Meanwhile in the #LakeDistrict it transpires that #UnitedUtilities have found a cheap way of dealing with the #sewage crisis... they just downgrade the #pollution notifications knowing the Environmental Agency would sign off on the downgrades with no site visits.
Not sure if its the result of #austerity, institutional indifference or corruption... or perhaps all three.
But whatever it is, there #LibDems are right, a criminal investigation is required!
As bleak as things are now I’m sure one day people are going to look back on the current rhetoric from politicians on immigration the way people today look at the signs you used to see in windows saying “No Blacks No Dogs No Irish”
while we still do need more social housing, there is also a clear disconnect between how property is occupied (or left unoccupied) & the social needs of displaced households.
Our housing system is a mess, compounded by the role of #financialservcies & an ideology of the home-as-asset-class.
Its a nasty nettle to grasp & neither of our main parties are up for it.
I was proud to stand alongside the people of Ukraine as we protested with passion but dignity against the illegal occupation and crimes against humanity committed by Russia. #libdems#UkraineWar
The Lib Dems have secured a wealthy backer, from a global corporation to help them try to win Sheffield Hallam back from the Labour... and who is this backer you might ask?
Well, its Nick Clegg, whose seat it once was, before he decided to join Meta/Facebook to help them deal with governments (like the one he had just helped push austerity on the UK).
So now the LibDems are led by a Tory Coalition cabinet member & are funded by an architect of that coalition... nothing to see here.
I saw someone saying if the UK had PR 20% of our MPs would be from far right parties. That’s probably correct, but I’d prefer that to the current situation where it’s over 50%
"I can no longer stand by": full story on Chris Skidmore's resignation as a Tory MP over Rishi Sunak's plans for new oil & gas licences https://t.co/XrKAxPaVc8#ukpolitics#libdems
I see that, following Ed Davey, former LibDem cabinet minister Vince Cable is pleading ignorance of the Post Office Horizon scandal. He claims the issue did not receive sufficient media coverage for it to register on the political agenda.
That is complete bollocks. Private Eye for one was banging the drum continuously for the sub-postmasters, and did a huge amount of investigative journalism throughout. We are talking here of an illustrious organ read by pretty much everyone in the English political establishment. Call it the Oh-fuck-am-I-in-it-this-week? effect.
For the first time in the 57 years that I have been a political activist the Lib Dems have taken more seats and more councils than the Conservative Party. #ukpolitics#libdems
The Liberal Democrats have won more council seats overall than the Conservatives in the local elections, elections expert John Curtice said.
Curtice told the BBC:
The Liberal Democrats now have 520 councillors, and the Conservatives have 508.
This is a simple headline way of underlining the way in which the results of those local elections have indeed been extremely disappointing for the Conservatives.” #libdems#ukpolitics