Lib Dems: Tesla announcement demolishes Johnson's Brexit fantasy Jane Dodds: Our benefits system is broken Wollaston: Farage voting Tory shows Johnson has drifted to extremes Lib Dems: Tesla announcement demolishes Johnson's Brexit fantasy Responding to the announcement that Tesla will be investing in a new factory in Germany and not the UK due to Brexit uncertainty, Liberal Democrat Shadow Brexit Secretary Tom Brake: On Boris Johnson's first day in Downing Street, Dominic Cummings was pictured wearing a T- shirt picturing a company founded by Elon Musk. Now the very entrepreneur Cummings idolises has chosen not to invest in the UK ...
Here's the list of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary candidates for the December 2019 general election. If you'd like to help them, a great way to start is by joining the party. Liberal Democrat candidates by constituency Jump to the constituency you want: A-D / E-H / I-L / M-P / Q-T / U-Z Liberal Democrat PPCs A-D Aberavon: Sheila Kingston-Jones Aberconwy: Jason Edwards Aberdeen North: Isobel Davidson Aberdeen South: Ian Yuill Airdrie and Shotts: William Crossman Aldershot: Alan Hilliar Aldridge Brownhills: Ian Garrett Altrincham and Sale West: Angela Smith Alyn and Deeside: Donna Lalek Amber Valley: Kate Smith Angus: Ben ...
So, the nominations have closed. And in Blaydon, yet again, there has been an increase in the number of candidates. This time local voters will have a choice of 8. Liz Twist is defending for Labour (she was first elected in 2017) and challenging her from the other two main parties are Vicky Anderson (Lib Dem) and Conservative Adrian Pepper (all the way from the City of London and Westminster
In a keynote speech in Leeds tomorrow, Ed Davey will announce that the Lib Dems will be putting our money where our mouth is about the climate emergency. We'll spend £100 billion on measures to tackle it: A Liberal Democrat Government will jump-start an economy-wide programme to tackle the climate emergency: I can announce today that across a 5 year Parliament, Liberal Democrats would spend and invest an extra £100 billion of public finance on climate action and environmental preservation. "This includes a new £10 billion Renewable Power Fund to leverage in over £100 billion of extra private climate investment. ...
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WATCH: Luciana Berger describe her experience of anti-semitic abuse in the Labour Party
Lib Dem MP Luciana Berger described her experience of anti-semitism in the Labour Party at a campaign event today. Watch here; This came on the day Jo Swinson signed the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition on antisemitism, which all candidates are being asked to sign this Election. I am today signing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition on antisemitism, which all candidates are being asked to sign this Election. pic.twitter.com/KsdFHrdT7p — Jo Swinson (@joswinson) November 14, 2019 The party published its plan for Equalities and Human Rights today, which covers everything from protecting civil liberties, banning use of facial recognition ...
North of Freeman's Meadow weir, the navigable arm of the Soar has been canalised. The Mile Straight is a landscape of bridges, student flats and converted mill buildings, but there is still the odd hint of the industry that used to dominate these banks.
Whether this is news from the past, present or future, you have to admit the old boy made the most of his time away from the Hall. Friday I enjoyed Uxbridge, particularly the crowd of mothers and children I found hammering on the door of the Conservative campaign headquarters. Down in Devon I ran into the Attorney General and found his theatrical mien puzzlingly familiar. It was only this morning that I remembered where I had seen him before: he was playing the rear end of a cow in Aladdin at the Alhamba, Bideford. Then I travelled to Witham in ...
We're signing off for the evening, but what an inspiring evening it was. We'll leave you with this clip from Sir @NormanLamb's speech, who won the Making a Difference award. #BupaMindAwards pic.twitter.com/1GpjjZzAiB— Mind (@MindCharity) November 13, 2019 Norman Lamb, who has just stood down as Liberal Democrat MP for North Norfolk, received the 'Making a Difference' award at last night's Mind media awards. This award is made each year to someone in the media who has set the agenda and initiated change. Other winners included The Archers, which won the award for soaps and continual series.
