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Here is another weekly round-up of the news, this week with far more jeers than there are cheers.<\/p>\n

Cheers<\/b> for Julie Calder, our fantastic candidate in Wick and
\nEast Caithness who won a fantastic victory with a massive 50.4% of first
\npreference votes \u2013 20% up from 2022 – and in the SNP council leader\u2019s own ward,
\ntoo! A thoroughly welcome result and a reminder that local campaigning deserves
\nits place alongside the Westminster headlines. Congratulations to everyone who
\nknocked on doors, delivered leaflets and helped get voters to the polls.<\/p>\n


\nCheers <\/b>to Andy Burnham for probably the most positive conference speech from a
\nserving Prime Minister in living memory. Yes, I would have liked to hear a
\nlittle more detail on some proposals\u2026 but overall Lib Dems should be broadly
\nsupportive because he was articulating the kinds of things Lib Dems want to
\nhear. <\/p>\n

Cheers<\/b> \u2013 cautiously \u2013 to the Labour Party for finally
\ncommitting to a Commission for Electoral Reform. After so many false starts it
\nfeels like overdue progress may finally be being made. Liberal Democrats have
\nevery reason to welcome a chance to make votes count more fairly, while keeping
\na close eye on what happens next.<\/p>\n

Cheers <\/b>to Pippa
\nHeylings<\/span> for pressing the government this week to introduce the Liberal
\nDemocrats\u2019 essential energy guarantee<\/a> to protect vulnerable households. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Cheers <\/b>to the
\nGreen-Lib Dem controlled Folkestone and Hythe District Council\u2019s staff<\/span>
\nfor winning the national IRRV award for Excellence in Social Inclusion<\/a> for the
\nthird year running, alongside a highly commended award for its benefits and
\nwelfare team. Helping vulnerable residents rarely attracts the attention given
\nto political rows, but this is council work worth celebrating. Congratulations
\nto those delivering practical support when people need it most.<\/p>\n

Cheers<\/b> to the
\nOrganization of American States<\/span> for calling on Nicaragua to restore civil liberties<\/a> and release political prisoners <\/span>following President Daniel Ortega\u2019s
\nannouncement earlier this summer that he\u2019s ending national elections and
\neffectively banning opposition.\u00a0International pressure needs to be
\nsustained, defending the right to organise and oppose a government is a
\nsignificant step.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cheers<\/b> to those
\ndelivering food and medicine to Oleshky<\/span>, the Russian-occupied Ukrainian
\ntown where civilians face severe shortages. Reuters reported this week that
\nUkrainian forces had used heavy-lift drones to deliver around four tonnes of
\nsupplies, according to the regional governor. Amid the destruction of war,
\nefforts to keep people fed and cared for deserve recognition. Britain should
\ncontinue supporting Ukraine and pressing for humanitarian access and the
\nprotection of civilians.<\/p>\n

Cheers<\/b> to Latvian
\nvoters<\/span>. Latvia\u2019s General Election offers a mixed picture for Liberals,
\nbut Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs\u2019 pro-Ukraine United List securing 35.8% of
\nthe vote is an encouraging result for those who believe European cooperation
\nand solidarity with Ukraine are essential to defending freedom. Kulbergs will
\nstill need partners and talks may prove difficult as his former coalition
\nallies, the Union of Greens and Farmers, lost all 16 of their seats while
\npopulist parties have gained. \u00a0<\/span>Nevertheless,
\nKulbergs\u2019 stated refusal to govern with Latvia First is welcome. Support for
\nUkraine should not become a bargaining chip in coalition negotiations.<\/p>\n

Jeers <\/b>to those
\noffering accommodation with Moscow as an answer to Latvia\u2019s problems<\/span>,
\nexploiting understandable anxiety about living costs and security<\/p>\n

Jeers <\/b>to Ed Davey for his churlish, misguided and mean-spirited
\nknee-jerk response to the Prime Minister\u2019s speech and specifically in relation
\nto social care and the pensions triple lock. To state that \u201cBurnham is risking
\na repeat of the Winter Fuel Payment fiasco\u201d or that Labour plans to fund social
\ncare \u201cfrom the pockets of our poorest pensioners\u201d is nonsense. I might expect a
\nformer coalition minister to defend the triple lock, but there is no excuse for
\nperpetuating untruths. I suspect Ed does actually know how pensions work, so I
\ncan only assume he is deliberately peddling misinformation for cynical
\npolitical motivations. <\/p>\n

