tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-120688032024-03-08T04:07:22.516+00:00Franceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02195861546279781460noreply@blogger.comBlogger157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12068803.post-1136895181142958662006-01-10T11:55:00.000+00:002006-01-10T12:13:01.163+00:00

Jenny Willott changed her mind quite quickly about Charles Kennedy. First of all on Friday she was backing him, then her name was on the list of 25 calling for Chatshow Charlie to quit. The BBC's Wales at Westminster Weblog also picked up on this. There was a story in yesterday's Echo on the same subject, but I can't find it online. I'll have another look in a bit.Lembit, one would imagine, is

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It's unlikely that Sophia Gardens will be housing the temporary ice rink for the Cardiff Devils.An executive meeting of Cardiff County Council has recommended that it be built at the International Sports Village.I say unlikely, because the executive decision still has to be approved by the planning committee on January 18th, although it would be very strange if the committee went against the

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Another press release from Plaid Cymru, more of a release of a letter, actually. Been sat on it for a few days but was reminded listening to Primetime (yes, Primetime, the Saga radio station for the over fifties) where it came up on the national news. Also on the BBC, Muslim pupils given food apology.Hugh KnightChief Schools OfficerRoom 317cCounty HallCARDIFFDear Mr KnightRE: SERVING OF NON-HALAL

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Some time ago I got the Lib Dem 'Delivering our promises to the people of Cardiff' leaflet - 'Liberal Democrats on Cardiff Council report back'. And now we report back.It hasn't been scanned in yet because it's of a very inconvenient format. It begins with a nice group portrait of the Lib Dem Council group following the 2004 elections, including the Cathays councillor who later defected to Plaid

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The Devolution Bill:End of the devolution question? (8th Dec, WM) Another new dawn for devolution by Peter Hain (8th Dec, WM) 'Like other parties we want to keep a few surprises' (9th Dec, WM) Tories relax on devolution but what of the bill? (10th Dec, WM)And more specifically the dual candidacy issue:Labour's 'cynical election ploy' under attack (9th Dec, WM) Assembly could lose best politicians

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Pledge on Cardiff congestion charging (SWE, 1st Dec) and 'Cardiff streets will be a lot safer' (SWE, 1st Dec) for a bit of anti-car news.Leanne Wood stirs it up a bit #2348: AM's jibe at fury over assembly daubers (SWE, 1st Dec).Hold on to your chromosomes... Nuclear fall-out as Wales and Blair disagree (WM, 26th Nov).Pension crisis? What pension crisis? Pension crises worse in Wales (WM, 1st Dec

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Have received a press release from Plaid, the meat of which is concerned about an Eid party organised by Labour a mere month after the event. I noted at the time that Cardiff did not seem to have an Eid event, they just have a late one. So, that press release:Eid festival: Labour accused of insensitive bid for votesPlaid Cymru Muslim councillor lambasts hypocritical Rhodri MorganPlaid Cymru has

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The report also identified long term landfill issues in Cardiff. The Lamby Way site has approximately 3-4 years capacity left if waste continues to be generated at current levels. Commercial waste generates significant income for the Council, but as this increases, the lifespan of the site is reduced.Alternative facilities are likely to take a minimum of 5 years to establish resulting in a

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On Thursday there was a meeting in the Temple of Peace organised by the Campaign Against Climate Change.It got off to a bit of a late start waiting for speakers to arrive, of an optimistic 100 seats about a quarter were filled. Chair, Robin Attfield, was from United Nations Association Wales and introduced the speakers, the first, David, I managed to miss but I understand spoke primarily about

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Dear Jenny,House of Lords reform is coming up over the next year - would you consider signing the EDM and using your influence for electing the Second chamber?The Minister for Constitutional Affairs Harriet Harman and the Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer have both publicly confirmed their intention to hold the promised free vote on the composition of the House of Lords by the end of the current

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Jenny Willott was of course amongst the full set of Lib Dems who voted against the government on the proposal to detain terrorist suspects for up to 90 days without charge.So much has been bandied about in the media as to what the 'public' thinks with so few actual reliable surveys that I would urge everyone to get in touch with Ms Willott to either thank her or persuade her otherwise on jenny(at

