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Nick Clegg’s Lib Dem conference Q+A #ldconf
In addition to his speech on Sunday, Nick Clegg is doing a Q+A session on Saturday at the Liberal Democrat spring conference in Birmingham – and this time with an added online twist:
Straight after he comes off stage, he’s keen to answer questions sent in from people who are unable to attend the conference.
When: [...]
Why vote Liberal Democrat?
I’ve done a review of the new book, “Why Vote Liberal Democrat” (edited by Danny Alexander), over on Liberal Democrat Voice: Danny Alexander may be the main name on it, but he is the editor – and the book is a collection of twenty-six short essays plus a foreword from Nick Clegg. Many of the [...]
Why vote Liberal Democrat? Book review
If you go to Amazon searching for “Why vote Liberal Democrat?”, edited by Danny Alexander and just published by Biteback, you may be surprised to find yourself being presented instead with a book of the same title from 1997, written by William Wallace. The new book is misfiled by Amazon under the title “Why vote [...]
Was the Iraq war illegal?
STV reports:
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg says that the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War has provided enough information to suggest that the war was illegal.
Speaking on Radio Tay on Friday morning at the same time Prime Minister Gordon Brown was facing questions at the inquiry in London, he said: “I’m not a lawyer, but [...]
TV leaders debates: what do the rules signify?
Despite some alarms along the way, the rules are now set for the first-ever head-to-head general election debates in the UK a mere 46 years after the first suggestion.
(And no, yawn yawn, it isn’t only in the US that such debates take place: the US wasn’t first and the US isn’t a particularly good place [...]
Poll ups pressure on Cameron over TV debates
I pointed out before that the key to getting a boost in support out of TV leader debates isn’t so much winning the debate as beating expectations: if people expected you to do dreadfully and you come out doing ok that’s almost always a boost to a campaign, whilst being seen as doing ok when [...]
Why Gordon Brown will start the TV election debates with an advantage over David Cameron
The political impact of TV debates in other Parliamentary democracies (and yes, yawn yawn, obligatory American reference, in the US too) has often been more about expectations than about absolute performance. Beat expectations and you benefit from the debate, even if that means people viewed you as the narrow loser. But if you were expected [...]
And lo, with one email Nick Clegg’s opinion poll rating did soar
I was rather puzzled by the Sunday Telegrpah’s report today by Melissa Kite on the standing of party leaders, which claimed that Nick Clegg’s net leader performance rating in polling for PoliticsHome had plummeted since last September. Puzzled because that would be way out of line with what the other polls have been saying.
One email [...]
LibLink … Stephen Tall on hung Parliaments
It’s a mark of a good piece of analysis that it is still sound even if the particular news story that prompted its publication doesn’t stand up for long. And so it is with Stephen’s piece over on Comment is Free, triggered by the Guardian story – firmly rubbished by the party – about the [...]
Liberal Democrats launch green jobs manifesto pledge
Earlier today Nick Clegg today launched another plank of the party's green economic policies for the general election, pledging to create 57,000 jobs by investing £400million in upgrading disused shipyards so that they can produce off-shore wind turbines.
It's a triple win: boost the economy, help parts of the country which have been hit the hardest and improve Britian's environmental record.
