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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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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LDVideo: Introducing the Land Value Tax

By The Voice | Sat 14th July 2012 - 3:05 pm

The Liberal Democrat campaign for Action on Land Tax and Economic reform has recently released a new video to explain the virtues of a Land Value Tax — described by ALTER as ‘making taxation more progressive and addressing the injustice of economic rent, it would encourage development and boost the economy. It’s the kind of measure that our country is in desperate need of right now.’

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The LDV Friday Five: 13 July 2012

By The Voice | Fri 13th 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 13th July 2012 - 1:08 pm

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Industry takes advantage of government supply chain funds

By The Voice | Mon 9th July 2012 - 5:53 pm

Thirty-two manufacturers have successfully applied for £90 million of government funding to help British suppliers compete in the global economy and attract foreign investors, Vince Cable has announced.

Vince commented:

Building up the supply chain and encouraging new suppliers to manufacture here is one of the steps we’re taking to strengthen

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How to fund care and support for the elderly

By The Voice | Mon 9th July 2012 - 5:23 pm

The Institute of Fiscal Studies has published a detailed paper on how the proposals of the Dilnot Commission on care and support for the elderly can be funded:

The Dilnot Commission proposed changes which would involve a degree of co-payment between individuals and the state, and a much less harsh meanstest on assets than in the current system. The

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #281

By The Voice | Sun 8th July 2012 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 281st 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 (1-7 July, 2012), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

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

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The LDV Friday Five: 6 July 2012

By The Voice | Fri 6th 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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How to get the most out of your Lib Dem Voice comments

By The Voice | Fri 6th July 2012 - 2:50 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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From today’s Lib Dem News

By The Voice | Fri 6th July 2012 - 1:32 pm

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Clegg orders Government to fly LGBT pride flag

By The Voice | Fri 6th July 2012 - 10:33 am

PinkNews today reports:

In a first for central Government, the Cabinet Office is flying a rainbow flag to mark World Pride being held this weekend in London.

The iconic flag has been flown on the personal request of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. Officials say that Mr Clegg thought it ‘was about time for Whitehall to bring itself up to date’ by flying the flag in solidarity with the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered) community.

Liberal Democrat Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said: “There has to be a first time for everything – flying this iconic flag in the heart of

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How you can help Liberal Democrat Voice

By The Voice | Thu 5th July 2012 - 4:50 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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++ Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond quits

By The Voice | Tue 3rd July 2012 - 7:53 am

Yesterday Nick Clegg called for more resignations at Barclays in the wake of the rate-rigging scandal. Well, he’s just got his wish in part fulfilled, with the news that chief executive Bob Diamond is falling on his sword (or was he pushed?). Here’s how the BBC reports it:

Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond has resigned with immediate effect.

The move follows the resignation of chairman Marcus Agius and comes less than a week after the bank was fined a record amount for trying to manipulate inter-bank lending rates.

Mr Diamond said he was stepping down because the external pressure on Barclays

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Tim Farron MP to restand for Party President

By The Voice | Mon 2nd July 2012 - 8:30 pm

Tim Farron MP announced at tonight’s Federal Executive meeting that he is to seek re-election as Liberal Democrat Party President this autumn:

Being our party’s President is a wonderful honour for me. Together our party is achieving so much – taking two million people out of tax, driving the pupil premium to give a better start to our most disadvantaged children and helping to create the green economy of tomorrow.

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LibLink: Vince Cable – the current scandals will lead to a better system of banking

By The Voice | Mon 2nd July 2012 - 9:23 am

Over on the Guardian’s Comment is Free, Vince Cable gives his commentary on the banking crisis:

Last week’s banking scandals demolished a convenient myth: that the banking crash was all the fault of a few colourful rogues like Fred the Shred of RBS and Adam Applegarth of Northern Rock. We have been reminded, instead, that the rot was far more widespread.

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #280

By The Voice | Sun 1st July 2012 - 10:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 280th 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 (24-30 June, 2012), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

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

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