Overhaul to Bristol’s council system is ‘ignoring the voters’
The authority could be forced to scrap the committee modelFormer Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees took his seat in…
#Bristol #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #BristolCityCouncil #Britain #Commentingcontent #ConservativeParty #GreatBritain #LabourParty #LiberalDemocrats #MarvinRees #Politics
https://www.europesays.com/uk/217994/
Lib Dems eye control of Edinburgh council after by-election victory
The Liberal Democrats have swept to victory in the Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart by-election, further weakening Labour’s position running the council.…
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/217657/
Major government shake up to forcibly change how Bristol is run — how it could impact you
It’s been just over a year since the committee model was introduced, but it won’t last for longCampaigners…
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/214221/
British politician Ed Davey on what the UK can learn from Estonian security | News
For those of our readers who don’t know, where do you and your party fit into the U.K.…
#Estonia #EE #Europe #Europa #EU #britishforcesinestonia #defensespending #EDDAVEY #Eesti #estonia #liberaldemocrats #nato #tapabase #ukandestonia #Uudised
https://www.europesays.com/2183998/
Lib Dems confirm candidate for Lichfield District Council by-election
E-scooter scheme expands further into areas east of Bristol
Areas which have not seen the distinctive green scooters will now have them in their streetsBristol’s e-scooter and…
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/198725/
Birmingham councillors trade barbs over ‘arrogant’ vision for city as election tensions escalate
Birmingham City Council’s leader hit back at criticism by saying Brummies ‘will not accept politics built on negativity’Coun…
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/194955/
‘Obtrusive’ new house in countryside near Thornbury will be ‘too large’
But it was given planning permission despite the concernsThe existing house on Kington Lane due to be demolished…
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/191483/
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/06/remembering-charles-kennedy-ten-years-on/
Charles Kennedy was a Liberal, so his politics differed from mine. Yet I always found him a likeable figure, and he rightly warned his party against going into coalition with the Conservatives, advice which his slick successor Nick Clegg unwisely did not heed.
As a consequence of the Clegg led Liberal support for the Conservatives, Cameron and Osborne were able to push through the austerity measures which have done so much lasting damage to the UK.
In addition, the Conservatives outfoxed their partners on the key issue of electoral reform, so the Liberals effectively got nothing in return for their support of Cameron.
In Kennedy's final election campaign, the SNP distributed this particularly nasty campaign material mocking his alcoholism.
#UKPolitics #Scotland #LiberalDemocrats #Liberals #CharlesKennedy #SNP #NickClegg
Reform accused of ‘paralysing’ Kent Council amid spate of cancelled meetings
“This isn’t Reform. It’s paralysis.”
The Lib Dems have accused Reform UK of causing ‘paralysis’ at Kent Council, after the party cancelled multiple scrutiny meetings this month.
The Reform-run council held its first full county council meeting on 22 May, when it elected its new leader and appointed a cabinet. Since then, Reform has cancelled or postponed several scheduled committee meetings.
Nigel Farage’s party took 57 out of 81 Kent County Council seats at the local elections on 1 May.
Folkestone and Hythe Lib Dems said in a statement that Reform has also yet to confirm which, if any, scrutiny committees will be formed.
The statement said: “For the first three weeks of June, there were FIVE committee meetings timetabled. FOUR have been cancelled.”
Reform has cancelled committee meetings on topics including health, planning, and governance so far.
Reform accused of ‘paralysing’ Kent Council amid spate of cancelled meetings, leftfootforward.org
#cancelled #committeeMeetings #Kent #LiberalDemocrats #TimPrater #InTheNews
Political CUSTARD: Reform Run Kent County Council Becomes Kent County Cancel In The Hands Of Ex Tory Linden Kemkaren
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmHzMAsQc34
#exTory #Kent #LiberalDemocrats #LindenKemkaren #TheySaidThat_
Does reform not know how councils work that it threatens our privacy?