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Most of Ms Willott's action in the Commons has been on council tax and immigration and asylum issues, both written and spoken. There are also two on the Licensing act, a chance for the disapproving to stick the knife in a bit further when plans they oppose don't work out. A full list of her parliament appearances is available via They Work For You.On the council tax issue she has also authored an

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The Cardiff's Ecological Footprint Summary Report (linked to the front page where there is a big banner, because the frames don't allow individual page linking) can be downloaded as a PDF if you are so inclined and if you can take your eyes off the mesmerising and very ugly floating menus.Elsewhere, in the Council section I am trying to look up details of meetings I can attend as an observer. The

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Quite the party week this week: a Happy Diwali for today, followed in quick succession by a happy Bestu Varush tomorrow and Eid ul Fitr on Friday with bonfire night on Saturday and Halloween just gone.Except of course in Cardiff all you'll get is Sparks in the Park. Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Parliament almost getting blown up. Or is it celebrating the foiling of the plan to blow up

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Super speedy update with the latest Lib Dem Focus on Plasnewydd... scans available here. If anyone has an other copies of politics leaflets or copies of Focus send em in.

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Willott gets an honourable mention in Charles Kennedy's conference speech:In Jenny Willott, Julia Goldsworthy and Jo Swinson we have the youngest MPs in Wales, England and Scotland - all women elected to parliament as Liberal DemocratsShe also gets a very honourable mention in the Guardian, mentioned as one of eight new MPs worth watching in a long and very interesting article, Class of 2005.

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Lots of new and pictures over at Save Bute Park and Hit it for Six, the planning officer has recommended against the new developments in Sophia Gardens. There was a rally there yesterday and there are plenty of nice pictures at the two blogs.The opposition comes in the form of the Cardiff Devils website, the Elite League message boards and an online petition.There is a lot about this debate that

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Bit late in to the news with this one... on Saturday 22nd Oct there's going to be a big demo, 12 o'clock at City Hall. The focus is stop the deportations and repeal section 9 of the Asylum and Immigration Act.Check Cardiff Social Forum's fora and the Cardiff Alternative News newsletter for all the latest. The Refugee Council has an overview of asylum legislation and loads more goodies.

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There was a quiet and civilised gathering at the Glamorgan Cricket club in the park this afternoon. Planning people were looking around the site and locals, councillors, hockey fans and general other people had assembled to make their views known talk amongst themselves. There was probably over 100 people there.More: Save Bute Park and the new Hit it for Six. Are there any pro-site sites about?

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Is now at 99 Woodville Road in Cathays, in case you were wondering what had happened to the old Lib Dem office on City Road. According to the blurb on her website it's a bit bigger than the previous office, and is still being shared with AM Jenny Randerson.The phone number for the office of your local MP is now 02920 668 558.

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A few bits of old news to catch up with...David Davies has been in a spot of trouble recently: MP accused over gypsy grant attack (7 Sept) and an almost identical Tory MP's jibes at lottery grant (8 Sept) made more interesting by interventions from the Cardiff Anarchist Network and South Wales AM Leanne Wood, MPs anarchist alert, (11 Sept, Wales on Sunday).Outcry at Assembly furniture fix

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Most Welsh MPs elected by less than a third of votes cast, Western Mail. NOT a single MP in Wales received more than 50% support from the electorate in the General Election and just one received the backing of more than 40% of the constituents.Jenny Willott was elected on just under 50% of votes cast on a turnout of just under 60%.The research reveals that in Wales 26 of the 40 MPs were elected

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Whoops. Politicians under fire for missing rally, icWales.LIBERAL Democrats have come under fire for not attending an anti-racism rally.About 150 people went to the demonstration outside Cardiff’s City Hall - but a leaked e-mail from a Lib Dem party worker revealed Cardiff Central MP Jenny Willott and Jenny Randerson AM were advised by police “not to go due to security reasons”.Except the police

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I notice just recently that JW's people have been setting up lots of alternative domains - the top three searches are for her .com, her .co.uk and her .org.uk. Nothing much has really changed on the site.There's new relevant stuff, all very exciting, over at The Political Weblog Project.

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The South Wales Echo has a jokey sort of article about the publication of the register of interests, AMs do do well from freebees.I actually managed to find the report of the Wales.gov.uk website, a bit of an achievement I feel, so am linking straight to the PDF.Of our AMs no-one has anything very exciting to report though it does present a nice little opportunity to look behind the scenes at

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