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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #215

By The Voice | Sun 3rd April 2011 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 215th 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 (27 March -2 April, 2011), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

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New questions over the police’s relations with the News of the World

By The Voice | Fri 1st April 2011 - 10:53 pm

The Independent reports:

The police chief who headed Scotland Yard’s inquiry into phone-hacking dined with the News of the World at the height of his criminal investigation into the newspaper.

The sensitively timed meeting between then Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman and the NOTW was left off lists of contacts between senior officers and the paper’s owner sent to the Metropolitan Police Authority. Its disclosure in a Freedom of Information request prompted claims that the force had an unduly “cosy relationship” with Rupert Murdoch’s print empire News International (NI)…

Liberal Democrat MPA member Dee Doocey said: “It is extraordinary that when serious allegations about

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #214

By The Voice | Sun 27th March 2011 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 214th 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 (20th -27th, 2011), 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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LDVideo: Earth Hour

By The Voice | Sat 26th March 2011 - 4:11 pm

Further to WWF’s earlier post about Earth Hour, here is their campaign video on the subject.

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The weekend debate: Does the Prime Minister’s pay make a useful yardstick?

By The Voice | Sat 26th March 2011 - 8:55 am

Here’s your starter for ten in our weekend slot where we throw up an idea or thought for debate…

The level of the Prime Minister’s pay has become a widely used yardstick for other public sector pay – which suggestions of extra scrutiny for the pay deals of people who are paid more than the PM and counts or complaints about how many people are paid more.

But does the Prime Minister’s pay (or rather salary and pension, for the benefits in kind such as accommodation are rarely factored in) make for a sensible yardstick? And if not, is there an alternative …

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The LDV Friday Five: 25 March 2011

By The Voice | Fri 25th March 2011 - 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

  1. Parmjit Singh Gill withdraws as Lib Dem candidate for Leicester South (7 comments) by Helen Duffett
  2. Nick Clegg on Libya: “This is not Iraq” (57 comments) by Helen Duffett
  3. Parmjit Singh Gill selected for Lib Dems in Leicester South (12 comments) by Helen Duffett
  4. Dominic Carman writes… Why I want to be the Liberal Democrat London mayoral candidate for 2012 (63 comments) by Dominic Carman
  5. Opinion: How 295 losers could have been winners (26 comments) by Mark Reckons Thompson

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Royal wedding mugs
  2. Parmjit to fight Leicester South
  3. Cost of Living
  4. Roads in some trading estates for cutting congestion
  5. Changing education paradigms

5 from the LDV archive

(25th March, 2007-10)

  1. Electioneering the social networking way (3 comments) by Jennie Rigg, from 2010
  2. Guardian readers switching to Lib Dems in droves (11 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2010
  3. LibLink: Steve Webb – There has been no rightward shift by the Liberal Democrats (4 comments) by NewsHound, from 2010
  4. Nick Clegg launches Liberal Youth (21 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2008
  5. Unsubstantiated rumour (6 comments) by The Founding Editor, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

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The Budget: discussion thread

By The Voice | Wed 23rd March 2011 - 11:54 am

Discuss away…

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #213

By The Voice | Sun 20th March 2011 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 213th 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 (13th – 19th March, 2011), 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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Nick Clegg on Libya: “This is not Iraq”

By The Voice | Fri 18th March 2011 - 6:46 pm

From the BBC:

Nick Clegg has voiced his support for possible military intervention in Libya, saying that any action would be carried out in order to “uphold international law”.

The deputy prime minister, whose Liberal Democrat Party opposed the war in Iraq, said: “This is not Iraq. We are not going to war”.

His comments came after Prime Minister David Cameron confirmed that UK forces would join an international operation to enforce a UN resolution which demands an end to attacks on Libyan civilians.

For the full story, and a video of the BBC’s interview with Nick Clegg, see the BBC website.

