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Make your Cable, Featherstone, Pack, Hughes barchart
Come Saturday and I’m heading over to Canary Wharf for the London Region conference where I’m doing a session on how the Parliamentary boundary changes are being handled in London. (For background see my Parliamentary Boundary Reviews page.) Not sure whether or not to come to London Region conference? Here are a few reasons: Training [...]
Lessons from the disappearing phone boxes for the internet and politics
A new report about the internet and the 2010 general election (not headlined some variant on “was it an internet election?” thank goodness) has just been published by the Hansard Society. It contains some excellent contributions from across the political spectrum and, er…, one by myself. Will Straw from Left Foot Forward has blogged about [...]
Havering Council flirts with breaking election law
Until yesterday, Havering Council was telling residents that it would reject any rolling registration applications that were not made on the council's own form - despite the fact that such rejections would be a breach of the law. In a bizarre twist, it also meant that Havering Council was telling people who had filled in an electoral registration form via the Electoral Commission's heavily advertised website, AboutMyVote.co.uk, that those applications were invalid.
What should you be doing at 8pm on Friday evening?
Why, talking politics of course: Make authoritarian MPs pay at the ballot box 8pm, Hall 8b, Birmingham ICC (Lib Dem spring conference) Many MPs have a record of repeatedly voting for authoritarian measures in Parliament. But will they suffer for that at the ballot box? Come and hear how we can make authoritarian votes in [...]
Make authoritarian MPs pay at the ballot box
There’s only one place to be at 8pm on Friday. It’s in Hall 8b at the Birmingham ICC for the latest in the legendary series of Lib Dem Voice fringe meetings*:
Many MPs have a record of repeatedly voting for authoritarian measures in Parliament. But will they suffer for that at the ballot box?
Come and hear [...]
How not to communicate about a traffic crossing, Haringey Council style
As Helen Duffett has blogged, there are plans to introduce a diagonal crossing outside Wood Green tube station. However, take a look at the Haringey Council web page about the project and you see an example of how not to communicate with the public: The page does not provide any meaningful detail about what is [...]
