Johnson offers failed knife crime policies Lib Dems respond to Farage comments on local Tory and Brexit Party deals Swinson: ITV debate proves people at home deserve so much better CCHQ's Twitter factchecking ploy is straight of Putin's playbook Johnson offers failed knife crime policies Responding to Boris Johnson's announcement on knife crime, Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor Ed Davey said: The UK is in the grip of an epidemic of serious violence, and we urgently need real solutions. Instead, all the Tories can offer are the same old failed policies. These Conservative policies are all about seeming tough on crime, ...
Here are the higlights of Jo's ITV interview: On uniting the country by tacking the issues that made Leave voters feel so dissatisfied in the first place: Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson says she would revoke Article 50 if she were to be elected prime minister #ITVinterviews https://t.co/MtNtsEXhha pic.twitter.com/y9stbzcDTS — ITV News (@itvnews) November 19, 2019
Responding to Conservatives rebranding their Twitter account as "factcheckUK" during tonight's ITV leaders' debate, Liberal Democrat Shadow Brexit Secretary Tom Brake said:"This is straight out of Donald Trump or Putin's playbook. Not content with excluding the voice of Remain from this debate, the Tories are now resorting to deliberately misleading the public."People know they can't trust a word that Boris Johnson or the Conservatives say. The country deserves better. Only the Liberal Democrats will stop Brexit on day one and build a brighter future."
Jo Swinson has taken to Twitter to make her points in the Leaders' debate from which she has been excluded. A shout out to the people who so quickly cut together excerpts from the debate and clips of Jo putting the alternative view for people to share on social media. What Johnson and Corbyn won't tell you is that whatever happens if we leave the EU, this is the beginning of years of negotiations. The Liberal Democrats will stop Brexit on day one and build a brighter future #ITVDebate pic.twitter.com/TtDaHtVd8I — Jo Swinson (@joswinson) November 19, 2019
Last night Talking Pictures TV showed an interview with Glyn Baker about his father, the actor Stanley Baker. Glyn was an actor himself and, looking through his credits on IMDB, I found that he played Hearne the Hunter in The Box of Delights. You can see him in the clip above, looking just like his father. Which is good, because Hearne should be a hard man. The clip also reminds us what a debt my hero T.H. White owed to John Masefield - a debt he was happy to acknowledge.
Tue 19th
19:09
When a Lib Dem councillor was told to apologise to colleagues for 'male appendage' jibe
The resignation of Leicester councillor John Thomas from the Labour Party reminds me of this episode: A councillor ordered to publicly say sorry for a 'male appendage' jibe instead launched an attack on those who instructed him to apologise. Leicester City Council's sole Liberal Democrat Nigel Porter had been told to offer an apology at the last full council meeting by the authority's standards committee. The committee deemed he had breached codes of conduct by telling Labour councillor John Thomas that he would 'not take any lectures from somebody named after a male appendage' during a stormy town hall meeting ...
29 November is Black Friday. The pre-Christmas internet buying binge. It is immediately followed by White Van Man Saturday, Odd Jobber Sunday and Courier Hell Monday. Ludlow business Isla Bikes is saying enough is enough. It is blacking out its website on the biggest internet sales day of the year. That's real commitment to the cause of tackling the climate emergency. You can give support by joining the Global Strike 4 Future March or coming to the gathering in Events Square. The march begins at Isla Bikes at Lower Barns, SY8 4DS at 10.00am. You can also join at the ...
How many people in the General Election on December 12 will actually vote for the Party they believe in? That, to some, may seem a daft question, but according to some polls up to a third of people when they ... Continue reading →
Responding to Nigel Farage's comments that deals are being done at a local level between Brexit Party and Conservative candidates, Liberal Democrat Shadow Brexit Secretary Tom Brake said:"The Conservative party is no longer recognisable to millions of moderate voters across the country. They have gone from the party of Ken Clarke and Michael Heseltine to the party of Nigel Farage and Donald Trump."With so little to separate the Brexit Party and Tories, it's little wonder their candidates no longer see each other as competition."The Liberal Democrats are the only party that will end this nightmare by stopping Brexit and building ...