Kent County Councillor, Tim Prater of the Liberal Democrats, has roundly condemned Reform’s latest attempt to emulate Donald Trump.
In a letter to Kent County Council (KCC) signed by Linden Kemkaran (KCC leader for Reform), Nigel Farage, and Zia Yusuf, Reform have demanded access to all KCC data (even sensitive information about residents) for a group of unelected persons that Reform has chosen not to let the public know about.
Cllr Prater called it an “attack on Kent by Reform UK national leadership”.
This embarrassing, threatening and totally misjudged letter to Kent County Council tonight is an attack on Kent by Reform UK national leadership, countersigned by their new Kent leader who clearly doesn’t have a clue.
Anyone with the first understanding of how local Government has worked for the last 30 years knows the information they request is almost all public anyway. I suggest their highly expert DOGE team try “googling a bit”.
The rest is either subject to the same FOI constraints as apply to the public or other Councillors. To suggest there is top secret information here is nonsense on shifts, brought to you by people who have no understanding of how any public organisation in this country works. Mainly because they have never worked within local government in this country.
The irony that they have not released the “appended” list of “DOGE” representatives who should be given access to any data they imagine is interesting is not lost on us. They can ask for information on millions of Kent residents, thousands of Kent employees, but you won’t even tell us who they are?
The Lib Dems stand with Kent residents, and Kent County Council staff.
There is a process. That process includes the Council meetings your administration have cancelled at KCC over the next 3 weeks. They can ask for information in a public and democratically accountable way. You might not understand the process, but that’s your fault, not theirs.
DOGE in the USA just fell apart, having failed to find much of interest or actual saving, making a highly embarrassing series of blunders, some life threatening, and its leader Musk slamming the most recent Government bill and then quitting to spend more time with his failing business. To visit that pain on Kent is to hold us in contempt. We say no.
Liberal Democrat Cllr Tim Prater, via Facebook
#DOGE #DOLGE #failedToDoHomework #LiberalDemocrats #LindenKemkaran #NigelFarage #TimPrater #ZiaYusuf #TheySaidThat_
Decision on Lichfield District Council’s new chair branded a “lost opportunity” by Lib Dems
An analogous process with the present #conservatives might be for some to fuse with #reformUK in due course while much of their 'One Nation; wing went over to the #liberaldemocrats in much the same way as 'Peelites' such as #gladstone did to the #liberals in the nineteenth century. Whether anyone would be as kind to a rump #conservative party as #churchill was to the independent #liberals in 1951 is something about which I will not speculate.
@ChrisMayLA6 The latter have had two significant effects. The first is to establish the #greens #liberaldemocrats and successive #radcalright groups as competitive in some contexts. The second has been to alter the balance of power within the #conservatives and #labour between local parties and the central organisation in favour of the latter. This in turn has narrowed their basis of support - not to mention their activist base.
Andrew Griffiths, the Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Trade, said, much to my horror, on today's #TrevorPhillips that those evil bastards the #liberaldemocrats promote, "all sorts of obscure policicies like veganism"
I shan't be voting for them then.
Lib Dem candidate says Reform are “living in cloud cuckoo land” on unitary authority plans
Trump triggers global meltdown while Starmer scrambles – Politics Weekly UK https://www.theguardian.com/politics/audio/2025/apr/09/trump-triggers-global-meltdown-while-starmer-scrambles-politics-weekly-uk #LiberalDemocrats #USforeignpolicy #Neurodiversity #Foreignpolicy #Trumptariffs #Neuroscience #DonaldTrump #KeirStarmer #Tradepolicy #USpolitics #Worldnews #Politics #Business #Tariffs #Society #Science #UKnews #USnews #Labour #Autism
I’m standing for election
I am officially the Liberal Democrat candidate for Margate in the Kent County Council elections. Posts where I might talk about politics or the election, or anything tangentially related to that will have the following required notice.
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