Archive for alistair carmichael
Which four Liberal Democrat ministers have most improved their standings in 2011?
Lib Dem Voice has polled our members-only forum to discover what Lib Dem members think of various political issues, the Coalition, and the performance of key party figures. Some 564 party members responded, and we are publishing the full results here over several days. Jeremy Browne, Vince Cable, Ed Davey and Lynne Featherstone are the four Liberal [...]
The significant part of Tim Farron’s speech
Tim Farron is probably the Parliamentary Party’s best funny speech maker (though I’d pay good money to see him head-to-head in a laugh off with Alistair Carmichael), so it’s not a surprise that Tim’s speech to Liberal Democrat conference caught the headlines mostly for his humour and his stress-testing of political marriage analogies to destruction. [...]
So you think you know how to improve campaigning? Come to Conference Dragons’ Den
Autumn conference in Birmingham will see a new type of campaigning event which sounds rather fun: a Dragons’ Den style fringe meeting at which people pitch their ideas for new approaches to campaigning. The panel will be Alistair Carmichael MP, James Gurling (Chair, Campaigns & Communications Committee), Hilary Stephenson (Director of Elections and Skills) and [...]
Carmichael moves to end MP-MSP dual mandates
Alistair Carmichael, Liberal Democrat Shadow Scotland Secretary, has tabled amendments to the Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill aimed at bringing an end to MSPs and MPs holding both jobs at the same time.
Welcome to the new bloggers…
Four blogs have recently joined Ryan’s Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator:
Alistair Carmichael - http://alistaircarmichael.wordpress.com – the MP for Orkney and Shetland is a very welcome addition to the ranks of blogging Lib Dem Parliamentarians.
Daisy Benson - http://daisyscampaigndiary.blogspot.com – our Reading West candidate gets stuck into local issues.
Dave Page - http://davepage.focusteam.org.uk – good to see a new local blog using the [...]
