A quartet of council by-elections this week, made up of one Conservative defence and three Labour ones – and with four Lib Dem candidates. Dormers Wells, Ealing Former Parliamentary by-election candidate Nigel Bakhai was the Lib Dem candidate Result to come Bush Fair, Harlow Lesley Rideout was the Liberal Democrat candidate in a ward the party won until 2008 but then fell a very long way back, finishing a distant fourth the last three times out. Bush Fair (Harlow) result: LAB: 45.0% (+5.6) CON: 38.1% (+6.0) UKIP: 8.5% (-15.4) HAP: 5.2% (+5.2) LDEM: 3.2% (-1.4) Labour HOLD. — Britain Elects ...
High Court rules Government must reverse cuts to modern slavery victims Responding to today's High Court ruling that the Government acted unlawfully when it cut payments to modern slavery victims, Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesperson Ed Davey said: Theresa May once rightly called modern slavery the great human rights issue of our time, but her Government cut support for victims by 40%, leaving them vulnerable to further exploitation. Now that the court has ruled those cuts unlawful, the Government must reverse them and ensure that victims receive the help they need to escape the terrible bonds of slavery. You can't ...
This is Fleet House in Fleet Street, Leicester, which was the headquarters of British Steam Specialties Lrd until a few years ago. Derelict Places has photographs of the surprisingly contemporary interior and records that the company was bought out by Travis Perkins and moved to a new head office closer to the M1. This part of the city is up for redevelopment, and a Leicester Mercury article from earlier this year reveals the disappointing news that Fleet House could be a victim of it. So enjoy the buildings signs while you can.
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The idea that South Shropshire should be a national park seems to be gaining momentum. The Shropshire Star reports that the man tasked by Michael Gove with look at whether any new parks should be created, thinks so. Julian Glover, a former speechwriter for David Cameron and the first person to commission me to write for the Guardian, says: "I know Shropshire very well. "I partly grew up in the Shropshire Hills, and they are as beautiful as anywhere in a national park."Indeed they are. Someone once described them to me as being like the Lake District without all the ...
Second frame of third page. Kim: No, Amos, I'd prefer to jump right in [in French, "to jump right into the bath"]. Come on! Lynn: Are we having a bath, Mum? I bathed this morning! Amos: It's just an expression, Lynn... I was delighted to discover that Leo has started a new story cycle in Les Mondes d'Aldébaran, the comics series which has been going for two decades. The French don't do things by halves; here's the official trailer. The storyline is that Kim, heroine of the previous series, has returned home to become the key interlocutor between the humans ...
PoliticsHome reports a development in the story about redundancies at Lib Dem head office that broke last week: Lib Dem bosses have been summoned to an emergency board meeting amid a financial crisis in the party that is set to see up to quarter of staff laid off. Board members are expecting an "angry" exchange of views at the summit next week, with some blaming the current turmoil on bungled financial management.The meeting, called by the party's president Sal Brinton, will take place on Tuesday evening. In an article for Lib Dem Voice last week, Nick Harvey (the party's chief ...
St Peter's, Belgrave Five Leicestershire churches have been added to its list of at-risk heritage buildings by Historic England. They are, says the Leicester Mercury, St Peter's Church in Belgrave, Leicester, and little-used village churches in Loddington, Owston, Garthorpe and Great Stretton. Over in Shropshire a further five churches have been added: Alberbury, Newscastle on Clun, Stockton, Worthen and Condover. What is to be done? It is easier to imagine a new use being found for an urban church like St Peter's, Belgrave, than it is for churches in remote villages. But even St Peter's has been on the market ...
One of the pleasures of being a PPC is the opportunity to visit many venues in the run up to Remembrance Day on Sunday. Last week I had a look around the Flower Festival at St Sabinus' Church, Woolacombe. Many of the exhibits struck a chord - I, after all, grew up on military bases and appreciate from the inside out the sacrifices women, men and children make in service to their country. The embroidered cards with faded handwritten messages, sent back and forth (yes, some French ones sent home to girlfriends from the front line) were especially poignant. However, ...
Responding to today's High Court ruling that the Government acted unlawfully when it cut payments to modern slavery victims, Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesperson Ed Davey said: "Theresa May once rightly called modern slavery the great human rights issue of our time, but her Government cut support for victims by 40%, leaving them vulnerable to further exploitation. "Now that the court has ruled those cuts unlawful, the Government must reverse them and ensure that victims receive the help they need to escape the terrible bonds of slavery. "You can't fight the great human rights issue of our time on the ...
Beto O'Rourke gave Ted Cruz a run for his money in the recent race for the Texan US Senate seat. He comes from the border town of El Paso. * Paul Walter is a Liberal Democrat activist. He is one of the Liberal Democrat Voice team. He blogs at Liberal Burblings.
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Ilhan Omar has just been elected as US Representative for the 5th district of Minnesota. Along with Rashida Tlaib, elected for Michigan's 13th district, she is one of the first two Muslim women to be elected to the US Congress. * Paul Walter is a Liberal Democrat activist. He is one of the Liberal Democrat Voice team. He blogs at Liberal Burblings.
Information comes in many forms with various claims to ownership. The volume of data and the variety of contexts that transform it into information and knowledge has evolved beyond recognition since Hayek's seminal work on "The use of knowledge in society". However, the importance of the availability of knowledge to the individual, whether person or business, has, if anything, increased and reinforced Hayek's point that free but informed decisions and economic effectiveness go hand in hand. It is therefore important for policy to address the ownership and access to information to tackle the ensuing asymmetries in decision making and power ...
Jeremy Corbyn's fence-sitting on Brexit does not appear to have gone down well with his most enthusiastic supporters within the Labour Party, many of whom like me, must be wondering why he is consistently letting this incompetent Tory Government off the hook over our proposed departure from the EU. As the Independent reports, a new survey has found that majority of members of the left-wing Momentum group back a fresh referendum on Brexit: 53 per cent of people who responded to a major consultation by the organisation said they wanted Labour to commit to holding a fresh vote, either as ...
The Liverpool Echo has the story on its website – see link below:- And isn't this the very section of its workforce that Northern seems to be in almost permanent dispute with via the RMT trade union due to this franchise operator's wish to run trains without train guards?!
Residents recently complained to me about potholes on the road surface of Seymour Street towards its north end. I raised this with the council's Roads Maintenance Partnership and have been advised as follows : "A pothole repair order was raised ... with a timescale for repair of approximately thirty days."
I have been promoting the idea of South Shropshire becoming a national park. I hear more support for this idea than I hear opposition. A recent straw poll in the Shropshire Star was 70/30 in favour. There is a lot of debate to be had. A lot of work to do. The start the ball rolling, the Ludlow and Clee Local Joint Committee will be holding a public debate on the idea on 29 November. Please join us. We live in one of the most beautiful areas of the country. We have so much beauty surrounding us that we often ...
