Well, I think so. A great way of illustrating that the Lib Dems are standing up for EU nationals' right to stay in this country: Huge applause to the amazing Lisa Maria Bornemann and Adam Bernard from Harrow Lib Dems for coming up with this. I was lucky enough to have a sneak preview of this in York last weekend and I have a feeling that there may be more of this sort of thing. Watch this space. * Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings
Today, Tim Farron, Nick Clegg and Alex Cole-Hamilton have done us proud. Their passionate messages of defiance were very different. Clegg's anger, Farron's optimism and Cole-Hamilton's emotion were exactly what we need right now. Here are their speeches. Sit back, enjoy, and tomorrow get out there and help them by persuading others to oppose the stark, extreme Brexit that will hurt so many people. Farron said that the future has not been written yet and we can change the country's course: Nick's focus was young people and holding this awful government to account: And Alex told Theresa what she'd have ...
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Ah comments. Where people go to blow off steam. Here are a few of the comments from The Sun's article on the march today... Just shows you they are all for their selfs, we are not quitting just getting out to better ourselves. This really doesn't make too much sense now does it? Why are they marching for their selfs? (surely it should've been themselves?) and we are quitting, these people are Quitlings and quitters. Funny they march against brexit and trump but not islamic terrorism... To be fair someone did reply to this comment saying you march against something ...
I was delighted to take part in the Sutton Junior Dragon's Apprentice Challenge as one of the Boardroom 'Superdragons'. Organised by SCVS, four of the borough's primary schools accepted the challenge to come up with an innovative business idea to raise funds for a local charity. The schools formed teams, agreed team names, and were [...]
The entries in my Mayoral diary this week are very varied. I began with the Technology Challenge organised by the local Rotary group at Greenbank High School. I met students from local school and colleges who were participating in this event. Their task was to design and make an electrically powered car to travel along a course and pick up a load. I was genuinely impressed by the inventiveness of the students who ranged in age from 12 to 18 years old. Some of the older students from Southport College were undertaking apprenticeships or preparing to go to university, they ...
Here are the voting figures for the four big set piece debates over nuclear weapons policy at Liberal Democrat conferences in recent years. In each case the winning side was the multilateralist one, the losing side a unilateralist one. 2017 York spring conference: 428-244 (64%-36%, 672 votes) 2015 Bournemouth autumn conference: 579-447 (56%-44%, 1,026 votes) 2013 Glasgow autumn conference: 322-228 (59%-41%, 550 votes) 2007 Harrogate spring conference: 454-414 (52%-48%, 868 votes)
This timetable is based on the one published by the Electoral Commission, but as ever make sure you double-check any crucial dates before relying on them. Even if there are no errors in this post or in the Electoral Commission's timetable, a Returning Officer who has got their timetable calculations wrong can throw a spanner in the works. You want to field that spanner in good time. Event Elections applicable to Number of working days* before poll for deadline (along with time if it is not midnight) Date Publication of notice of election All Not later than 25 days (England, ...
When he was Labour leader, Ed Miliband was often criticised for following a (supposed) 35% strategy, i.e. one which looked to appeal only to those who already liked Labour rather than to win over new support, particular in Labour / Conservative marginal seats. As with much else about Ed Miliband, his strategy gains a relative glow when set against which his successor is doing, especially Jeremy Corbyn's reluctance to oppose Brexit: Brexit Right or Wrong LAB voters Right 25% Wrong 68% DK 7% YouGov — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 22, 2017
Since June 23rd of last year, people have gone to town arguing for their version of why people who voted Leave did so. Some are sure it was all about immigration; at the other end of the spectrum, it was just a chance to give Cameron and Osborne a kicking. Of course, reality is more complicated than any of these explanations, but one thing that pops up again and again in all theories is that there was a desire to return to some sort of past version of England (and I do mean England here) and that leaving the European ...
