Liberal Democrats to vote against Coronavirus Act due to "watered down" care provision Clarity of purpose and clarity of messages essential to defeat Covid – Davey Liberal Democrats to vote against Coronavirus Act due to "watered down" care provision The Liberal Democrats have today confirmed they intend to vote against the Coronavirus Act because of the Prime Minister's failure to reverse the reductions in rights to care for vulnerable people, particularly the disabled. Leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey warned he had "deep reservations about the serious implications for people's wellbeing, rights and freedoms" and made clear the provision ...
Liberal Democrats condemn health inequalities "exposed in technicolour" by Covid crisis Liberal Democrats demand Raab steps up sanctions against China over treatment of Uyghurs Liberal Democrats call on Government to tackle 'Long Covid' Liberal Democrats condemn health inequalities "exposed in technicolour" by Covid crisis In her first keynote address as Liberal Democrat Health, Wellbeing and Social Care spokesperson Munira Wilson will condemn the health inequalities "exposed in technicolour" through the COVID-19 crisis, and call for a Minister for Wellbeing to ensure that Government decisions are "fundamentally in keeping with health and wellbeing." She is expected to say: The coronavirus has ...
Jonathan Chait offers a way of understanding Donald Trump: "He is a brilliant con man, who has, throughout his career in business and politics alike, honed the singular skill of identifying marks and exploiting them with spectacular lies." "Senator Bankhead, the uncle of Tallulah, managed to get a bill drafted in Congress which would have authorised $1 billion of stamp scrip to be issued the following year." David Boyle girds up to make the case for local money again. Jessica Grose says that though devices for tracking children calm parents' fears, they hamper the children's development. "'Sport confirmed that in ...
Liberal Democrat federal conference this weekend was the strangest in a very strange run of years and conferences since I joined the party in 2015. Reeling from an abysmal general election result last year, demoralised by a fractious leadership election campaign that left many on the party's left questioning their place in the movement, it [...]
On Lib Dem Voice: Reportage | Contribute On the official party website: Conference home Willie Rennie's speech to Conference was broadcast on his birthday on Sunday. It had been recorded in North Queensferry a few days before. They filmed the speech twice, the first time outside, but there were interruptions from a flypast, a potato lorry and runners from his local club – no amorous pigs or other assorted livestock, though as has happened in the past. Watch here. The text is below: https://youtu.be/HubjQhGLTv4 On the shores of the Forth Estuary with the Queensferry Crossing behind me. It sits alongside ...
Watch the latest Liberal Democrat party political broadcast (PPB), featuring Ed Davey's listening tour of the country: Missed our new PPB that just aired? You can watch it in full below to hear from the new Leader of the Liberal Democrats, @EdwardJDavey. pic.twitter.com/zqT1y7b278 — Liberal Democrats (@LibDems) September 30, 2020
Wokingham Councillor Prue Bray in the new Chair of ALDC, the Association of Liberal Democrats Councillors and Campaigners. She takes over from Mayor of Bedford Dave Hodgson. Prue said: This is a particularly important time for ALDC and for Liberal Democrat local campaigners and councillors. We have made good progress in local elections in recent years and that needs to continue. ALDC is working hard to get more Liberal Democrat councillors elected and to help support our councillors make a positive difference in their local communities and on the Councils that we run. We have a great team leading ALDC. ...
Non-fiction: 3 (YTD 41) An Inland Voyage, by Robert Louis Stevenson East West Street, by Philippe Sands Barcelona, Catalonia: A View from the Inside, by Matthew Tree Fiction (non-sf): 2 (YTD 25) Bruges-La-Morte, by Georges Rodenbach The Mirror and the Light, by Hilary Mantel Comics: 5 (YTD 33) Isabelle, by Jean-Claude Servais Blood Monster, by Neil Gaiman and Marlene O'Connor Chronin Volume 1: The Knife at Your Back, by Alison Wilgus Chronin Volume 2: The Sword in Your Hand, by Alison Wilgus Being An Account of the Life and Death of the Emperor Heliogabolus, by Neil Gaiman 5,000 pages (YTD ...
Blog by Councillors Tracey Huffer and Andy Boddington. This article has been written with the support of Portcullis and Station Drive Surgeries. This year we face what may prove to be the deadliest disease of our lifetimes. The coronavirus epidemic is far from over and cases are rising across the country. Faced with Covid-19, why then bother with a vaccination against flu? Especially as the arrangements for a jab are different this year. This article explains why flu jabs are essential. Why you should not fear a jab. What the arrangements are in Ludlow. And how you can get flu ...
The NHS Track and Trace app is here to stay. Even if Covid-19 were to disappear from the planet tomorrow, there is no turning back from this point; track and trace apps will become a permanent fixture of the health service. And now that we know what an app should be able to do, why would we rely on one for Covid-19? If it helps to save lives, then surely an app could help us to guard against annual winter flu pandemics; what about chickenpox and a whole host of other infectious diseases? Thinking ahead, it is not inconceivable to ...
