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Vince on dangers of immigration debate and encouraging women in business – he doesn’t seem to be in the mood for resignation

By Caron Lindsay | Wed 29th May 2013 - 9:17 pm

I thought it was supposed to be holiday season for MPs. Not for our Vince, it seems. He’s been everywhere the last couple of days. Today, the BBC reports, he has been making the point that all the hot air on immigration is going to stop the very people we need to boost our economy will be put off from coming here:

But he warned that the globalised world of university recruitment was in danger of being undermined in the UK by anxieties over immigration.

He said that the “politics of identity” which worried about immigration and the economic need for

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Posted in News | Also tagged bbc, immigration, new statesman, spending review, vince cable and women in business | 19 Comments

LibLink…Lynne Featherstone: Bringing a worldwide end to violence against women and girls

By Caron Lindsay | Wed 6th March 2013 - 9:55 am

Over at the Huffington Post, Liberal Democrat International Development Minister Lynne Featherstone writes about her trip to New York for the UN Commission on the Status of Women which is this year focusing on violence against women and girls.

First she talks about what the UK Government is doing to tackle this problem which affects 1 in 3 women worldwide:

The Coalition Government has provided nearly £40 million of ring-fenced funding for specialist domestic and sexual violence services, and national helplines.

We’ve invested in changing attitudes and behaviours. You may have seen the UK television adverts we’ve launched to tackle rape and relationship

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Posted in LibLink | Also tagged lynne featherstone and violence against women and girls | 14 Comments

LibLink – Lynne Featherstone MP: Moving towards a world free from Female Genital Cutting

By Caron Lindsay | Wed 6th February 2013 - 12:16 pm

Today is the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation. Tonight, Home Office Minister Jeremy Browne will be giving a speech tonight (which we will bring you later) and Lynne Featherstone has written an article for the Huffington Post.

She will be taking part in an online discussion here at 12:45pm today.

First she outlined exactly why FGC is a problem.

FGC is a cultural practice involving the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia. In its most extreme form the external genitalia are cut out and the girl’s vagina sewn up, to be cut open on her

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Posted in LibLink | Also tagged female genital cutting and lynne featherstone | 10 Comments

Nick Clegg gets sassy at DPMQs

By Caron Lindsay | Wed 17th October 2012 - 3:51 pm

Yesterday saw the monthly “Pick on Nick Clegg” day at Westminster. Deputy Prime Minister’s Questions is not known for its searching scrutiny of Government. Instead, Labour and Tories line up to take cheap shots at Nick. The experience he gains there is probably why he’s so good at town hall meetings and question and answer sessions at Conference.

DPMQs usually passes by unnoticed by the press. Yesterday, however, was different. Nick had a “Stalin

Posted in News | Also tagged donald mcintyre, DPMQs, featured, ned simons, nick clegg, simon hoggart, the guardian and the independent | 4 Comments

Local pay for the public sector: a row the Lib Dems and the Coalition will want to dodge?

By Stephen Tall | Sun 10th June 2012 - 10:15 am

The Huffington Post published an excellent dissection of the twists and turns the debate on local pay for public sector workers (sometimes called regional pay) is taking within the Lib Dems:

Letters written by the Lib Dem Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander the number two minister at the Treasury appeared wildly enthusiastic about civil servants being paid different amounts depending on where they work as recently as the start of this year.

But subsequent letters show Alexander softening his stance, suggesting he’s come under pressure from fellow Lib Dems over the proposals, confirmed by George Osborne in the

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Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged Danny Alexander, featured, local pay, nick clegg and regional pay | 30 Comments

Tim Farron talks to the Huffington Post about getting out of the Coalition

By The Voice | Wed 23rd May 2012 - 2:27 pm

Party President Tim Farron has been talking to the Huffington Post about everything from the local election results, the presentation errors in the Budget, his leadership ambitions, potential coalition deal breakers and exit strategies.

He is adamant that Lords Reform will be delivered within this Parliament:

“The coalition agreement is not something that you can pick and choose from,” he says. “If people believe that Lords reform is something that can be dispensed with, for instance, or that it’s tolerable for the Tory whips to not deliver a majority or a diluted Bill, it does bring into a question of trust, and

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Posted in News | Also tagged interviews and tim farron | 10 Comments

LibLink: Are the Lib Dems Giving Up More Than the Tories in Government?

By Mary Reid | Tue 21st February 2012 - 8:03 pm

Louise Phillips, a former Lib Dem staffer, asks this question in the UK version of The Huffington Post.

There have been a lot of sacrifices from the Liberal Democrats in the past two years. Tuition fees (obviously); mansion tax; free schools. But, and this is the argument I make in the pub whenever someone finds out I used to work for the party, the Tories are giving up more. They have sacrificed long held beliefs on taxation to allow the Lib Dems to raise the tax threshold to £10,000, putting money back into the pocket of most working people in the

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Posted in LibLink | Also tagged liberal democrats | 51 Comments

LibLink: Mark Pack – What you see isn’t what you get with online politics

By Nick Thornsby | Tue 19th July 2011 - 3:25 pm

Over on Huffington Post, Mark Pack has a piece looking at the way US Republican presidential hopefuls are using technology in their campaigns, and at the difficulties of judging online activities from the ‘outside’, given the often hidden nature of much of it.

Here’s an excerpt:

The old days of ‘count the features and say those with the most are the best’ are, thankfully, long gone when it comes to political Internet campaigning. As is common with many technological areas as they mature, after the initial proliferation of features and services, the real success and progress comes with technology that is hidden

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Posted in LibLink and Online politics | Also tagged Mark Pack | Leave a comment

LibLink Nick Clegg: Regulating media, empowering citizens

By Helen Duffett | Tue 12th July 2011 - 4:37 pm

Nick Clegg has a piece in Huffington Post UK today, on media regulation, responsible reporting and replacing the Press Complaints Commission.

He calls new news outlets, such as the newly-launched UK version news and comment website Huffington Post, “a welcome breath of fresh air” at a time when public confidence in the media establishment is being rocked by phone-hacking allegations.

Here’s an excerpt:

The hacking scandal throws up an array of insights. But one in particular stands out to liberals: information is power. It always has been. When elites deploy secretive and opaque practices, it is nearly always to protect their own

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Posted in LibLink | Also tagged arab spring, nick clegg, Phone hacking, press complaints commission and twitter | 7 Comments

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Vince on dangers of immigration debate and encouraging women in business – he doesn’t seem to be in the mood for resignation

LibLink…Lynne Featherstone: Bringing a worldwide end to violence against women and girls

LibLink – Lynne Featherstone MP: Moving towards a world free from Female Genital Cutting

Nick Clegg gets sassy at DPMQs

Local pay for the public sector: a row the Lib Dems and the Coalition will want to dodge?

Tim Farron talks to the Huffington Post about getting out of the Coalition

LibLink: Are the Lib Dems Giving Up More Than the Tories in Government?

LibLink: Mark Pack – What you see isn’t what you get with online politics

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