The Surrey Comet has the report.
23 January 2015
22 January 2015
Greg Mulholland in North Kingston
Chair of the Parliamentary Save the Pub Group, Leeds NW Lib Dem, Greg Mulholland, visited Kingston earlier this week.
Greg visitied the Willoughby Arms in North Kingston where he met local residents and publicans and talked about the next stage of the campaign to Save Our Pubs - ending permitted development rights that can see pubs change use to a supermarket or estate agent without any public say so.
Greg and the all party group have tabled and amendment to the Infrastructure Bill on Monday to remove permitted development rights for pubs.
More here.
Richmond Park candidate, Robin Meltzer and landlord, Rick Robinson, welcome Greg to the Willoughby Arms in North Kingston.
Greg visitied the Willoughby Arms in North Kingston where he met local residents and publicans and talked about the next stage of the campaign to Save Our Pubs - ending permitted development rights that can see pubs change use to a supermarket or estate agent without any public say so.
Greg and the all party group have tabled and amendment to the Infrastructure Bill on Monday to remove permitted development rights for pubs.
More here.
Richmond Park candidate, Robin Meltzer and landlord, Rick Robinson, welcome Greg to the Willoughby Arms in North Kingston.
13 January 2015
How the cult of celebrity has taken over Britain
Was in Derby today for work and visited the Intu Centre and came across a small exhibition of the history of the shopping centre. In 1975 when the centre was orginally built this man formally opened it:
When it was revamped and enlarged in 2007 this woman opened it:
When it was revamped and enlarged in 2007 this woman opened it:
9 January 2015
Is German supermarket Lidl attacking Moscow with Vodka?
You might think so if this 'exclusive' brand is anything to go by:
8 January 2015
Viz: It's curtains for Al Qaida
Viz (even though it's not as good as it used to be) has today produced this marvelllous piece of satire:
31 December 2014
Only pizzas are delivered
Only pizzas are delivered is sound advice contained in a jargon busting document issued by the coalition government in the summer of 2013.
It's advice those around Clegg should have taken when launching the party's summer campaign earlier this year which I criticised in similar terms at the time.
And it wasn't just the jargon strewn language of the summer campaign that was a problem - it was its poverty of ambition.
Sadly, this poverty of ambition (along with some more Whitehall speak) is apparent in the party's pre manifesto - which is a collection of timid technocratic proposals - designed to keep the wheels of Whitehall turning slowly under another coalition government.
However, the public have had four and a half years of timid coalition government and so far have taken every opportunity they can of punishing the Liberal Democrats for their role in it - something those around Clegg fail to understand while continuing with their busted strategy.
They have just a few short months to change tack if 2015 is not to go down as an historic and wholly unneccessary rout.
Happy New Year!
It's advice those around Clegg should have taken when launching the party's summer campaign earlier this year which I criticised in similar terms at the time.
And it wasn't just the jargon strewn language of the summer campaign that was a problem - it was its poverty of ambition.
Sadly, this poverty of ambition (along with some more Whitehall speak) is apparent in the party's pre manifesto - which is a collection of timid technocratic proposals - designed to keep the wheels of Whitehall turning slowly under another coalition government.
However, the public have had four and a half years of timid coalition government and so far have taken every opportunity they can of punishing the Liberal Democrats for their role in it - something those around Clegg fail to understand while continuing with their busted strategy.
They have just a few short months to change tack if 2015 is not to go down as an historic and wholly unneccessary rout.
Happy New Year!
13 December 2014
David Steel on Borders Rail
David Steel's thoughts on the closure (and reopening) of the Waverley rail line are featured in these two videos from Borders Rail:
It also has some interesting updates on the engineering progress of the project.
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