" them. He spent the next fourteen months in rehabilitation at the Kenny Institute, gradually recovering the full use of his ...
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Embed from Getty Images Full marks to Tom Ash. Earlier this week he nailed an historic parallel for Brexit. That was Henry VIII and the reformation. However, those who favour an open, outward-looking UK, can claim an older, greater precedent than the Brexit-like Henry VIII, who broke with Europe basically because he couldn't perform in bed sufficiently to produce enough healthy sons. (OK, there's a bit of historic licence there and I'm being a bit (a lot?) cheeky – apologies – and I also apologise to the Scots, Welsh, Irish and Cornish that this is all about England). King Alfred ...
People who care for the parks like these campaigners for Sefton Park must be the ones to take the lead in developing those park's future Our Press Release Liverpool's Liberal Democrats have welcomed the long-awaited report on the future of ... Continue reading →
The Birkdale Nightingale On Spring nights you can hear them two miles away, calling their mates to the breeding place, a wet slack in the dunes. Lovers hiding nearby are surprised by desperate music. One man searched all night for a crashed spaceship. For amphibians, they are terrible swimmers: where it's tricky to get ashore, they drown. By day they sleep in crevices under the boardwalk, run like lizards from cover to cover without the sense to leap when a gull snaps. Yes, he can make himself fearsome, inflating his lungs to double his size. But cars on the coast ...
Plebiscites pare down complex issues to binary choice but in times of flux they serve political ambition and please the disaffected voter The problems with referendums are well known: they reduce often complex questions to a binary choice; they are a demagogue's dream, allowing populists free rein to fan fears, distort realities and appeal to emotions; voters can see them as a chance to voice their unhappiness about something else entirely. And yet referendums are on the rise. In June, the EU referendum for Britain; last week, in Hungary, a referendum concerning refugees and migrants; in Colombia, one about a ...
Well, you have to hand it to the Tories. When it comes to brazen reinvention in an attempt to hold on to power there is nobody quite like them. The Tories have rarely been more on message at an annual conference. "A Country That Works for Everyone" was not just in every camera shot but in every speech, whether it was Amber Rudd (yes, that one-time Remain campaigner) insisting companies employ more British workers or Angela Leadsom, in surely the most curious environment speech in British political history, imagining a future of happy youngsters breathing in rural British air as ...
Celebrating National Poetry Day ~ Rumplesongs: Kentish Poems / Poems of Kent: So, it seem s a good idea at the moment to start collecting a set of my poems written in and about Kent and putting them all together here. ...
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Legal aid should be available to all children and vulnerable young people in Peterborough!
Liberal Democrats are calling for an urgent review into the effect of cuts to the legal aid budget and increased court fees. The Conservative Governments' cuts have led to a rise in the number of people coming before the courts without being represented by a lawyer, as well as deterring individuals and small businesses [...]
[IMG: steven-wolfe-photo-by-european-parliament] We send best wishes to UKIP MEP Steve Wolfe and his family, following his hospitalization after an incident at the European Parliament. We wish him a speedy and full recovery. Photo by European Parliament
In her speech to Conservative Party conference, Theresa May said that if you are a citizen of the world you are a citizen of nowhere. Insodoing she surrendered any moral right to criticise literally anyone for being a "divisive nationalist". I have never been comfortable with the concept of citizenship. The idea that as individual human beings we owe some sense of inherent loyalty to a set of political institutions, or to a flag, or to a nation is one that makes no sense at all. As the infamous political compass put it, you don't choose your country of origin ...
In my mind I tend to divide my duties as Mayor into two broad categories; the formal 'state occasions' and the community events. This week I undertook two state occasions and a host of community events. In April 1989 ninety six people went to a football match and did not return. Last week the Freedom of the City of Liverpool was awarded to the 96 alongside Marina and Kenny Dalglish, Professor Phil Scraton and Bishop James Jones. More residents of our borough died at Hilsborough than from any other part of Merseyside. It was appropriate that I should represent Sefton ...
