Brexit is coming, the hedge fund's growing fat, who will put a billion in Phil Hammond's hat? If you haven't got a billion, 3,000 troops will do, if you haven't got 3,000 troops, then God bless you... But at least we're giving some opposition to this wastrel administration... Lib Dem peers defeat Government to force Prevent review (this one arrived late last night) Cable: Decision to ramp up no-deal is psychological warfare Dropping migration target an admission Brexit won't control immigration Lib Dems: Putting troops on standby is simply scaremongering Lib Dems table no confidence motion in Government We've also ...
First it was the secret plans to get in loads of portable toilets, now it is fridges as Jeremy Hunt has revealed.
A documentary first shown in 1999. How dated and appealing the corner shop where John Cleese began his silly walk now appears!
Our Headline of the Day comes from the Irish Independent, Kensington and the crazy world of rock and roll.
Donald Trump is such a preposterous individual that he is actually quite hard to satirise. Satire tends to exaggerate characteristics and exaggerating his is quite a challenge without appearing absurd. However, the pseudonymous author Watt T. Dickens found a nice conceit by recrafting Charles Dickens's Christmas Carol with Ebenezer Trump taking the part of Scrooge (Ebury Press, [...]
This caught my eye in London Assembly member Caroline Pidgeon's latest newsletter: Nominate 100 women for blue plaques One change that I hope we can all help secure is ensuring a better representation of women in blue plaques across London. Incredibly across the capital, of the 943 plaques installed to date, only 14 per cent commemorate women. Despite this year being the 100th anniversary of many women gaining the vote, there is not even a blue plaque for the suffragette Emily Davison who lived in Blackheath, or Reina Lawrence, the first woman councillor who came from Camden. Details of a ...
Remember Richard Alderman, the Rutland councillor convicted over his Facebook posts? In October I wrote: Richard Alderman, the 'Democracy Rutland' councillor, today received a six-month community order for his posts on Facebook. He will have to wear an electronic ankle tag to monitor a 7pm to 7am curfew. As the Leicester Mercury has said he intends to carry on as a councillor, he had better hope there are no evening meetings.But there are evening meetings. The council's meetings all start at 7pm. And today BBC News reported that Rutland County Council had decided not to grant him dispensation to miss ...
The web address for a previous incarnation of the Liberal Democrat youth and student wing, LiberalYouth.org, now takes you to a spam website. This is a relatively common occurrence when old domain names are let lapse, as I've highlighted before. It produces a double problem for people with links hanging around from when the web address was in proper use. First, those links are helping boost the performance of a spam website. Second, because Google and other search engines don't like links to spam websites, they can also make your own site perform worse in search results. So if you ...
In January, when I knew that chemotherapy for my lymphoma was certain, I wrote the beast is awake. Tomorrow I meet with my consultant to review the results from my recent PET/CT scan and blood...Continue Reading The post Transplant +97: Nervous times appeared first on ten pence piece.
Andalusia is to the PSOE as Scotland was to the Labour Party: an area where they could take people's votes for granted to help them waltz into power at the national level. The recent elections, brought forward from March, meant they could use the region as a litmus test for future national elections and seek to take advantage of Pedro Sánchez's honeymoon period after the vote of no confidence in July. The PSOE has governed Andalusia since 1980. Many Lib Dems in Labour and Tory fiefdoms will be well aware of what that length of time in power does to ...
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Okay, a note at the start to bear with me here. This past month has been the nadir of British parliamentary politics for the last century at the very, very least, and most of what has happened is baffling in the extreme. So, here goes, best I can, I'll explain where we are. Theresa May decided to address parliament yesterday, even though she was under no obligation to do so, all while she is trying get around putting her vote to the House before Christmas. I guess one could describe it as "hiding in pain sight". To compound matters, she ...
