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Brian Paddick’s new Twitter account
Liberal Democrat candidate for London Mayor, Brian Paddick, has a new Twitter account to back-up his cross-London listening exercise: @BrianListening. You can follow the Liberal Democrat GLA members and candidates, including this new account, in one place via the list twitter.com/markpack/london-assembly.
The Politics Show on gay blood donations
During Liberal Democrat Conference, the BBC’s Politics Show did a piece about the gay blood donor ban (partly lifted but with Lib Dems calling for further steps). It featured both Liberal Democrat Home Office Minister Lynne Featherstone and Londo...
The message that won the Mayor selection for Brian Paddick
Neil Stockley, one of the best Liberal Deomcrat commentators when it comes to messaging and presenting a coherent narrative, has taken a look at the message which propelled Brian Paddick to victory in the London Mayor selection contest: Liberal Democrat selection campaigns for London mayor are strange beasts, as the party seeks out a mega-campaigner [...]
London Mayor selection: full results
Congratulations Brian: First round Brian Paddick 1,289 (42%) Mike Tuffrey 1,232 (40%) Brian Haley 316 (10%) Lembit Opik 252 (8%) Total valid votes: 3,089 Second round Brian Paddick 1,567 (51%) Mike Tuffrey 1,476 (49%) Majority: 91 (2%) Commenting, Brian Paddick said: “I want to thank my fellow candidates for engaging in a high standard of [...]
Who will be the Liberal Democrat candidate for London Mayor?
Yesterday London Region chair Jonathan Fryer outlined the timetable for selecting the party’s London Assembly and Mayor candidates. But who will be in the running to be the Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London? As previously covered, Lembit Opik has publicly declared his intention to go for the selection. Regular readers of this site will [...]
Why vote Liberal Democrat? Book review
If you go to Amazon searching for “Why vote Liberal Democrat?”, edited by Danny Alexander and just published by Biteback, you may be surprised to find yourself being presented instead with a book of the same title from 1997, written by William Wallace. The new book is misfiled by Amazon under the title “Why vote [...]
