Police yet to contact Mike Hancock following newspaper allegations
Odd story as Paul Walter recounts: The Portsmouth News carries some more comments concerning the reports of a police “investigation” into alleged/reported allegations concerning Mike Hancock MP. I am...
View ArticleA mixed press today for Danny Alexander
Paul Walter has picked up on some less than flattering comments, including from an anonymous Liberal Democrat “grandee”, about Danny Alexander: Danny has gone completely native…He should be the Lib Dem...
View ArticlePaul Walter to guest edit Liberal Democrat Voice tomorrow
Tomorrow we’ve got our fourth guest editor running the site for a day, Newbury blogger Paul Walter. He follows Caron Lindsay, Mark Valladares and Linda Jack. Paul’s got a great set of guest posts lined...
View ArticlePosts of the week: bad Returning Officers and a secret road
Welcome to my weekly round-up of two blogging highlights from the past week: the post that I found most interesting or enjoyable to write and the post from someone else that I found most interesting or...
View ArticleIn other news…
As Alex Foster pointed out on Twitter, Europe is rather complicated – even when itemised in this helpful diagram. Sometimes a blog post that is nearly all just a long list of village names can be...
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In other news… speed cameras and does online campaigning work?
Jonathan Calder reports how Cornish councillor Jeremy Rowe is finding Twitter useful as a way to communicate with residents in his area who are hard to reach through traditional politics. Cllr Rowe’s...
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Letters on Lords reform: Paul Walter
Good letter on Lords reform last week from Paul Walter in Liberal Democrat News. If you agree with Paul, why not also send a letter for publication to Liberal Democrat News on ldn@libdems.org.uk? You...
View ArticleLords reform: the Liberal Democrat trio announced
Over the weekend Mark Valladares blogged about the three Liberal Democrats being appointed to the Joint Committee of both Houses fo Parliament carrying out pre-legislative scrutiny committee on Lords...
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The Lib Dem comms problem captured in one graph
Paul Walter makes some good points today over on Lib Dem Voice about the frequent (non-) communication between the centre and Liberal Democrat members and supporters when an issue breaks in the news....
View ArticleTeads Top Lib Dem Blogs, October 2014: five new entrants
Here are the Liberal Democrat entries in the top 100 political blogs as ranked by Teads (previously Ebuzzing and Wikio). Five people (re)join the list this month – with three MPs now featuring – and...
View ArticleLabour’s verdict: it’s ok for our candidates to lie during an election
Miranda Grell, the Labour candidate who was convicted of smearing a political opponent as a paedophile, is back in the news. She’s appealing the guilty verdict, and Labour supporters are mostly (though...
View ArticleJacqui Smith: our very own Donald Rumsfeld
You know, I think the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is turning into our very own Donald Rumsfeld. After the previous entertainments caused by her rather odd pair of views (here and here) on walking and...
View ArticleDavid Cameron’s brush with the law
Here’s a sample of what David Cameron has said before: David Cameron will unveil plans tomorrow for a new “three strikes and you’re out” rule (January 2008) For persistent offenders, the public deserve...
View ArticleSeven Tories face sleaze probes
So says The Sun. Paul Walter has helpfully done a round-up of the latest Conservative sleaze stories in today’s papers, including more news on Alan Duncan: A second member of David Cameron’s shadow...
View ArticleCauses of the credit crunch: if you’re going to try to blame David Bowie, you...
David Bowie: the case for the prosecution The idea that the credit crunch can in part be blamed on David Bowie is the, um…, slightly unusual thought thrown in the air by Evan Davis ahead of the...
View ArticleDaily View 2×2: 23 August 2009
The rest of The Voice’s Daily View team may have decided to have a lie in each morning during August, but we’re made of sterner stuff here on the Sunday slot. And as it’s a Sunday, it’s also time for...
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Another day, another two Tory policy review blunders
You’d have thought that by now that someone in the Conservative Party might have learnt to check their policy review documents carefully before printing them. I mean, how embarrassing is it to publish...
View ArticlePhilip Lardner suspended by Conservatives
A quick update on Philip Lardner, the Conservative candidate who praised Ian Smith a couple of days ago. He has now been suspended as a candidate by the party as Paul Walter reports. That makes two...
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The internet, Conservative MP Richard Benyon and some cars
Sadly, not all in the same story, but here are three worth a look: Labour plans online rapid rebuttal unit – Liberal England (Jonathan Calder) has the story. Conservative MP Richard Benyon confirms he...
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Liberal Democrat Blog of the Year: shortlists and winners
Collected for my own interest and shared in case of interest to others, here is the full set of shortlists and winners for the Liberal Democrat Blog of the Year (especially as a couple of the older...
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Sarah Olney wins in Richmond Park with 22% swing to Lib Dems
This week’s by-election results will be dominated by the news from Richmond Park, where the large number of doors the Lib Dems decided to call on today was a good straw in the wind about the likely...
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