Monthly Archives: June 2020

Liverpool zip wire will dishonour our dead and desecrate our heritage

Posted on June 27, 2020 by richardkemp

On Tuesday the planning committee of the Council will meet to consider an application to create a permanent zipwire between the St John’s Beacon and the Central library. It may or may not allow this on planning grounds although I … Continue reading →

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£200 million+ plea to Government a missed opportunity to do things differently

Posted on June 25, 2020 by richardkemp

Last week I was handed, at one hours’ notice, a 5-page summary of a 180 page submission to the Government asking for cash for shovel ready projects. Interestingly, it had already been submitted to the Government the previous Monday. I … Continue reading →

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Seven Point Plan to boost Liverpool’s tourism offer post Covid

Posted on June 22, 2020 by richardkemp

Liverpool Lib Dem’s Spokesperson on Culture and Tourism, Cllr Carole Storey, has outlined a seven-point plan to create an engine for the recovery of a crucial sector for Liverpool employment post Covid-19. The seven-point plan will create a sustainable tourism … Continue reading →

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Two metres or not two metres – that is the question!

Posted on June 21, 2020 by richardkemp

So, the greatest contention in the Covid-19 debate is now whether social distancing should mean 1 metre or two metres. Regrettably, we have seen examples in Allerton Road and Woolton Village where neither of those distances counted because young people … Continue reading →

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Let’s settle the Penny Lane Issue once and for all

Posted on June 16, 2020 by richardkemp

Over the past few days, a lot of my time has been spent dealing with absurdities about Penny Lane and Gladstone Hall in which both Liverpool University and the International Slavery Museum have descended into a mumbo-jumbo of ill thought … Continue reading →

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Abandon tokenistic twaddle and do something real to help BAME students

Posted on June 11, 2020 by richardkemp

Yesterday I accused Liverpool University of tokenistic twaddle over its decision to remove the name of Gladstone from the Greenbank Halls of residence. Gladstone became Prime Minister 35 years after slavery was abolished in Britain and the British Empire. He … Continue reading →

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We must all “bend the knee” to fight racism

Posted on June 9, 2020 by richardkemp

A couple of days ago I saw a rather stupid debate about whether or not the UK is a racist Country. It appeared to depend on your definition of racist. What is abundantly clear to me is that there are … Continue reading →

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Government sent our elderly and disabled home to die

Posted on June 3, 2020 by richardkemp

So now it’s official. Our caring Government sent more than 25,000 people home to residential care homes in just one month. They took no precautions about whether or not this frail group of people had the coronavirus by the simple … Continue reading →

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The United States of America – A pariah nation

Posted on June 1, 2020 by richardkemp

Eleven and a half years ago I, along with millions of people in the UK, stayed awake to hear who had become the President of the USA. At about 3 a.m. I was delighted to hear that it was Barack … Continue reading →

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