Archive for ming campbell
More and more, Ed Miliband reminds me of Ming Campbell
Nice chap, well intentioned, successfully implementing internal party reforms and mostly getting coverage not for his ideas on the future of the country but for questions over the future of his leadership. Remind you of anyone? Verily, Ed Miliband is this Parliament’s Ming Campbell.
Was there a Clegg coup? Review of The Clegg Coup – Britain’s First Coalition Government Since Lloyd George by Jasper Gerard
Many book titles reveal little about what their book contains, either providing but a banal name for its contents or a clever, clever name which obscures rather than reveals. However, The Clegg Coup – Britain’s First Coalition Government Since Lloyd George by Jasper Gerard has a title which is revealing in two aspects. First, the [...]
Wikio Top Lib Dem Blogs, October 2011
Here are the Liberal Democrat entries in the top 100 political blogs as ranked by Wikio. New in this month – Ming Campbell and George Potter, plus a welcome return for the two Stephens. Mark’s Liberal Bureaucracy is the one to fall out of the top 100. 1 (6) Liberal Democrat Voice Up 4 2 [...]
House of Lords reform: the next steps
As I mentioned when blogging Ming Campbell’s speech from Liberal Democrat conference, the motion in favour of Lords reform was passed overwhelmingly. That in itself was not a surprise, but that does not mean actually securing Lords reform will be easy. Two immediate ways you can support the campaign for House of Lords reform are: [...]
Ming Campbell urges Lib Dem peers to back Lords reforms
One of the speakers in the Lords reform debate at Liberal Democrat conference was former party leader Ming Campbell, who not only backed the plans for elections to a reformed upper house but also directly addressed the Lib Dem peers who have been talking of opposing the introduction of elections: The motion was passed overwhelmingly, [...]
Ming Campbell makes it 32 Liberal Democrat MPs on Twitter
Following a brief foray on to Twitter before Christmas, Lib Dem MP for North East Fife Ming Campbell has now started up again on Twitter. He’s @MingCampbellMP. (Ming’s got quite a long record of being active on social media, and a success of mine when at Liberal Democrat HQ was getting him on to Facebook [...]
Labour and the SNP’s judgement in Megrahi case completely wrong – Campbell
Lib Dem MP and member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee Ming Campbell has been commenting on the revelations about the Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi case: The Labour government completely failed to take into account the horrific nature of the crime, the consequences and the sentence imposed when it took the view that it could assist [...]
Tuition fees: which way will MPs vote on Thursday?
Today saw a weird piece of media face with an impostor conning several news outlets into reporting that Edinburgh West MP Mike Crockart was going to resign as a PPS and vote against the tuition fees increase. The impostor even got as far as being interviewed by the BBC on the World at One before [...]
Trident: no renewal this Parliament
The BBC reports that the predicted policy has won the day: The government says £750m ($1.2bn) will be saved over four years on the Trident nuclear deterrent missile system by cutting the number of warheads on each boat from 48 to 40 and reducing the number of missile tubes from 12 to eight. The UK’s [...]