When this particular black dog rears its head, I've learned the hard way that I need to act quickly to stop it taking over. Continue reading →
Vicky Anderson got off to a flying start in the battle for Blaydon last night. Members gathered to back her campaign to become the next MP for the constituency. Good luck Vicky. Sadly, today's rain has restricted leaflet deliveries!
The new mini library at Maghull North Station Local resident Frank Sharp has launched a book sharing scheme at the new Maghull North Railway Station akin to the one that is run by the Station Volunteers at the original Maghull Station. Maghull Station Library run by the Station Volunteers Organisers hope it will encourage a sense of community and ownership of the new station. Frank thanks Merseytravel's senior rail project manager Darren Hazlewood and Merseyrail's Sally Ralston, for allowing the installation of a bookcase and books which have been freely donated by the local community. The initiative follows on with ...
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It's 4pm, which means it's the snap general election nominations deadline! Given there are at least three journalists I know of writing stories about trans candidates in the election, this post will be a not-so-exclusive reveal of who is openly standing as a trans or non-binary candidate. [IMG: Liberal Democrats] Helen Belcher Chippenham Independent Sophie Cook East Worthing & Shoreham [IMG: Liberal Democrats] Charley Hasted Eltham (Non-Binary) [IMG: Labour] Heather Herbert Gordon [IMG: Labour] Thom Kirkwood Richmond (Yorks) (Non-Binary) [IMG: Green Party] Tom Pashby South West Hertfordshire (Non-Binary) The first thing to note is that, compared to the nine candidates ...
Why do the Liberal Democrats deliver so many leaflets? Do they work? And is there such a thing as too many leaflets?
Responding to the announcement that Tesla will be investing in a new factory in Germany and not the UK due to Brexit uncertainty, Liberal Democrat Shadow Brexit Secretary Tom Brake:"On Boris Johnson's first day in Downing Street, Dominic Cummings was pictured wearing a T- shirt picturing a company founded by Elon Musk. Now the very entrepreneur Cummings idolises has chosen not to invest in the UK because of the extreme Brexit being pursued by this government."Meanwhile, Boris Johnson is giving a speech at an electric car factory the very same day that we find out this industry is being damaged ...
Responding to Priti Patel's comments regarding cutting overall levels of immigration, Liberal Democrats Shadow Home Affairs spokesperson, Christine Jardine said: "This country needs people to come here to keep our NHS and so many sectors properly skilled and staffed. The Conservatives' approach to immigration is an insult to the millions who have come to the UK and made it their home. Immigration brings so much to our communities, culture and economy. "Patel's comments this morning show that the Tories only care about arbitrarily reducing immigration numbers with no regard for the consequences. Our public services, including our NHS, rely on ...
I'm leaving my run of General Election blogs to look at a topic that I have been dealing with for 3+ years. Property developers in Liverpool. I am saddened that more than 15 months after the Council's Fractional Investment Task ... Continue reading →
Last month I attended a day conference on the Climate Crisis run by the Leeds Trades Council, largely a Trades Union organisation and Labour Party front. (The session of "Working with others" never even mentioned the Liberal Democrats. I'm not sure they even mentioned the Greens) Reassuringly the emphasis was not so much on preserving jobs in existing industries as the urgency of action to avoid a climate catastrophe, even if that means contracting some existing industries. Rather there was considerable emphasis on the opportunities to be created in the expanding Green industries. I picked up the following "facts" which ...
Having in the past often done the many steps up and down to letterboxes in this area too, I can attest to how much training you can get in with a few humble leaflet delivery rounds: Lib Dem Stop Brexit poster at the Everest base camp. Haringey member Daniel Kinnear warmed up for climbing Everest by delivering leaflets in Alexandra Palace! pic.twitter.com/T6uQRPqTwq — Rob Blackie [IMG: 🔶] (@robblackie) November 14, 2019 If you sign up for my blog posts digest you'll get a handy one-a-day email with links to all the latest posts. You can also sign up for a ...
