Archive for duwayne brooks
Local liberal heroes: Duwayne Brooks
A while back, I penned a series of posts profiling forgotten liberal heroes (to which a couple of other people also kindly contributed), looking at some of those who achieved great things for liberalism in their time but have been unjustly forgotten – such as Margaret Wintringham, the very first female Liberal MP. There is also another [...]
London Mayor campaign update: three runners, one clear leader on Facebook
As Helen reported earlier today, there is now a third person publicaly in the running to be the Liberal Democrat candidate for London Mayor – Jeremy Ambache. With his Facebook page having only just gone up, it unsurprisingly only has 4 fans so far at the time of writing. Lembit Opik’s page is continuing to [...]
Duwayne Brooks overtakes Lembit Opik on Facebook
Over the weekend I blogged: In the London Mayor selection contest, Lewisham councillor Duwayne Brooks has just publicly thrown his hat in the ring. More information on his Facebook page. The other declared candidate so far is Lembit Opik, who also has his own Facebook page. The number of fans for that latter page has been growing [...]
Duwayne Brooks to challenge Lembit Opik for London Mayor
In the London Mayor selection contest, Lewisham councillor Duwayne Brooks has just publicly thrown his hat in the ring. More information on his Facebook page. The other declared candidate so far is Lembit Opik, who also has his own Facebook page. The number of fans for that latter page has been growing slowly but now [...]
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 [...]
“Race advisor slams Lewisham Labour over ‘apartheid system’”
So reports the Lewisham News Shopper:
A RACE and equality advisor to the Mayor [of Lewisham] has resigned from the Lewisham Labour Party claiming it runs an “apartheid system”.
David Michael, chairman of Lewisham Local Police Consultative Group and Sir Steve Bullock’s advisor on community cohesion, was due to contest the Whitefoot ward in 2010 but has [...]
