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Clegg’s Today Programme interview: a round-up, a clip, and some comments

By Stephen Tall | Published 6th January 2012 - 8:10 am

Nick Clegg submitted himself to the new year delights of the primetime 8.10am Today Programme interview on Thursday. Here’s a round-up of what he said and the reactions to it…

Nick Clegg has kicked off his new year promising more action to curb executive bonuses, amid continued questions over his leadership. … The deputy prime minister insisted he was responsible for many of the tougher sanctions against high-earners and tax avoiders, saying he had inserted sections on tax avoidance into the coalition agreement.

“Look at this debate about irresponsible capitalism, what I call crony capitalism,” he told BBC Radio 4. “It’s Liberal

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Posted in News | Also tagged birkdale focus, lisa harding, mark pack, nick clegg, paul walter | 2 Comments

Welcome to our new volunteer editors!

By Stephen Tall | Published 20th December 2011 - 7:23 am

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 intellectual.

Building and maintaining a site like this, with fresh news and opinion day-in-day-out, is a labour of love. We are therefore delighted to be able to welcome a clutch of new day editors to afforce the Voice Collective:

All have volunteered to do an occasional turn here at LibDemVoice.org (while continuing their own sites)… so don’t be surprised to see …

Posted in Site news | Also tagged mark valladares, nick thornsby, paul walter, prateek buch | Leave a comment

Lib Dem Bloggers’ Christmas stocking fillers… Part IV

By Stephen Tall | Published 30th November 2011 - 5:55 pm

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 to Amazon for your shopping convenience (and ‘cos the referral fees help support LibDemVoice: so get clicking and ordering). Part I is available here; Part II here; and Part III here. In part three, our fourth trio of bloggers – Jonathan Calder, Caron Lindsay, and Mark Pack – give us the low-down on their Xmas faves…

Jonathan Calder

It is impossible to dislike

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Posted in News | Also tagged christmas, jonathan calder, mark pack | Leave a comment

Tim Farron: good speech, but wrong message

By Mark Pack | Published 27th October 2011 - 8:54 am

Sometimes the toughest speaking gigs for MPs is when they are talking to a friendly audience – but something interesting is happening behind them. So it was a few months ago with Julian Huppert talking to Putney Liberal Democrats. Very thoughtful speech, well received by the members and supporters present – but Julian had to struggle to avoid being upstaged by the cute, preening, attention-seeking cat paddling back and forth behind him.

When Tim Farron came to speak to Haringey Liberal Democrats last night, there was no cat to distract – but instead the minor drama of the stalwart member who …

Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged danny alexander, featured, jonathan calder, julian huppert, nick clegg, tim farron | 21 Comments

Total Politics: top blogs and bloggers

By Mark Pack | Published 21st September 2011 - 6:50 pm

Following its list of top Liberal Democrat blogs and bloggers, Total Politics has now also published its overall list of top blogs and bloggers – two lists in which many Liberal Democrats feature.

In the top 50 of the blogs list, Lib Dem Voice is in at number 12 (up from 27 last year), Caron Lindsay at 25, Jonathan Calder at 38 and Andrew Reeves at 44.

In the top 50 of the bloggers list, I’m in at number 20, Caron Lindsay at 29, Andrew Reeves at 43 and Jonathan Calder at 49.

Thank you to everyone for your votes …

Posted in News, Online politics | Also tagged andrew reeves, blogging, jonathan calder, total politics | Leave a comment

Meet the Lib Dem bloggers: Andrew Reeves

By Mark Pack | Published 9th May 2011 - 10:25 am

Welcome to the latest in our series giving the human face behind some of the blogs you can find on the Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator.

Today it is Andrew Reeves, who blogs at http://andrewrunning.blogspot.com.

1. What’s your formative political memory?
In 1984 Ken Clarke gave me an award at a thank you party for delivering leaflets for him. In front of the 200+ people there he also asked me if I wanted to join the party – and in front of them all I said no! I was pleased he’d won but said that the more I had got to know …

Posted in Online politics | Also tagged andrew reeves, blogging, jeff breslin, ken clarke, lib dem bloggers, lynne featherstone, mark pack, olly grender, paul waugh, sara bedford | 2 Comments

That’s all folks

By Caron Lindsay | Published 7th April 2011 - 9:05 pm

And so we reach the end of my day at Lib Dem Voice Towers. If you’ve come away impressed at the good things that Liberal Democrats are doing and planning around the country, if you’re feeling enthused and want to do more to help your local campaign, if you’ve enjoyed reading the varied selection of articles we’ve done today, then this day has done what I wanted it to do.

The polls are not great. The media are giving us a bit of a kicking but we can’t let that become a self fulfilling prophecy. We need to be out there …

Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged guest editor | Leave a comment

Opinion: Why Elizabeth Evans is the best choice for Ceredigion

By Mark Cole | Published 7th April 2011 - 8:23 pm

Campaigning in Ceredigion is rather unique. The big beasts of 20^th century British politics, the Conservative and Labour parties, hold no sway here. It’s a battle instead between liberals and nationalists and the Welsh Liberal Democrat candidate Elizabeth Evans is proving to be a formidable opponent to Plaid’s Elin Jones.

