Category Archives: Political Yorkshire
MPs We Voted In
To calm the Rwanda crisis down we need an anti-inflamaTory? Chance would be a fine thing. Yorkshire return 54 members of Parliament and unless there have been any ‘overnight’ changes to party allegiances 24 are represented by Conservative MPs and … Continue reading
Identity Politics None Woke Version
What \can Sigmund Freud Teach Our Politicians The id is the unconscious primitive and instinctual part of the mind that contains sexual and aggressive drives etc. Many politicians spring to mind if you consider this. The super-ego brings lots more … Continue reading
Self Identification as a Tyke
It will not come as a surprise that I identify as a Tyke and always have done. From mothers milk, with no foreign formulas, through trusted Yorkshire tea and Tetley’s, I was a proper baby Tyke. I graduated at an … Continue reading
Commission Police Commissioners,
The New English Dictionary has many definitions for ‘commission’ but number 5 on page 271 states . ‘ an act of committing something: the commission of a crime.’ So have I stumbled on the Yorkshire comma. Are we to have … Continue reading
Politicians Know No Boundaries
Revised Yorkshire Parliamentary Boundaries We are overdue for a rebalancing of parliamentary constituencies to relate more closely to current and anticipated populations. The last changes for England & Wales was in 2010 so about 8 years late (normal for the … Continue reading
Repeal the Local Government Act 1972
‘Enough is enough’ as many true Yorkshire folk would say. It is too long since we achieved a repeal of the act of parliament that messed unnecessarily with our county boundaries and organisations. I know you can’t easily unravel such … Continue reading