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A little local trouble for Michael Gove

By Mark Pack | Published 5th August 2008 - 3:50 pm

Yesterday Michael Gove made a speech attacking magazines such as Nuts and Zoo:

I believe we need to ask tough questions about the instant-hit hedonism celebrated by the modern men’s magazines targeted at younger males.

Titles such as Nuts and Zoo paint a picture of women as permanently, lasciviously, uncomplicatedly available.

We should ask those who make profits out of reveling in, or encouraging, selfish irresponsibility among young men what they think they’re doing.

There’s plenty to debate in his speech. But it has one rather embarassing problem. Recess Monkey explains:

A look through the Register of Members Interests reveals Michael was elected

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Posted in Opposition watch | 22 Comments

Top of the Blogs: The Dirty Dozen #2

By Jonathan Calder | Published 26th February 2008 - 9:04 am

When I agreed to write this monthly round up of Labour and Tory blogging I said I would aim to “keep a balance between pointing to interesting postings that we Lib Dems may have missed and laughing at the folly of our opponents”.

So here goes.

Posted in Best of the blogs | Also tagged ConservativeHome, iain dale, jonathan calder | 3 Comments

Blair’s picture in the attic

By The Voice | Published 5th February 2008 - 9:23 pm

Tony Blair by Jonathan Yeo Jonathan Yeo’s famous portrait of the former Prime Minister is to be locked away for 10 years… the Recess Monkey blog can tell you why.

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The five blogs nicest to the Lib Dems in 2007

By Mark Pack | Published 4th January 2008 - 2:55 pm

Based on the amount of traffic they’ve passed on to www.libdems.org.uk during 2007, the top five blogs were:

Although LDV and Ming’s site regularly had links through to the party’s site, none of the others did. Iain Dale’s presence at number two isn’t though simply a reflection of his traffic levels: something I’ve noticed on other sites too is that links from Iain Dale often drive far more traffic relative to Iain’s readership than links from other people. Not sure though what it is about readers of that site that …

Posted in Online politics | Also tagged guido fawkes, iain dale, jonathan calder, lynne featherstone, ming campbell | Leave a comment

The five blogs nicest to the Lib Dems

By Mark Pack | Published 4th January 2007 - 8:00 am

Based on the amount of traffic they’ve passed on to www.libdems.org.uk in the second half of 2006, the top five blogs were:

No dog or elephant, but at least there’s a red monkey. Somehow I suspect some of them might quibble with the “nicest to the Lib Dems” accolade :-) – but thanks for the traffic anyway.

Posted in News, Online politics | Also tagged guido fawkes, iain dale | 7 Comments

Is your site in the top five?

By Mark Pack | Published 2nd January 2007 - 7:21 pm

Latter this week, I’ll write up the top five list of local Liberal Democrat sites for referring traffic on to the party’s main site, www.libdems.org.uk, in the second half of 2006 – plus also the top five blogs.

Will Iain Dale beat Guido Fawkes? Will Recess Monkey feature anywhere? Will any Lib Dem blog feature in the top five – and if so, will it be this one or the dog or the elephant or John Hemming?

Tune in again and find out soon…

Posted in News | Also tagged guido fawkes, iain dale, john hemming | Leave a comment

Someone send David Laws a new keyboard

By The Voice | Published 20th November 2006 - 4:34 pm

He’s probably burnt his old one out. According to the Recess Monkey blog:

Lib Dem MP David Laws (Yeovil) has managed to ask 202 PQs today, and 175 PQs were to a single Department – the DWP.

Labour blogger Kerron Cross has more. New researcher in the Laws fold, by any chance?

Posted in News | Also tagged david laws, kerron cross, parliamentary questions | 1 Comment

Labour party tries to shoot the Elephant in the room

By the founding editor | Published 23rd September 2006 - 11:24 am

Picture the scene. It’s Britain, in the year 2006. The Prime Minister of the day announces he will preside over one more major party conference, then step down before the next.

You’d think then, that that the governing party’s conference would be a natural place to discuss his sucession – perhaps even a place for (gasp!) leadership hustings. But no. Labour’s Conference Committee has thrown out more than 140 attempts by Labour constituency parties to discuss issues such as the leadership on the grounds that – get this – the issue is not contemporary.

Delegates are also railing against the Labour Party’s decision not to hold an Annual General Meeting:

“The Labour Party with debts of over £25 million and membership down 10% in 1H 2006 is NOT holding an Annual General Meeting when members can hold the Leadership to account for its stewardship in the past 12 months.” says website LabourConference.Net

In the Liberal Democrats, even our smallest accounting unit – a local party – can be suspended if it fails to hold an Annual General Meeting. In our party, had our leader announced his intention to step down between conferences we would have laid on hustings at our conference (as, for that matter, even the Conservatives managed to do during their most recent leadership change!).

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