The talk of the Blitz spirit in London can become a bit mawkish at a time like this. A family member of mine went through the real Blitz in 1940 and 1941 and she told me that all was far from the myth. Class still pervaded all - for example, many looked down on those without a shelter who hid from bombs in the tube. Not everyone sang "Roll out the barrel"; not everyone cooed with gratitude as Queen Elizabeth wafted by in chiffon. Looting was a common occurrence. Horrible things were covered up by the authorities. And yet it ...
Social media can be an unrelenting and unsympathetic beast especially if one has built their career on controversy. Katie Hopkins has certainly discovered that is the case and now, rather less sensationally, so has the Conservative MP for Shipley, Phillip Davies. Mr. Davies is not shy of making his views known. He has repeatedly made headlines for antagonising liberals, left-wingers, and feminists. Last year he attacked "feminist zealots", got himself elected to Parliament's Women and Equalities Committee, and tried to derail a bill intending to protect women against domestic violence. So when, he stood up in the House of Commons ...
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VIDEO: Nick Clegg on Government's 'shameful inaction' over securing rights of EU citizens in UK
Here's the new film from the Liberal Democrats, featuring Nick Clegg on the future of European Union citizens in the UK.
Trump's attempt to repeal Obamacare fails You might wonder why I care; this link will tell you why. excellent article about feminist sci-fi [IMG: comment count unavailable] comments
I must admit to being quite shocked this week when the Aintree & Maghull Champion newspaper dropped through my letter box, indeed it was something that was not in it that really concerned me. There was no picture involving Sefton Central MP Bill Esterson and that disturbed me so I wonder how Bill must feel. But we can all do something about this by looking for photo opportunities for our MP, so there's a challenge for those of us who flicked through every page this week looking for Bill. You would think he would have an employee whose job it ...
What's this to do with then? Peterborough City Council has now published it's updated Local Plan for 2016 to 2036. In the report the Council talks about 1,600 dwellings at the Norwood/Paston Reserve site, adding that: They want to development it into a "comprehensive development area." There is a need to provide "convenience goods shopping" and [...]
My Twitter and Facebook timelines are full of people heading to march for Europe today. Tim Farron and Nick Clegg are speaking at the march in London. Tim Farron is on second and the Cleggster is on last. Alex Cole-Hamilton is speaking for us, as he has done so movingly on so many occasions, in Edinburgh. It's such a poignant, emotional day. It's 60 years since the Treaty of Rome was signed. It's the Diamond Jubilee of a real diamond of international co-operation and collaboration and partnership. In just four days, Theresa May will set in train the process of ...
The Hyatt Regency Hotel collapse was a disaster that changed engineering. It's taught in colleges and universities as a way to make it clear: you check and double-check everything. Something that seems like a subtle change can cause a catastrophic failure if it's not thoroughly checked first.
If politics is a numbers game then evidence is gathering which shows how misguided the Labour party's attempts to straddle the electoral fence truly are. A Labour party intent on waving Brexit bills through parliament in a misguided attempt to preserve the notional 'will of the people' at the expense of principled opposition is now leaking members. The dramatic surge of Corbynista enthusiasm which saw party membership top 500,000 last year is now looking more like a freak high water mark than a prolonged shift in progressive politics as has been claimed. A report in the Guardian details how Labour ...
Residents have contacted me regarding the fact that street sign in West Park Road at its junction with Perth Road (west side) is very faded : I have therefore asked the council's Roads Maintenance Partnership if it can be replaced.
Naan starter: UK curry restaurants feel betrayed by Brexit #Takingbackcontrol by destroying Asian food. (tags: brexit ukpolitics ) An Assessment of the Economic Impact of Brexit on the EU27 | Centre for European Policy Studies For the EU 27, the losses were found to be virtually insignificant, and hardly noticeable in the aggregate. For the UK, however, the losses could be highly significant, with various estimates running up to ten times greater as a share of GDP. Impacts on some member states - in particular Ireland - and some sectors in the EU27 could be more pronounced than the average ...
