If you find any of these posts relevant to some of the social or political issues of the moment do leave a comment or contact me directly (click on my photo for my contact details)
Blog Stats
- 73,958 hits
-
Recent Posts
Archives
Top Rated
Categories
- Afghanistan (27)
- Brighton & Hove (603)
- Casey Review (5)
- Charities (493)
- Church Teaching (102)
- Community Safety (267)
- Data Retention and Investigatory Powers (17)
- Deaf & Hard of Hearing (60)
- Economics (540)
- Education (411)
- Environment (202)
- EU Referendum (537)
- Health Reform (110)
- Housing (77)
- Immigration (106)
- Journalism (128)
- Justice Issues (219)
- Lobbying Bill (65)
- Network Rail (62)
- Obituary (20)
- Parliament and Democracy (2,936)
- Phone Hacking (7)
- Planning Rules (56)
- Police & Crime Commissioner (202)
- Policing (391)
- Scottish Referendum (21)
- STEM (46)
- Syria (90)
- Think Tanks (15)
- UK Riots in August 2011 (15)
- Ukraine (14)
- Uncategorized (48)
- Welfare Reform (72)
- Yemen (44)
- Youth Issues (379)
Twitter Updates
- At what stage will this challenge get dealt with by Parliament @JohnnyMercerUK such as the many MPs who disagree wi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 12 hours ago
- @MayallMMent @JeffSto40037019 Indeed I mentioned your comment in my blog today Bernie so you are very much a good person too. 12 hours ago
- At what stage will this challenge get dealt with and the Parliament speak up to call for the removal of the current… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 12 hours ago
- RT @AshdownAV: There is a showcase at All Saints Church in Crowborough, TN6 1ED on Thursday 7th July from 2pm-7pm. You can talk to special… 1 day ago
- Amber Rudd
- Andrew Griffith
- Boris Johnson
- Brexit
- Brighton & Hove
- Brighton & Hove City Council
- C-19
- Caroline Ansell
- Caroline Lucas
- Charities
- Charity Commission
- Charity Commission for England and Wales
- Chris Grayling
- Conservative Party
- Coronavirus
- COVID-19
- Daily Telegraph
- Daniel Hannan
- David Cameron
- David Davis
- Democracy
- Department for Education
- Donald Trump
- Eric Pickles
- EU Referendum
- European Union
- FareShare
- Foodbanks
- George Osborne
- Gillian Keegan
- Government
- Green Party
- Henry Smith
- Home Office
- House of Commons
- House of Lords
- Huw Merriman
- Iain Duncan Smith
- Independent Candidates
- Jacob Rees-Mogg
- Jeremy Corbyn
- Jeremy Hunt
- Katy Bourne
- Keir Starmer
- Labour Party
- Lib Dem Party
- Lloyd Russell-Moyle
- Lobbying Bill
- Local government
- Maria Caulfield
- Matthew Hancock
- Member of Parliament
- Michael Gove
- MPs
- NHS
- Nick Gibb
- Nigel Farage
- Nusrat Ghani
- Parliament
- Peter Bottomley
- Peter Kyle
- Police and Crime Commissioner
- Priti Patel
- Sajid Javid MP
- Sally-Ann Hart
- Small Businesses
- SME
- Sussex
- Sussex Police
- Syria
- Theresa May
- Tim Loughton
- Tony Blair
- UKIP
- YMCA Downslink Group
Tag Archives: Caroline Lucas
At what stage will this challenge get dealt with?
Back in April last year Johnny Mercer is claimed to have told the Conservative Chief Whip that he intended to resign and he was dismissed by Boris Johnson. His comment which appears here was collected by a series of newspapers. … Continue reading
Will our MPs get Government to help Ukraine children
There are many challenges that are currently impacting our nation and we all need our local MPs to be aware of these and for them to raise them within Parliament and get the Government to respond. The challenge is how … Continue reading
Sadly we missed out the Satterthwaites Happy Hippos
Today we travelled from Brighton where we live to Crosby to visit our family members who live where I was born many years ago. Sadly we did not manage to get to Crosby by 2pm and so we missed out … Continue reading
Three significant men who share the same view
Nearly three weeks ago Ed Davey, the leader of the Liberal Democrat Party published an Early Day Motion 134 which is entitled “No confidence in the Prime Minister”. Sadly apart from his own political team along with Caroline Lucas from … Continue reading
Posted in Brighton & Hove, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Caroline Lucas, Ed Davey, Michael Howard, Oliver Dowden, Stephen Farry
1 Comment
A very inadequate response to Period Poverty questions
At the beginning of last week Caroline Lucas, the MP for Brighton Pavilion asked two very good questions about future requirements for Period Poverty. Very sadly the response that came from the Government focused exclusively on what has happened in … Continue reading
Posted in Parliament and Democracy, Youth Issues
Tagged Caroline Lucas, Kemi Badenoch, Period Poverty
Leave a comment
Very disturbing responses from Priti Patel on Rwanda
Last Wednesday there was this session in Parliament under the headline of “Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda” and during the debate my personal MP Caroline Lucas asked a very good quality question and the responses from Priti Patel … Continue reading
Posted in Brighton & Hove, Immigration, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Caroline Lucas, Priti Patel, Rwanda
Leave a comment
Some MPs ignore Motions while others promote them
It is always interesting to discover actions that MPs could work on together in the House of Commons to raise high profile themes. A few weeks ago, Caroline Lucas of Brighton Pavilion promoted the 90th Anniversary of Right to Roam … Continue reading
Initially 15 MPs that have no Confidence in the PM
On Monday this week a vote took place in the Conservative Party and while 211 MPs were willing to support Boris Johnson as their Prime Minister, 148 felt he must stop being their Prime Minister. The following day Ed Davey … Continue reading
Posted in Brighton & Hove, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Boris Johnson, Caroline Lucas, Ed Davey, Stephen Farry
Leave a comment
The Government must focus on real ‘ghost children’
Today Parliament will reopen after their half term break and many other people will return to work following a four days holiday because of the Queens Jubilee celebration. Inevitably some people were very busy over the last few days and … Continue reading
Posted in Brighton & Hove, Education, Parliament and Democracy, Youth Issues
Tagged Caroline Ansell, Caroline Lucas, CYPNow, Robert Halfon
Leave a comment
What has Sajid Javid done since he received this letter?
A letter was written by the NSPCC back on the 16th of May and it was signed by 25 Organisations most of which are charities along with 14 MPs. The information about the letter was published in a number of … Continue reading
Posted in Brighton & Hove, Charities, Parliament and Democracy, Youth Issues
Tagged Caroline Lucas, Joe Lepper, NSPCC, Sajid Javid, Tim Loughton
Leave a comment