Category Archives: Youth Issues

Lets avoid focusing on GE2019 for the next week

Posted on November 2, 2019 by ianchisnall

The focus by our media and public and online discussions are now extensively focused on the events due to take place on 12th December. This of course will make sense to the MPs and political parties and the donors to … Continue reading →

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Lets allow 16 and 17 year olds to vote

Posted on November 1, 2019 by ianchisnall

As this image shows, the discussion which involved Peter Kyle earlier this week related to the idea of extending voting opportunities to people who in my view have every right to be able to vote. However the Government refused to … Continue reading →

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Seven years is not a very long time in unchained Politics

Posted on October 31, 2019 by ianchisnall

Its is intriguing that a group of people like Patel, Truss, Raab, Kwarteng and Skidmore who are now presenting themselves as credible members of the next Government (if their party gets a majority of seats) sat down and wrote a … Continue reading →

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Ken Baker describes how Gove & colleagues have failed for last 10 years

Posted on October 30, 2019 by ianchisnall

On Monday while MPs in the House of Commons were arguing about whether to hold election no 3 in four and a half years, their colleagues in the House of Lords took part in a debate under the title “Vocational … Continue reading →

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It is vital that the Government opens up discussions with XR

Posted on October 15, 2019 by ianchisnall

Unless the Government begins to hold discussions with the various groups involved in Extinction Rebellion, the apparent action of Priti Patel to agree to allow section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 being used to prevent the protests to … Continue reading →

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We need a connection between Businesses and Policy makers

Posted on October 12, 2019 by ianchisnall

At the end of the week I had the opportunity to meet up with some other businesses in East Sussex that have a few common threads under the heading of “Scale up East Sussex”. One of the threads is that … Continue reading →

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This week in Brighton and Hove is a significant one!

Posted on September 23, 2019 by ianchisnall

This week in Brighton and Hove is always very memorable for a range of reasons, one of which is the beginning of a new academic year at both of our Universities. The same is true in other parts of Sussex … Continue reading →

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The vital need to educate adults about childrens campaigns

Posted on September 22, 2019 by ianchisnall

Anyone who is arguing that children are being abused needs to be carefully responded to, and so my blog this morning is an attempt to help reassure Douglas McWilliams and indeed Konstanin Kisin that in fact there is no concern … Continue reading →

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We need an improved set of media rules

Posted on September 13, 2019 by ianchisnall

A week ago on last Thursday Boris Johnson travelled to West Yorkshire to speak about the extra  funds he proposes to supply to enable Police Services to replace a significant number of police officer roles that were terminated by his … Continue reading →

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Boris (Boaty McBoatface) Johnson has a great deal to learn from Peterloo

Posted on August 19, 2019 by ianchisnall

Three days ago we all had a chance to acknowledge the Bicentenary of the Peterloo massacre which took place when ordinary people in a vital part of our nation went onto the streets of Manchester to demand that their voices … Continue reading →

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