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The LDV Friday Five: 18 March 2011

By The Voice | Fri 18th March 2011 - 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

  1. Nick Clegg’s conference speech (130 comments) by Mark Pack
  2. Tony Greaves writes… The health and social care bill. The party has spoken. What happens now? (57 comments) by Tony Greaves
  3. Tim Farron’s speech at the Liberal Democrat conference rally (19 comments) by The Voice
  4. Evan Harris writes… The Draft Libel Bill – A good start, but much still to play for (2 comments) by Evan Harris
  5. Paul Burstow writes… Labour shouldn’t play party politics with the NHS (51 comments) by Paul Burstow

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Income tax / NI merger rumours
  2. Call for Libya no-fly zone
  3. Tim Farron at glee club
  4. Does the LibDem diamond cut any ice with voters
  5. We appear to have won a by-election in Tunbridge Wells

5 from the LDV archive

(18th March, 2007-10)

  1. Opinion: Today is a good day to be a Lib Dem (4 comments) by Jack Holroyde, from 2010
  2. How Liberal is your MP: Lib Dem MP rankings in full (4 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2010
  3. Jeremy Browne writes… Why I voted against the UK Youth Parliament meeting in the Commons (10 comments) by Jeremy Browne, from 2009
  4. Would you like to be President of the Liberal Democrats? (8 comments) by The Voice, from 2008
  5. Top of the Blogs: the Golden Dozen #4 (0 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

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Conservative Peer in court over parliamentary expenses

By The Voice | Mon 14th March 2011 - 11:27 am

Lord Hanningfield, a Conservative Peer, will appear in court charged with falsely claiming accommodation expenses.

Hanningfield, along with Labour MPs Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine, had originally tried to avoid trial, claiming parliamentary privilege. Chaytor was jailed in January, while Devine is awaiting sentencing. Morley is also due to stand trial.

From the BBC:

Lord Hanningfield faces six charges of false accounting between March 2006 and May 2009.

They are said to relate to overnight allowances for staying in London when records allegedly showed he was driven to his home near Chelmsford, Essex.

Lord Hanningfield, who will appear at the Old

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #212

By The Voice | Sun 13th March 2011 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 212th 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 (6th March – 12th March, 2011), 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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What’s in the bag?

By The Voice | Fri 11th March 2011 - 8:17 pm

Hello from Liberal Democrat Conference in Sheffield.

Many of you will have been to party conference before. Many of you will have experienced the delights of the goody bag attendees receive. To help Liberal Democrat Voice bring you the true conference experience even if you can’t make it here yourself, Will Howells – you may remember him from such blogs as this one – has made us a quick video checking out his junk. Enjoy.

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Tim Farron’s speech at the Liberal Democrat conference rally

By The Voice | Fri 11th March 2011 - 7:05 pm

So this is the Sheffield Rally. And you know what normally happens when a party holds a Sheffield rally? Well, traditionally, some ginger bloke gets on stage, makes an absolute prat of himself, and completely wrecks his party’s election chances. And I’m a great believer in tradition, so here goes…

Ros has been an outstanding President. A baroness who is also a pavement politician, approachable, effective and one of us. Ros led us internally to an election result and aftermath that was beyond historic. And I am certain that we all want to show our appreciation. On a personal note she …

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The LDV Friday Five: 11 March 2011

By The Voice | Fri 11th March 2011 - 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

  1. Barnsley Central result: Labour win, Lib Dems sixth (197 comments) by The Voice
  2. LibLink: Dominic Carman – What it’s like to be the most despised man in the town political correctness forgot (and come SIXTH in a by-election) (69 comments) by Nick Thornsby
  3. Nick Clegg: we’re making the rich pay their fair share of tax (40 comments) by Mark Pack
  4. Linda Jack writes: Nick Clegg – demonstrating what he’s for (18 comments) by Linda Jack
  5. Opinion: NHS reforms need careful examination (38 comments) by Felix Greaves

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Yesterday’s by-elections in Burnley and Southwark
  2. Caroline Pidgeon
  3. Special Members’ Lib Dem news
  4. RollCall
  5. MPs and tithing

5 from the LDV archive

(11th March, 2007-10)

  1. LibLink: Nick Clegg’s demands for a post-election deal (12 comments) by NewsHound, from 2010
  2. Huhne: police officers with criminal convictions should be sacked. (Question: should they?) (15 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  3. Voters want double Euro referendum – Times poll (7 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2008
  4. Opinion: The ‘five tests’ raise deeply worrying questions about strategy (0 comments) by Charles Anglin, from 2007
  5. Legal trouble ahead for the Tories? (5 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #211

By The Voice | Sun 6th March 2011 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 211th 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 (27 February -5 March, 2011), 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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How you can help Liberal Democrat Voice

