#MarsHillBlog Post On the Welsh Senedd voting to increase it’s membership by 50% #WelshSenedd #Wales #UnitedKingdom paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/05/wels...
This will bring a mixed reaction, but it does highlight that Wales is as important to the UK as Scotland and Northern Ireland and has a h...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post On Vaughan Gething becoming the first black Welsh First Minister #VaughanGething #Labour #WelshSenedd #Wales paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/03/vaug...
A narrow win for the Economic Minister for Wales, but a worthwhile one. I wish Vaughan Gething well in his career as Welsh First Minister ...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post Sunak’s mistake in a brewery #RishiSunak #Conservatives #GE2024 #GeneralElection #HouseofCommons #Westminster #Wales #UnitedKingdom paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/05/suna...
In the sort of place used as a metaphor to highlight incompetence ("Couldn't organise a **** up in a brewery"), Sunak should how out of tou...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post On the government to give £140m aid to Yemen #UnitedKingdom #Aid #Yemen paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/05/gove...
Important and timely . First and foremost because there is a moral duty to help those in dire need, the second reason is that, if one lets ...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post On Natalie Elphicke's defection to Labour #Conservatives #NatalieElphicke #Labour #HouseofCommons #Westminster #UnitedKingdom paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/05/nata...
This is a blow to the Conservatives, a week after another defection to Labour by an MP. There will be criticism from some within Labour, b...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post On the UK dropping aid into Gaza #Hamas #Terrorism #UnitedKingdom #Gaza #Israel paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/05/uk-d...
Timely and needed. We must not lose sight that there are refugees in Gaza facing famine, as much as we must not lose sight of the fact tha...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post On the historic Blackpool South by election win for Labour #Conservatives #ChrisWebb #Labour #BlackpoolSouth #HouseofCommons #Westminster #UnitedKingdom paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/05/hist...
Taking a seat from the Conservatives with a majority of 7,000 is nothing short of a miracle, and certainly historic. It is not something we...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post On Iain Dale planning to stand for Parliament again #IainDale #GE2024 #GeneralElection #HouseofCommons #Westminster #UnitedKingdom paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/05/iain...
I have known Iain Dale for many years. Not that well, but have met him from time to time, I have followed his career, and whilst we probabl...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post General Election Campaign music #Labour #GE2024 #GeneralElection #HouseofCommons #Westminster #UnitedKingdom #Music paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/05/gene...
It says much about songs used for election campaigns and their influence that Things Can Only Get Better by D:Ream is synonymous in peoples...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post The latest on the Jeffrey Epstein Case #JeffreyEpstein #PrinceAndrew #UnitedKingdom #USA paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-...
There is not much new about the latest sordid details of the Jeffrey Epstein Case , and one has to remember that a lot of the allegations r...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post On the forthcoming elections in Ireland #SinnFein #Ireland #NorthernIreland #UnitedKingdom paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/06/fort...
In less than a week, Ireland will be voting in the European elections, council elections, and for the Mayor of Limerick. It may well indic...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post On George Galloway winning the Rochdale by election #GeorgeGalloway #RochdaleByElection #Rochdale #HouseofCommons #Westminster #UnitedKingdom paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/03/geor...
Obviously this is a very disappointing result, hampered by hardly being able to have a Labour Candidate. However there was a very low turn...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post On the horrors of the Post Office Scandal #PaulaVennells #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #AlanBates #UnitedKingdom paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-...
The actor, Peter Cushing, renowned for being an actor in horror movies, as well as playing Grand Moff Tarkin, in Star Wars, once stated tha...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post On historic council election results for Labour #ReformUK #Conservatives #LibDems #GreenParty #Labour #LocalElections2024 #LocalElections #UnitedKingdom paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/05/hist...
This is great news, however plenty of results are still to come in and Labour have lost one council. It adds overall to the sense that tho...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post On historic council election results for Labour #ReformUK #Conservatives #LibDems #GreenParty #Labour #LocalElections2024 #LocalElections #UnitedKingdom paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/05/hist...
This is great news, however plenty of results are still to come in and Labour have lost one council. It adds overall to the sense that tho...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post On the Prime Minister apologising to infected blood scandal victims #HIV #HepatitisC #KennethClarke #RishiSunak #KeirStarmer #Conservatives #Labour #Westminster #UnitedKingdom paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/05/prim...
It is beyond horrific that 30,000 people were knowingly given blood transfusions infected with HIV and Hepatitis C. One in ten of those pe...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post On the backlash against immigrants in Ireland #Immigrants #Ireland #NorthernIreland #UnitedKingdom paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/04/back...
This is disturbing on a number of levels and the issue needs to be quickly and firmly dealt with by the Irish government. I say that with t...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post On the King's visit to Kenya #KingCharlesIII #UnitedKingdom #Kenya paulburgin.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-...
Given the colonial past, this was always going to be a visit of mixed feelings and difficulties. Whereas there is always the connection th...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post On the death of Frank Field #FrankField #HouseofCommons #HouseofLords #Westminster #UnitedKingdom paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/04/fran...
I met Frank Field once, many years ago when he came to speak at a Christians on the Left meeting (this was when it was known as the Christi...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post General Election Campaign Diary: Stevenage #KevinBonavia #Labour #Stevenage #GE2024 #GeneralElection #HouseofCommons #Westminster #UnitedKingdom paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/05/gene...
Over the next five or so weeks I will be writing up on the campaigning in the constituencies in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire which I shal...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post On the UK warning against all travel to Haiti #Haiti #USA #UnitedKingdom paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/03/uk-w...
The problem here is that Haiti has been nearly ungovernable for some while. The fact that the outgoing Prime Minister there has had virtua...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post On Labour suspending from the Party, it's candidate in the Rochdale by-election #AzharAli #Labour #Rochdale #HouseofCommons #Westminster #UnitedKingdom paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/02/labo...
Tough , and while unhelpful to the Party, there was no alternative. I am sure at some point there will be a through investigation, and it i...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post On the deficit problem at the Ministry of Defence #Defence #MinistryofDefence #UnitedKingdom paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/03/defi...
This is alarming, it is especially alarming given the state of the World at the moment, not least with regards to Ukraine and the fears th...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post On cricketer, Monty Panesar quitting Galloway’s Workers Party #GeorgeGalloway #WorkersParty #MontyPanesar #Cricket #EalingSouthall #HouseofCommons #Westminster #UnitedKingdom paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/05/cric...
This is just one week after being unveiled as their Parliamentary Candidate for Ealing Southall. It is refreshing to see a well known per...
paulburgin.blogspot.com#MarsHillBlog Post A lot of Conservative MP’s standing down this election #Conservatives #GE2024 #GeneralElection #HouseofCommons #Westminster #UnitedKingdom paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-...
To be fair, some will be standing down for other and varied reasons, but one cannot help but get the impression that many are preferring ...
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