SNP Tactical Voting (Free subscription) | yesterday
There is a new poll out from TNS-BMRB (formerly TNS System 3) in The Herald today. With a meaty sample of 983, the Holyrood voting intentions are: Constituency SNP - 40% Labour - 32% Regional SNP - 37% Labour - 29% A rock solid lead for the Nationalists and they look set to take a commanding lead in the 2011 election on this evidence. However, it is a remarkably different picture for the Westminster...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Malcolm Blair-Robinson has written to three party leaders plus the palace warning next week's state opening of parliament may be unconstitutional The Queen should call a snap election to clean up parliament in the wake of the row over MPs' expenses, it was claimed today. Constitutional campaigner Malcolm Blair-Robinson has written to each of the three party leaders and the palace warning that it might...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Alistair Darling and Alan Johnson will join Labour's candidate, Willie Bain, in the Glasgow North East constituency today, following Gordon Brown's visit on Friday Two leading Labour cabinet ministers will visit Glasgow today to help increase votes as the campaigning in the byelection in the city enters its last days. Alistair Darling, the chancellor, and Alan Johnson, the home secretary, will join...
Bromsgrove Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | yesterday
Response to Gordon Brown on Afghanistan Posted: 06 Nov 2009 03:13 AM PST Response to Gordon Brown on Afghanistan 6th November 2009 Responding to the Prime Minister’s speech on Afghanistan this morning, Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats said: “This speech is a woefully belated attempt to win over public support for a war that has cost so many lives. The Prime Minister has finally...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Three weeks ago, LDV posed the following question – How should the Lib Dems increase their number of female MPs? – in the wake of Nick Clegg’s frank admission to the Speaker’s Conference that the Lib Dem Parliamentary Party is “woefully unrepresentative of modern Britain”. Here’s what you told us: 8% (23 votes) – All women [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Monarch lays wreath at Cenotaph in London as MoD announces death of UK soldier in Afghanistan The Queen today led Britain in the country's remembrance of its war dead at the annual wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph in London. After a two-minute silence in Whitehall at 11am, the monarch led politicians and military and religious figures in laying a wreath at the base of the war memorial. Prince...
Military Police Association - Isle of Man Sub Group (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
The monarch will be joined by other members of the Royal Family, Prime Minister Gordon Brown and opposition party leaders at the wreath-laying event at the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Thousands of veterans will also gather to pay their respects to the fallen. After the Two Minutes' Silence, the Queen will lay the first wreath, followed by the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Harry on behalf of the Prince of Wales...
Irfan Ahmed (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Iain Dale has set of a meme on the Internet of who you would have at your political dinner party, Iain has identified his 11 people over at his blog. This has then lead to Nick Thornsby to do a post on the subject , heck I have decided to run a post on my blog below. So my 11 people would be: Boris Johnson Lembit Opik Sajjad Karim Nick Clegg Ming Campbell Alex Hilton Iain Dale Afzal Anwar Tony Greaves...
Wolverhampton Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Recently at Prime Minister's Question Time Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg challenged Gordon Brown over Labour's record on the environment.
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
So, Sir Ian Kennedy (new chairman of the Independent STandards Authority) is a close personal friend of Alastair Campbell. Does it matter? To the Westminster lobby it does - because they missed the story until it was too late. So, it has to be said, did the blogosphere. Alastair Campbell tweeted this morning that he thought he was reading a diary story, until he realised it was the Telegraph's front...
Irfan Ahmed (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Liberal Democrats are still at 20% in the latest Political Betting.com poll , clearly Nick Clegg's party aren't going excellent but for this time of year, OK is the best way to describe the Lib Dem result. Anyway the full results from the poll are: CON 38%(-2) LAB 24%(+1) LD 20%(nc) UKIP 6% (+1) BNP 4% (+1) GRN 3% (nc) SNP/PC 4% (-1) Can I be arsed writing about how the Lib Dems can improve in...
ModernityBlog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The politics of a withdrawal from Afghanistan are firmly on the British political agenda, the recent comments by Gordon Brown’s office indicates that, even Nick Clegg is hedging his bets. Combined with the removal of the United Nation’s western officials, the situation in Afghanistan is looking bleak, despite the urgency of the McChrystal’s request for extra [...]
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
“Gordon Brown has failed to explain to the British people why we are in Afghanistan, and how we are going to succeed,” said Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat Leader. Responding to the Prime Minister’s speech on Afghanistan this morning, Nick Clegg said: “This speech is a woefully belated attempt to win over public support for a war [...]
Wolverhampton Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Responding to the Prime Minister's speech on Afghanistan this morning, Nick Clegg said "This speech is a woefully belated attempt to win over public support for a war that has cost so many lives."
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
So starts Nick Clegg’s comments in the latest Channel 4 Political Slot film from the party, featuring himself and Sarah Teather talking about changing our political system: You may find the opening contains an electoral statistic which sounds rather familiar. I wonder if this post will make it to national TV next…
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