The diaries of Sasha Swire, wife of former Conservative MP Hugo Swire, have attracted a lot of attention and several lengthy book reviews. But one point has been mostly missing from them: Not sure what's worse: the references to a "Jewish lobby infiltrating Parliament" and the like in Sasha Swire's diaries, or the absence of mentions of them in numerous reviews of the diaries. https://t.co/BSl7lyh55e — Mark Pack [IMG: 🔶] (@markpack) September 27, 2020
Responding to Plaid Cymru's Independence Commission report which has been published on 25 September, Welsh Liberal Democrats described the report as a mix of fanatical politics and pie in the sky economics. Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats Jane Dodds said: Politics isn't working for Wales or the UK as well as it could right now, I understand why independence looks attractive, but it isn't the answer. There are far too many uncertainties, too many unknowns and too many risks with independence. We don't know nor are Plaid proposing solutions to questions such as: What currency we would use? Would ...
Which book has most challenged your previous political views, putting them under heavy strain or even changing them?
An unexpected and valuable insight into the economic history of Rutland and also into Lord Bonkers' relationship with Lloyd George. Saturday Liz Truss - I could have sworn used to be one of ours - has had what she believes to be the novel idea of selling Stilton to the Japanese. It's not novel at all, as anyone familiar with the economic history of Rutland could tell her. When Japan opened herself to trade with the West in the 19th century, our merchant captains were among the first to sail into Yokohama and Nagasaki. Sweating with thick blue veins and ...
Earlier this week we finished our first ever virtual Lib Dem Conference. Given the circumstances it was a very good conference indeed. Most important of all for Lib Dems it gave ordinary members the chance to listen, speak and vote ... Continue reading →
Last week my son, who is two years old, developed a fever. Anyone who has children knows that toddlers are naturally inclined to do this every now and again and, in normal circumstances, it's not a cause for concern. But it's 2020. Normal circumstances are a distant memory. Government guidelines required getting my son tested for coronavirus and isolating the household until the results came back, or alternatively for 14 days. Having to quarantine the whole family for two weeks for a fever likely to be caused by a cold or teething didn't sound like the most productive solution for ...
Tue, 12:51: RT @bbcdoctorwho: A very happy birthday to @BriggsNicholas, the voice of many of the Doctor's most fearsome foes! #DoctorWho https://t.co/r... Tue, 12:56: RT @BlkLibraryGirl: For those of you who wonder why I insist on calling the first Black woman to publish a book in North America Phillis Wh... Tue, 16:05: Boris Johnson has run out of rope - @Mij_Europe https://t.co/70fAYxRq9H How to lose authority. Tue, 17:11: Dark Horse, by Fletcher Knebel https://t.co/OhSUugAjwR An early 1970s book about a fictional US Presidential election. Very interesting to compare with today's situation. Tue, 18:22: April 2008 books https://t.co/6lGSu8O1bW Tue, 20:48: Sasha ...
For the past few months via numerous zoom calls and countless redrafts, I have been heavily involved in formulating the Europe motion that was debated at Conference and fully endorsed the party's new policy which was adopted overwhelmingly and stated our long term commitment to membership of the European Union unequivocally, that we believe Brexit to be wrong and that the EU is the UK's natural home. I know for some that position probably doesn't go far or fast enough, but as hard as it is to say – as someone who spent the past five years trying to prevent ...
A quarter of the way through the year, and I'm finding this time-consuming but (so far) rewarding. It helps that I have a skeleton for each day from my 2010-11 series of posts, but I've also enjoyed boosting them with pictures from the TARDIS Data Core and Tragical History Tour, as well as my own screencapping where needed. Closing September, here we go with: i) births and deaths 30 September 1945: birth of Sandra Bryant, who played disco manager Kitty the night club owner in The War Machines (First Doctor, 1966) and Chicki in the first episode of The Macra ...
I recently purchased the old postcard shown below of Southport's Lakeside Miniature Railway:- There's a date on the reverse of the postcard – 10th August 1971 but no other writing. The caption, also on the reverse, says – SOUTHPORT, LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND. A delightful resort with beautifully laid-out gardens and a famous Marine lake. The Lakeside Miniature Railway is a scaled-down version of the real thing, and is an ever popular source of enjoyment for children and adults alike. Original by T. R. McIlroy Click on the postcard to enlarge the photo The post Southport's Lakeside Miniature Railway first appeared on ...
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It is time to plan for expansion of Ludlow to 2038 and beyond - we need a garden suburb
Shropshire Council is concluding its consultation on how the county will development from now until 2038. For Ludlow nothing changes from the existing plans. I think this is a mistake. My long held view is that we should plan for a flourishing garden suburb east of the A49. That hasn't been a popular view but if we had put in place a masterplan for that area in 2012, we would not have had housing developments imposed on us at Foldgate Lane and off Bromfield Road by planning inspectors. No future development is not an option available to us. We can ...
The University of Dundee Botanic Garden publishes an excellent newsletter and you can access the latest one here.
Some of us warned about this during the referendum of course, but this revelation in the Guardian is still a sharp reminder of the disaster that Boris Johnson's government is steering us towards. The paper reports on warnings by a former EU security commissioner that British intelligence about terrorists and other serious criminals would have to be deleted from EU systems if the Brexit trade negotiations were to collapse. Sir Julian King, who was the UK's last commissioner in Brussels until last year, said that in security terms "the difference between a deal and no deal is significant" and the ...