By The Voice | Sun 6th March 2011 - 11:55 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:

1. Let us have your tips for stories. Perhaps there’s something outrageous going on in your local council? Or you’re an expert in a particular area and have spotted a story other people have missed? Or you’ve seen …

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The LDV Friday Five: 4 March 2011

By The Voice | Fri 4th March 2011 - 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

  1. Opinion: Why Nick Clegg is probably right not to meet Gary McKinnon’s mother (49 comments) by Caron Lindsay
  2. Economic statistic of the week: how the cuts compare (29 comments) by Mark Pack
  3. Opinion: Baroness Williams shows how to disagree with coalition policy with grace (10 comments) by Lisa Harding
  4. Charles Kennedy MP: No2AV ads “shocking and outrageous” (17 comments) by Helen Duffett
  5. Opinion: Why I will be making trouble for the census (8 comments) by Simon Beard

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. On AV
  2. Deputy PMQs
  3. MPs and tithing
  4. Photo passes – Sheffield
  5. A series of Free Speech suggestions for the Freedom Bill

5 from the LDV archive

(4th March, 2007-10)

  1. Web blocking and the Lords (4 comments) by The Voice, from 2010
  2. LDV readers say: no bonuses for bankers (1 comment) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  3. Scottish Lib Dems call for end to “chatter about the constitution” (2 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  4. Future party policies – your chance to shape them (2 comments) by Jeremy Hargreaves, from 2008
  5. Opinion: Coalition questions are premature (3 comments) by The Founding Editor, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

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Barnsley Central result: Labour win, Lib Dems sixth

By The Voice | Fri 4th March 2011 - 7:34 am

Dan Jarvis (Lab) 14,724
Jane Collins (UKIP) 2,953
James Hockney (C) 1,999
Enis Dalton (BNP) 1,463
Tony Devoy (Ind) 1,266
Dominic Carman (LD) 1,012
Kevin Riddiough (Eng Dem) 544
Howling Laud Hope (Loony) 198
Michael Val Davies (Ind) 60

Turnout 36.5%

Party president Tim Farron said: “It was a poor result for us. It was a poor result for the Tories. The coalition parties didn’t do very well here. Surprise, surprise.”

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Coalition drops plans to allow Ministers to scrap quangos without consulting Parliament

By The Voice | Wed 2nd March 2011 - 5:53 pm

The Government has abandoned plans to give ministers sweeping powers to scrap quangos without consulting MPs.

From the Telegraph:

The Public Bodies Bill has been proposed by the Coalition to allow ministers to abolish almost 200 public bodies including the Audit Commission and the Film Council.

It would also give ministers extensive new legal powers to order changes to another 150 public bodies using secondary legislation, meaning they could be abolished without further parliamentary approval.

Such powers are often called “Henry VIII” powers in reference to the Tudor monarch’s autocratic rule.

After a report by the Lords Constitution Committee, which said they would …

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #210

By The Voice | Sun 27th February 2011 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 210th 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 (20th – 26th February, 2011), 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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LibLink: Danny Alexander… We’re not giving nice cover to nasty Tory cuts

By The Voice | Sat 26th February 2011 - 11:53 am

Today’s Times (£) features an interview with Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, which touches on Coalition cuts, the Budget, banks, Nick Clegg, electoral pact rumours – and even red squirrels.

Here’s a taster:

“One of the things about a coalition is it’s two different parties, with different policies and different thinking. The only way you can deal with things is through discussion based on evidence and it does mean that you have a bit more formality about the processes of government than perhaps existed before.”

When he took over at the Treasury, his predecessor left him a note saying

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The LDV Friday Five: 25 February 2011

By The Voice | Fri 25th February 2011 - 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

  1. Opinion: Economic liberalism and public service reform (58 comments) by Alex Marsh
  2. Clegg shows Sheffield he’s up for the fight (31 comments) by Helen Duffett
  3. Clegg and Miliband both campaign for a Yes vote in referendum (60 comments) by Mark Pack
  4. Conservative Councillor: Those opposing AV should stop their “misleading statements” (27 comments) by Nick Thornsby
  5. Opinion: Taxing stuff – what George Monbiot got wrong (41 comments) by Max Teuerman