The ‘poster’ war, which is always a central feature to this unique constituency’s electoral battleground, was in full swing early on. Over the years, it’s always been opportune to show that momentum is on your side by getting those road-side …

Posted in Op-eds, Wales | Also tagged elizabeth evans, guest editor | 4 Comments

Opinion: An American Student in an Edinburgh Election – inside Alex Cole-Hamilton’s campaign

By Jillian Gorelick | Published 7th April 2011 - 7:25 pm

It is fairly common in American Universities for 3^rd year students to go abroad for a semester. Although I had many options, I eventually decided to come to Edinburgh, Scotland to intern with the Scottish Parliament. The way my program is structured is that there was class for five weeks, an internship in parliament for 4, then once parliament dissolved we began working on a campaign up until polling day. So that’s how, on March 22^nd I came to be working with Alex Cole-Hamilton, the Liberal Democrat candidate for Edinburgh Central. When I first met Alex I was sitting in …

Posted in News, Op-eds, Scotland | Also tagged Alex Cole-Hamilton, Edinburgh Central, guest editor | Leave a comment

Interview: Alistair Carmichael Part 2 – The Life of a Whip

By Caron Lindsay | Published 7th April 2011 - 6:55 pm

Welcome to the second part of my interview with Liberal Democrat Chief Whip and Orkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael.

Most of us who are interested in politics have either read House of Cards or watched it on DVD and think we know how a Chief Whip operates from watching the dastardly Francis Urquhart at work. I said to Alistair that I really didn’t think pushing people off buildings or lacing their heroin with rat poison was quite his style – so what was a typical day in the life of a Chief Whip like?

Caron, that’s one of the nicest things …

Posted in Blogger Interviews | Also tagged alistair carmichael, guest editor | 1 Comment

Opinion: The Campaign for Reading

By Daisy Benson | Published 7th April 2011 - 5:55 pm

In Reading, with council elections taking place most years we are used to campaigning all year round.

But this year is different.

For the first time we are defending our record in power at local (and national) level.

We are no longer in our comfort zone but it is exciting to be able to deliver for residents on the really key issues such as housing and social mobility where Labour failed.

And as Andrew Stunell MP, Minister for Local Government observed when he came to visit us last week it is a record of …

Posted in Local government, News, Op-eds | Also tagged guest editor | 4 Comments

Jeremy Purvis: Creating an ambitious, compassionate and fair Scotland

By Caron Lindsay | Published 7th April 2011 - 4:29 pm

I caught up with Scottish Liberal Democrat Finance Spokesman Jeremy Purvis at the manifesto launch on Tuesday and asked him what a Liberal Democrat Scotland looked like.

Posted as part of Caron Lindsay’s Elections, Referendums and Lib Dem Achievements Guest Editor day

Posted in News, Scotland | Also tagged guest editor, jeremy purvis | 9 Comments

Opinion: The First Time Candidate’s View

By Callum Leslie | Published 7th April 2011 - 3:26 pm

Being a first time candidate is a daunting experience, but a hugely rewarding and humbling one.

I was one of the youngest people to ever go through the candidate approval process, at just 17. Many people were surprised that I bothered, given I couldn’t stand for election yet anywhere, but in all honesty, I wanted to get it done and out of the way, so that when opportunities (such as the one I’m about to describe) occurred, I would be able to take full advantage. My advice to others is don’t wait for that ideal seat to come up before you …

Posted in News, Op-eds, Scotland | Also tagged callum leslie, guest editor | 5 Comments

Opinion: Civil Partnerships, a thoroughly modern union

By Sophie Bridger | Published 7th April 2011 - 2:25 pm

Sophie Bridger is the President Elect of Liberal Youth Scotland. LYS brought a motion on Equal Marriage to Scottish Liberal Democrat Conference in 2010. It was passed and our manifesto launched on Tuesday has a commitment to open up marriage to same sex couples and civil partnerships to heterosexual couples. Sophie looks at the future for civil partnerships.

When the subject of gay marriage is approached, you’re hard pushed to find a Liberal who disagrees. The right to marriage, complete with religious ceremony, should be available to all. But when it comes to civil partnerships, I often find people are slightly …

Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged guest editor | 10 Comments

Opinion: How the Liberal Democrats transformed Hull City Council

By Cllr Abi Bell | Published 7th April 2011 - 12:57 pm

Cllr Abi Bell is Deputy Leader of Hull City Council. She writes about how the Council has gone from the worst in the country to the best under Liberal Democrat administration.

Another year and another election in Hull. It seems like only yesterday we were fighting the General Election. Last year we missed out on winning the Hull North constituency from Labour by just 600 votes – securing the 4th best swing from Labour to the Lib Dems in the country and turning what was once an unassailable Labour stronghold into one of the country’s most marginal constituencies.

I think it’s fair

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Posted in Local government, Op-eds | Also tagged guest editor | 4 Comments

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