Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Obsessing about any individual poll is a mug’s game, as we at Lib Dem Voice have long argued. However, we have also always said that polls – taken together and observed over a reasonable time period - are useful evidence of trends. And the trend for the party at the moment is, let’s be honest, [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
When the man who predicted the collapse of Northern Rock received word of another impending financial catastrophe he had to make a tough judgement call.
Rhetoric innes (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mike German O.B.E. A.M. is standing down as the leader of the Welsh liberal Democrats at this years Welsh conference. Here is an interview conducted by myself. It is the only interview of Mike on the net.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
LIBERAL Democrats will put a 2p income tax cut at the heart of their Scottish budget proposals, their leader was expected to say today.
Kevin Davis (Free subscription) | yesterday
Image by dichohecho via Flickr It seems that the Lib Dems who run Somerset Council may well have been caught in the local authority equivalent of short selling. It has been announced that Somerset County Council had £25m invested in Icelandic banks that have now gone bust. One of the questions you might ask is why the [...]
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
The leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats renews his demand for a 2p cut in income tax as part of a "radical" economic package.
Liberal England (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dr Charles West has been chosen as the Liberal Democrat PPC for the Shrewsbury & Atcham Constituency. Better still, he has his own blog .
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The Liberal Democrats insist they will be contenders at the forthcoming Glenrothes by-election.
Caron's Musings (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Aided by a rather majestic looking golden eagle, Liberal Democrat candidate for Glenrothes Harry Wills launched his campaign today accompanied by Tavish "Tax Cut" Scott, Dunfermline by-election winner Willie Rennie and Dunfermline West MSP Jim Tolson. Willie's comments reminded me of the last cold and wintry Scottish by-election - his own, in Dunfermline, in February 2006. That campaign was fought...
Anders Hanson (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
…then try being on the mailing list for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. I signed up to Barack Obama’s email list to see what sort of things they send out to supporters and nearly every day there is some form of request for money. They vary in style. Sometimes they are a blatant request for money (usually [...]
Rachel Joyce's BlogSpot (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
I could see good points in Blair. I can see good points in other Labour MPs. I can see good points in Nick Clegg and Vince Cable in the LibDems. I believe we need people from all different sides in politics, debating the issues in public. We often learn from each other. Policies that were strongly held by some political parties in the past have been discarded as the other side has been proven right....
Jonathan Fryer (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The leaders of the 15 eurozone countries are meeting in Paris today, to discuss emergency measures to deal with the financial crisis. France currently holds the presidency of the European Union, and the French Finance Minister, Christine Lagarde, says the summit will put ‘meat’ on the ’skeleton’ of the agreement reached by the G7 group [...]
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
BETWEEN becoming the most colourful Liberal Democrat for decades and many people's voice of reason on how to sort out the mess the big banks have got themselves into, Vinc
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
At the start of last week, Lib Dem Voice emailed the members of our private forum (open to all Lib Dem members) inviting them to take part in a survey, conducted via Liberty Research, asking a number of questions about the current state of British politics, especially as they affect the Lib Dems. Many thanks [...]
Deval Patrick Watch (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Some good advice from Joan Vennochi . MASSACHUSETTS voters could send a message to liberal Democrats on Beacon Hill by voting to rescind the state income tax. Or they could just stop sending liberal Democrats to Beacon Hill . "If you really want to send a message . . . send more Republicans," said state Representative George Peterson, a Republican from Grafton. There are only 19 Republican legislators...
