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Aberavon & Neath Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Dear Friends We have just completed the election count for the next President of the Liberal Democrats and the result was: Ros Scott 20,736 votes (72%) Lembit Opik 6,247 votes (22%) Chandila Fernando 1,799 votes (6%) Turnout: 47.8% (+0.4% on last time) Ros Scott will take up office on 1st January, succeeding Simon Hughes. I look forward to working closely with Ros in the busy period ahead, which will...
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Little's Log (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
I blogged a few days ago that the stupidest thing about robo-calls is that they irritate people. The LibDems - like other parties before them - won't have won a single vote this way. Now this has happeneds and the Information Commission has pretty much humiliated Nick Clegg, Lord Rennard and all those LibDems who said this wasn't a problem. After the collapse of their conference bounce, this is ther...
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Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
The BBC story is pretty self-explanatory, with a detailed explanation from Chris Rennard about what the party has been doing: Lord Rennard argued it was “quite different” to what the SNP and Labour had done previously. “In the same way as perhaps MORI or ICM or organisations such as that might ring people and ask them which [...]
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Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Positive coverage from PinkNews for a fringe held the other night, with amongst others, party CX Lord Rennard, Baroness Ludford and Lynne Featherstone MP (who incidentally, has been blogging her speeches at conference.) But it is heartening to hear that the gay rights are not just relegated to the fringe - but front and centre in [...]
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Jonathan Wallace (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
It's the highlight of the Lib Dem social calendar - the Lord Rennard staff bbq. And we are here now supping on a significant quantity of Cava (with me eyeing up the empty bottles - oooh just think of the champagne I could make with this bottles!) Nick Clegg has just arrive and that's enough Lib Dem name dropping for today. Anyway, the food is now ready. Let me at it.---Sent via BlackBerry
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Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
Catchup has been away from our screens following a writers strike. In the three weeks since you last heard from me, here’s what’s been happening. There’s been a by-election. The best place to catch up are a series of post-mortem posts, including what party chief exec Lord Rennard emailed to members, and LDV staffer [...]
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Chris Whiteside's Blog (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
From the inquest/debate on "Lib/Dem voice“ into the disappointing result (from a Liberal perspective) of the Henley by-election. Lord Rennard, formerly the party's by-election strategist and now Chief Exec, wrote about their Henley candidate, who had been fighting (and losing) local elections in Plymouth a short while before being selected to fight Henley. The following must take a prize for one of...
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Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
Two stories on LibDem Voice on the aftermath of Henley are worth linking to from Stephen Tall and then a somewhat defensive Lord Rennard . Draw your own conclusions, but it seems to me that more than a few knives are being sharpened...
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Chris Paul: Labour of Love (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
GuF probably knows that creepy Chris Rennard - who has most certainly lost his Midas touch - meant vote share, not number of votes . Buy hey ho, that's Guido for you. Labour got the sort of total more suitable for defeat at Hastings than at Henley. LoL site feed
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Neil Reddin ... No G (Free subscription) | 22/06/2008
After some gruelling campaigning in sleepy south Oxfordshire villages and countryside, punctuated by painfully agreeable pub lunches, I have come to the reasoned conclusion that the once great LibDem campaign machine has run out of ideas. Surprise is often the key element in any form of contest, but the Lib’s efforts in Henley have [...]
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PoliticalHackUK (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
Oh dear. We had an ill-founded case staged by the Liberal Democrats in Birmingham over allegations that a Labour candidate lied about his opponent on electoral material. Now it seems that the Liberal Democrats themselves are in trouble over a glossy leaflet masquerading as a local magazine for the county set. The Conservatives are threatening two separate legal actions against the Lib Dems over the...
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Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
Responding to Conservative complaints about Liberal Democrat literature in the Henley by-election, Liberal Democrat Chief Executive , Lord Rennard said: “The Conservatives seem to be running scared in what used to be a very safe Conservative seat. It is strange that the Conservative Party is arguing about the design of campaign literature – rather than the political arguments contained within it....
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Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
The Conservative candidate in the Henley by-election is trying to evade questions about his links to property developers, according to the Liberal Democrats. On Monday, Liberal Democrat Chief Executive, Lord Rennard wrote to Mr Howell giving him the opportunity to put forward his answers to a series of questions. Mr Howell has refused to give a substantive response to these questions. Lord Rennard...
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Quaequam Blog! (Free subscription) | 29/05/2008
The Tories seem to be having problems deciding on who should replace Boris Johnson as their candidate in Henley. Meanwhile I got an email this morning from Lord Rennard about why I should go and help the Lib Dem campaign there: When Paddy publishes his memoirs, he will pay great tribute to a particular group [...]
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Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
Reports in the Daily Telegraph that Labour are drafting in your favourite Labour MP blogger and mine*, Tom Watson, to manage their campaign in the Henley by-election are surely wide of the mark. Three Line Whip reckons the West Bromwich bruiser will match Eric Pickles and Lord Rennard in a contest of the heavyweights. I'm not so sure. It's a lost cause for Labour and after all, Tom Watson is now a...
