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Tag Archives: Liberal Democrats
“Must Come a time, Seventy”
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
Congress is even worse than the House of Commons!
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
We need to do something about Jury Duty
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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Tagged HMCT, Jury Duty, Liberal Democrats, The Court system, The role of the Jury
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Now is the Winter of our Discontent!!
At some time before or during a General Election Keir Starmer will have to come off the fence and talk about the big changes in the way we run our public and private sectors that are being shown up by … Continue reading
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Tagged Ed Davey, Keir Starmer, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, Rate of inflation, Straikes
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Should the pensions age rise in the UK and worldwide?
All our third age citizens should be able to have a decent, warm and comfortable retirement but that raises basic questions about how the state and the individual will pay for it. I’ve been thinking about retirement recently although I … Continue reading
The price of 42 days of the incompetent Truss Government – £33 billion!
This dim duo cost us more than £33 billion in the short-term in just 42 days. How much more we may never know but the consequences will haunt us for years to come So now we have been told by … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservative Party, European Union, Inflation, Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, Liz Truss, The EU
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Do we need a new social media route for messaging?
Like many Liberal Democrats I have been viewing with concern the developments at Twitter where it appears that a right-wing takeover of the Company could damage its reasonably justifiable claim that it is a platform for free speech but where … Continue reading
The sun sets over the UK’s global pretensions
I was talking at the beginning of the week to a Mayor from an Africa Country which is not renowned for its adherence to democratic principles and propriety. His damning comment as we talked was, “at least we are not … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Johnson, General Election now, Get The Tories Out, GTTO, Liberal Democrats, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak
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Should Liverpool send in Commissioners to run the Government?
It seems to me that the people of Liverpool are now caught between two levels of hapless incompetence. On the one hand we have a hapless crash and burn Primer Minister who will clearly, if she survives, do what she … Continue reading
So, this Lady is for turning!
I am chairing a meeting today at which the Tory member of the committee has given his apologies because he has gone to the Conservative Conference. I emailed him last week saying that I would insist on him coming to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bank of England, FTSE100, Jeremey Corbyn, Kwasi Kwarteng, Liberal Democrats, Liz Truss, Rt Hon Ed Davey, UK pensions
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But what does Richard Kemp think? 