Lorna Dupre

Thank you to my MP @charlotte-cane-mp.bsky.social for being a signatory to this letter.

From Reform-Lite to Reform-Plus Do you remember the lies Keir Starmer told to secure Labour's leadership? Under pledge six, 'Defend immigrants' rights', among other things ...

"Starmer, Mahmood, and McSweeney are testing to destruction the idea that stealing the far right's clothes will win them far right votes. They are about to be disappointed."

Started watching yesterday's evensong this evening and had forgotten it was you preaching! Great stuff.

But capped? and subject to review every 2.5 years, with immediate deportation without cause if your home country is deemed 'safe'. You must 'assimilate', but that knock on the door could come at any time. The media reporting is hopelessly muddled on rules for 'legal' v 'illegal' migration though.

Really not sure why Labour doesn't understand that when it comes to immigration and asylum, however many offerings it lays on the altar of Nigel Farage, the Reform gods will not be satisfied. Why squander its credibility and shred its values in chasing a far right populist party it will never catch?

1,200 words?

Same for under way.

I'm sure. I hadn't had a chance to convey that important message to the seven-year-old.

My seven-year-old grandson told his Dad and me a few weeks ago that he thought we shouldn't eat meat 'except for chicken and pigs because they're dumb'.

I can see now why Mrs S. was making disapproving sounds.

I think we all know the answer to that.

Is that the Postern Gate? We stayed at the next year Travelodge a couple of years ago.

My then shiny new Labour MP told me in 1997 how much he was looking forward to working with me on electoral reform. Twenty-eight years on ...

Ooh, looks interesting.

If it was a cow, why was it called Cuthbert?

We’ve been calling for the failing regulator Ofwat to be abolished for years.

Now it’s time to go further, with a new regulator to clean up the Wild West water industry for good.

Liberal Democrats will not stop fighting until these failing companies are properly held to account.

Thank you for looping Alex and me into this analysis, Simon. Alex was our representative at the Combined Authority Transport Committee meeting that received this report. Very happy to discuss the data, and your analysis of it, further, and to support asking the questions.

One year on from the General Election, Liberal Democrat MPs are leading the fight for change.

Check out 5️⃣ big Lib Dem policy wins from the past year ⬇️

What Britain looks like after Brexit You’re reading Reaction.

It’s Daniel Hannan Day! How could one person be so spectacularly wrong? No fireworks, no celebrations. Just an endless sea of red tape, economic downturn, and the slow realisation that Brexit has been an unmitigated disaster. www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...

There is a strong argument for the whole of existing East Cambs to be in a unitary with Cambridge and South Cambs—and possibly the south of Huntingdonshire too. Places like Dullingham and Littleport clearly belong with Cambridge; and places like Yaxley and Water Newton with Peterborough.

It's very frustrating that the Labour Government is making such a bodge of it. It would be a great opportunity to resolve the issues of Royston, Newmarket, Mildenhall, Haverhill. But councils are being rushed into using existing districts as building blocks which is unsatisfactory in so many ways.

And sky-high house prices in Cambridge have a consequence for transport planning. People have to travel from where they can afford to live, to where jobs and colleges and amenities are, along arteries that slice through the land in between. Those commuters are also part of the economy of Cambridge.

Good for Scotland! You're ahead of us on pavement parking too!

Ex-postman and Corby MP sponsors bill to ban low letterboxes Lee Barron says they cause physical strain and put posties at risk of being bitten by dogs.

I genuinely do not understand why this campaign has been going on since the YEAR I WAS BORN and has STILL not resulted in changes to building regulations. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

This is a hell of a thing to read.

I was driving up through Little Downham last week in broad daylight and saw one standing on the triangle of green space at the junction of Ely Road with Cowbridge Hall Road. It finally plucked up the courage to cross the road.

Speak for yourself. I hate phone calls (so much that I've disabled voicemail as the unkindest thing you can do to me is to leave a message and make me phone you back). Email best, Zoom second, Teams third, Google Meet what in the name of holy is that, carrier pigeon, Royal Mail, and finally phone.

MP for Ely and East Cambridgeshire CHARLOTTE CANE I’ve written to the Secretary of State to raise serious concerns about East Cambridgeshire District Council’s decision to allocate the vast majority of current and future developer contributions (CiL funds)—which are meant to support vital infrastructure for our growing communities—towards building a commercial crematorium in Mepal. This decision will divert funding away from much-needed local services like children’s play areas, cycle ways and pavements, sports facilities, GP surgery improvements, school improvements to name but a few.

My response to East Cambridgeshire District Council’s decision to allocate developer funding towards building a commercial crematorium.

Sign the Petition STOP EAST CAMBS DISTRICT COUNCIL WASTING £13 MILLION ON A CREMATORIUM NO-ONE WANTS

Live in East Cambridgeshire? Don't want to see the district council waste £13 million on a crematorium next week? Sign the petition at change.org/Stop-Mepal-C... — there's no time to lose.

Oh Lord, just googled and realised I've still got three CJ Sansom novels in that series still to read.