Archive for paul walter
Lords reform: the Liberal Democrat trio announced
Over the weekend Mark Valladares blogged about the three Liberal Democrats being appointed to the Joint Committee of both Houses fo Parliament carrying out pre-legislative scrutiny committee on Lords reform: From the Lords, representing the constitutional wonk tendency (in a good way), Lord Tyler is the first of the two nominees. Paul has been leading [...]
Letters on Lords reform: Paul Walter
Good letter on Lords reform last week from Paul Walter in Liberal Democrat News. If you agree with Paul, why not also send a letter for publication to Liberal Democrat News on ldn@libdems.org.uk? You can also sign up to support the grassroots Liberal Democrats for Lords Reform campaign on Facebook.
In other news… speed cameras and does online campaigning work?
Jonathan Calder reports how Cornish councillor Jeremy Rowe is finding Twitter useful as a way to communicate with residents in his area who are hard to reach through traditional politics. Cllr Rowe’s local experience compliments the message that Google search data gives about people wanting to find politicians on Twitter. (If you are a councillor [...]
In other news…
As Alex Foster pointed out on Twitter, Europe is rather complicated – even when itemised in this helpful diagram. Sometimes a blog post that is nearly all just a long list of village names can be extremely effective, as Paul Walter demonstrated. Gary Hunt has been selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of [...]
Posts of the week: bad Returning Officers and a secret road
Welcome to my weekly round-up of two blogging highlights from the past week: the post that I found most interesting or enjoyable to write and the post from someone else that I found most interesting or entertaining. A post from me… Marked registers lost, votes counted up wrongly – but Returning Officer judged to have [...]
Paul Walter to guest edit Liberal Democrat Voice tomorrow
Tomorrow we’ve got our fourth guest editor running the site for a day, Newbury blogger Paul Walter. He follows Caron Lindsay, Mark Valladares and Linda Jack. Paul’s got a great set of guest posts lined up already, so do pop back tomorrow to take a read. This is the last of our little run of experiments with guest [...]
A mixed press today for Danny Alexander
Paul Walter has picked up on some less than flattering comments, including from an anonymous Liberal Democrat “grandee”, about Danny Alexander: Danny has gone completely native…He should be the Lib Dem man in the Treasury. But he has turned into the Treasury man in the Lib Dems. Perhaps Danny could look slightly less pleased with [...]
Police yet to contact Mike Hancock following newspaper allegations
Odd story as Paul Walter recounts: The Portsmouth News carries some more comments concerning the reports of a police “investigation” into alleged/reported allegations concerning Mike Hancock MP. I am somewhat astounded that the police have not actually contacted Mike Hancock concerning this matter, according to his spokesman. You would have thought that, with the papers bandying [...]
Daily View 2×2: 23 August 2009
The rest of The Voice’s Daily View team may have decided to have a lie in each morning during August, but we’re made of sterner stuff here on the Sunday slot. And as it’s a Sunday, it’s also time for the now traditional bonus musical extra.
Big Stories
The release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
The director of the Federal [...]
