Archive for dominic carman

Opinion: Why Mike Tuffrey should be our candidate for Mayor of London

28 March 2011 , , , ,
Over the weekend I started up a ‘draft Mike Tuffrey‘ page on Facebook to encourage Mike Tuffrey, one of our London Assembly members, to put his name forward as our candidate for the 2012 Mayor elections. Imagining your fantasy perfect candidate is always fun (a cross between Paddy Ashdown and Shirley Williams perhaps?) but as [...]
Chunilal Hirani leaflet - Kenton ward, Brent Council

By-elections: Brent and Barnsley

13 February 2011 , , ,
I went over this morning to help Chunilal Hirani and the team in Kenton (London Borough of Brent) where there’s a by-election coming up on Thursday. (Regular readers may recall Brent is the council where Labour is taking an usual approach to saving money: How do you plan cuts? With an overnight trip to a [...]

Barking & Dagenham Liberal Democrats go from strength to strength

7 September 2010 ,
I headed over to Barking yesterday to help out at the very successful ‘launch’ meeting for Barking & Dagenham Liberal Democrats who are getting a new local organisation up and running. There is a really impressive local team and it’s good to see also the support the regional party has been giving to help them [...]

Good things happening in Barking & Dagenham Liberal Democrats

4 July 2010 , , ,
It was great to see how the challenge of providing an alternative to Labour that wasn’t the BNP sparked Liberal Democrats in Barking & Dagenham to put up far more candidates than for many years in the local elections this May. At the Westminster level, Dominic Carman used the opportunity to highlight many powerful anti-Nick [...]

Total Politics: Dominic Carman responds to the Nick Griffin interview

28 March 2010 , , , ,
Following Total Politics’s controversial decision to interview Nick Griffin, the magazine’s website is also running responses to it, including one from Dominic Carman (Lib Dem candidate for the same Barking constituency as Nick Griffin): Take three of Griffin’s answers from the Total Politics interview and contrast them with what he told me privately: On Afghanistan: “The only way [...]

A question for people who believe in no-platforming the BNP

12 March 2010 ,
Do you really think that, were the opportunity to arise, it would be wrong for this man to appear in a debate next to Nick Griffin?