Meet the Lib Dem bloggers: Alex Folkes
Welcome to the latest in our series giving the human face behind some of the blogs you can find on the Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator. Today it is Alex Folkes. … Read the full post »
Alex Folkes
Read about Liberal Democrat activist and political reform campaigner, Alex Folkes. He was a local councillor in Cornwall.
Planning for the next London council elections with Greenwich LibDems
This morning it was off at a moderately unsociable hour to Greenwich to meet up with Alex Folkes to train Greenwich Liberal Democrats in local ward campaigning. … Read the full post »
Vince Cable: stays in Cabinet, responsibility for takeover ruling moves
The net upshot of the day today: Vince Cable disagrees with Conservatives (shocking news, I know). … Read the full post »
“Press conferences are private meetings”
Cornish Conservatives clearly do things differently as Lib Dem Cllr Alex Folkes has reported: [Council leader] Cllr Robertson and Council Chief Executive Kevin Lavery held a press conference to announce the proposed budget. Lib Dem Group Leader Doris Ansari went along to hear what they had to say, only to be thrown out of the … Read the full post »
Parliamentary boundary review: two blog posts worth reading
Since blogging about the British Academy study into how the new rules going through Parliament for drawing up constituency boundaries might work… … Read the full post »
Is one of these animals more dangerous than the other?
To the untrained eye, it may appear that one of these creatures is rather more dangerous than the other and therefore that it may make sense to have rules about keeping one of them which shouldn’t apply to the other. … Read the full post »
Nine Liberal Democrats shortlisted in Councillor of the Year awards
Congratulations to all those shortlisted in the various categories for the Councillor of the Year awards, run by the Local Government Information Unit and CCLA. … Read the full post »
Your Caroline Righton reader
The campaign of Caroline Righton, the Conservative candidate for St Austell & Newquay, is being accused of faking a message about her Liberal Democrat opponent, Stephen Gilbert. … Read the full post »
Book review: Mark Oaten’s Screwing up
The repeated references to the stress caused by going bald sums up the good and the bad of former Liberal Democrat MP Mark Oaten’s autobiography. … Read the full post »