Breaking Britain returns, this time it’s the schools
Why is so much of Britain’s infrastructure literally falling apart?
13 Sep 2023
News
Press release on the Autumn Statement.
Lib Dems condemn “chaotic and incompetent” budget
17 Nov 2022
Sewage in our Rivers
The sheer quantity of raw sewage being dumped into Britain’s rivers and coastal areas is a scandal and a disgrace.
14 Sep 2022
Jonathan Fryer addresses CLD at Annual General Meeting
Liam Fox and other Brexiteers in the UK's current Conservative government are fond of saying that when we are "free" from the European Union, we will be able to enter into a great new dawn of trading partnerships with other big players around the world, not least China. Actually, it was David Cameron and the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, who really championed the idea of a bright future hand-in-hand with the People's Republic, though they never imagined that would be something totally separate from EU-China trading relations. Theresa May, interestingly, has been a little more cautious in her embrace of President Xi Jinping, who has been expertly consolidating his authority at the Chinese People's Congress this week. But despite the bluff reassurances of Liam Fox, David Davis and Boris Johnson, forging an advantageous new trading relationship with China is unlikely to be straightforward, for a number of reasons. First, until Britain formally leaves the EU - in principle on 29 March 2019 - i
JF
23 Oct 2017
Lib Dem survey reveals local residents oppose new motorway service station
John McKay - the editor of the Basingstoke Liberal Democrats' 'Focus' newsletter in Grove - recently sent out a survey to...
23 Oct 2017
Deadline for comments on A12 bypass options in Suffolk Coastal
The deadline is fast approaching for Suffolk County Council's consultation on options for an A12 bypass route between Wickham...
23 Oct 2017
We are not alone. ALDE Party agrees with the Lib Dems.
The Alliance of Liberals & Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE Party), "the party for liberal democrat values in Europe", is a...
22 Oct 2017
The various types of Leavers and Remainers
There was recently an interesting article in the Financial Times based around an Ipsos Mori opinion poll on why people voted the way they did in the EU Referendum. The poll took the temperature among 4,000 voters.
PCBHLD
22 Oct 2017
Were 13,000 Twitter bots at work during Euro referendum?
It looks like a network of 13,000 Twitter bots (yes, 13,000 bots, or the equivalent of 20 for every Parliamentary constituency to give that number a bit of perspective) was used to pump out pro-Brexit messages during the European referendum last year.
MPAWTWAE
21 Oct 2017