Caron's Musings (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Liberal Democrats have launched a new social network today called Lib Dem ACT. Its lovely jade and yellow colour scheme looks very fetching. You don't have to be a party member to join, so why not come along and see what it's like. For some the attraction will be undoubtedly that, at the time of writing at least, it has no farms, cafes, fish tanks, mafia wars or vampires in sight. There are some...
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Liberal Democrats have launched their second new website this month. This time it is a social network site called Act which can be found at http://act.libdems.org.uk/ http://act.libdems.org.uk/ Act is a new way for people who identify with the Liberal Democrats and engage with party actions to get directly involved in campaigns. By harnessing a more focused [...]
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here is my chapter from the Total Politics Guide to the 2010 General Election, looking at the prospects for the Liberal Democrats: The 1997 general election turned out to be a once in a generation opportunity for many local Liberal Democrat campaign teams to gain a Parliamentary seat from the Conservatives. At the tail end of [...]
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | yesterday
Welcome news from the blog of Lynne Featherstone (who, apart from being a LibDem MP, is also chair of the party’s Technology Advisory Board): We need postcodes to be owned by the public – not sold to the public. Postcodes are the basic pre-requisite for allowing services to be developed that support democratic accountability. It’s an important [...]
Colin Ross News Stories (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Liberal Democrats have launched their second new website this month. This time it is a social network site called Act at http://act.libdems.org.uk/
Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Liberal Democrats have launched their second new website this month. This time it is a social network site called Act.
ffranc sais (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The local party web site has published a rebuttal of newspaper spin that Nick Clegg is contemplating coalition with the Conservatives after the election, and Peter Black has already commented. It seems to me that the current party leadership is inviting this sort of speculation by not being positive enough. When Paddy Ashdown led the 1997 general election campaign, he refused to allow the party to...
Wolverhampton Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Liberal Democrats have launched their second new website this month. This time it is a social network site called Act at http://act.libdems.org.uk/
Alter Ego (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
‘Today Paddy Ashdown will be welcoming former Social Democrat David Owen to the Liberal Democrats,’ read the press release. Myself and the local PPC decided that, in this desperate time for the party, we should try something creative to get the media interested in our campaign. It was, of course the real Paddy Ashdown, but the [...]
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
LABOUR'S decision to join with the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats in opposing the SNP government's plan to introduce a minimum price for alcohol sales is welc
The Plank (Free subscription) | yesterday
There has been a lot of talk lately about whether Obama is or is not losing support among independents. Charles Franklin, writing at Pollster.Com , insists there is no evidence of defection among independents or Democrats. “There is no evidence that any group of Democrats, especially liberal Democrats, are unhappy with Obama,” Franklin writes. But the most recent Gallup Poll shows significant...
Peter Black AM (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Daily Mirror may well have a political axe to grind but their story today about proposals by the Tories to raise the inheritance tax threshold to £2million still makes a valid point. They point out that that 18 millionaire members of the shadow cabinet will save up to £520,000 each under this flagship policy. Amongst those benefiting will be shadow chancellor George Osborne, shadow...
Caron's Musings (Free subscription) | yesterday
Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs shadow minister Jo Swinson commented on Twitter this morning that she was a "bit miffed at being dropped from #bbcqt panel at 48hrs notice: Iraq inquiry this week and no Lib Dem on panel!" I may be wrong, but I have a vague recollection that this might not be the first time this has happened to her, either. What is reprehensible on the part of the BBC is that...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
• Conservatives receive £5,269,186 in third quarter of 2009 • Labour given £3,045,377 • Liberal Democrats get £816,663 Donations to the Conservative party are continuing to outstrip those to Labour ahead of the next general election, according to the latest update from the Electoral Commission today. The Tories received £5,269,186 in the third quarter of 2009...
Bromsgrove Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dear George, I'd like to introduce Act , the latest part of our online strategy. Act is a place where Lib Dem supporters can connect with one another, organise events and campaigns, share photos and videos, and talk about politics. It's open to anyone with Liberal Democrat sympathies, whether they're Party members or not. Together with the new libdems.org.uk website launched November 2nd and a Members'...
Videos