Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
An email arrives at LDV Towers reminding party members that: For those of you who have yet to register for the federal party conference in Bournemouth, please note the next price increase is fast approaching. Sign up before 31st July for the advance booker rate of £89. The late booker and on site registration rate will [...]
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Scottish Lib Dem leadership contender Ross Finnie says his party's message is blurred and lacks clarity.
Bob Piper (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
An interesting quote from Lib Dem supporter Mike Smithson who runs the Political Betting blogsite. As a Lib Dem myself I’ve long felt that the long-term objective must be to reclaim from Labour the position as the main party of the left. It might be getting one step nearer. Might it? Well, let's cast our eyes back a couple of pages to what was posted on Political Betting here : Now, 27% is pretty...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | yesterday
If so, you might want to know that the Western Morning News – the south-west’s regional newspaper - is holding a readers’ Q&A event with David Cameron in Cornwall next week. Do you have a question for Dave? Perhaps: “What did you really think when David Davis told you he was resigning?” Or “How are [...]
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
VOTERS are failing to connect with the Liberal Democrats because the party's message has become blurred and does not set the agenda, senior MSP Ross Finnie said today.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | yesterday
VOTERS are failing to connect with the Liberal Democrats because the party's message has become blurred and does not set the agenda, senior MSP Ross Finnie said today.
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | yesterday
Well, let’s not pretend it was a great result: losing three-quarters of your support is rarely likely to cheer a party up. But it would be equally silly to read anything of great significance into it, either. As I pointed out yesterday, in the 1999 Hamilton South by-election the Lib Dems trailed in a pretty [...]
icWales (Free subscription) | yesterday
THEY may be struggling to close the gap in the polls, but when it comes to making jokes about Gordon Brown, the Liberal Democrats are in a class of their own.
PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Rights for LGBT asylum seekers will be one of the primary focuses at the Lid Dem conference to be held in Bournemouth in September.
Hunter and Shooter (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
That's according to "M. Allende" of N17 in tomorrow's Journal .
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The Press Association reports the (unsurprising) news: The deadline for nominations in the race to lead the Scottish Liberal Democrats has closed with no late challengers in the three-way campaign. Mike Rumbles and former ministers Tavish Scott and Ross Finnie will now concentrate on winning party support before the poll on August 26. The candidates are hoping to [...]
politicalbetting.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
What happens when the third party works - but doesn’t win? A strongly argued post by the Norfolk Blogger, Nick Starling, has been picked up by several in the blogsphere for the way it powerfully sets out the dilemma facing the Lib Dems. Reflecting on the massive changes in the political scene Nick notes that Cameron [...]
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
An interesting article in yesterday’s Times, with former national Lib Dem leader Ming Campbell wading into the current Scottish leadership debate, and in particular the controversy over whether Lib Dems should support a referendum on Scottish independence: Sir Menzies Campbell has warned the next leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats to oppose an independence referendum, even [...]
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
There’s high praise for the Lib Dems’ Glasgow East candidate Ian Robertson in The Herald today: Yesterday he had Scots grandees Sir Menzies Campbell and Lord Wallace in to help, plus deputy leader Vince Cable, but he knows he won’t be giving up the teaching career any time soon. Watch him on any of the televised hustings [...]
Norfolk Blogger (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The Liberal Democrats electoral strategy for some years now has been focused almost exclusively on winning seats that would be naturally Conservative in leaning, and relying on a lot of good groundwork by the Lib Dem teams in those constituencies to build up a head of steam, sometimes against the national trend, to gain seats and hold them in sometimes trying circumstances . This strategy, however,...