Responding to Boris Johnson's announcement on knife crime, Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor Ed Davey said: "The UK is in the grip of an epidemic of serious violence, and we urgently need real solutions. Instead, all the Tories can offer are the same old failed policies."These Conservative policies are all about seeming tough on crime, but they won't actually do anything to make our communities safer."Boris Johnson tried a massive expansion of suspicion-less Stop and Search when he was Mayor. His own Government's analysis shows it didn't work to stop knife crime then, and it won't work now."All it will do ...
[IMG: Council Housing] Since being contacted a few weeks ago by a Ross House resident concerned about security in the block, I've been actively pushing and working with Folkestone & Hythe District Council and East Kent Housing to see a wide range of issues in the block dealt with. I'm pleased to say many of the issues are either being worked on, or there is a plan to do so. So far some internal repairs have been done, a new fire alarm system fitted, leaking roofs repaired, mould is now being removed from walls in communal areas and more is ...
Current Two Brothers, by Ben Elton Halo: The Thursday War, by Karen Traviss One of the 28th: A tale of Waterloo, by G. A. Henty Last books finished A Close Run Thing, by Allan Mallinson Red Alert, by Peter George Next books Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikowsky My Century, by Günther Grass
Cycle path under construction between Switch Island and the River Alt along the A59 – April 2018. This section is now of course complete up to the River Alt bridge. Regular readers will recall that I've raised the issue of the cycle route from Switch Island to Maghull petering more or less where the A59 Northway crosses the River Alt on the Maghull boundary. My previous relevant posting on the matter can be accessed via this link:- Where the cycle route presently stops at the Northway/A59 River Alt bridge. Following the posting linked above I ascertained from Sefton Council's ...
[IMG: Interesting articles on the Lib Dems] Here is a collection of stories doing the rounds on the party: New Statesman: So why aren't the Lib Dems standing down in Canterbury? The Independent: Could the Lib Dems really avoid doing a deal... The post Interesting articles on the Lib Dems appeared first on @ambitiousmamas.
No. And here’s why that suggestion is based on nonsense.
Mon, 12:56: RT @RichardBullick1: Once again @nwbrux performs a considerable public service by updating his website ... how people voted as recently as... Mon, 16:05: RT @Clare_Rice_: Great thread from @nwbrux for anyone interested in what #GE19 might bring for #NorthernIreland https://t.co/3pLmjmbQhM Mon, 17:11: RT @ashstronge: This is v interesting: How #GE19 would go if votes matched those #LE19 https://t.co/3caFn5vVS6 Mon, 18:03: Northern Ireland local election votes from May 2019 projected onto #GE2019 boundaries https://t.co/HltmFVTArY Mon, 18:48: RT @alexvtunzelmann: You might think things couldn't get any worse for Prince Andrew, but I've just remembered the remarkable image in a 19... ...
Tue 19th
10:26
Conservative peer campaigning for the Liberal Democrats in Cities of London and Westminster
Conservative Baroness Patience Wheatcroft is campaigning for Liberal Democrat Chuka Umunna in the Cities of London and Westminster.
One of the lessons I try to convey to junior doctors (or in my case and after nearly a decade, more junior junior doctors) is the importance of getting lunch. If it's 11am, the ward round has finished and you don't have urgent jobs to do, I don't care if it's the morning - go and have your lunch. The nature of a hospital is that you never know what is round the corner. If you don't eat now, you might not eat again until you leave and if it's busy, that might not be until 7pm. That is bad ...
Earlier this month was the Nmonthly meeting of Bury's Planning Control Committee. This is the meeting made up of the 11 Councillors. The committee determines planning applications for certain major developments and others where objections have been received. Councillor Cristina Tegoloreports: Prior to the Committee meeting, a site visit took place in respect of planning application 63992 and 64437. The following application was notapproved: Harrington House Estates Ltd, 79 Bury New Road, Whitefield App No. 64719 The application relates to a large red brick/slate end terraced property on the west side of Bury New Road in Whitefield, to the south ...
Last week local Councillors Cristina Tegolo and Tim Pickstone met with the Heaton Park Manager to discuss a number of issues around the park, in particular as they affect Prestwich residents who live around the park. Parklife We discussed issues around the impact of Parklife on neighbouring areas, particularly a number of critical areas which have been the subject of parking or anti-social behaviour problems in the past. Particular concerns have been raised this year about repairing the park following its use for four nights of summer events in June this year, a process which has been made more difficult ...
