Archive for Lib Dem TV

The Heart of the Party: what the LibDems stand for, 1995 version

30 January 2011 , ,
Back in 1995 the Liberal Democrats under Paddy Ashdown made a video explaining what the party stands for and why people should back it. If you’ve been around in the party a few years you can have some fun spotting familiar faces from 15 years ago (including a young Danny Alexander), and even if not [...]

Susan Kramer for Mayor of London – the 2000 party political broadcast

16 January 2011 , , , ,
Back in 2000, Susan Kramer was the first (and in many ways most successful) Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London. Here is her party political broadcast from that campaign, featuring several familiar faces including a young Mike Tuffrey and also Susan’s husband, John, who died tragically early in 2006: Also available on YouTube here, [...]

Believe in Fairness

18 April 2010 ,
(Also on YouTube here.)

Say goodbye to broken promises: the first Lib Dem election broadcast

14 April 2010 , ,
Here it is: Nice use of simple format, but done in an energetic and interesting way. Striking contrast with Labour’s broadcast: Clegg is on screen all the time; Brown was absent from Labour’s. Have fun speculating whether all those pieces of paper are CGI or whether some poor intern got the fun job of scattering and then [...]

Imagine having a well-paid job for life

5 November 2009 , , ,
So starts Nick Clegg’s comments in the latest Channel 4 Political Slot film from the party, featuring himself and Sarah Teather talking about changing our political system: You may find the opening contains an electoral statistic which sounds rather familiar. I wonder if this post will make it to national TV next…

Change politics for good: PPB preview

28 May 2009 , , , ,
It’s all go on the political reform front today. Apart from Nick Clegg’s op-ed in The Guardian, front page newspaper coverage, detailed policy proposals and new campaign website, there’s also the little matter of today’s party political broadcast, also on the same theme. It’s appearing on TV screens this evening, but you can watch it [...]

Haringey Labour increase their allowances by stealth

23 May 2009 , , , ,
A quick quiz for you. One of the Haringey local newspapers, The Hornsey Journal, had this story on 14 May: Under fire councillors opt to take pay freeze The recession is about to hit councillors in the pocket, after both Haringey Labour and Liberal Democrat parties decided NOT to take a pay rise … Councillor Claire Kober, Leader [...]

Did Brian Coleman lie to his local newspaper?

15 May 2009 , ,
Here’s the story from the Not The Barnet Times blog: Yesterday, Not The Barnet Times broke the story that Mike Freer was wasting £10,000 of taxpayers money providing legal services for a councillor being investigated by the Standards Committee. The real scandal of this story was that the council’s insurers were willing to provide a lawyer [...]

Nick Clegg answers questions on the Budget

23 April 2009 ,
Nick’s filmed a piece replying to questions that people had posted up on Facebook over the Budget: You can rate the film and comment about it on YouTube here.

First Plaid and Labour vote for cuts, then they oppose them…

3 April 2009 , , ,
An interesting use of YouTube by the Welsh Liberal Democrats. As they put it, “On March 11th, Plaid Cymru and Labour AMs voted for cuts in FE funding. Three weeks later they protest with lecturers and students on the steps of the Senedd about FE cuts.” Watch the story below (or via the YouTube website):