By-Election Results - April to July
With county elections, the general electIon and the webmaster's annual holiday there has been no time to record the other by-election results - so here goes
29 Jul 2017
National News
Electric Motoring: Tring to Cambridge and Back on a Single Charge Proves Practicality
Tring's Hertfordshire County Councillor, Nick Hollinghurst, remains very pleased with electric motoring and very satisfied with the performance of his 30 kWh Nissan Leaf.
29 Jul 2017
Electric Motoring: Tring to Cambridge and Back on a Single Charge Proves Practicality
Tring's Hertfordshire County Councillor, Nick Hollinghurst, remains very pleased with electric motoring and very satisfied with the performance of his 30 kWh Nissan Leaf.
29 Jul 2017
Have your say – Review of County Council free bus pass scheme
Warwickshire County Council (WCC) is currently undertaking a review of the concessionary travel scheme within Warwickshire. They have put together a survey to collect information about how people use their bus pass, and to collect any comments people may have about the current scheme.
RLD
29 Jul 2017
Corbyn wants a hard-right Brexit. Progressives must fight back, not follow
The Labour leader's 1970s-style thinking on Europe has no place in today's politics. Brexit is too important to be dictated by tribalism It is a paradox not lost on many Labour MPs that while their leader is to the left even of Michael Foot, he has collaborated with the right more than any Labour leader since Ramsay MacDonald. Jeremy Corbyn's insistence that Brexit means leaving the single market and customs union - unpicking Keir Starmer's carefully woven tapestry of ambiguity - now puts him in the same place as Theresa May and Liam Fox. That place is to the hard right of British politics.
VC
28 Jul 2017
Theresa May's disastrous immigration targets pushed the UK into an uncertain Brexit – things are set to get much worse
The PM has built her political career on a dogged determination to cut immigration. Judged by her own standards, she has failed In much the same way as the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was the trigger, if not the underlying cause, of the First World War, the adoption by the Conservatives of an unattainable immigration target triggered the demands for tighter control of EU immigration which is leading not merely to Brexit but to extreme forms of exit by leaving the single market.
VC
28 Jul 2017