As you read this, the final rounds of nomination papers are going in for Liberal Democrat candidates around the country. Between candidates and agents, that is well over a thousand people who have volunteered to add even more burdens, strain and work to the next few weeks above and beyond even what all the rest of us are going to go through. Even in the most fantastic election result for the Liberal Democrats, at the end of it many hundreds of them will not have a victory to show for it. The party, and our cause, will however, thanks to ...
Wed, 12:28: Come and join APCO! https://t.co/IZ567AEzuD Wed, 12:56: RT @LeslieProll: Could Texas be any more intentional? Houston voters elect 19 Black women to judgeships. GOP then introduces bill to repl... Wed, 13:23: Nice quote from @VeraJourova: "Optimists are sometimes people with insufficient information." https://t.co/QD4kscsVKE Wed, 16:05: The battle over Luna Younger, a 7-year-old trans girl in Texas, explained https://t.co/JTPHeksNGq Horrifying. Wed, 17:11: Europe risks losing strategic clout in Western Balkans https://t.co/p3GlXWFGfq Signed by 10 former foreign ministers. Wed, 17:13: As compared with current polling average: CON: 37.2% LAB: 28.6% LDEM: 16.1% BREX: 9.3% GRN: 3.0% You can see why... ...
The Lib Dems today are announcing plans to reform the Gender Recognition Act. Details are below along with the party's criticism of the Conservative position and their attempts to kick the issue into the long grass. In Gateshead however, it is Labour that have taken up a transphobic position. Earlier this year they submitted a motion for debate at the Council which opposed the proposed reforms
It has been a few months since the local elections, but my usual post on what that means for trans politicians has been delayed by health and other political activities. But with today being the closing day for nominations for the forthcoming snap general election and politics on everyone's minds – whether they want it to be or not – it's a good time to look back at the last set of elections. But before we do that, in the interests of completeness there was another election of particular interest in September 2018. A local Labour councillor in Cambridge resigned ...
The Liberal Democrat manifesto will include a commitment to reforming the Gender Recognition Act, to make it easier for transgender people to get new birth certificate by; Removing the requirement for medical reports. Scrapping the fee. Recognising non-binary gender identities. The Conservatives have been less than proactive in pursuing this reform, a year after the consultation ended. During this time hate crimes on transgender people have increased due to a toxic media environment. Speaking during Transgender Awareness Week, our Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities Christine Jardine said: This government has, by its own admission, kicked these vital changes to ...
For those of us who like to preserve our heritage, the recent flooding in Venice is both unsettling and ominous. As the Guardian reports flood levels in the lagoon city have reached the second-highest level since records began in 1923 as a result of the acqua alta, which hit 1.87 metres (74in) late on Tuesday night amid heavy rain, just short of the record 1.94 metres measured in 1966. Most of the water had receded by the afternoon, but residents are bracing themselves for more to come as forecasts predicted high tides of 1.20 metres late on Wednesday night and ...
Do you know someone or a group of people that would benefit from more support on Christmas Day? Dundee United Community Trust will be hosting a free Christmas meal for local people at Tannadice Park from 10am to 3pm in the Hegarty Suite. This is a lovely gesture, particularly for those on their own at Christmas. More details are available here.
The Liberal Democrats will today (Thursday 14 November) unveil the party's Plan for Equalities and Human Rights. The plan is at the heart of the party's vision to build a brighter future for everyone. The ambitious policies being revealed at a press conference today by Luciana Berger and Chuka Umunna include:tackling the rise in hate crimes by making them all aggravated offencesproviding funding for protective security measures to places of worship, schools and community centres that are vulnerable to hate crime and terror attackscomplete the introduction of equal marriagereduce the overrepresentation of people from BAME backgrounds throughout the criminal justice ...
The Liberal Democrats have announced that they will implement reform of the Gender Recognition Act as a priority, after the Conservative Government failed to bring forward measures despite promises to do so. Under the plans, to be included in the Liberal Democrat manifesto, the Act will be amended to make the gender recognition process simpler and fairer, by:Removing the requirement for medical reports.Scrapping the fee.Recognising non-binary gender identities.The Conservative Government promised in 2017 to reform the Gender Recognition Act and held a public consultation on the proposals in 2018. The consultation closed more than a year ago - on 22nd ...