Tue 19th
09:49
Why it is ridiculous to say that the 2019 general election won't tell us what the country thinks abo...
Here's my main problem with the People's Vote argument: it seems to be taken for granted in Remain circles that the 2016 EU referendum was a bad idea (which is was) but that the fix to this problem is to do it all over again. It's like thinking the best way to treat someone whose memory is foggy after they have hit their head on something is to rap them on the skull with a blunt instrument because this seems to fix the problem in old cartoons. Referendums are really bad ways of doing things, as the last three and ...
The John Denmark Unit (JDU) at Prestwich Hospital is asking for items to include in Helping Hands boxes, which you can drop off at 'The Curve' reception, at Prestwich Hospital. JDU is the hospitals ward which specialises in mental health and deafness. Service users will put the boxes together, hand wrap them and place a handmade Christmas card in each box. The boxes will then be delivered to local charities/food banks in December. Deadline for collection is Friday 29 November. Below is a list of suggested items to donate. Childrens Items for donation: Colouring booksCrayons/colouring pencilsAge appropriate toysSocksHats, Gloves, scarfsBubblesPlaydohParty ...
After last year's bumper sales, the Tourist Information Centre in Bury will have twice as many cards as usual, with shoppers able to choose cards from 25 national and local charities. This is the tenth year that the TIC has been selling these cards, and has raised more than £22,000 for good causes in this time. The Bury pop-up shop is part of a network of more than 300 temporary shops run by Cards for Good Causes, the UK's largest charity Christmas card organisation. It represents more than 250 charities including Cancer Research UK, Barnardo's, NSPCC, Alzheimer's Society and RNLI ...
This Thursday is Carers Rights Day, with the theme 'Caring for Your Future. Every day 6,000 people become carers but often it's not something we've planned for. The aim of the day is: Make carers aware of their rightsLet carers know where to get help and supportRaise awareness of the needs of carers If you are caring for someone at the moment and would like to find out more about your rights and how to get help, click here. More information about an event in Bury here.
A lot of promises are being made in this election, some of them so wild that one wonders if anybody could possibly give them credence. The biggest obstacle faced by all parties however, is how they can operate within an asymmetric constitutional settlement, when the biggest concerns of voters, namely education and health, are no longer the responsibility of MPs in three of the countries that make up the UK. Labour, the Liberal Democrats, even the Conservatives are having to produce different manifestos for Wales and Scotland, in which they set out how, if they are given the chance, they ...
[IMG: Kent County Council Early Help Grants] The "Early Help" grants will support new and existing organisations and innovative projects which contribute to meeting the local need and priorities for the District's children and young people. In Folkestone and Hythe, those priorities are: Raising aspiration and educational attainment, and extending employment opportunities Instilling resilience and improving self-esteem in children, young people and their parents/carers, helping them better understand the importance of healthy relationships and healthy lifestyles including healthy eating as protective factors when tackling emerging problems such as bullying, low school or college attendance, poor mental and physical health and ...
Yesterday found me out of the office, but not by very far, as I had signed up to take part in a conference organised by the Suffolk Association of Local Council, called "Shaping Suffolk". The aim of the event was to look at how we might improve the way planning authorities and local councils (by which I mean town and parish councils) engage with each other and with developers. I would be the first to admit that, in Creeting St Peter, we don't really do much about engagement in an organised sense. It can feel a bit ad hoc and, ...
The Liberal Democrats have today set out their plans to protect the NHS, by stopping Brexit and investing an extra £35 billion in the health service and social care over the next five years. The Liberal Democrats would raise £7 billion a year in additional revenue, ring-fenced for the NHS and social care services, by adding a penny on income tax. On top of this, the party has announced a £10 billion capital fund to upgrade equipment, ambulances, hospitals and other NHS buildings to bring them into the 21st Century. The Liberal Democrats have also set out plans to tackle ...
From the Curator of Museum Services at the University of Dundee : Using photographs, artworks and architects' designs, the latest exhibition in the Lamb Gallery at the University of Dundee explores some of the most distinctive forms of houses in Dundee, with a particular focus on communal and social housing - from Victorian tenements to pioneering council houses, post-war multis, student halls of residence and more. The exhibition Living Together features material from our own and private collections as well as the University Archives, Dundee City Archives and Dundee Central Library Local History Centre. It has been created to accompany ...
