Archive for susan kramer
Susan Kramer for Mayor of London – the 2000 party political broadcast
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, [...]
Wanted: a hyperactive online MP
Last week I talked about the role reversal facing the Liberal Democrats, with the party’s traditional stronger record at political tactics than strategy having been flipped around. In that, and the subsequent post Part 2 of the Nick Clegg reshuffle, I highlighted some tactical communication needs the party must get better at. Given my own habit [...]
Kramer versus Farron: what sort of President does the party want?
Party members are unusually lucky with the current contest for President of the Liberal Democrats. It is rare for there to be two credible, high-profile candidates standing at the same time but this time there is a real choice between two such people. Some differences between Susan Kramer and Tim Farron were obvious from the [...]
Susan Kramer answers 10 questions about her campaign for Party President
Susan Kramer and Tim Farron were both asked the same ten questions about their bid to be LibDem President and given the option to reply in whatever format and at whatever length they wished. Susan’s answers are below and you can find Tim’s answers here. My own commentary on the answers and race more generally [...]
Farron and Kramer: party should retain long-term aim of abolishing tuition fees
Both of the candidates to be the next Liberal Democrat President have expressed their support for the party retaining a long-term aim of abolishing tuition fees. Tomorrow Liberal Democrat Voice will publish in full the answers from Susan Kramer and Tim Farron to a set of questions Lib Dem Voice has posed them. Their answers [...]
Farron and Kramer: their email pitches for President
Party members have been receiving emails today from Tim Farron and Susan Kramer setting out their pitches for party president. Of course, the emails can only go to party members for whom the party has an accurate email address. So I’ve reproduced the emails below – and if you’ve missed out but would like to [...]
Conference: the full-time score
Having blogged ten questions for Liberal Democrat conference, along with a conference half-time update, how do things look now the dust has settled from Liverpool for those ten points? Party strategy Love your coalition partner all the time in public: that was the clear line taken by Nick Clegg, reinforced by other senior party figures [...]
Who will be the Liberal Democrat candidate for London Mayor?
Yesterday London Region chair Jonathan Fryer outlined the timetable for selecting the party’s London Assembly and Mayor candidates. But who will be in the running to be the Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London? As previously covered, Lembit Opik has publicly declared his intention to go for the selection. Regular readers of this site will [...]
Five of the seven top seats for graduate population have LibDem MPs
A new analysis of how many graduates there are living in each Westmister Parliamentary constituency shows that five of the seven seats with the highest proportion of graduates amongst their working age population have Liberal Democrat MPs.
The figures, from the University and College Union, show that overall 29% of the working population have degrees with [...]
