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Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
There’s an intriguing detail in today’s widely welcomed proposals for reforming how the House of Commons works. In a bid to weaken the power of the whips and to strengthen that of backbenchers of all parties, the House of Commons Reform Committee has recommended that MPs vote in secret for a new body that will [...]
Labourlist (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 There's been an interesting addition tonight to the discussion on the future of the Labour Party, the policy directions it might take, and the personalities who may seek to influence that direction in the future. Michael Meacher , who initially stood against Gordon Brown as Labour Party leader in 2007 as the "candidate of the Left", has tonight sent out the...
Lynne Featherstone's Parliament and Haringey diary (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Ernestmarples.com doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue and is not that well known. However, it is a vital part of making information that you or I might want not only accessible – but relevant – because it can relate to the locations we are interested in. There are (or rather, were) websites that we can access [...]
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
So reports the Lewisham News Shopper: A RACE and equality advisor to the Mayor [of Lewisham] has resigned from the Lewisham Labour Party claiming it runs an “apartheid system”. David Michael, chairman of Lewisham Local Police Consultative Group and Sir Steve Bullock’s advisor on community cohesion, was due to contest the Whitefoot ward in 2010 but has [...]
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
So reads the headline in today’s edition of The Star from Sheffield. It reports on the latest fall out amongst local Conservatives over the sacking of their prospective Parliament candidate for Sheffield Hallam, Daniel Gage: A TOP Sheffield Tory told a parliamentary candidate he had to quit for missing town council meetings – but may have [...]
The Lockerbie Case (Free subscription) | yesterday
[What follows is the text of a report on the BBC News website. It replaces that which appears in the post immediately below.] Jack Straw has denied a suggestion the UK government guided Scottish ministers to release the Lockerbie bomber from prison on compassionate grounds. But ministers did tell the Scottish government prior to Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi's release the UK government was not seeking...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
The 2018 campaign's inclusion of the Olympic Stadium exposes a bitter dispute over its future after the Games The smouldering controversy over the viability of London's 2012 Olympic stadium will reignite tomorrow when the stadium is formally proposed as a football venue, still at 80,000 seats six years after the Games, should the Football Association bring the 2018 World Cup to England. That directly...
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
“The Government has treated taxpayers like children while expecting them to foot the bill,” said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor, Vince Cable. Commenting on revelations today that RBS and HBOS were lent £61.6bn in emergency funding last autumn at the height of the financial panic, Vince Cable said: “Given the sheer size of the support these two [...]
Labourlist (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 I know this has been a long time in coming, for which I apologise, but I wanted to let readers know about the progress being made on submitting the New Ideas for a Renewed Movement series to the Party. Over the summer, LabourList invited readers to submit policy proposals for the next Labour manifesto. In September, the 25 most repeated of those suggestions were each...
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
More than half of the Government’s delegation to the Copenhagen climate talks will be travelling by air, figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats reveal. Parliamentary answers reveal that 19 delegates of the 38-member team have so far confirmed they plan to fly to the talks, with DECC budgeting up to £17,500 for the total cost of [...]
Tabloid Watch (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
It's not been a good week for the News of the World. On Monday the Press Complaints Commission actually upheld a complaint (no, really) against the paper : A man from Aberdeen complained to the Press Complaints Commission that an article headlined "Terrorised by knife thug, 7", published in the Scottish News of the World on 10 August 2008, contained inaccuracies in breach of Clause 1 (Accuracy)...
Chris Whiteside's Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
David Cameron visited Cumbria today to see for himself the flood damage to Cumbria and learn about the steps being taken to repair the damage. His visit took in Cockermouth and Carlisle. It is very welcome that so many front bench national politicians of both major parties, from the party leaders down, have come to visit the area affected by the disaster.
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
“Old and vulnerable people should not have to worry about whether or not they can afford to heat their homes,” said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Simon Hughes. Commenting on ONS figures showing the number of extra deaths in England and Wales last winter was the highest since 1999/2000 [...]
Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Pop over to James Delingpole in The Telegraph and join the "heated debate" as people react to James's article that ends "if the Hadley CRU scandal is true,it’s a blow to the AGW lobby’s credibility which is never likely to recover."
Quaequam Blog! (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
I forgot to plug my Comment is Free article which was published yesterday. In it, I give pretty short shrift to the ideas that Nick Clegg has just announced his intention to form a coalition with the Tories and that the Lib Dems should be bending over backwards to spell out their terms for [...]
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carrolltrust | 13/11/2009
Slaughter and May partners Glen James Simon Hall and Lucy Wylde are explicity "named" as the Gerald Carroll Carroll Foundation Trust lawyers in compelling criminal evidence dossiers containing forged HM Land Registry Gerald Carroll legal conveyance documentation HM Government DTI Companies House forged and falsified Carroll Trust Corporations share certificates and HM Ministry of Defence Carroll Trust
carrolltrust | 30/10/2009
FBI "live feeds" Washington DC field office Gerald Carroll Trust named International Offshore Crime Syndicate Goodman Derrick LLP Ian Montrose trust partner resident London UK Haslers Accountants Loughton Essex UK Jon O'Shea tax partner resident Essex UK M J Chappell resident Safron Walden Essex UK Nassau Bahamas A R Clark resident Gibraltar Spain Richard Bray & Co. resident London UK Wendy Luscombe
carrolltrust | 29/10/2009
FBI "live feeds" Washington DC field office Gerald Carroll Trust named International Offshore Crime Syndicate Goodman Derrick LLP Ian Montrose trust partner resident London UK Haslers Accountants Loughton Essex UK Jon O'Shea tax partner resident Essex UK M J Chappell resident Safron Walden Essex UK Nassau Bahamas A R Clark resident Gibraltar Spain Richard Bray & Co. resident London UK Wendy Luscombe
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