A special Commons committee chaired by Sir Ming Campbell is currently inquiring into the arrest of Damian Green MP last year, and search of his Parliamentary offices; and last Monday they heard evidence from the former Speaker, now Lord Martin. You can watch the full session here, and if you're interested in this affair, you should. This evidence is the final proof that Martin was unfit for his office.A...
A special Commons committee chaired by Sir Ming Campbell is currently inquiring into the arrest of Damian Green MP last year, and search of his Parliamentary offices; and on Monday they heard evidence from the former Speaker, now Lord Martin. You can watch the full session here, and if you’re interested in this affair, you [...]
He has already been signed to succeed Jonathan Ross. That will save the corporation (or rather the licence fee payer) £18 million, for Nick Griffin comes at a bargain price (free) and his views are not quite so offensive. And, as far as Cranmer knows, Mr Griffin has never verbally assaulted a pensioner or made obscene phone calls. But he has managed to boost the Question Time audience to record...
Ahead of tonight’s BBC1 Question Time – featuring the BNP leader Nick Griffin – The Guardian reports his verdicts on his fellow panellists. Here’s what he said about Chris Huhne, the L:ib Dems’ shadow home secretary: Big hitter. Menzies Campbell would have been more daunting.” And here’s what he said about the other panellists: Bonnie Greer, American [...]
A parish notice on behalf of the LDV team … I am delighted to announce that Mark Pack is joining me as Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, effective immediately. Mark was a founding member of LDV, alongside Rob Fenwick, back in August 2006. His first post was entitled, Ming Campbell movie online. Ah, those were the [...]
Sir Menzies Campbell MP has today added his support to a parliamentary motion calling on the Government to reverse its decision to freeze funding for the Territorial Army. It emerged last week that Territorial Army units will be forced to stop training as a result of cuts to this years Army budget. Commenting, Sir Menzies said: “Pressure must be [...]
“Like every MP I have received a letter from Sir Thomas Legg setting out his provisional conclusions. “I will be writing to Sir Thomas to seek further clarification about the terms of his letter. If the final recommendation is that any sum requires to be repaid I will do so.”
It seems that Madonna isn’t the only one who is taking an interest in attractive young men. The voters seem to be following suit as well with all of the political headlines being made by younger men. Perhaps the most obvious example of this is brutal way that the Lib-Dems ditched Menzies Campbell last year, but [...]
Lucy Mangan wrote in the Guardian yesterday: The leader of the Liberal Democrats had a tough conference, what with all the back-biting and curious decision to turn on Vince Cable, the only known member of the party outside – well, the party. The real problem for Little Nicky, of course, is that he ain't got no schtick. Paddy Ashdown had "killing people for Britain, back in the day"....
My examination of Nick Clegg's The Liberal Moment (which has not so far got past chapter 1 ) must be put on hold. For it is time to examine his leader's speech at Bournemouth . Nick was young and good looking and acting kind of tough, but the content left me underwhelmed. On Afghanistan: "We should either do this properly or we shouldn’t do it at all." Well, which do we want? Presumably...
We were taping ippr’s fringe with our own Editor at Large Stephen Tall along with some relative political unknowns – Shirley Williams, Menzies Campbell and Charles Clarke. The ippr did say they were recording the event themselves, and their recording is probably better than ours, but I can’t immediately find it on their website.
After five days in Bournemouth, what have we actually learned about the Liberal Democrats? Nick Clegg's just finished his speech and I'm about to go home. But first it's time to address the big question: after five days at Bournemouth, what have we actually learnt about the Liberal Democrats? Here are 10 answers. 1. When Nick Clegg talked about replacing Labour as the main progressive party, he meant...
Lib Dem leader will be giving keynote address to party conference today So today is Nick Clegg's big day, his keynote speech to the Liberal Democrat autumn conference in Bournemouth. It hardly seems a year since his inaugural speech as party leader at the very same venue. Remember that? (Word of warning: the clip is 38 minutes long – if anyone can find a link to a short, salient clip please...
With the end of the Liberal Democrat conference firmly and thankfully upon us, it's time to revisit one of my favourite spoof posts from which the following is taken: The Liberal Democrat conference has stunned political observers with a brutally honest assessment of their own electoral chances that left them voting to 'go home and not bother any more.' Britain's third party has traditionally had a...
Senior party sources suggest some Labour MPs may defect to Liberals following election defeat The Liberal Democrats will be compelled to work with elements of the Labour party should the Tories win the next general election, the party's former leader Sir Menzies Campbell said today. Speaking at a fringe event held by the IPPR thinktank, Campbell said: "If armageddon happened and we were faced...
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