Before I get started, hi, I’m back.
Also — I wrote this over a week ago but somehow managed to lose it and gave up. But I found it again, so here it is!
Do you watch The Voice? Perhaps you’re more of an X Factor fan. Or maybe you’re a Pop Idol purist? Either way you’ve probably at least heard about the concepts of these shows. Essentially a group of judges/coaches/mentors listen to some wannabe-pop-stars auditioning…
A petition asking for Parliament to debate a vote of no confidence in the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, has received almost 220,000 signatures at the time of writing. Petitions receiving over 100,000 signatures are supposed to be allocated time in the House of Commons, and a…
I think it’s time for an update on my previous blog post, “MPs should have performance targets”. To refresh your memory, I mentioned that I had sent a couple of letters to my MP and not received a reply from either.
Despite having moved on career-wise from my workforce planning days, it’s still something that really interests me and I can’t resist a good workforce planning related news story. Here’s one that caught my eye today. If you can’t be bothered to click on the link, essentially Pizza…
Infamously, there’s no job description for being a Member of Parliament. They broadly have a remit of representing their constituents in Westminster, but how they go about that is all very vague. If, as a constituent, you contact your MP with a question or concern…
MPs are superficially “debating” the Queen’s Speech in Parliament this week. What’s really happening is that they’re using the so-called debate to allow every MP to say something, even if it’s largely irrelevant.
