Daily View: 14 December 2009
Mornin’ all, welcome to Monday, and to the beginning of the last full working week before Christmas. What other things happened on this day in history, you ask? Well, 54 years ago, Hugh Gaitskell was...
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Lib Dem Bloggers’ Christmas stocking fillers… Part I
What presents are you looking forward to giving or receiving this year? That’s the question LDV posed to a group of Lib Dem bloggers. All this week we’re revealing what they told us, with link-throughs...
View ArticleWelcome to our new volunteer editors!
Liberal Democrat Voice has always aimed to be ‘Our place to talk’, a site primarily for Lib Dem members to discuss and debate. We welcome readers’ contributions, whether financial (hem-hem) or...
View ArticleOn the Nick Clegg leadership debate and David Laws’ return to government
The rumblings about Nick Clegg’s leadership of the Lib Dems — today my LibDemVoice colleague Paul Walter has written to make clear his own dyspeptic unhappiness, citing three triggers in the past week...
View ArticleYes, Nick Clegg’s son’s schooling is our business
My Lib Dem Voice colleague Nick Thornsby has penned an interesting piece robustly arguing that it’s none of the public’s business if Nick Clegg and Miriam Gonzalez Durantez choose to send their eldest...
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Ed Balls shifts Labour’s position closer to the Lib Dems: is this the start...
Ed Balls’ speech to Thomson Reuters yesterday grabbed headlines for its concession that paying a winter fuel allowance to the wealthiest 5% of pensioners could no longer be justified. The likely saving...
View ArticleEconomy motion carried: Nick Clegg wins overwhelming backing from Lib Dem...
Lib Dem conference has spoken — and it has overwhelmingly backed Nick Clegg. Before the debate I had a hunch the result would be somewhat different. Though Nick had shrugged off a reported split with...
View ArticleLast Thursday, “there was a larger Lib Dem vote movement to Conservatives...
I noted on Friday morning, in the immediate aftermath of the Lib Dem electoral bloodbath, that the Lib Dem post mortem would prove to be “more complicated” than we expected because “we didn’t just lose...
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