Four by-elections this week, and a shortage of time in the day so let's get straight into the results so far: Heyhouses (Fylde) result: CON: 58.1% (+11.5) LAB: 17.9% (-13.3) LDEM: 12.2% (-10.0) GRN: 11.8% (+11.8) Con HOLD. — Britain Elects (@britainelects) April 5, 2018
We are currently delivering our annual reports to constituents in the wards we represent in Gateshead. I was out recently delivering in Whickham East. The issues covered include Labour's attempts to sell part of Chase Park, battling against housing plans on local countryside, litter, council tax and Gateshead's budget.
If there must be just one A&E for Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire and mid-Wales, where should it be located? At the Princes Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford or the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH)? This will be the main question asked in the Future Fit consultation on the future of Shropshire health services. We are expecting that to be launched in the next few weeks. There is a third option, that we keep both A&Es, though that will not an option health bosses will put forward in the forthcoming consultation. Let us know your views by voting below. I don't need ...
Judging by the other prints in the packet, this one was taken somewhere not too far east of Plymouth. Does anyone recognise the exact location?
There was good news today in the shape of two consecutive posts on Ryan Cullen's mighty LibDemBlogs aggregator. First Richard Kemp reported: With nominations about to close tomorrow the Lib Dems have already submitted nomination papers for all 31 seats available in Liverpool. For the first time in more than a decade Liverpool Lib Dems will have a candidate for every seat including the second seat in Knotty Ash caused by the last-minute resignation of a Labour Councillor.Then, exactly an hour later, Jonathan Fryer said: Tower Hamlets Liberal Democrats are running a full slate of borough council candidates for the ...
Will Heaven says in the Spectator that London Conservatives are braced for disaster in next month's local elections. Which must be good news for Liberal Democrat candidates in Richmond and Kingston. He also reports that: The decay of basic Tory infrastructure, for example, means the party is running out of foot soldiers. Things are so bad that, for the first time ever, CCHQ has paid for a full-time employee in every London borough to chivvy local activists.So what are the London Tories going to do about it? Heaven reveals a fascinating possibility: Over the past year, a series of meetings ...
Second paragraph of third chapter: It was the second day of the new year. I had stayed on at the Broken Arrow through most of the holidays, earning some money changing beds. The older woman with the shakes, whose name was Mrs. Hoge, was determined I should stay awhile. She said they could use the extra help during the Christmas season, especially since her daughter-in-law's ankles were giving her trouble. Which is no wonder. A human ankle is not designed to hold up two hundred and fifty pounds. If we were meant to weigh that much we would have big ...
I've had a pretty soggy week recovering from chemotherapy cycle 2. Mantle Cell Lymphoma, although treatable, still needs more research before a cure can be declared. That's why I'm so proud of both of my daughters for deciding to run in Cancer Research's Race for Life – again – this summer. I'm republishing what they've said on their appeal pages ... The post Race for Life – Team Holyoake III: Revenge of the Sith-ters appeared first on ten pence piece.
Alex Cole-Hamilton, our Lib Dem MSP for Edinburgh Western, wrote an article for the Edinburgh Evening News on Tuesday, giving his personal views on assisted dying. It opens We lost my father-in-law shortly before Easter. He passed in the comfort of his home surrounded by love and light and in the arms of his family. It was an end to aspire to. Such a passing is not afforded to everyone, however, and I grieve for those families who have seen their loved ones struggle in pain, indignity and distress for protracted periods before the end. Public policy change around end ...
This Saturday is 2018 World Health Day which is all about Universal Health Coverage. Half of the world's people still struggle to get basic medical help, choosing between, food, shelter and life saving drugs. But in the UK we are incredibly lucky to have our NHS. That's why the Liberal Democrats are calling for an extra £6 billion a year to protect the NHS, paid for by an extra penny on Income Tax. The money raised will be guaranteed for the NHS and social care services, which is currently in crisis with delayed operations, full hospital beds and record numbers ...
Tower Hamlets Liberal Democrats are running a full slate of borough council candidates for the election on 3rd May, for the first time since 2010 (when I was the parliamentary candidate for the constituency of Poplar & Limehouse). Elaine Bagshaw is our Mayoral candidate. This time I'm standing for Council in my home ward of [...]
