I have had to think about this too much over the last year; and it keeps coming. Here are my notes, mainly about, Boris Johnson as PM & Mayor of London and the Nolan Principles. … Continue reading “Misconduct in a Public Office”
Jane Ramsey has been appointed by the Labour Party as as a Senior Advisor on Standards and Ethics responsible for the implementation of the EHRC’s recommendations. Who is she? … Continue reading “Who is Jane Ramsey?”
We need to do something about Legal Aid. The ECHR Article 6 guarantees funding for a defence in a trial; it seems the sea-lawyers in the MoJ feel that de-funding Judicial Reviews and civil cases is OK then. While benefit disputes and immigration are key areas, everyone should have the right to go to the Supreme Court. Here are my notes … Continue reading “Legal Aid”
More I need to catch up on. Here my, as yet very unfinished notes on local govt. monitoring. … Continue reading “Local govt. monitoring”
Further reading on making Brexit work. On vaccine availability, politics, immigration and the future of the EU conference, and Trade. Enjoy! Continue reading “Making Brexit work”
Analysing Starmerism as new Fabianism is becoming popular, at least at least at a very public sociologist | all that is solid. I recently debated with one of Starmer’s supporters who among other things argued that grass roots campaigning didn’t help achieve power. In the attached video, Ed Miliband explains why so-called single issue campaigning is essential to making an effective Labour Govt. Enjoy! Continue reading “Changing the State”
I made an aggregation of the NEC blogs I could find, it’s not finished as I need to install some margins, make it responsive and possibly reposition the meta panels. I looked at my snip, Planet (Venus) themes (CSS) and revised it slightly, otherwise here are my notes. … Continue reading “NEC blogs, an aggregator”
Someone asked how to chair a motion debate in the Labour movement. Here is how I do it. … Continue reading “Chairing a debate on a motion”
The Northern Ireland Protocol of the Withdrawal Agreement signed by Boris Johnson after a partisan vote in the House of Commons, introduces a customs border in the Irish Sea between Northern Ireland and Great Britian. Now that the Unionists have caught up with what the deal means, they are mightily unhappy; the problem is that many of them are armed and lethal violence was only expunged as a regular tactic in 1998. Here are my notes on the NI protocol. Continue reading “The NI protocol”
I wrote/am writing a blog, on Starmer’s “New Chapter” speech which led me to source some facts and opinions. Here are my notes. Continue reading “Starmer, a new chapter”
It’s turning pear shaped, that Brexit, not as easy as they thought, and maybe worse than Remainers predicted. Here are some notes that I made for the AEIP National Committee meeting. I quote from blog articles of mine and other sources, and will try and turn this into a blog article later in the week. Anyway, as they say on Youtube, let’s get to it … Continue reading “What is to be done? (About Brexit)”
The Labour Party NEC doesn’t report on its business to the members. It leaves it to the individual members. Things are quite exciting at the moment and for various reasons it’s wise to read more than one. Here are my notes, Continue reading “On Labour’s NEC”
The post brexit deal, one month on. It’s not going well, both trade, which is down, some say by 68%, due to the economic consequences of non-tariff barriers to entry, mainly paper work, and the consequences of agreeing a border in the Irish Sea are placing massive strains on the Good Friday agreement. Here are some notes. Continue reading “Brexit, Month One”
I wrote a piece on my blog, about Boris and Starmer’s polling numbers. I observe that the score seems to be different depending if one’s seeking to determine approval or suitability for the top job. I made a charts from yougov data but didn’t use it in my part II, and so I present them here. Johnson is thought of less well than Starmer but seems to be closing the gap. Continue reading “Starmer vs Johnson, Winter 2020/1”
Some notes based on the ERS’ document, “Close the Gap: Tackling Europe’s Democratic Deficit”. They have 12 proposals, seven of which suggest actions for the UK Parliament, two for political parties (other than Labour) and one each for the Council, Commission and Parliament. So not so much an EU deficit, more a UK paying attention problem. Mind you, they could pay more attention to what HMG is doing too. I read it once, and made some diigo notes, which I reproduce below/overleaf. … Continue reading “The EU’s democratic deficit.”