Archive for iain dale
The Bigger Book of Boris: lots of jokes, not much politics
One of the questions that ambitious politicians often struggle to answer safely is, “Do you want to be leader of your party / Prime Minister?” Answer ‘yes’ in some form and journalists will line up to write stories about party splits, pending leadership challenges and the like. Answer ‘no’ and many will not believe you [...]
Someone likes Liberal Democrat conference…
Over on Dale & Co Gareth Knight writes: Any Conservative, including Iain Dale who attends the Liberal Democrat conference, remarks how impressed they are with the mere fact the conference is where party members openly and robustly confer on policy. The exhibition stands at the Liberal Democrat conference include dozens of party groups as well [...]
Top 50 most influential Lib Dems (according to Iain Dale)
In what has become a regular of party conference season, the Daily Telegraph has published a list of the 50 most influential Liberal Democrats assembled by “Iain Dale, Brian Brivati and a team of Liberal Democrat insiders”: As one MP put it, the year has been “about the rise of the left”. Confidence in the [...]
Why Iain Dale is wrong about libel
Iain Dale has posed the question why Elwyn Watkins, the Liberal Democrat candidate up against Phil Woolas, didn’t sue for libel instead of looking to have his election result over-turned: To my mind, the way these kind of disputes should be resolved is not to take them to ‘election courts’, but instead through the libel [...]
Excuse me, but would you mind voting for me?
It’s that time of the year when bloggers either ask for votes for the Total Politics poll or explain why they’re not taking part in it. I certainly agree it shouldn’t be taken too seriously, but as a rough idea of which political blogs a decent number of blog readers rate, it comes up with [...]
Election 2.0: How did the internet shape the general election?
The Yoosk website recently put together a panel of bloggers to answer questions about the impact of the internet, and social media in particular, on British politics. Alongside Iain Dale, Alex Smith and James Evans I answered a range of questions: Was the UK 2010 general election an internet election? Which bloggers or Twitterers made [...]
Labour set for worst share of vote since 1918: why isn’t that a big story?
Iain Dale quite rightly has queried why the prospect of Labour finishing third in the popular share of the vote isn’t a big story being talked about in the media.
But actually Iain is too kind to Labour.
Because the voting abyss Labour is teetering on the edge of is more than simply coming third. More than [...]
First election debate: winners and losers
Now the dust is starting to settle after the first debate, who are the winners and losers – aside from the party leaders?
Winner – liberalism
Loser – hostility to foreigners
Praising some aspects of immigration, talking about no like-for-like replacement of Trident, pledging to scrap tuition fees, promising to cut taxes for most by raising taxes [...]
A little fact Iain Dale didn’t mention
If you’ve read Iain’s post about Anna Arrowsmith “The LibDem Candidate Who Supports Labour” there’s one little detail you won’t have seen. The shocking piece of text saying that Anna Arrrowsmith supports Labour is … six years old. Yes verily, it’s shocking news that the party has selected as a candidate someone who was a [...]
Iain Dale is a very, very wise man
That headline is of course completely unrelated to Iain’s comment about the quality of the Liberal Democrat email campaigns made here (start listening around 16:20 to get the context)
