At the 2017 general election, East Devon had an unusually strong showing for an independent candidate who isn't a former MP for a party, with Claire Wright scoring 35% and the Conservatives winning the seat.
The Leek & Manifold Valley ran for eight miles through remote and beautiful countryside in the Staffordshire Peak District. It was open for only 30 years (from 1904 to 1934), but is immortalised in this footage.
A nice little advertisement from my Danny La Rue programme. It does tend to reinforce the impression that this wasn't your conventional pantomime. Read about The Killing of Sister George in an article by Melissa Anderson.
Keep this simple vocabulary guide handy to steer yourself through the next few weeks, months or years of intensive European debate: Brexit vocabulary guide: 'No deal' = 'managed deal' 'Managed deal' = 'a series of further deals' 'A series of further deals' = 'unacceptable EU meddling we should walk away from' 'Unacceptable EU meddling we should walk away from' = 'no deal' — Mark Pack (@markpack) December 20, 2018
Proof that not all crime stories in the Shropshire Star are from Telford. Anyway, my favourite newspaper wins Headline of the Day.
I have a set of drafting advice to do and once I've done that I am doing nothing workular, and that includes formal Lib Demmery, until Monday Jan 7th*. Consider this a public warning. As to the actual festive season, it's going to be a fairly quiet one this year, I think. [IMG: [personal profile] ] magister is going away to his family, and it's my brother's turn to host my parents, so it's just going to be me, [IMG: [personal profile] ] matgb, The Daughter, and the doggies in the house**. The 29th is our usual monthly games night, ...
Spain is facing a triple crisis that would overwhelm considerably more stable political systems. First, there is a deep unsolved economic and social crisis that has fostered inequality and insecurity; secondly, a deep constitutional and institutional crisis, enhanced by the situation in Catalonia; and, thirdly, a corruption crisis that, last spring, led to the ousting [...] The post Spain's triple crisis and the emergence of Vox appeared first on Radix.
Dr John Appleby has been selected as the prospective candidate for the election of a Mayor of the new North of Tyne Combined Authority in May. He has lived in the North-East for over thirty years, and now lives in Whitley Bay, where he enjoys walking on the ever-changing beach with his wife, Janet. He was formerly Head of Mechanical Engineering at Newcastle University, responsible for over 1000 staff and students, a budget of £14 million, strategy and safety. He continues to be a popular teacher of maths for engineering students. John served as a Lib Dem councillor in Newcastle ...
The Liberal Democrats have demanded the Conservative Government end the 'wild west' drone market and tighten up laws on who can own drones following the disruption caused at Gatwick today. Speaking after securing an urgent question in the House of Lords, Liberal Democrat Transport Spokesperson, former Welsh Liberal Democrat AM, Jenny Randerson said that the incident at Gatwick "illustrated the frightening ease with which drone vessels can inflict massive damage to our safety, our security and our economy". The Liberal Democrat peer urged the Government to set out plans for "proper controls on drones early in 2019". In response, the ...
Responding to Government figures that nearly 600 homeless people died on the streets last year, Liberal Democrat Housing Spokesperson Wera Hobhouse said:"These deaths are absolutely tragic. As a wealthy country, we simply cannot accept people dying on our streets."The Conservative Government's failure to look after these individuals is a shameful dereliction of duty. Conservative Ministers must recognise the urgent need to build more social homes. The Liberal Democrats want to see 50,000 social houses to be built every year, rising to 100,000 as soon as possible."These figures also bring into sharp focus how homelessness services for mental health and substance ...
Pedro is a young man with two big issues overshadowing his life. The first is a criminal assault charge after he attacked a guy, blinding him in one eye, but the second issue is in many ways more serious: an inability to socialise or communicate normally with virtually everyone except his sister and grandmother. He [...]
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A bill going through its final parliamentary stages cuts letting agents' fees for tenants. This is down to the hard work of Lib Dem Peers, mainly Olly Grender. She writes for Politics Home about what this will mean for people: When I first proposed this change in 2016 through a Private Member's Bill, it was a flat "no" from the Conservative Government. However, they could not keep ignoring the overwhelming evidence that people on low incomes or benefits who were renting privately were being ripped off with shocking admin fees. The worst part is that families who are evicted or ...
Thu, 12:13: RT @kevinhorourke: @nicholaswatt reporting on @BBCNewsnight that HMG ministers hopefully speculating that Ireland will be reduced to needin... Thu, 12:56: Strangest Time Zones of the World (YouTube) https://t.co/EYrLZ21GVI Very enlightening. Thu, 14:11: Letter From Post-Brexit Britain, March 2029 https://t.co/Hk0zrduHVF A pessimistic but possibly realistic forecast. Thu, 15:10: How Conservatives and Labour have failed in their responsibilities on immigration. https://t.co/bq4fiGAnIm Thu, 16:05: Top 10 Irish science fiction authors https://t.co/Kf4Y3B4U1z Great from @JFennellAuthor, though I would have included Ian McDonald myself. Thu, 16:32: RT @JFennellAuthor: @nwbrux He was in the original draft, and that wasn't my original title. Thu, 17:11: ...
Lib Dem Peer William Wallace has been writing for the Yorkshire Post about how building a fairer society doesn't come cheap. Theresa May ended her statement to the Commons last Monday, postponing the intended Brexit vote, 'on a personal note.' She spoke of her commitment to improve public services, to tackle social injustices, 'to make this a country that truly works for everyone, a country where nowhere and nobody is left behind.' She might have a problem with that, though, however right she might be: But any serious attempt to address them is likely to be opposed as vigorously by ...
Whatever the role that Russia played in supporting the Leave campaign in 2016, you have to give it to Vladmir Putin, he has some chutzpah in coming out openly against a second referendum and for Brexit at his annual press conference. How many leaders of democratic countries wish they could get away with talking to the media just once a year? I suppose, if you are going to adopt that method of working, you had better have something worth reporting, and Putin certainly ensures that he does. As the Independent reports, the Russian President used his annual meet-the-press to unexpectedly ...
The Guardian has the article on its website – see link below:- The headline from the Peter Kellner article makes a powerful case – 'The polls are clear: support for staying in the EU has rocketed' With thanks to Bob Robinson for the lead to this posting
It's time to move the Brexit spotlight. Its focus on Theresa May's deal has thoroughly exposed the bankruptcy of the British Prime Minister's proposal and left the government frantically planning to minimise the chaos of a no-deal Brexit. But Opposition Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn is so wedded to his revolutionary socialist ideology that he is making as big a contribution to the national crisis as the conservative government. The British House of Commons is divided—and in the strangest of ways. The vast majority of its members voted to remain in the EU in the 2016 referendum. And, if the truth ...
Anyone who tries to negotiate the hugely complex Switch Island will have seen that the recent upgrade/safety works by Highways England have all but been completed. The big question now is will it be any safer? I've commented on this matter many times before as both a driver and indeed as a cyclist as I have witnessed driver behaviour. To sum up, the problems as I have seen them are:- * Too higher speeds approaching the junction * Red light running/jumping * Confused drivers veering from lane to lane * Impatient regular users not allowing for the confused/lost drivers One ...