Patreon backers can now hear a bonus episode of the podcast, on "Merry Christmas, Baby" by Johnny Moore's Three Blazers, here. And for all of you, here's a mixcloud mix of all the music I excerpt in this show, which ... Continue reading →
Mon, 18:31: I ran the last of these scenarios through Electoral Calculus - Con 42% Lab 22% Lib Dem 26% That gives the followi... https://t.co/pnW9s4H10g Mon, 20:48: Great thread on the mythology of British "pluck". https://t.co/NUz1W2XMwR Mon, 21:41: RT @gillessuply: Trying to explain #Brexit to a Group of (very knowledgeable) Indian students at the @KULeuvenKulak Irish College tonight t... Mon, 21:48: Monday reading https://t.co/OHM3rsNXb8 Mon, 21:59: Great evening at @LeuvenIrelandEU discussing Brexit with @gillessuply and a group of very well-informed students fr... https://t.co/b0crKiVYHL Tue, 09:13: Response of the year. @Piris_JC answers the question "Have you read the Lisbon Treaty?" Reminds ...
How many Doctors does it take to change a light bulb? Is it easier to get a job if you're Adam or Mohamed? Three times more interviews for Adam. This Is How It Feels To Be Told To Go Home When You Were Born In The UK Workers get new rights in overhaul but zero-hours contracts remain Also remaining: fees to take your employer to a tribunal. The fines could be a gazillion quadzillion pounds and it wouldn't matter. Rights that are impossible to enforce are no rights at all. If you like what you see here (or even if ...
A public vote on Brexit seems to be gaining in popularity; no longer just a view of those undemocratic Lib Dems it is now in the mainstream. However there is no consensus on the question(s) to be asked in a referendum. Many options are being floated and I believe the Lib Dems should have a consistent view that can be propounded in Parliament and elsewhere. Most questions seem to be chosen at random and do not reflect any underlying principles. I would suggest the following principles: All three options currently available (Remain, Leave on May's terms, Leave with No Deal) ...
Whilst our mainly 2nd division political leaders grapple with Brexit a far bigger issue is being kicked further down the road because climate change will destroy the lives of millions if it is not addressed very firmly and very soon. There is every danger that because our weak Parliamentary politicos talk of nothing but Brexit (other than Jez Corbyn who avoids all hard subjects) that it becomes the biggest political challenge – It's NOT! I was dragged out of watching the sad Little Englander world of Brexit by my old friend Phil Holden who sent me a link to a ...
A People's Vote is looking increasingly likely, but it's outcome is not in the bag, especially if there are three options. There's a warning in a comment from Gina Miller: "We discovered that a vast swathe of people who would vote for no deal across the country would do so because their perception is that no deal means remaining" https://twitter.com/EPinUK/status/1068471165918826496] As a strong supporter of full EU membership, the danger is that I seize on every opinion poll that suggests Remain would win in a People's Vote. But the polls are still uncomfortably close: Remain is ahead almost everywhere, but ...
The Guardian reports that shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, has urged Twitter to take action over "highly offensive racist and misogynist" abuse on the platform after a study found thousands of tweets disproportionately targeting black female politicians and journalists. The paper says that an Amnesty International study found black women were 84% more likely than white women to be mentioned in abusive tweets, with one in 10 posts mentioning black women containing "abusive or problematic" language. They add that a separate Amnesty study published in September 2017 showed that Abbott, the Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, received ...
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. E. F. Schumacher What if there will be no economic growth in future? This book poses this possibility. Or rather, it sets out to prove that it is inevitable. Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary" by Samuel Alexander and Brendan Gleeson, [...] The post Why we need some de-growth in the suburbs appeared first on Radix.
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Commenting on Jeremy Corbyn's motion on the Prime Minister's future, Liberal Democrat Leader, Vince Cable said:"Corbyn knows that for a no confidence motion to matter it should relate to the Conservative Government as a whole. That is the way to precipitate the General Election he says he wants. "Instead he turns his fire not on the Tories or Brexit but Theresa May personally, ducking the real issue and bottling the real vote the Commons needs. "Jeremy Corbyn should support a proper, effective confidence motion straight away, test whether MPs will vote to remove them from office and, if not, honour ...
Liberal Democrat peers have defeated the Government for a second time on its Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill.Amendment 32, tabled by a cross-party group of peers including Liberal Democrat Andrew Stunell, requires the Government to carry out an independent review of its Prevent strategy and publish a report within 18 months. The Amendment was passed on Monday evening by 214 votes to 196. Following the vote, Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson for Home Affairs Brian Paddick said: "Liberal Democrats have been calling for an independent review of Prevent for years because many in the communities most affected believe Prevent unfairly singles ...
