Archive for andrew reeves
Should Lembit Opik be the Liberal Democrat candidate for London Mayor?
The news that Lembit is interested in running for Mayor has produced a flurry of comment online from Liberal Democrats (such as Andrew Reeves’s piece) so over to you: what do you think?
Good news for Katy Gordon as SNP councillor switches
The switch of Councillor Alex Dingwall from the SNP to the Liberal Democrats is a great boost for Katy Gordon’s campaign in Glasgow North (Labour majority: 3,338).
Explaining his reasons for leaving the SNP after 31 years as a member, Cllr Dingwall said:
I believe that Glasgow needs a change in how our city is run and [...]
Glenrothes by-election marked register set to rise from the dead
A week today, starting at 10am on Monday 16th November, an act of political record keeping resurrection will commence as the lost marked register from the Glenrothes Westminster Parliamentary by-election is recreated.
The lost of the Glenrothes marked register caused more controversy than such loses usually do both because it happened at a Parliamentary by-election and [...]
David Cameron’s European ally supports “deeply homophobic legislation”
Liberal Conspiracy has the story:
Despite the persistent criticism that it has allied itself with extremists, David Cameron’s Conservative Party now sits in the European Parliament with the European Reformists and Conservatives group (ECR), led by Poland’s Michal Kaminski – a man allegedly with a racist and homophobic past.
But so far it has gone unreported that [...]
Daily View 2×2: 27 September 2009
It’s Sunday. It’s 7am. It’s time for the Daily View, today with a special sing-a-long political ad that makes current politics look not so bad really.
2 Big Stories
Speedier tests for cancer planned
Skipping past the utterly predictable stories (senior Labour figures aren’t all happy, shock horror and Baroness Scotland didn’t check paperwork properly, shock horror) we [...]
