[IMG: Ed Davey and Lib Dem MPs and activists with many diamonds launch election campaign] The polls open in eight and a half hours. I hope that all the bundling is done and the Eve of Polls are out and all campaigners are tucked up in bed sleeping soundly ahead of an early start with the Good Mornings. All the very best from the LDV team to everyone getting out the vote tomorrow and a huge thanks for all the work that you have all done. Elections are not won on polling day. It's been a long, hard slog. Thanks ...
Yes, I think it probably has. The speaker is Ian Leslie, author of John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs. To be fair, as football managers say, just before this he and the other contributors do set out why the career of the Beatles makes such a compelling story. It didn't last long, the group had the same four members all the way through and, because they broke up early, we still think of them as young and at the peak of their powers - there was no slightly disappointing 1973 album.
Council tax is one of the most outdated and unfair taxes in the UK today — and yet it continues to underpin the finances of every local authority in the country. The system we use now was introduced over 30 years ago, and it still relies on property valuations from 1991. In that time, the housing market has transformed, but the tax bands have not. As a result, households are paying wildly different amounts of tax for properties of similar value today, simply because their homes were assessed differently decades ago. That's not fair, and it's certainly not progressive. In ...
A month ago I whiled away a lunch break asking BlueSky for the origin of a massive number. The figure £45bn had acquired a kind of solidity-by-repetition in what we pretentious types call "the political discourse". £45bn was meant to be how much the government might save if it were to replace "manual, paper-based and poor-quality interactions with the State [that] are sucking up time and resource that could be allocated elsewhere" (quote source). The thread details an amusing and frustrating chase through the citations and footnotes often seeming to end back where I started. Yes, this is how I ...
Thank you and good luck Due to an impressive collective effort, our candidate tally for this May's elections is our best showing since May 2009. That is, the proportion of seats we are contesting this time, compared with the proportion Labour and the Conservatives are contesting, is the best since before the 2010 Coalition government. We still have more progress to go to get to matching their numbers of candidates, but this year is another important step forward. It shows a continuing spread of our grassroots campaign efforts beyond simply our held and target Westminster constituencies. Thank you to everyone ...
Andrew Page draws some lessons from Mark Carney's victory: "What we saw in Canada is that, when political leaders focus on the issues voters care about, minds (and voting intentions) can be changed. It also became apparent that the populist tactics previously employed by the Conservatives ceased to work once the incumbent party found a way of reconnecting with the electorate." "The Conservatives are defending a high watermark, a freakishly good result for them in 2021 created by the short-lived vaccine bounce that put wind in their sails for a few months."Matthew Pennell previews tomorrow's local elections. Commenting on the ...
The Guardian reports on the views of Lady Brown, the chair of the adaptation subgroup of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), the statutory adviser to government, who has alleged that Labour is putting people, the economy and the environment in increasing peril by failing to act on the effects of the climate crisis. The paper says that flooding, droughts and heatwaves are all increasing in severity due to climate breakdown, but current plans to protect people, land and infrastructure against extreme weather have been judged inadequate by Brown's committee, in a scathing assessment of the UK's preparedness. Lady Brown said: ...
If you do nothing else in the next couple of days, please try and help Mike Ross become Mayor in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire. Ed Davey has done his bit by visiting the Beats Bus in Hull earlier this week. Laying down some tracks today at The Beats Bus in Hull, a brilliant project helping young people find new opportunities. [IMG: 🎧] [IMG: 🎶] pic.twitter.com/J56844AJpa — Ed Davey (@EdwardJDavey) April 28, 2025 Mike Ross really does look like he is living his best life. Ed doesn't maybe look so comfortable, but as always he is willing to ...
We have recently received concerns from residents regarding the Scottish Enterprise ground at Seabraes - specifically - the fenced off ground where decontamination works took place and Scottish Enterprise is now attempting to resolve groundwater issues has been left unsecured; also the bins along the path from Roseangle to Greenmarket have not been being serviced efficiently. We raised this with Scottish Enterprise to request that its agents Colliers dealt with these issues and received the following response : "I can confirm that Colliers are now addressing the issues you have raised. By way of an update on the drainage issue, ...
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