Tag Archives: Liberal Democrats

Why is your council tax so high?

Posted on March 5, 2024 by richardkemp

Tomorrow, 6th March, Liverpool Council will vote to increase its council tax by just under 5%. Some of the reasons for this are of its own making but far more problems have been caused by a failure of governments to … Continue reading →

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Does Parliament really care how many people die in Rafah?

Posted on February 22, 2024 by richardkemp

I believe that Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker of the House of Commons, was right to allow a number of amendments yesterday. We must break the binary parliamentary system if we are to have a Parliament we can be proud … Continue reading →

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The real story of polling on Europe

Posted on February 12, 2024 by richardkemp

Mark Pack, the National President of the Liberal Democrat’s is a great aggregator and interpreter of polls. His latest one being a longitudinal review of the opinions of people after the Ill-fated Brexit Referendum. His latest article which I reproduce … Continue reading →

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I worked in Post Office HQ, and it was a bungling bureaucracy

Posted on January 9, 2024 by richardkemp

Ed Davey is a decent and honourable man. The attempt to scapegoat him in a scandal started under a Labour Government and was continued by the Tories long after he left the role of Post Office Minister tells us all … Continue reading →

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A time inversion takes me from 17 to 71 in a second

Posted on January 8, 2024 by richardkemp

This old bloke is who I see when I look in the mirror every morning. I may think I am 17 inside but I am clearly 71 outside! But like every old war horse when the trumpet sounds for a … Continue reading →

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Personal thoughts on Frome after 57 years of by-election campaigning

Posted on July 25, 2023 by richardkemp

Ed Davey is widely respected for his compassion, integrity and honesty. He is uniquely placed to lead us forward to unprecedented electoral success. Something niggled me on the day that I went to my first stint at the Somerton & … Continue reading →

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9 June 2023 – A great day for USA and UK politics

Posted on June 10, 2023 by richardkemp

Trump and Johnson. Two peas in a pod both ‘shelled out’ yesterday. A great day for all who believe in democracy and the rule of law. Two great dramas played out on our television screens yesterday. The downfall of both … Continue reading →

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“Must Come a time, Seventy”

Posted on January 8, 2023 by richardkemp

If anyone thinks that I am going to get softer or queieter now that I have reached seventy they do not know me well at all!! So as the world inexorably turns and 365 days become a year, so I … Continue reading →

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Congress is even worse than the House of Commons!

Posted on January 5, 2023 by richardkemp

Extremists can hold main stream parties to ransom in a binary, first past the post system that we have in the USA and UK. That’s why the likes of Boebert are currently dominating Congress. Regular readers of this blog might … Continue reading →

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We need to do something about Jury Duty

Posted on December 16, 2022 by richardkemp

If we are to retain the Jury system, and I think we must, we need to make it a more rewarding experience for the 200,000 people a year called to perform it. The importance to our judicial system of having … Continue reading →

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