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John Hemming makes it 36 Lib Dem MPs on Twitter
A belated updated to my list of Liberal Democrat MPs on Twitter with John Hemming, MP for Birmingham Yardley and on Twitter for a while now. He is @johnhemmingmp. You can follow all of the Liberal Democrat MPs, or all of the Lib Dem peers, via two lists I curate: Liberal Democrat MPs (36 currently) Liberal Democrat [...]
And in other news…
Lib Dem leader of Gossport Council, Peter Chegwyn has been assaulted by one of his predecessors as Liberal Democrat leader, since turned independent, Dave Smith. The financial sector has accounted for half of the declarable donations to the Conservative Party since the 2010 general election. John Hemming’s wife has been convicted of stealing a cat. [...]
Fred Goodwin gets super-injunction that even stops him being called a banker
The Independent reports: Sir Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland who became a focal point for anger over the financial crisis, has obtained a super-injunction banning the media from identifying him as a banker. The existence of the super-injunction was revealed today by John Hemming, a back-bench Liberal Democrat [...]
Parliamentarians in the news
Conservative MP Nadine Dorries says her blog was ’70% fiction’ – The Guardian. Surely the weirdest successful defence against expense allegations we’ll see. Two Labour and one cross-bench peer have been suspended for breaking expense rules. David Cameron’s former aide Andrew MacKay has been told to apologise for breaking expense rules (he and his wife [...]
Jason Kitcat: update on the councillor facing censure for using YouTube
A quick update on my post about Brighton Green councillor Jason Kitcat, who is facing disciplinary action over putting footage of a council meeting up on YouTube. He’s posted the latest news over on his blog, and it is good to see that he is getting support from across the political spectrum: ConservativeHome’s local government [...]
Is your site in the top five?
Latter this week, I’ll write up the top five list of local Liberal Democrat sites for referring traffic on to the party’s main site, www.libdems.org.uk, in the second half of 2006 – plus also the top five blogs. Will Iain Dale beat Guido Fawkes? Will Recess Monkey feature anywhere? Will any Lib Dem blog feature in [...]
