Another week begins, and the Press Team are back on the frontline. I am reminded that press releases are not all that our Press Team do, thus what you see here is not a full reflection of their work. There are specialist press releases not necessarily appropriate for a wider audience, and the team work with editors and journalists to gain better coverage, or to bring issues to their attention, and support our Parliamentarians when they interact with broadcast or print media too. Anyway, on with today's selection for you to enjoy... Lib Dems: Case for a People's Vote has ...
For our latest fix of railway nostalgia we travel to County Kerry. Wikipedia explains: The Farranfore to Valencia Harbour Railway was 39.5 miles (63.5 km) long single-track broad gauge railway line that operated from 1892 to 1960 along Dingle Bay's southern shore in Ireland. It was the most westerly railway in Europe.
Muswell Hill ward in north London is where I first cut my campaign manager teeth, working with a brilliant team to win somewhere that had the Labour Party's largest ward membership in London.
Current Finding Time Again, by Marcel Proust The Name of This Book Is Secret, by Pseudonymous Bosch Last books finished Perilous Dreams, by Andre Norton Next books A Cold Day in Hell, by Alan Grant The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010 Edition, ed. Rich Horton Factfulness, by Hans Rosling
It's really hard to imagine an old revolutionary socialist keeping a right wing government in power, enabling them to take a destructive course virtually unhindered. Really, at the moment, any decent opposition would be miles ahead in the polls. They would be taking advantage of every bit of parliamentary trickery they could to thwart the Government at every stage. Especially a government that doesn't have a majority. But, no. Everything Jeremy Corbyn does just helps out Theresa May. Take his pretendy- No Confidence motion that he said he's putting down today.. If you want to take down the Government, you ...
Our Headline of the Day Award is a home win for the Harborough Mail. What is it with Market Harborough and Christmas? A year ago the Leicester Mercury won with "Santa's sleigh run called off in Market Harborough due to too much snow". And in 2009 Conservative Home got very upset after Harborough District Council cancelled an appearance by real reindeer because of snow and ice.
Responding to new details of the Windrush scandal, published today, Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesperson Ed Davey has called for the Home Office to be stripped of responsibility for immigration altogether. In a letter to Parliament's Home Affairs Committee, the Home Secretary has revealed that, of the 164 people who were wrongly detained or deported, 16 are deceased. This is up from the 11 people who had been identified as deceased last month. The letter also reveals that the Home Office has now spent £6.05 million in response to the Windrush scandal, including £165,455.75 on independent advisers and consultants and ...
For some years now I have been in the habit of making Christmas presents for friends and relatives, which usually take the shape of home made fragrances. This year I thought I would adapt my hobby to raise some money for my favourite cause, the People's Vote. Basically I am giving a few of these items away, on the understanding that the recipients will make a donation to the campaign. This is a win-win situation in that I feel I am doing my bit to help the country out of its quagmire, whilst the People's Vote gets some cash and ...
The entrepreneur, jazz lover and philanthropist Peter Boizot, who died earlier this month aged 89, was not one's usual idea of a successful business. Affable, generous and at times curiously diffident, he nonetheless had the secret of many self-made millionaires: he had a brilliant idea and ran with it. That idea was to mormalise pizza [...]
I saw the first Formula E race of the 2018/19 season last weekend. I've watched parts of races in previous seasons, but it's always felt unwatchable due to the limitations of the cars. The new...Continue Reading The post Formula E is now almost watchable appeared first on ten pence piece.
Over the past two weekends I have been out with pro EU campaigners from all Parties and none talking to the people of Liverpool about the EU and our membership of it. This has always been a relatively easy job ... Continue reading →
On 3 December 2018 the Government launched the Enable Fund to help disabled candidates with the additional costs they face when standing for political office. This can include BSL interpreters, personal assistance costs, accessible technology, additional transport costs and the like. Any candidate with a serious physical or mental impairment can apply to the fund. However, any grant awarded must be used to overcome specific obstacles faced by the disabled person. It can't be spent on campaigning or campaign materials. It exists to help disabled candidates overcome the many barriers to standing for elected office, and as a visually impaired ...
Sun, 12:56: Observer archive: the Daleks, 18 December 1966 | From the Observer | The Guardian https://t.co/Vcyqtk4TYB Oh wow. I... https://t.co/60yJPti783 Sun, 14:40: Doctor Who, Series 11 (or 37), 2018 https://t.co/tO2WoB2nBq Sun, 16:05: How Ireland Outmaneuvered Britain on Brexit - Bloomberg https://t.co/c18jOmmPaC If you haven't seen it already, this is a very good summary. Sun, 20:48: RT @ticiaverveer: The frozen ground of the Altai Mountains preserved this beautifully detailed Scythian woman's boot for over 2,300 years.... Mon, 07:49: #GiletsJaunes blocking France's border with Belgium. https://t.co/kK0HyStMnE Mon, 08:58: RT @timoconnorbl: @ottocrat The argument, "This is absurd to all so it can't ...
The deadline is fast approaching for the end of negotiations and commencing of the transitional period after the 29th March. To many, time is running out for the government to bring back a deal that would minimise the economic uncertainties that are seen to ensue after Britain withdraws its membership from the European Union. Moreover, the government have had two years to devise a plan that suits the interests of all, but in that time it can be seen that they have merely delayed the process for as long as possible in hope that the EU would make compromises. In ...
Technocrats, commentators and business people are excellent at laying out what is necessary; what 'must be done' in public policy to move forward. Politicians, who live in the real world, are, on the other hand, necessarily focused on what is actually doable. And therein lies the Brexit peril we are now in. First, let us [...] The post What is next for the Brexit peril? appeared first on Radix.
I know that we haven't yet had Christmas, but the list of recycling points for real Christmas trees in Northumberland is available. In the immediate area for Blyth both Asda ( the large store) Car Park and the Ranch Car Park will have recycling points from 2nd to 9th January The full list of Northumberland's tree recycling points is here:-
We should always take class seriously, especially in England, if we want to understand the society we live in and the route to a fairer and happier society. That is not the same as taking class as a key driver for the creation of a political party, philosophy or programme. Meanwhile this doesn't stop us taking poverty utterly seriously. I was born in the poorest part of Newcastle, spent my working life as a Methodist minister in some of the poorest communities of the North of England, and In May this year I was elected for the third time in ...
Just what the Brexiteers ordered, or is it? – Job losses! The Liverpool Echo has the article on its website – see link below:- So Teresa and her Brexit buddy Jez, the Brexit enabler, continue to drive the UK over the edge to fulfil their joint desire to force a Brexit upon us that the electorate no longer supports. No big benefits of leaving the EU (there never were any), plenty of job losses (are you listening no job loss Corbyn?) and all this misery just to help the Tory Party deal with its internal difficulties. No wonder that ...
A superb initiative by the Dundee United Community Trust, working in partnership with the Ambassador, to extend the festivities from 11am to 4pm on Christmas Day. This includes transport for guests to get to both venues and back home again :
