
A LibDem Perspective: Of flags and banners
Our overloaded justice system can expect to see many more concerned banner-waving pensioners threatened with criminal records while war criminals remain free.
Our overloaded justice system can expect to see many more concerned banner-waving pensioners threatened with criminal records while war criminals remain free.
This week’s Parliamentary turmoil has seen yet another damaging u-turn by the Government - the latest in a series of benefit-related blunders that have undermined and pushed an increasingly disillusioned electorate towards the embrace of the far-right.
In my combined total of over 50 years as a County and District Councillor I’ve learned that whatever you want to achieve for those who elected you, it is always slower, more expensive and more difficult than you hoped.
This year’s VE day commemoration is particularly poignant. Not just because it is the last major anniversary when any significant number of combatants will be with us, but because so much of what their generation fought and died for seems under threat.
Join us in the Denbigh pub on the Little Common Road, Bexhill on Sea TN39 4XHl, on the third Wednesday of every month,for a Pints and Politics evening, between 7pm and 9pm. Our next Pints and Politics meeting will be on the 17th September 2025
Pay the blackmailer, the playground bully, the social media ‘sexting’ intimidator, the narcissistic wannabe dictator, and they will keep coming back for more.