Colas Ltd, are programmed to carry out ironwork adjustments and road marking replacement on the following sites in your constituency on the dates stated: Lower Paxton, St. Albans - 24th October Paxton Road, St. Albans - 24th October Attached are the Works Information Leaflets which will be posted to the residents of each street, in addition to the distribution [...]
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Catherine Bearder MEP writes...Golden opportunity to end the illegal ivory trade wasted
[IMG: serious-about-willdife-crime-pic] I was honoured to be part of the European Parliament's observer delegation to the CITES CoP17 in South Africa. As a campaigner for wildlife protection I know the opportunity to influence protection at the highest level is rare. Before I headed to South Africa I voted in favour of a European Parliament resolution calling for all elephants to be listed on Appendix 1 of CITES (the Convention in Trade of Endangered Species) This would mean in effect a total ban on the international trade in elephants. The resolution was overwhelmingly supported by MEPs which shows the European Parliament's ...
The Liverpool Echo has a follow up story to its original article – see link above. [IMG: Mural on a concrete wall where The Strand Shopping Centre meets the Leeds Liverpool Canal.] Mural on a concrete wall where The Strand Shopping Centre meets the Leeds Liverpool Canal. So will this plan to gentrify the centre of Bootle work and will it get funded? It's a lot of money and Sefton Council says it does not have a penny to bless itself with when it comes to running day to day basic services so it will be interesting to see ...
The Liverpool Echo has the story – see link above The plan to move the Scott facility in St. Helens to the Ashworth site has been around for quite a while now, indeed I recall that plans to sell off part of the grounds/parkland that surround Ashworth Hospital for the building of new housing were meant to help pay for the new facility. Is that still the case? My previous posting of January 2015, with a number of important questions, refers – see the link to that posting below:- It should also be noted (again) that the land ...
Crosby U3A visit to Bootle Town Hall Crosby U3A (University of the third age) visited Bootle Town Hall recently. These tours of the Mayoral corridor and the Council Chamber are very popular with local history groups. Bootle Town Hall has a lot history recorded in the gifts that the Council has received over the years. My experience is that the U3A bring a extra local knowledge with them that adds to our understanding of history of the building and the borough. This visit was no exception as among those attending was the redoubtable Brenda Murray whose long life has been ...
Crosby U3A (University of the third age) visited Bootle Town Hall recently. These tours of the Mayoral corridor and the Council Chamber are very popular with local history groups. Bootle Town Hall has a lot history recorded in the gifts that the Council has received over the years. My experience is that the U3A bring a extra local knowledge with them that adds to our understanding of history of the building and the borough. This visit was no exception as among those attending was the redoubtable Brenda Murray whose long life has been spent studying the history our area. I ...
UKIP leadership contenders gathering for a pre hustings chat!! So the Party Conference season is over and I am not sure that we are much the wiser about the where the Parties sit in terms of both their own comfort ... Continue reading →
"Sorry, we've been getting it wrong for the past six years. We'll try to do less badly from now on." In an honest world that would be the message beamed loud and clear from the Tory Party's conference. Remember, in 2010 when the Tory-led government took office, we were told that the government's overwhelming priority was to eliminate the internal deficit and preserve our international AAA rating for economic dependability. The deficit was to be eliminated by the end of the parliament, after which the National Debt was to be gradually reduced. To achieve this government expenditure was to be ...
Charles Grant of the Centre for European Reform has written an excellent analysis of why the remaining EU members are taking such a hard line over the term's of Britain's departure: On recent visits to Berlin, Brussels, Paris and other EU capitals, I have been struck by the largely united approach of the 27 to the Brexit negotiations. They assert that if Britain restricts free movement after it has left the EU, it cannot be part of the single market. Instead, they suggest, it should negotiate a free trade agreement with the EU, along the lines of that between the ...