Jeers<\/b> too for John Swinney, for his dishonest claim that Scottish
\npensioners will be \u00a32000 worse off by 2049 under Andy Burnham’s proposed
\nchanges to the triple lock. The figure is derived from a Scottish Govt
\nextrapolation of UK-wide savings for 2049-50, not money taken from pensioners. The
\nFirst Minister seems to ignore the impact of Barnett consequential generated by
\nthe proposed social care spending rises in England. He also told parliament:
\n\u201cwe\u2019ve been taken out of the European Union, we\u2019re now going to lose out
\npensions, Scotland needs to have independence\u201d. I expected better from him than
\nto deliberately mislead in order to manufacture grievance.<\/p>\n

Jeers<\/b> to Nigel
\nFarage and Reform UK for their reckless scaremongering over Fairford<\/span>,
\nseizing on the arrests to suggest a connection with Iranian agents supposedly arriving
\non small boats (an idea as implausible as it is laughable) before the facts
\nwere established. Police subsequently confirmed that all five suspects were
\nBritish nationals; they were released on bail while investigations continued.
\nThat does not settle questions about possible foreign involvement, but it
\ncertainly does not substantiate his small-boats insinuation. Serious security
\ninvestigations demand evidence and restraint. Turning uncertainty into
\ninflammatory migration rhetoric is disgracefully irresponsible from anyone
\naspiring to lead the country.<\/p>\n

Jeers<\/b> to Reform-run
\nDerbyshire County Council<\/span> for refusing to cooperate with local democracy reporter Eddie Bisknell<\/a>. Elected representatives should answer scrutiny,
\nincluding questions they find awkward. Public accountability cannot depend on
\nwhether a council approves of a journalist\u2019s coverage: residents are entitled
\nto know how their money is spent and decisions are made.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jeers<\/b> to the return of the Drumcree dispute, which most of
\nus had naively believed had been successfully consigned to history. For 28
\nyears, the Orange Order has been prevented from completing its traditional Drumcree
\nreturn parade along the mainly nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown, but this
\nweek the issue has exploded back into controversy. In the words of Naomi Long,
\nAlliance MLA for East Belfast, \u201cPandora\u2019s box has been opened, unleashing an
\nentirely predictable, destructive and wholly avoidable sequence of events\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ulster has spent decades trying to move beyond the sectarian
\ndivisions and violence of the past.\u00a0Without going into detail, this raises
\nall kinds of questions. What does reopening this dispute actually achieve? Does
\nit improve relations between unionists and nationalists? Does it contribute
\nanything towards reconciliation? Why bring this battle back now? What is the
\nOrange Order trying to achieve? Is it likely to prove counterproductive? And
\nwhat does this say about where Unionism is at the moment? <\/p>\n

Jeers<\/b> also to St Helens Council leader George Woodward
\n(Reform). Speaking to Kevin Duala on Radio Merseyside, he was asked if the
\ncouncil would me marking Holocaust Memorial Day. Woodward\u2019s response was: \u201cThe
\njury\u2019s out on that. We\u2019ll come to that when we get there. We have cancelled
\nRefugees\u2019 Week, we then didn\u2019t celebrate Pride\u2026 on the whole we said broadly we
\nwon\u2019t be doing these sorts of celebrations\u2026 we\u2019re OK with Christian calendar
\nevents and things which are unifying.\u201d How does Holocaust Memorial Day divide? After
\nspeaking with council officers Woodward later confirmed the council will mark
\nHMD, but if a council leader, even a Reform council leader, isn\u2019t able to
\nrespond to that kind of question with anything other than \u201cYes, of course!\u201d, \u00a0<\/span>then their judgement is seriously in question.
\nAny reasonable person should instinctively recognise the importance of
\nremembering the Holocaust and its victims. <\/p>\n

