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LDV debate: The Lib Dem leadership

By The Voice | Fri 7th September 2012 - 10:54 am

On September 2nd, Liberal Democrat Voice co-editor, Stephen Tall, strongly supported Nick Clegg’s leadership of the Liberal Democrats, in his piece, Nick Clegg’s leadership: 3 thoughts from me.

Giving one other side of the debate, Monday editor of LDV, Paul Walter, here explains why he cannot support Nick Clegg as leader any more. Below Paul’s piece, fellow day editor, Nick Thornsby responds.

Against – by Paul Walter

This week I have had a peculiarly “beard and sandals” type of personal crisis.

I heard that Jeremy Hunt had been promoted to run one of the largest and most cherished government departments – Health. This …

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How you can help Liberal Democrat Voice

By The Voice | Sun 2nd September 2012 - 7:50 pm

The Voice is only a success because of the interest and support from our readers. For many people just lurking and reading the site is all they want to do – and that’s fine, we’re grateful for people taking the time to read the site.

You can though help us continue to produce interesting content for a growing audience. Here are four simple ways:

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The LDV Friday Five: 31 August 2012

By The Voice | Fri 31st August 2012 - 5:00 pm

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

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From today’s Lib Dem News

By The Voice | Fri 31st August 2012 - 1:00 pm

By Howard of Lib Dem News

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RIP Donald Gorrie

By The Voice | Sun 26th August 2012 - 11:59 am

The BBC reports the sad news of the death of former MP, MSP and stalwart Scottish Liberal Democrat Donald Gorrie:

Former Liberal Democrat MP and MSP Donald Gorrie has died aged 79. Mr Gorrie represented central Scotland in the Scottish parliament from 1999 to 2007, and represented Edinburgh West as an MP before devolution. …

His former parliamentary assistant, Hugh O’Donnell, who succeeded him in parliament said: “Donald Gorrie was my mentor, my friend and my guide. “He will be sadly missed by those who respect a politician and a man of independent character and principle”.

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie

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LDV Caption Competition: Jeremy Browne “Wiff Waff’s Coming Home” Edition

By The Voice | Sat 25th August 2012 - 4:45 pm

There’s no prize at stake – just the opportunity to prove you’re wittier than any other LDV reader…

Here’s Lib Dem foreign minister Jeremy Browne enjoying a good old game of ping-pong (aka wiff waff, if you’re Boris Johnson). What do you think might be being said or thought here?

And the winner of our last caption comp is…

Some fantastic entries for our most recent caption competition, Nick Clegg & Tinchy Stryder “Cool Guy” Edition.

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The LDV Friday Five: 24 August 2012

By The Voice | Fri 24th August 2012 - 5:00 pm

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

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From today’s Lib Dem News

By The Voice | Fri 24th August 2012 - 1:00 pm

By Howard of Lib Dem News

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #287

By The Voice | Sun 19th August 2012 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 287th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (12-18 August, 2012), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

Don’t forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging.

As ever, let’s start with the most popular post, and work our way down:

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The LDV Friday Five: 17 August 2012

By The Voice | Fri 17th August 2012 - 5:00 pm

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #286

By The Voice | Sun 12th August 2012 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 286th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (5-11 August, 2012), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

Don’t forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging.

As ever, let’s start with the most popular post, and work our way down:

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LDV Caption Competition: Nick Clegg & Tinchy Stryder “Cool Guy” Edition

By The Voice | Sat 11th August 2012 - 4:45 pm

There’s no prize at stake – just the opportunity to prove you’re wittier than any other LDV reader…

Here’s Lib Dem leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg meeting rapper Tinchy Stryder and music producer and rapper Dirty Dangerous, who tweeted this picture on Thursday:

What do you think might be being said or thought here?

And the winner of our last caption comp is…

Some fantastic entries for our most recent caption competition, Lynne Featherstone “Reach for the Stars” Edition.

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The LDV Friday Five: 10 August 2012

By The Voice | Fri 10th August 2012 - 5:00 pm

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

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How to get the most out of your Lib Dem Voice comments

By The Voice | Thu 9th August 2012 - 5:10 pm

How to get a photo to appear next to your comments

You may have noticed that next to some people’s comments is a small picture of themselves, such as:


If you want a picture to appear next to your comments you need to do two things.

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How you can help Liberal Democrat Voice

By The Voice | Wed 8th August 2012 - 10:25 am

The Voice is only a success because of the interest and support from our readers. For many people just lurking and reading the site is all they want to do – and that’s fine, we’re grateful for people taking the time to read the site.

You can though help us continue to produce interesting content for a growing audience. Here are four simple ways:

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #285

By The Voice | Sun 5th August 2012 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 285th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (29 July – 4 August, 2012), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

Don’t forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging.

As ever, let’s start with the most popular post, and work our way down:

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LDV Caption Competition: Lynne Featherstone “Reach for the Stars” Edition

By The Voice | Sat 4th August 2012 - 5:15 pm

There’s no prize at stake – just the opportunity to prove you’re wittier than any other LDV reader…


(Picture from lynnefeatherstone’s Flickr photostream.)

