I bet David Cameron now wishes he hadn’t said this
David Cameron on Lords reform during the general election TV debates. … Read the full post »
Nick Thornsby
Read about the Liberal Democrat activist and former member of the Liberal Democrat Voice (LDV) editorial team, Nick Thornsby.
The strange Conservative strategy
Imagine you’re a slightly excitable aide to Ed Miliband and plotting how he can be Prime Minister by Christmas. … Read the full post »
Nick Thornsby and Paddy Ashdown on House of Lords reform
Here’s the Prime Minister speaking just weeks before the 2010 general election in the leadership debates, where he couldn’t have been clearer in his support for a mainly or wholly elected chamber… … Read the full post »
Government snooping plans: why I’m not outraged, yet
Here’s the relevant part of the motion that was passed at the Liberal Democrat conference in Gateshead regarding government snooping on our internet and telephonic activity. … Read the full post »
Paul Keetch has gone into business with Phil Woolas
Quite remarkable for a former Liberal Democrat MP to go into business with a disgraced Labour MP. … Read the full post »
Polly Toynbee: in praise of the private sector in the NHS
Polly Toynbee wrote in 2009 (with my emphasis): There is no doubt that putting some services out to tender has vastly improved certain standards over the years, broken the power of vested interests and brought in competition that has sharpened up results. Just look at how hospital consultants’ waiting lists plummeted when a few Independent … Read the full post »
A footnote to my praise for Jeremy Browne
In recently praising Jeremy Browne for arguing that the Liberal Democrats must guard against being pigeonholed as only being interested in issues that do not win much public support, I added a caveat about how his broader vision of what the Liberal Democrats should be for (social mobility – yuk) showed how inconsistent senior Liberal Democrats … Read the full post »
Best blog headline of the day / week / year / decade / century / millennium
Delete words in headline to suit your own preference for hyperbole and then savour Nick Thornsby’s pithy summary of the Liberal Democrat strategic choice. … Read the full post »
David Cameron’s fullsome support for House of Lords reform
David Cameron on an elected House of Lords in the first leaders debates, April 2010. … Read the full post »
The progressive minority: Nick Thornsby
Nick Thornsby regularly posts here on Lib Dem Voice highlighting pieces elsewhere but there’s one post of his own which fully deserves a similar plug. … Read the full post »