Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
There’s no prize at stake – just the opportunity to prove you’re wittier than any other LDV reader … Here’s Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg campaigning in Winchester – what do you think he might be saying/thinking? The winner of the most recent caption competition, Nick Clegg’s desk-job (according to The Voice’s judging panel of one) – [...]
Liberal England (Free subscription) | yesterday
I am posting this from the first class lounge at Euston. I shall fulfill a long-held ambition and catch a sleeper train later this evening, waking up in Edinburgh for the first Lib Dem Bloggers Unconference . Meanwhile, here is this week's House Points column from Liberal Democrat News. The Queen's Speech They’ve gone again. Only four weeks after the end of the summer recess, the Commons had...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
David Miliband says UK needs more time to shore up Afghan government The Afghan government could fall within weeks if Nato pulled out troops now, David Miliband warned today as he urged British opponents of the war to give the fight to rebuild the country more time. In an interview with the Guardian at the end of a visit to Kabul for the presidential inauguration of Hamid Karzai, the foreign secretary...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Congratulations to Cllr Meral Ece (Islington) on her appointment as a commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). Operation Black Vote reports: A race advisor to Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, Ece has her hands full having been handed special responsibility for race, gender and religion on the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). Speaking [...]
Colin Ross News Stories (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
"After today's Queen's Speech we now know that the opportunity to do the right thing has been squandered, yet again, by this Government," said the Leader of the Liberal Democrats.
Wolverhampton Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
"After today's Queen's Speech we now know that the opportunity to do the right thing has been squandered, yet again, by this Government," said the Leader of the Liberal Democrats.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Courses for people with learning disabilities and evening classes for the elderly are being cut and funds redirected to reskill the unemployed Lord Mandelson's department has been accused of slashing spending on courses for people with learning disabilities and evening classes for the elderly, to fund re-training of people in the recession. A new skills budget for 2010/11, published this week without...
Caron's Musings (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I am a naughty Lib Dem blogger, of that there is no doubt. Yesterday I didn't write anything about the Queen's Speech, opting instead to say nice things about the lady herself rather than the tripe written for her by the Government. I only had so much energy left after that and was faced with the choice of writing about the Speech, or Jenson Button's surprise and sensational (and in my view idiotic...
A Brief Encounter (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Gordon Brown: "Last time thank God. The next Queen's Speech will be yours." David Cameron: "Piss off, I was enjoying this." Then from the back come the dulcit tones of Nick Clegg: "Actually girls, I'll be kingmaker in the hung parliament, so it will be my decision."
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Five interesting speeches were given in parliament yesterday. Four of them – those by the Queen herself, David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Charles Clarke – all had something to say about the need for political and constitutional reform in the United Kingdom. Only one of them had nothing to say at all about these subjects. The exception, depressingly, was Gordon Brown. No politician who is...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Labour hope new cash will stop young jobless hitting 1m ahead of election Fear of youth unemployment rising above 1 million in the new year prompted Gordon Brown to use the last Queen's speech of the parliament to promise more money to ease the impact of the recession on the young. Some of the money will come from £2bn the Treasury has saved because the overall rate of unemployment is lower...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Labour is finally inching in the direction it should have taken years ago, but even now Brown can't stop triangulating Queen's speeches always have a slightly comical, Ruritanian feel to them. But yesterday's spectacle of the crowned and bejewelled sovereign, with an annual public income of £8m, solemnly proclaiming her government would legislate to "narrow the gap between rich and poor"...
Cllr Fraser Macpherson (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Dear Fraser Today's Queen's Speech was nothing more than a fantasy speech from a government that has run out of road in a Parliament that has lost people's trust. This Queen's Speech won't give people the help and jobs they need in this recession. It won't solve our economic problems and it won't fix our rotten politics. Instead of pointless pageantry and empty promises of Bills that will never make...
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Earlier this evening I received the following e mail from Nick Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrats in which he comments on today’s Queen’s speech: Dear Les, Today’s Queen’s Speech was nothing more than a fantasy speech from a government that has run out of road in a Parliament that has lost people’s trust. This Queen’s [...]
Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Guido is a bit surprised that not a word was mentioned about the Kelly proposals to clean up and reform parliament. Nick Clegg is right, they should have concentrated on this because most of the legislation proposed is merely an attempt to draw out dividing lines and trap the Tories. The Tories are unlikely to [...]
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