Here’s Lib Dem MP and Equalities minister Lynne Featherstone out and about in her London constituency. What do you think might be said here?

And the winner of our last caption comp is…

Some fantastic entries for our most recent caption competition, Lumley & Clegg “Ab Fab” Edition.

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From today’s Lib Dem News

By The Voice | Fri 3rd August 2012 - 1:38 pm

By Howard of Lib Dem News

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Lib Dems push for ‘blind marking’ to level the playing field for ethnic communities

By The Voice | Tue 31st July 2012 - 3:10 pm

The Observer this weekend reported on the Lib Dems’ latest attempts to push for more equal treatment of citizens from different ethnic backgrounds:

Ministers are seeking to introduce “blind marking” of pupils’ schoolwork by teachers as part of a push to tackle a history of underachievement among black and ethnic minority groups, while banks will be required to carry out ethnic monitoring of people to whom they lend money. Under the proposals, the identities of pupils would not be a factor when teachers mark work, and banks could be held accountable for the racial profile of their customers. The controversial

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #284

By The Voice | Sun 29th July 2012 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 284th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (22-28 July, 2012), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

Don’t forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging.

As ever, let’s start with the most popular post, and work our way down:

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The LDV Friday Five: 27 July 2012

By The Voice | Fri 27th July 2012 - 5:00 pm

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

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From today’s Lib Dem News

By The Voice | Fri 27th July 2012 - 1:24 pm

By Howard of Lib Dem News

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Simon Hughes: Keeping the green agenda on track

By The Voice | Thu 26th July 2012 - 8:15 am

An email from Simon Hughes to party members and supporters yesterday read…

As the Guardian reports today, the Liberal Democrats have stopped George Osborne giving in to his backbenchers and kept the Coalition’s green agenda on track.

Liberal Democrats are determined to make the Coalition Government the greenest ever and prove that going green can be good for business and jobs.

Today’s announcement of subsidy levels for renewable energies gives investors the long term stability they need and should see £20-25bn invested by 2017.

It will help create new green jobs and keep us on track to meet our ambitious climate change targets.

Liberal Democrats …

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #283

By The Voice | Sun 22nd July 2012 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 283rd weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (15-21 July, 2012), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

Don’t forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging.

As ever, let’s start with the most popular post, and work our way down:

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Tory donor pays £2m to taxman after judge rules against Guernsey trust

By The Voice | Sun 22nd July 2012 - 11:35 am

The Mail on Sunday reports:

One of the Tory party’s biggest donors has been ordered to pay back millions of pounds in tax after a judge ruled against an offshore scheme he had used to slash his bills.

The judge said a Guernsey-based trust set up by hedge fund boss George Robinson, one of the City’s highest-paid financiers, was ‘cosmetic’ and told him and three colleagues to pay the taxman £13 million.

Mr Robinson, who is facing a personal bill of more than £2 million, used an arrangement favoured by top footballers and City banks such as Goldman Sachs after being advised it could

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FT: ‘Cable leaves leadership bid open’

By The Voice | Sat 21st July 2012 - 3:20 pm

Today’s Financial Times reports an interview with Vince Cable in which the Lib Dem business secretary declines to exclude the possibility he might one day become party leader:

Mr Cable stressed that the Lib Dem leadership was not on his radar screen, nor remotely up for grabs, insisting that Nick Clegg was “doing a good job and is standing up to the pressures”. But in an interview with the Financial Times, Mr Cable was careful not to close down the prospect of a leadership bid when a vacancy arose. “I don’t exclude it – who knows what might happen in the future,” he said. …

“The worship of youth has diminished – perhaps generally – in recent years,” he said: a comment that might be deemed by some as a criticism of the generation of forty-somethings at the top of the government. Mr Cable added that this reappraisal might be because “there is a certain respect for people who have had some insight into what’s going on”.

Vince also notes his popularity among Lib Dem members as recorded in our regular LibDemVoice surveys:

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Winning / Swinging Here! Sensational Lib Dem victory in annual Parliamentary Staff Rounders tournament

By The Voice | Sat 21st July 2012 - 1:50 pm

Here at Voice Towers we don’t normally run press releases — but we’re going to make an exception for the sensational Lib Dem victory in this week’s annual Parliamentary Staff Rounders tournament…

    Liberal Democrat team ‘winning here’ in Parliamentary Staff Rounders Tournament

    Staff working for Liberal Democrat MPs braved the rain to take the trophy in this year’s annual Inter-Parliamentary Staff Rounders Tournament.

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The LDV Friday Five: 20 July 2012

By The Voice | Fri 20th July 2012 - 5:00 pm

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

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From today’s Lib Dem News

By The Voice | Fri 20th July 2012 - 12:50 pm

By Howard of Lib Dem News

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #282

By The Voice | Sun 15th July 2012 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 282nd weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (8-14 July, 2012), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

Don’t forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging.

As ever, let’s start with the most popular post, and work our way down:

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