Monthly Archives: September 2017

UBER – the role of the regulator

Even UBER admit that they need to change to meet straightforward and sensible regulatory regimes Frankly there has been a lot of nonsense talked about the decision of Transport for London (TfL) to not renew the licence of UBER in … Continue reading

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Let’s have a rational discussion about the Women’s Hospital

The Liverpool Women’s Hospital provides an important service to women and new-born babies. We must carefully and rationally consider its future. Four years ago, the life of my grandson Jonah was saved by the staff at the Women’s Hospital. He … Continue reading

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Cowardly Labour raise White Flag on Europe

Labour’s Red Rose is wilting under the pressure of wildly different views on the EU and Brexit The one issue which above all other which will dictate the future of the UK over the coming decades is how we handle … Continue reading

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Lib Dem Choices for Key South Liverpool Wards

Liverpool Lib Dem key wards candidates for South Liverpool from l to r Steve Brauner (Allerton Hunts Cross); Carole Storey (Childwall); Kris Brown (Woolton); Some old bloke who gegged in to the photo; Alisha Lewis (Mossley Hill); Liz Makinson (Church); … Continue reading

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Labour out of touch with NHS Reality

This place is more like a circus than a debating chamber with Labour flailing around like manic clowns to try and avoid serious questioning and debates On Wednesday, at the Council meeting we were supposed to have a debate about … Continue reading

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Councillors must be like Caesar’s wife!!

When we meet in the Council Chamber every Councillor must be absolutely sure that they are obeying the law about financial declarations The Liverpool Echo ran a story about 3 months ago that 8 councillors – 7 Labour and one … Continue reading

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Fitzgerald’s suspension calls into question Anderson’s judgement

Liverpool’s spare Mayor must consider his position after his appalling lack of judgement in this matter At 17.25 tonight all councillors in Liverpool received the notice below that the Chief Executive of Liverpool, Ged Fitzgerald, has finally been suspended from office … Continue reading

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Lib Dems Flock to Bournemouth

Every Lib Dem Member  can vote on policy at our national and regional conferences. That’s why there will loads of us invading Bournemouth this weekend Yes, it’s that time of year again. The Party Conference season is with us again … Continue reading

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Liverpool Council does not have to be a mess. There are better ways.

The City of Liverpool is poorly led and poorly managed. But even under Labour it could be a better council if we did the 5 things suggested here. In my last but one blog, I indicated a whole series of … Continue reading

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Making our City Centre Safe at Night

Liverpool must do more about the problems facing good private hire and hackney carriage drivers as they struggle to do business in our City Centre Readers of my blog and the Liverpool Echo will be aware that on two occasions … Continue reading

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