Archive for guido fawkes
The Liberal Democrat challenges for 2012: Communicative ministers
To mark the start of 2012, we’re running a series of posts over consecutive days on the main challenges for the Liberal Democrats in 2012. I’ve already written about the four priorities for the party’s new Chief Executive, Tim Gordon, but as the Liberal Democrats are more than just the one man whilst he has [...]
Tidy up the loose ends about *that* cycle route meeting
(Warning: this post contains facts and documentation. If you are of a nervous disposition and are easily confused by evidence you may wish to skip the post before posting the obligatory comment saying ‘It’s all spin!’) There are a couple of loose ends to tidy-up from the non-emergency, non-Liberal Democrat meeting featuring a cycle lane [...]
Electoral Commission rejects expenses complaint against Chris Huhne
The Electoral Commission earlier today rejected one of the complaints made over Chris Huhne's election expenses. It was the complaint made by two former Liberal Democrat councillors who claimed the party had spent more than the legal limit.
What Guido Fawkes didn’t tell you about the Eastleigh meeting last night
Yesterday Guido Fawkes excitedly blogged that “Eastleigh LibDems Holding Emergency Meeting … Guido has just heard they are holding an unscheduled meeting” and went on to claim in a subsequent post that Chris Huhne’s election expenses were “top of the agenda”. Alas, Guido’s source is not exactly up to top-notch standards on this one. Let’s [...]
It's not often being compared to a Nazi counts as a compliment…
… but I’ll take Guido Fawkes’s tweet about me this morning as one. After all, if he had a good answer to me pointing out the big factual holes in the complaint over Chris Huhne’s election expenses he wouldn’t have had to go for the traditional spinner’s tactic of distraction plus personal jibe. So I’ll [...]
Chris Huhne’s election expenses: once again, nothing to see here, move along
(UPDATE: See also my more recent post about how Guido Fawkes’s source confused an election expense return with a cycle path.) After all the excitable tweets over the weekend and the dramatic rhetoric about having been researching the topic for a year, you might have thought that when Guido Fawkes blogged today about Chris Huhne’s [...]
Dealing with the political weather: three lessons to learn
Chatting recently to a Liberal Democrat colleague, I fear we sounded like a second-rate version of the Monty Python four Yorkshireman sketch. That there were not four of us, none of us are from Yorkshire and I’m no John Cleese probably didn’t help the imitation as we exchanged tales of past poll ratings (10%? I remember [...]
Guido Fawkes vs Stephen Tall
Checking my memory was right about something this morning, I came across this exchange in the Lib Dem Voice comments thread which made me chuckle. It was in response to my post pointing out that allegations pushed repeatedly by Guido and Harry Cole (Tory Bear as was) had not been upheld when looked into by [...]
Dear Guido Fawkes, Really – is that the best you can do?
Dear Guido, Really, I’m disappointed. Is that the best you can do? It’s actually easy to see how (a) we can have AV and (b) still have overnight election counts. There’s no contradiction or problem with me being on the record as supporting both. Not only is it easy, it’s ridiculously easy. Take a look [...]
Mad, mad, you’ve all gone mad
Look, I can understand a good TV performance boosting the Lib Dems in the polls.
I can just about understand having several young kids running up to me in the street, looking admiringly at the stakeboard poster and one saying, “Are you voting for that Nick Clegg? I like him!”
At a stretch I can even understand [...]
