Electoral Commission wins court case against Labour Party
The London County Court has rejected the Labour Party’s appeal against being fined for failing to keep to election law. … Read the full post »
2014 European Parliament Election
Read about the 2014 European Parliament Election, held on the same day as the delayed annual round of local elections.
Tower Hamlets Returning Office pay reduced over election mistakes
The Electoral Commission has cut the pay of the Tower Hamlets Returning Officer by 12.5% after mistakes made at the 2014 elections. … Read the full post »
The problem of postal votes arriving too late has doubled in size
1% is a low figure but it is also just over a doubling of the figure from the 2012 Police and Crime Commission elections. … Read the full post »
Two good ideas and one duff one from the Electoral Commission
The Electoral Commission’s report into the May 2014 elections is fairly low-key, but in amongst the modest changes floated based on the lessons of this year are a couple of welcome details – and one misplaced idea. … Read the full post »
What next for the Liberal Democrats? Part 1 – Policy
One thing the Liberal Democrats weren’t short of during the European election campaign was media coverage of the party’s European policies. But one thing the party ended up short of was votes. … Read the full post »
My letter to the Evening Standard on the party’s future
Ex-Lib Dem peer Lord Oakeshott may have earned a footnote in the history books for a spectacularly self-destructive plot against Nick Clegg that simply resulted in his own exit from the party. … Read the full post »
Some welcome reverse ferreting from Nick Clegg in new video message
A welcome change in tone from Nick Clegg in his new video to party members, acknowledging explicitly that many people who worked hard still lost. … Read the full post »
The party’s reason for being is not to be part of the establishment, it’s to change the establishment
During the 2014 European elections the Lib Dems sounded too much like the party of the status quo rather than of reform. … Read the full post »
UKIP’s bizarre feat of losing whilst winning
On any conventional measure of elections, UKIP is the big winner from Thursday’s European Parliament elections. Well not quite. … Read the full post »
Canvassing is different this year: voters don’t care enough to be angry
They say that the prospect of execution concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you believed the article in The Guardian this morning… … Read the full post »