Archive for lib dem voice
A provocative question about Europe
Over on his blog Iain Sharpe has wondered about the European views of Liberal Democrat members: Are the Lib Dems really pro-European?… Lib Dem attitudes towards Europe reminds me of G.K. Chesterton’s The man who was Thursday. In this novel, the members of an anarchist cell are one-by-one revealed to be undercover policemen. In a similar way, [...]
A louder Lib Dem Voice? Certainly, Mr Clegg
As my fellow Lib Dem Voice team member Sara Bedford spotted this morning, Nick Clegg has called for a “louder Lib Dem Voice”. So I’ve been doing my duty and ordering one of these for each of us on the team: Higher volume, here we come.
Have you tried out the new Lib Dem Voice Facebook app?
It can be fun to let people know when you’ve been campaigning – but it’s also an extremely effective way to encourage more people to campaign too. If someone sees that their friends are doing campaigning, they are more likely to campaign themselves. And so the Lib Dem Voice Facebook app (kindly part-funded by Liberal [...]
Who runs the internet? Wikileaks, piracy and censorship #ldconf
That’s the title for the fringe meeting the Liberal Democrat Voice team is putting on at the Lib Dem spring conference in Sheffield. Libel law reform campaigner and former MP Evan Harris, website pioneer Mary Reid and Jim Killock of the digital rights champions Open Rights Group will debate recent issues about free speech and [...]
The perils and pitfalls of allowing, and moderating, online comments
Sky News this week has pulled the plug on its news discussion boards because, Although the boards were very popular, a small number of people had hijacked them and reduced the level of debate to meaningless abuse. At Sky News we welcome robust debate about the news, but we want it to be of a [...]
Are you sending too few emails?
Looking at campaigning lessons from the general election, I’ve written previously about the question of quantity and quality of direct mail. Having run the party’s 2001 and 2005 general election internet campaigns (and having first written HTML code using vi on a VAX mainframe in the early 1990s), the need also to get the latest [...]
Thank you for your votes
Thank you to everyone who voted for this blog in the Total Politics blog poll, propelling it up from 36 last year to number 5 this year in the list of Liberal Democrat blogs. Thanks too for those who voted for Liberal Democrat Voice, which I co-edit and moved up from number 2 to number [...]
"Nick Clegg and his fellow senior Liberal Democrats have been given a timely boost"
So starts today’s write up in the Financial Times of the latest Liberal Democrat Voice survey of party members. It’s a reflection of the media’s current deep interest in talks of splits or absence thereof that the FT should have given a long page 2 column to the story no less. Full details of this [...]
Lessons for future campaigning from the 2010 election
That’s the title of one of the four fringe events I’m chairing or speaking at during the Liberal Democrat conference in Liverpool. This one is part of the series of events that Liberal Democrat Voice is putting on, including also a Liberal Drinks meet-up, the Blog of the Year awards and our top-secret yet to [...]
The perils of paying for polls that you don't report
I’ve been running a little series of posts over on Liberal Democrat Voice about poll questions that newspapers have paid for but not reported (see here, here and here). A degree of that is inevitable – after all, it’s fair enough to ask a range of questions to see which give a newsworthy answer as [...]