Jeers<\/b> to the state
\nof Tennessee for its appalling and utterly horrifying attempted execution of
\nChrista Pike<\/span>, who survived two lethal injections and is now critically
\nill in hospital. Her lawyers had warned about the medical difficulties that
\ncould make the procedure disastrous. In any ordinary moral sense, \u201ccruel and
\nunusual punishment\u201d scarcely begins to describe this ordeal. The state\u2019s
\ninsistence that it followed its protocol makes the defence more chilling: what
\ndoes that say about the protocol? Colleen Slemmer\u2019s murder was horrific, and
\nher family deserves compassion, but their suffering cannot justify the state
\ninflicting further deliberate suffering. Tennessee\u2019s treatment of Christa Pike
\nis such a damning indictment of capital punishment that it should shame the
\nUnited States into abolishing this barbaric practice.<\/p>\n

Jeers<\/b>, too, to the
\nmachinery that worked to ensure the execution went ahead<\/span>, with
\nTennessee\u2019s lawyers seeking to overturn a temporary stay so Pike could be
\nkilled before further consideration of her childhood sexual-abuse claims. A
\nprocedural review is an utterly inadequate response to such a profound moral
\nfailure.<\/p>\n

Jeers <\/b>to Senator
\nMarsha Blackburn<\/span>, who responded to this horror by pledging to \u201cbring back
\nthe electric chair\u201d if elected governor of Tennessee. Sadly, calls to abolish
\ncapital punishment will be unlikely to be successful as long as politicians see
\nelectoral advantage in cruelty and inhumanity. <\/p>\n

Jeers <\/b>to Georgia\u2019s
\ngovernment<\/span> as funding restrictions and its crackdown on civil society
\nprompt the liberal Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom to leave the country<\/a>. Independent organisations and a free press are essential to democratic
\naccountability. Making their work increasingly difficult should alarm anyone
\nwho cares about Georgia\u2019s democratic future and its citizens\u2019 freedom to
\nchallenge those in power. ALDE have already called for sanctions against the Georgian
\nregime. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tears <\/b>for Dame
\nEsther Rantzen, who died this week aged 86, leaving an extraordinary legacy of
\ncompassion and campaigning. Through That\u2019s Life!<\/i>, Childline and The
\nSilver Line, she helped bring neglected suffering into public view and offered
\npeople somewhere to turn when they felt frightened, isolated or unheard. The
\nmoment she surprised Nicholas Winton with an audience containing people he had
\nrescued as children from the Nazis was arguably the greatest moment in
\ntelevision history \u2014 an unforgettable revelation of lives saved and humanity at
\nits finest. In her final years, she brought the same determination to
\ncampaigning for choice and dignity at the end of life. Her finest memorial will
\nbe the people who found help because she insisted their voices mattered. Our
\nthoughts are with her family, friends and everyone whose life she touched.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tears<\/b> for those
\nkilled and injured in Monday\u2019s Russian attacks on Ukraine<\/span>, including the
\nvictims of a strike on the National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv. Reuters
\nreported at least ten deaths across the country and more than eighty people
\ninjured. Behind every casualty figure are families, colleagues and communities
\nwhose lives have been shattered. Our solidarity with Ukraine must include
\nsustained support for civilian protection, as well as a just peace that respects
\nits sovereignty.<\/p>\n

Tears<\/b> for the three
\npeople, including a child, who died attempting to cross the Channel on Monday<\/span>,
\nand for the survivors and bereaved families. French authorities reported that
\nthe overcrowded dinghy had run into trouble off northern France. Every such
\nloss should strengthen the determination to tackle smugglers, improve rescue
\ncooperation and provide workable safe routes for people seeking protection.
\nCompassion belongs at the centre of the response.<\/p>\n

Finally, in non-political news, c<\/b>heers <\/b>to Xanthe the python<\/a><\/span>, reunited with her owner in
\nPeterborough after more than two weeks missing. Having escaped her enclosure
\nand slipped through an open door, local people spent over a fortnight trying to
\nlocate her safely. Xanthe was eventually found in a neighbour\u2019s garden on
\nTuesday. A happy ending for owner Jacob Edwards, and a reassuring reminder that
\nsome lengthy neighbourhood disputes can be resolved without a planning appeal. <\/span>Any
\nLiberal Democrat campaign organiser must surely admire her ability to cover a
\npatch without being seen. \u00a0<\/span>I wish Xanthe
\na comfortable retirement from escapology. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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