Lib Dems call on PM to back automatic rights for EU citizens Lib Dems: Tories have failed on knife crime Lib Dems demand more action on gambling addiction Lib Dems call on PM to back automatic rights for EU citizens The Liberal Democrats have called on the Conservative Government to back legislation to guarantee automatic rights for EU citizens, as new official statistics show the number not granted permanent Settled Status has risen to more than 1 million. Liberal Democrat peer Jonny Oates this week tabled amendments to the Government's Withdrawal Agreement Bill to automatically guarantee EU citizens' rights in ...
It's a while since we have looked at the BFI's Britain on Film collection, but if you click on the iamge above you will be taken to a fascinating 1937 film on coal pollution. The blurb for The Smoke Menace on the BFI site runs: Smog was the deadly downside of Britain's industrial might, as this powerful and revealing documentary spells out. In 1937, coal was Britain's lifeblood; it fuelled her industry and heated most homes. But coal was wasteful and dirty, and it had an unpleasant, even lethal by-product. Smog wasn't just nasty and disruptive, it took its toll ...
[IMG: Sandgate Farmers Market flyer] Saturday 18th January sees the 2020 return of the Sandgate Farmers Market, with a wide range of local produce, local made goods and local enterprise. This weeks stallholders indlude Sandgate Bakery, Old Hall Farm, Marsh Produce, Catherine Jordan Cakes, Saffron Rose Flowers, Kent Honey, Anji's Interiors, Eco Food Wrap, It's a Florrie Thing, Pauline's Handmade Toys, Gill Thompson Jewellery, Utility Warehouse and Body Shop products alongside the regular cafe. and many more! The Farmers Market is in the Chichester Hall at 70 Sandgate High Street from 10-12.30pm on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each ...
Second paragraph of third chapter:The first thing I committed to memory wasn't the lines of a play, it was the names of the Busby Babes. There was a drawer in my mum and dad's bedroom and whenever I got the chance I'd go rooting. I'd find sets of false teeth, ties, photos, watches, United programmes, leather lighters from the '70s, all sorts. It was fascinating. Boredom was our ally back then — we had nothing else to do so exploring the house was an inevitability.This was the last book I finished in 2019, and the best of the Doctor Who ...
I was pleased to have a last-minute opportunity to attend a presentation last night at the National Liberal Club by academic and TV election pundit Sir John Curtice (a long-standing member of the Club) on The 2019 Election: A Tale of Hope and Disappointment. One might correctly guess from the title that the talk was [...]
The Liberal Democrats have called on the Conservative Government to back legislation to guarantee automatic rights for EU citizens, as new official statistics show the number not granted permanent Settled Status has risen to more than 1 million.Liberal Democrat peer Jonny Oates this week tabled amendments to the Government's Withdrawal Agreement Bill to automatically guarantee EU citizens' rights in law. The latest EU Settlement Scheme Statistics, published yesterday by the Home Office, show that more than 1 million EU citizens have now been given the weaker "Pre-Settled Status". This means that they will have to reapply for the right to ...
Responding to new statistics revealing knife crime is at a 10-year high in England and Wales, Liberal Democrat Justice spokesperson Daisy Cooper said:"With knife crime at its highest in a decade, the Conservatives' approach to knife crime has clearly failed."They have unnecessarily criminalised thousands of young people, made them more likely to offend by locking them up on pointless short sentences, and undermined trust in the police through a surge in suspicion-less Stop and Search. "Liberal Democrats are calling for the Government to stop wasting money trying to seem tough on crime, and instead spend it on the things that ...
Thu 16th
12:09
Another underrated musical artist that may change your life: here is MF DOOM and his story
Over the six years I have written this blog, I have on occasion told you to tune in to some obscure musical act for what I have taken to be your own spiritual good. My article on Jandek converted one bloke who wrote to me subsequently to say that he "obsessively listens to Jandek most days now", something which he found frightening but nonetheless continued to do. I listen to MF DOOM most days and I think that unless you hate hip hop, you should give him a whirl. He's a lyrical and production genius and has produced at least ...
