Most people don’t know last time’s result in their own seats: LDN #151
Newly published research shows that ahead of the 2019 general election most voters in England and Wales were not able to… … Read the full post »
Pauline Pearce
Read my posts featuring Liberal Democrat activist Pauline Pearce, who achieved national fame for confronting rioters in Hackney.
How will the Lib Dems do in May? (Liberal Democrat Newswire #111)
The May elections are only a few weeks, a couple of dozen leaflet drops and three score candidate tweets away. So LDN #111 takes a look at the Lib Dem prospects, how Brexit may play out in those contests and what we can learn from the candidate numbers. … Read the full post »
What if Chris Huhne had beaten Nick Clegg and become Lib Dem leader? LDN#108
Liberal Democrat Newswire #108 has a special free extract from a book I contributed to. It’s a what-if political history, looking back at how the 2007 Lib Dem leadership election could have had rather different consequences for the party. … Read the full post »
Lib Dems select ‘Hackney Heroine’ Pauline Pearce for Hackney Mayor contest
Local Liberal Democrats have chosen Pauline Pearce as their mayoral candidate for Hackney ahead of next year’s election. … Read the full post »
Lib Dem federal committee election results: thank you, 1,061 times over
The results of the Liberal Democrat federal committee elections are now in, and super-thanks to everyone who voted for me, electing me successfully to the Federal Board. … Read the full post »
Duwayne Brooks pulls out from Lib Dem GLA list
Duwayne Brooks, who was elected by Liberal Democrat members to be in the seventh slot on the party’s GLA list for next May’s elections, has withdrawn. … Read the full post »
Lib Dem London Assembly list selection result
To go with Caroline Pidgeon’s selection as the Lib Dem London Mayor candidate, here are the results out today of the list candidate selections, in order. … Read the full post »
An important detail missing from the ballot for the London Lib Dem GLA candidates
London Liberal Democrat members are voting to select list candidates for next May’s GLA elections but some key information is missing from the ballot. … Read the full post »
Lib Dems shortlist 16 for London Assembly list
Liberal Democrat members in London will shortly be voting to select (and order) the party’s 11 candidates for the London Assembly list elections … Read the full post »
The turnout massacre: what went wrong with the Lib Dem internal elections?
My first reaction on seeing the Liberal Democrat federal committee election results was one of puzzlement. Surely I couldn’t be reading the results correctly, because those numbers looked much too small to be people’s first preference totals? … Read the full post »