PatriciaMaskellLevelling up alone won’t help many of the UK’s ‘left-behind’ places Share this article from Bylines https://bylines.cymru/politics-and-society/levelling-up-left-behind/
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knowgumBMW will move manufacture of their electric Mini from Oxford to China by the end of 2023.
Their abandonment of the UK follows a growing number of investors who've chosen to leave, or not move to, the UK.
They cite Brexit as the reason for their exodus.
#Brexodus
#BrexitHasFailed
#NeverVoteConservative
GeofCoxThis was my analysis of the lessons for Labour this morning:
"It is good of course that the Tories are losing, but I don't see anything very positive for Labour.
Turnout was very low. Labour's vote share was no different from the last locals - and down on 2018, which was just a year before they lost a General Election. Moreover, although Labour has won a lot more seats and councils, both LibDem and Green representation has gone up a lot more in percentage terms (Labour only by about 30%, Greens by 70%).
I think there are pretty dismal lessons for Labour in these figures. The Tories are really unpopular and their supporters are probably staying at home - but Labour has failed to inspire turnout too, and is squeezed on both its right flank by the LibDems and much more on its left by the Greens.
Judging by this result, the best national result that can be hoped for is a hung Parliament - but I see a danger of a seriously split left-leaning vote letting the Tories back in."
Looking across Continental Europe, it is mainly red/green coalitions that have achieved electoral success in recent years - unfortunately Starmer still believes the old Blair maxim that 'elections are won on the centre ground' - which was true in the 1990s, but not now.
Chris GreyRaab, Brexit and the Civil Service.
New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog.
In blaming his downfall on "anti-Brexit" civil servants, Raab's resignation is part of the wider story of Brexit and the Civil Service but also illuminates current post-Brexit politics.
It does so partly as an example of Brexit feeding wider 'culture war' politics and partly as part of the ongoing attempt by Brexiters to explain their failure: https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2023/04/raab-brexit-and-civil-service.html
Yorkshire Bylines‘We felt like criminals’ – over 3,000 teachers have contributed to a spreadsheet laying bare the anguish of Ofsted inspections | Dr Pam Jarvis
@PamJarvis #Ofsted #EduTwitter #Bylines
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/education/we-felt-like-criminals-teachers-talking-ofsted/
Anything but transparent and honest
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/04/19/rishi-sunak-is-still-trying-to-hide-his-financial-interests/
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/04/19/rishi-sunak-is-still-trying-to-hide-his-financial-interests/
Is a British pub racist for displaying golliwogs? Think how that question makes people of colour like me feel
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Emeritus Prof Christopher MayGaby Hinsliff on the prescience of Ed Miliband...
Might he be the best (recent) leader the Labour Party had, that looking back they might regret have not really got behind - leaving him to be ground down by the prejudice & vitriolic attacks of the right-wing media... indeed perhaps the Rightists recognised that he was actually quite dangerous... still (as they say) #slidingdoors and all that...
𝐃𝐫. 𝕵𝖎𝖇𝖗𝖊𝖊𝖑L ₲Ⱬ₮ 🌍"What we urgently require is a Marshall Plan-style roll-out of low and zero carbon technologies..retrofitting our houses, public transport, and massive electrification. It’s..‘far-from-sexy’ end of technology that’s important; ..rather than dreams of big and powerful electric vehicles (EVs), electric planes, and lots of future carbon dioxide removal."
https://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/getting-real-what-would-serious-climate-action-look
#ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #EV #ElectricVehicles #CarbonOffset #AirTravel
Getting real: what would serious climate action look like? | SGR: Responsible Science
Prof Kevin Anderson, Manchester University, summarises the action necessary if governments and societies were really committed to keeping global temperature change close to 1.5°C - and how there would be wider benefits too. Article from Responsible Science journal, no.5; advance online publication: 19 March 2023