[IMG: Woman living in predominantly ethnic minority city says she doesn't experience racism] It was with some, no make that humongous, incredulity that I watched an Asian woman living in Bradford state on national TV that she has... The post Woman living in predominantly ethnic minority city says she doesn't experience racism appeared first on Ambitiousmamas.
Thu 16th
11:20As if there wasn't enough in the way already, here's an added impediment to any party beating the To...
The Tories have a lot going their way. They are going to do a boundary review that will make the new constituencies more Tory and less Labour friendly (and way less Lib Dem friendly, if such a thing can be imagined). The government looks like it is going to make ID mandatory at polling stations. The Labour Party still seem like they want to continue on with their suicide trip, flirting heavily with the idea of Rebecca Long-Bailey as their next leader. The Lib Dems have been once and for all destroyed, so there isn't even a chance of them ...
At its meeting on 15th January Liverpool City Council overwhelmingly passed a motion from the City's Liberal Democrats which not only declared that Liverpool is and will remain a major European City but would take steps to increase and improve ... Continue reading →
Pretty much everyone has a view on why we had a bad election and, more importantly, what we should do next. I'm a member of Barnsley local party and here are my two cents... Johnson's Tories look like they have weathered the storm and are in for a few stable years as a version of Trumps Republicans, appealing to the English rustbelt and the odd white supremacist. They may be untouchable for a while. We have just experienced our third bad (so very bad) election in a row. However Labour, by its standards, has had a shocker. They have not ...
Wed, 18:35: Wednesday reading https://t.co/0Itp44pJmu Wed, 20:48: Almost Everything in "Dr. Strangelove" Was True https://t.co/77gWrTgULv Chilling. Thu, 09:13: RT @GuitarMoog: If you think Spain's handling of Catalunya is a blueprint for how central governments ought to deal with independence movem... Thu, 10:45: Racism Fight Over Romance Writers of America, Explained https://t.co/6lxU1Ljf3j A very good and detailed explanation of the RWA affair.
Thu 16th
09:40
LibLink: Our new President/Co-leader on the surprising number of elections coming up in May
Over on his blog, Mark Pack, our new party President and co-leader, gives us a timely warning about the magnitude of voting opportunities this May: This year's round of local council elections are only in England and are the smallest round of that cycle of elections. Which may make you think that it's a small set of elections and one in which many or even most parts of the country will not be voting. But... Add in also the Police and Crime Commissioner elections across England and Wales, the London Mayor and Assembly elections and seven different Mayor elections. That ...
When I heard on the radio that Health boards in Wales could face fines for failing to tackle issues around the amount of time it takes ambulances to hand over patients to A&E departments, I did a double take. Have we really come to the point where Ministers are so powerless to do anything about the stacking up of ambulances outside emergency rooms and 12 hour waits to be treated that they are having to resort to meaningless sanctions to punish hospitals? The BBC reports that Health Minister Vaughan Gething is to set up a taskforce after a review of ...
Yesterday Ed Davey, in his first Prime Minister's Question as Acting Leader of the Liberal Democrats, secured a meeting with the Prime Minister to discuss the issue of inadequate support for bereaved families in the UK. Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Ed said:"Mr Speaker, when my mother was widowed, with three young children, bereaved families received small payments until the youngest child left school. In our case that would have meant payments for 14 years, except my mother died too early."In 2017, the duration of those payments was reduced - and the new Bereavement Support Payment was paid for only ...
Responding to news that the Government intends to bail out Flybe, Liberal Democrat Transport spokesperson, Munira Wilson MP, said: "Flybe provides a vital service in connecting many regions of the UK which are otherwise hard to travel between, not least as a result of poor rail infrastructure. Keeping these routes open has to be a top priority."However, Boris Johnson's decision to bail out Flybe is a misuse of taxpayers' money to say the least. If Flybe is a failing business, then it is not the right business to run these routes."The fact that the Tories are considering cutting air passenger ...
From Blether Tay-Gither : Our January 2020 Blether will be on Tuesday 28th January - at 7pm at Madigan's Tearoom and Bookshop at 25 Castle Street. The Theme is MUSIC. Join us for a relaxed evening of stories and tales. bring a story or just come to listen. Hope to see some of you there - all welcome!
