Tactical voting, pacts and vote-swapping (LDN #96)
Candidates don’t get to control what their would-be voters do. That sounds obvious, and indeed is obvious, yet is also frequently forgotten. … Read the full post »
David Ward was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Bradford East 2010-2015.
He has also been a Liberal Democrat, and then later independent, councillor.
Candidates don’t get to control what their would-be voters do. That sounds obvious, and indeed is obvious, yet is also frequently forgotten. … Read the full post »
After the suspension of the Luton South candidate for antisemitism, the same again happened in Bradford East, but with extra publicity this time. … Read the full post »
Read Liberal Democrat Newswire #80’s post-mortem on the 2016 elections. … Read the full post »
Basically, if you’re in Glasgow and Norman Lamb isn’t in the room, the chances are you’ve got to the wrong venue by mistake. … Read the full post »
Back for its fifth year is my Liberal Democrat conference fringe meeting league table, showing how many fringes each MP will be speaking at. … Read the full post »
I think a few eyebrows have been raised by the absence of 7 Liberal Democrat MPs from the voting lobbies this evening on same-sex marriage. However, looking through the names… … Read the full post »
Back for its fourth year is my Liberal Democrat conference fringe meeting league table, showing how many fringes each MP will be speaking at. … Read the full post »
A couple of years back I posted about the “low earner Liberal Democrats” who have been a major part of the party’s progress, especially in squeezing Labour votes in more rural seats. … Read the full post »
I’ve been taking a look at the details of how Liberal Democrat MPs have been behaving in the House of Commons. … Read the full post »
Back for its third year is my conference fringe meeting league table, showing how many fringes each Lib Dem MP will be speaking at during the forthcoming federal autumn conference. … Read the full post »