political archive
What’s going to happen to the Lib Dems in the May local elections?
Edition #34 of Liberal Democrat Newswire came out last week, looking at the party’s prospects for the May local elections. It’s now also available online to read here. If you would like to receive the next edition of Liberal Democrat Newswire direct to your own inbox as soon as it is published, just sign up [...]
The libel reform O turn – and what the party needs to learn
So the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party have reversed their reversal of the party’s views on libel reform, and we’re back to where we started. As Glyn Ley commented on my wall on Facebook, that makes it not so much a U turn as an O turn. The issue at stake has been the ability of [...]
Tribal… or local? Twitter followers stick to MPs of one party
Demos has an interesting looking report coming out tomorrow about the social media following of Britain’s three main political parties: We examine the social media support of the main three parties, and consider the extent to which Facebook and Twitter affiliation might replace the formal party membership model. We’ve number-crunched ‘Followers’ and ‘Likes’, and the [...]
VIDEO: Liberal Democrat Party Political Broadcast: 16 April 2013 – Fairer Taxes
Here’s the new film from the Liberal Democrats: Also on YouTube.
We had to wait for the 21st century for this?
Good news via Jo Swinson: .@britishvogue signs @equityuk #codeofconduct to protect #models at work bit.ly/XqblZX — Jo Swinson(@joswinson) April 15, 2013 Take a look at what it covers: The agreement stipulates that models hired by Vogue will not work longer than ten hours a day, will have adequate food provided and will not do any [...]
Opinion: A radical approach to welfare – forget changing benefits
The word ‘radical’ is to welfare reform what a pot of paint is to a wall full of cracks. The less you really know what to do to fix things, the more you slap it about all over the place in the hope that it will cover up things. When you peer carefully at the [...]
Watch and laugh: Clarke and Dawe – A Very Smooth Presentation
More comedy genius from Australia’s Clarke and Dawe: Also on YouTube.
Chuka Umunna: Wikipedia is the least of it
Whether or not it was Chuka Umunna himself who edited Wikipedia to add in a comparison between himself and Barack Obama (the evidence looks like it was and his denial is hardly unequivocal), there are two other reasons he doesn’t impress me. One was his catastrophic failure of judgement over a nasty Labour smear campaign against [...]
That’s so not how to select Euro candidates
Jon Worth has the story: Someone who was on the selection panel who seems to have selected… herself. And then deleted the tweets [with the evidence. As he recounts regarding Labour candidate Nicki Brooks: There were two tweets from @NickiBrooksx dated 16th February that seemed to show she had sat all day on the selection panel. I [...]
How Richmond Liberal Democrats avoid making one of the five common errors
In my list of Five of the most common mistakes that Lib Dem campaigners make there is the love of inappropriate secrecy.
