Earlier this month I was invited to take some of our goats to Whickham School so the children could pet them. This was part of the schools work for Mental Health Awareness Week. The event was a success with hundreds of children visiting the animals. The video above covers the event up to the point just before the children arrive.
What a night! Thanks to Mark for his excellent coverage overnight. Had a great morning taking photos with @europesheila & @scotlibdems – and this is honestly my favourite, because it perfectly encapsulates how most LibDems are feeling today! [IMG: 😂] pic.twitter.com/VagFt7FT1J — Greg Foster [IMG: 🔶] (@LibFozzy) May 27, 2019 Jane Brophy Jane Brophy is an NHS Allied Health Professional working in the field of Dietetics, specialising in diabetes treatment. She is a member of the British Dietetic Association board and holds a degree in Biochemistry. Jane Brophy has been elected as a Metropolitan Borough Councillor in Trafford for 19 ...
[IMG: Why would Corbyn blow his political capital?] Let me state at the outset that I like Jeremy Corbyn. He is a rare conviction politician in a sea of self-serving career politicians. Corbyn cares. Pure and simple. He gets how austerity has decimated... The post Why would Corbyn blow his political capital? appeared first on @ambitiousmamas.
For earlier results, check out part 1... First, an update. The BBC have got the Latvian result wrong, and our sister Party, Attistibai, have retained their seat. Unexpected that, the BBC getting it wrong... Time to look at some of the bigger stories, and we start with Romania, where the USR have gained eight seats as the main element of the Coalition Alliance 2020. The collapse of the ruling Social Democrats has been followed almost immediately by the news that the Prime Minister, Liviu Dragnea, has lost his appeal against a prison sentence for corruption. He's already been transferred into ...
I'm not a Lib Dem. I'm Labour and I hope that in voting as I did I will help the Labour Party see sense and do the right thing for the country. This was Alistair Campbell tweeting about his support for our party on Sunday night, following the European election results. In some ways history is repeating itself. Through his work in convincing the Blair government to go to war in Iraq, Campbell was also partly responsible for the last great surge of support from Labour to the Liberal Democrats. What we learnt from that episode in our history is ...
Thankfully, some things have changed rather a lot in politics since 1966 as you can see from this job description for an executive assistant from that year.
And spring is all about growth. It's about planting the seeds of whatever I plan to grow over the course of the year. It's about watching those first tender shoots appear through the soil. Continue reading →
Referendums are strange things. Uniquely divisive, and their outcome unpredictable. No matter what the issue, voters flock to opposing sides like supporters at a football match. There is no sitting on the fence. You could have a referendum on whether we leave the earth and live in outer space, and it could succeed, who knows? Humans will have to colonise space sooner or later to survive, but the time is not here yet. And the time for leaving Europe is not here yet. It may come, if the EU fails to reform itself and technology solves the Irish border problem, ...
[IMG: Overflowing waste bin] [IMG: Cleaned up / tidy waste bin] It just takes a little care and attention to keep our area looking nice, but without it, things go downhill fast. It seems that Folkestone and Hythe District Council / Veolia haven't emptied or cleaned up around the bin in Wilberforce Road Car Park in Sandgate for weeks and weeks, and it really showed. It was pretty disgusting! I took a little time on Sunday to clean up around the bin and remove at least a little of the waste from the overflowing bin itself, and it's looking much ...
Overnight, we've had some of the results come in, and we'll start with the bad news first, with none of our ALDE sister parties gaining seats in Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Malta or Portugal. We had only held seats in Portugal (two), but the combined vote of the three liberal parties totalled just 2.41%. Little change in the Baltics thus far, although in Estonia, the opposition Reform Party gained voting share and won overall, retaining their two seats, whilst the Centre Party lost significant voting share having gone into coalition with the far-right and nationalists. They retained their solitary seat ...
I'm sure there's going to be loads of erudite analysis pieces written about the results of the European Parliament elections. This isn't one of them. However, listening to the results come in last night, I...Continue Reading The post Silly and sensible is the new left and right in British politics appeared first on ten pence piece.
It was a very good night for Remain – but not for the reasons most people are talking about A conversation that will rumble on for at least the next couple of weeks will be around whether Remain or Leave "won" these elections in the UK. On one side, you will hear endlessly about the success of the Brexit Party, the clear victors in terms of political party vote; on the other, how if you add up the votes for parties advocating Remain unequivocally and then the ones advocating Leave unequivocally, Remain wins. I would push both of those arguments ...
Mon 27th
12:28
European Elections 2019: Scotland and Northern Ireland declare, and the inquests begin...
19.39 And it's really all over, with Naomi Long successfully elected... All over. @BBCNewsNI @DianeDoddsMEP @M_AndersonSF & @naomi_long pic.twitter.com/cW4rPsp5A6 — Darran Marshall (@DarranMarshall) May 27, 2019 It's not going terribly well at Conservative Home, I'm afraid, where the shattered faithful have drawn the obvious (at least to them) conclusion that Brexit must be delivered harder and faster. Good luck with that in places like Wokingham, Windsor and Maidenhead and Tandridge. It's not time to gloat though, for we know only too well what it's like to suffer gruesome defeat. Labour List are a bit more reflective, and the argument about ...
