Hadleigh Roberts (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Three months after David Cameron held a public meeting in Bath, Nick Clegg, better known as leader of the Shadow Conservative Party, has managed to find time in his busy, busy, schedule to do likewise. When Cameron came to visit, the Lib Dems criticised the Tories over the amount of information participants were asked to give, [...]
Labourhome (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
True to their nature, local Lib Dems in Bath & North East Somerset are now under fire for asking for ID to a public meeting with Nick Clegg, three months after criticising David Cameron and local Tories for exactly that. Why is Clegg visiting a fairly safe seat? Is he chasing after Cameron? Is he scared [...]
SNP Tactical Voting (Free subscription) | yesterday
Intriguing news on the SNP website stating that the Lib Dems have 'signalled' that they will include a referendum in their 2011 manifesto. Even though Stephen Glenn has already flatly denied it on behalf of the Policy Committee, I reckon it would be a very clever move from Scotland's 4th (and if it's not careful 5th) biggest party. The SNP would promise a referendum of course but the Lib Dem...
View From Milsey Bay (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Liberal Democrats recently announced it is to use the social networking platform called Ning to create a social network for all members and supporters. The purpose is to use this network to engage with anyone, members and non-members, in connecting with friends, coordinating events, discussing common interests and issues or even writing a blog. You don’t need to be a member of the Lib Dems...
Keighley and Ilkley Liberal Democrat Website (Free subscription) | yesterday
Congratulations to Redcar Lib Dems on their latest by-election win, in Dormanstown Ward. It's good to know there is SOME good news for the area after the bad news of job losses at the Corus steel works. I used to go to school there and my father (GEPS) taught at Sir Willy T's. Ooh, I see the Tories did particularly badly. From Redcar Liberal Democrats' website : Liberal Democrats have won the...
Keighley and Ilkley Liberal Democrat Website (Free subscription) | yesterday
Just on my way to the railway station to get the train up to Ilkley for the K&I LD AGM. Packed agenda, looks really exciting. Shall take of book of railway poetry for the journey.
Keighley and Ilkley Liberal Democrat Website (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
The above are not my headlines, though I am happy to reproduce them here, no, they are from the Local Government Chronicle. It seems that up and down the country, in real elections where people are given a choice to exercise their votes, the Tories have been crashing to defeat not just against we Lib Dems, but also to Labour, and God help them finishing FOURTH to UKIP! Next year's general elections...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Anthony Wells at Polling Report asks number 189 of my Questions to Which the Answer is No.
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | yesterday
South Gloucestershire councillor Peter Tyzack has been selected as the Liberal Democrats’ Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the new constituency of Filton and Bradley Stoke. From the South Gloucestershire Gazette: At the next General Election, to be held in the spring, the existing Northavon constituency is to be divided into two new constituencies, Filton and Bradley Stoke, [...]
John Rentoul (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... between the current party of Government and the Tories can be closed. They say that a third of Lib Dem voters have suggested that they might vote Labour, which would equate to 5 percentage points. Meanwhile, they believe that the numbers currently saying they support “others” in polls — greens, BNP and UKIP — may go back to Labour, closing the gap by a further 3 percentage...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Mark Hunter, Lib Dem MP for the Cheshire seat of Cheadle since 2005, couold be forgiven for smiling like his county’s proverbial cat this morning. Today’s Times reports that the Tories are scaling back their expectations of election victory in the light of a slew of polls showing the party’s support dipping: The Conservatives are digging [...]
Liberal Burblings (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Er…no. But this does provide more evidence of an element of wishful thinking in the Labour party: Labour’s election planners believe an 8-point gap between the current party of Government and the Tories can be closed. They say that a third of Lib Dem voters have suggested that they might vote Labour, which would equate to [...]
Stephen's Linlithgow Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
I've just read this on the SNP website : "Lib Dems to Include Referendum in Manifesto" Now I thought I hadn't missed anything. I'm sure I would have been in a debate approving the Manifesto, because with the exception of 2007 I was at the one in 2003, both the National and Scottish Variations in 2005. But then I realised we have yet to even finalise the 2010 manifestoes let alone...
Rural Studies (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... to those visiting the medical centre in New Quay, it is rather ironic that it has been sent to Liberal Democrat MP Mark Williams. The decision to include parking fees in the annual County Council budget was supported by Liberal Democrat Councillors and implemented by the Council Cabinet on which sits three Liberal Democrat Councillors. They have had several opportunities to stop this punitive health...
UKPolling Report (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
It’s another one for John Rentoul’s “Questions to which the answer is no”. An article by Sam Coates in the Times says that “Labour’s election planners believe an 8-point gap between the current party of Government and the Tories can be closed. They say that a third of Lib Dem voters have suggested that [...]
