The Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mike Rumbles, MSP for Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine, was yesterday first to announce he wants to replace Nicol Stephen, with three others saying they may stand, including frontrunner Tavish Scott.
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | yesterday
I want to lead this party because I believe that it has never been a more important time to be a Liberal Democrat. The other parties are obsessed with eroding individual civil liberties: * the Labour Party is hell-bent on forcing people to carry ID cards and increasing the length of detention without trial to 42 [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
The race to become the next Liberal Democrat leader in Scotland began today following Nicol Stephen's shock decision last night to quit for the sake of his family
The Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mike Rumbles, MSP for Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine, was yesterday first to announce he wants to replace Nicol Stephen, with three others saying they may stand, including frontrunner Tavish Scott.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE SNP and the Liberal Democrats last night announced their candidates ahead of the Glasgow East by-election.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE SNP and the Liberal Democrats last night announced their candidates ahead of the Glasgow East by-election.
The Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mike Rumbles, MSP for Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine, was yesterday first to announce he wants to replace Nicol Stephen, with three others saying they may stand, including frontrunner Tavish Scott.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Scottish Liberal Democrat members should vote on supporting a snap independence referendum in the wake of leader Nicol Stephen's resignation, it has been claimed.
Chris Paul: Labour of Love (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Most of this post by Lib Dem lefty Andrew Hickey at Liberal Conspiracy makes pretty good sense. As things stand the Lib Dems are about to get taken to the cleaners by the Tories in a good many apparently safe constituencies. They probably stand to lose between a half and two-thirds of their seats. Calamity Clegg encapsulated! And, although Hickey says otherwise, the golden shower could well lose Lab-Lib...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Colourful MSP Mike Rumbles says he will bid to succeed Nicol Stephen as Scottish Liberal Democrat leader.
Love and Liberty (Free subscription) | yesterday
News reports of last night’s self-pampering vote by greedy MPs offer a choice of two messages: either ‘they’re all at it’ or ‘the Tories and Liberal Democrats condemned Labour’. But the truth is that not all MPs – and not all parties – have their snouts in the trough. The truth is that of 176 MPs so out of touch with the economic woes of the real world that they voted themselves £23,000 a year for...
Liberty Scott (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Mark Littlewood in the Daily Telegraph argues that the Liberal Democrats ought to be more consistently liberal, and argue against the smoking ban in pubs. Now I think the point should be more direct - this is about private property rights. The right of a pub owner (or any business) to decide what legal activities should be carried out on that property. Sadly most of those fighting for "smokers rights"...
Anything Caron can do..... (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
It seems that he's started a business in Prague!
Duncan Borrowman (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here is the front and back of the final BNP leaflet delivered in Christchurch, by a mob handed team of deliverers. Oddly when I saw the delivery team they didn't quite match the image portrayed in this leaflet. You just want these little facists to come along and kiss your little kiddie on the cheek don't you. And the candidate told me when I met him a while back that he even isn't racist!
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | yesterday
Two new allegations around London Deputy Mayor Ray Lewis have emerged today. First, that - contrary to his claims - his Academy is no longer being funded by Newham Council and, second, that despite repeated references to Ray Lewis being a Magistrate, in fact according to the Ministry for Justice Ray Lewis “is not and [...]