The percentage of voters for each party in South Gloucestershire were as follows: Brexit Party 37% Liberal Democrats 24% Green Party 15% Conservative 10% Labour 7% UKIP 3% Change UK 3% Others 1% So Leave Parties (Brexit and UKIP) got 40%, but Remain Parties (Lib Dems, Green, Change UK) got 42%. Conservative, Labour and others got 18% between them. Click here for South West regional results
The percentage of voters for each party in the South West and Gibraltar Region were as follows: Brexit Party 37% Liberal Democrats 23% Green Party 18% Conservative 9% Labour 7% UKIP 3% Change UK 3% Others 0% Elected MEPs: Brexit Party 3 Liberal Democrats 2 Green Party 1 So Leave Parties (Brexit and UKIP) got 40%, but Remain Parties (Lib Dems, Green, Change UK) got 44%. Conservative and Labour between them got 16%. Click here for South Gloucestershire voting percentages
The results of the European Parliament elections in mainland Britain are nearly all in. Excited politicos are over-interpreting them like mad, with the politicians predictably interpreting them to suit their own political preconceptions, in which they will doubtless be followed by most of the public. For my party, the Lib Dems, the result is a ... Continue reading The Lib Dems earn their zeitgeist moment
Sun, 12:05: How I'm voting today @OpenVLD @Groen #EUElections2019 #Europeseverkiezingen #verkiezingen2019 https://t.co/sgHjHaGWKi Sun, 12:56: RT @Eamonn_Forde: This book, as recommended by @AnnaDerbyshire, might have the best single page in any book I've ever read. https://t.co/wg... Sun, 12:58: RT @brusselsred: Très ému d'avoir voté pour la première fois en tant que citoyen belge. Merci mille fois à tous les volontaires souriants q... Sun, 13:08: Brilliant series of pieces from @xtophercook identifying what went wrong for the UK over Brexit. He identifies the... https://t.co/iOnNCBa2XE Sun, 14:48: Petit guide de lobbying dans les arènes de l'Union européenne https://t.co/e6i7nLfmtw Quite a balanced piece on ...
Though Nigel Farage's new Brexit Party won most seats in this week's European elections, just as its predecessor UKIP did in 2014, the striking difference from five years ago was the huge surge in support for the Liberal Democrats and to a lesser extent the Greens. It's not hard to explain why (though the Government [...]
Yesterday the world was as it normally is: politics dominated by the two old parties. I woke up this morning and found I am in a parallel universe. The two old parties have been destroyed, the Lib Dems are resurgent and a hideous monster party has topped the polls. Some good bits and some bad bits in this unfamiliar parallel reality. Congratulations to the team of Lib Dem MEPs whose numbers have
Who would have thought after the 2017 General Election that just two years later the appeal of the magic Grandpa would have almost totally disappeared? The European elections were clearly a total disaster for the Tories who now have only ... Continue reading →
Mon 27th
08:36
Maghull – 2020 will be 100 years since the Town's most famous resident brought his 'O' Gauge t...
I still have to pinch myself when I think that world famous toy manufacturer/inventor Frank Hornby lived for most of his adult life in Maghull on Merseyside, but live in this dormitory suburb of Liverpool he certainly did at two houses – The Hollies on Station Road and Quarry Brook off Hall Lane. Both houses still stand and whilst The Hollies is very much still a private residence (with the first ever English Heritage Blue Plaque on it outside of London) Quarry Brook is now the 6th Form Block of Maricourt High School. Michael Portillo with Frank Hornby Trust Chairman ...
The Liberal Democrats have secured the best ever European Election result in the party's history, expecting to return 16 MEPs and take second place in vote share. Having run an unambiguous campaign to stop Brexit the party has made huge gains across the country, which follow the party's best ever gains in English local election results at the start of May. Responding to the result Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable said: "Our clear, honest, unambiguous message has won us our best ever European election result, and pushed Corbyn's Labour into third place. "We have shown ourselves to be the strongest ...
What a night! Thanks to Mark for his excellent coverage overnight. The results surpassed my wildest expectations. And the media can just stop with this "triumph for the Brexit Party" narrative. They are effectively a repackaged UKIP which, in 2014, got 27.5% of the vote. They've only gained 4.1% on top of that to end up with 31.6%. UKIP's 3.3% on top of that gives unequivocal Leave 34.9%. The combined total of Liberal Democrats, Greens, Change UK, Plaid Cymru and SNP who are all committed to Remain is 40.4%. You can't really say with confidence what the Conservative and Labour ...
As today is the Victoria Day holiday at local schools, my usual ward surgeries at Harris Academy and the Mitchell Street Centre do not take place but I can be contacted at any time at home on 459378 or by e-mail at surgery@frasermacpherson.org.uk. My surgeries resume again on Thursday at 6.15pm prompt at Blackness Primary School.
Mon 27th
06:53
European elections: In Shropshire the news was the rise of the environmental and progressive vote, a...
The votes for the European Elections have been counted. In the West Midlands, the Lib Dems are back with one MEP. The Greens are growing in strength with one MEP. Three MEPs were elected to the Brexit Party displacing UKIP's three MEPs. Labour did badly and the Conservatives much worse. Under the D'Hondt system of proportional representation, that gives one seat each to the Conservatives, Greens, Labour and Lib Dems. The Brexit Party has three seats with a bigger vote share than UKIP achieved. In the West Midlands, the Conservatives and Labour lost 19,504 votes compared to the 2014 Euro ...