Just delving about in the Getty Images archive, I happened upon these great images of our current leader and some of our past leaders*. Please click on the images to read the captions. * includes predecessor parties. Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images * Paul Walter is a Liberal Democrat activist. As part of the Liberal Democrat Voice team he helps with photos and moderation on the site, as well ...
Twitter RT @DavidAllenGreen: The author of the European Convention of Human Rights was a Tory politician and lawyer. Twitter RT @LibDemPress: How things have changed... Twitter RT @PeterMannionMP: As someone once said - I'm sensing a change in management style here, from 'touchy-feely' to 'smashy-testes'.... Twitter RT @StevePeers: Government policy on foreign doctors isn't just xenophobic, it's economically irrational, as @ruviz points out Twitter Appropriate Twitter RT @ALDEParty: ALDE Party Secretariat joins #blackprotest against total #abortion ban.We stand for women in #Poland. Spread the wo... British Fascist leader fo short shrift from his Welsh audiences - Dan O'Neill - Wales ...
Two different ways of holding our public services to account. One a do-or-die strike which stands in the great tradition of the Battle of the Somme, and other frontal assaults. The other an inovative, customer-led legal action. If I was Southern Railways, I know which one I would fear the most, What is the way out of the appalling trains service we have been served by Southern Rail and its co-franchises, Thameslink and the Gatwick Express - all collectively managed by a finance operation called Govia Thameslink, which also happens to run a railway, and doesn't do it well? Today ...
The above video sharply underlines the problem with the blatant Tory appeal to UKIP voters over immigration. There are a whole host of reasons why both right-wing parties are wrong on immigration but let's just look at it on their terms for a minute. At the Tory Conference Home Secretary, Amber Rudd suggested that foreigners are "taking jobs British people could do." Her colleague, the International Trade Secretary, Liam Fox, said some immigrants "come to the country and consume the wealth of the country without ever having created anything." Whilst, Theresa May herself said in her closing speech that some ...
The Foldgate Lane inquiry has concluded. Developer Richborough Estates wants to build 137 homes on green fields on the edge of Ludlow. A quarter of the homes will be affordable. When the inquiry closed yesterday afternoon, the result was too close to call. Shropshire Council put forward a strong case but Richborough put forward a... Continue reading Foldgate Lane housing inquiry ends on a cliff hanger →
LDV has received this open letter from a group of concerned Lib Dems...we thought you might like to read it. Dear friends, Lets cut to the chase. We awoke yesterday to the smell of hatred, xenophobia and isolation pouring from the voices of the Conservative Party and Conservative Government. It sickened us to hear what was being said about refugees, migrants, international students and people who are foreign. It's wrong and it's not the country we love. So, time to act! The UK needs liberal voices. Liz Leffman is a liberal – she is a superb candidate for the Witney ...
Theresa May, Britain's prime minister, closed the Conservative Party conference yesterday with a striking vision of her political direction, which was consistent with speeches made by other members of her government. This is a marked change of tone from her predecessor, the rather liberal David Cameron, and his Chancellor, George Osborne. Brexit is at the ... Continue reading The Tories take possession of Brexit; the Lib Dems will benefit →
Discovery Film Festival, Scotland's International Film Festival for Young Audiences takes place from Saturday 22nd October until Sunday 6th November. It is now in its thirteenth year. Based at Dundee Contemporary Arts, and touring to partner venues throughout Scotland, the festival screens films from all over the world which have been specially programmed for young audiences. The festival includes three exciting weekends of films, creative activities, and gala events, as well as two weeks of screenings and events for schools. Discovery Film Festival aims to develop new audiences for the best in international film, improve media literacy and offer young ...
The Tories have finally become Ukip And I am becoming an @iandunt fan. (tags: ukpolitics migration brexit ) Amber Rudd: it's not racist to make firms list foreign workers. Yes it is. (tags: race migration eu ukpolitics brexit ) 42 Douglas Adams quotes to live by Yep. (tags: lifehacking sf )