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Radio 4 Analysis: the Orange Book
  2. Cameron and Clegg disagree on public service reform
  3. Mid East/North african protest movements
  4. Campaign Update
  5. Liberal Democrats – Party of the Middle 80%

5 from the LDV archive

(25th February, 2007-10)

  1. Opinion: Kill puffins and paint horizontally to save millions (1 comment) by Chris White, from 2010
  2. Cable leads Lib Dem sympathies for the Camerons (1 comment) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  3. The mysterious case of Mr Clegg, a piece of string and a banana (3 comments) by The Voice, from 2008
  4. Oldham East and Saddleworth looking for a constituency organiser (0 comments) by The Founding Editor, from 2007
  5. Introducing ‘Top of the Blogs: the Golden Dozen’ (1 comment) by Stephen Tall, from 2007

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Mike Hancock MP “horrified” by paedophile slur leaflet

By The Voice | Tue 22nd February 2011 - 9:50 pm

The BBC reports from Southampton Magistrates Court:

A Liberal Democrat MP has described allegations he was a paedophile as “absolutely untrue and offensive”.

Mike Hancock told Southampton Magistrates’ Court he was “horrified” by a leaflet published during last year’s general election.

The court heard Les Cummings, who was standing against the MP, had written: “Mike Hancock is a paedophile”.

He denies making a false statement with the purpose of affecting the result of the election in Portsmouth South.

Mr Cummings, 66, from Portsmouth, is accused of publishing the leaflet last April, while he was standing against Mr Hancock as an independent for the Justice

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Clegg shows Sheffield he’s up for the fight

By The Voice | Tue 22nd February 2011 - 4:28 pm

Nick Clegg’s visit to Sheffield yesterday included the first in a new series of town hall meetings – this one in partnership with local newspaper the Sheffield Star:

THEY say the best form of defence is attack, which is exactly what Sheffield Hallam MP and the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg decided to do by launching a new wave of meet the people sessions, here in his home city.

Mr Clegg is the first to admit he is under fire at the moment. He faces a barrage of criticism about his decision to renege on his promise not to vote for

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LibLink… Paddy Ashdown: Defence cuts? Why, they’ve barely started

By The Voice | Tue 22nd February 2011 - 2:43 pm

In today’s Times (£) Paddy Ashdown argues that the Ministry of Defence is “no longer fit for purpose.”

Ashdown says that the current government are not making enough progress with addressing the Ministry’s problems: the large annual deficit, bureaucratic blunders and project overruns and puts them down to a lack of political direction.

Here’s an excerpt:

The dust is now settling on the Strategic Defence and Security Review, published last October. And what it reveals is that the deeply painful cuts already announced are not going to be enough to balance the books. There will have to be more — there may

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Senior police regular met privately with News of the World staff whilst paper was under investigation

By The Voice | Tue 22nd February 2011 - 12:55 pm

Diary details released by the Metropolitan Police show that senior police officers met personally with senior editorial staff from the News of the World eight times in the last two years alone and a further five times in the previous three years. The tally excludes any general crime briefings or encounters at social events put on by third parties.

Dee Doocey, Liberal Democrat London Assembly Policing Spokesperson, has reacted to this revelation saying,

I find it quite extraordinary that when allegations about illegal phone hacking relating to the News of the World were still unresolved that the Met Commissioner thought it

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LDVideo: A fairer, more democratic, greener, liberal country

By The Voice | Tue 22nd February 2011 - 9:43 am

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #209

By The Voice | Sun 20th February 2011 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 209th 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 (13th-19th February, 2011), 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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Lib Dems gain a seat from the Tories in Shropshire

By The Voice | Fri 18th February 2011 - 7:15 pm

New Shropshire Councillor Andrew Bannerrman
Photo also available on Flickr here.

From the Independent:

Liberal Democrats celebrated a gain in the latest council by-elections from Tories who, however, defended two other marginal seats and control of South Cambridgeshire District.

Andrew Bannerman triumphed for Lib Dems at Quarry and Coton Hill, Shropshire despite a strong intervention by Labour which did not fight last time.

The result in Quarry and Coton Hill:

LD Andrew Bannerman 356 (41.8; +5.7)
Con 268 (31.5; -12.1)
Lab 197 (23.1; +23.1)
Ind 30 (3.5; -2.3)

Majority 88
Turnout 30.47%
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