Me with some of our key ward candidates, Steve Brauner (Allerton/Hunts Cross), Carole Storey (Childwall), Kris Brown (Woolton), Alisha Lewis (Mossley Hill), Liz Makinson (Church) and Norman Mills (Cressington) With nominations about to close tomorrow the Lib Dems have already ... Continue reading →
The Work and Pensions Committee has been conducting an inquiry into the future of the European Social Fund. This fund provides £500 million each year "for employment support programmes for people who struggle to access and benefit from mainstream support. This includes disabled people, ex-offenders, and the long-term unemployed. The future of ESF-type funding after Brexit is currently uncertain. Leaving the European Union could offer the UK an opportunity to design its own, improved version of the funding. The Committee is considering the case for a successor fund to the ESF, and what this fund might look like. The report ...
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While there are huge differences of opinion about what caused the country to vote for Brexit, almost everyone concedes that regional inequality and inequality in general had something to do with it. When you look at the regional disparity in terms of Remain and Leave votes, this becomes indisputable. Yet leaving the EU isn't going to solve this problem. At best, regional inequality will stay roughly the same as it is now; at worst, it will get much, much worse. A common trope to emerge from journalistic post-mortems on the referendum and from associated focus groups is that groups of ...
Wed, 12:52: RT @hayward_katy: How *not* to fix the Irish border problem. https://t.co/QWWDnFmXhP A long read on @UKandEU in response to Shanker Singha... Wed, 12:56: I Dream of Pop-Tarts https://t.co/CTKV4T0en1 Me too. (Did I say that out loud?) Wed, 16:05: RT @WilOfTheKremlin: @LeaveEUOfficial @tradegovuk UK EU trade £235bn UK AUS trade £4.5bn Spot the problem?... Then there's this... 🤔 https... Wed, 18:13: 826 km measured directly on a great circle. Roughly 1160 km by road, tunnel and ferry. https://t.co/2ACt0iA3Cz Wed, 18:36: This year's Hugos and Retro Hugos - dramatic presentation categories https://t.co/K3AAnX7baC Wed, 20:48: RT @qikipedia: In 1990, the satirical ...
It takes many years to develop a business and for it to grow. Enterprises employ millions of people who support their families and are the building blocks of our national wealth. Should we not be more supportive, as a society, when a company fails? Since 2000, the number of businesses in the UK has increased each year, by 3% on average. In 2016, there were 2.2 million more businesses than in 2000, an increase of 64% over the whole period. Businesses actual employment of people has fallen since 2000 from around a third, to a quarter. This decline is due ...
One of my main election platforms last year when running for Oxfordshire County Council was the closure of our local children's centre. I'm glad to report that it has re-opened as a community initiative, run by a committee of volunteers. But that is not the case in many areas of the country. Research published today by the Sutton Trust and conducted by academics from Oxford University shows that as many as 1,000 Sure Start centres have closed since 2009, with 69% of local authorities reporting a budget decrease in the last two years. Professor Kathy Silva, one of the authors ...
Having checked that it is the fifth of April and not the first, it is difficult to know where to start with the decision to rename the second Severn Crossing the Prince of Wales bridge. At least with the original designation it did what it said on the tin. And of course this expanse of motorway, an engineering triumph if ever there was one, is so much more than just a bridge. There are many, myself included, that will resent the implication that Wales is still thought of by the Wales Office as a Principality with all the implications of ...
On March 20, we held an event that, sadly, feels rather unusual these days. Not only was it constructively focused on mapping out what a sensible Brexit could look like (rare enough in a world of arbitrary red lines, virtue signalling on both the left and right, and increasingly tribal polarisation), but it was totally [...] The post The EEA-Efta option appeared first on Radix.
Firstly, thanks to Sefton Council for fixing the broken street lamp on the footpath that runs from Southport Road through to Coppull Road, it was really dark down there at night with only one of the two lamps working. Now One Vision Housing need to have a look at their fence which separates the same footpath from the backs of the bungalows in Haven Walk. My photo illustrates the problem:- I have alerted OVH to this matter.
On March 31st my colleague Alex and I went to see the play "The day the arts took a swipe at cuts". My friend Alex and I actually went to see the play "Victim" which is currently playing at the Kings Head Theatre in Islington. We did this after being contacted through our roles with Liberal Democrats for Prison Reform and a brilliantly hard-hitting show it was too. "Victim" is a play that perfectly demonstrates how broken our prison system is. It tells the harrowing tale of the power struggle between the inmate and the guard, and the roles they ...
