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From today’s Lib Dem News

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

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Paul Walter

Video: Weird political ad #547 – Politicians get down and dirty with pigs

By Paul Walter | Tue 24th July 2012 - 3:35 pm

There are plenty of contenders for the strangest political ad of all times. Carly Fiorina’s “Demon Sheep” ad is widely considered to be high on the list.

This one is weird, but, yet, strangely artful. It features “politicians” getting down on their hands and knees with pigs, slinging mud at each other and, even, apparently, eating mud (or is it whatever the pigs are eating?).

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The Voice

From today’s Lib Dem News

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

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From today’s Lib Dem News

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

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The Voice

From today’s Lib Dem News

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

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From today’s Lib Dem News

By The Voice | Fri 29th June 2012 - 1:02 pm

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From today’s Lib Dem News

By The Voice | Fri 22nd June 2012 - 12:44 pm

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Mark Pack

Thirty years of American politics satirised in three minutes

By Mark Pack | Fri 15th June 2012 - 2:25 pm

Great fun:

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From today’s Lib Dem News

By The Voice | Fri 15th June 2012 - 1:20 pm

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Stephen Tall

The Eurozone crisis explained. OR: How not to get distracted by smurfs doing star-jumps

By Stephen Tall | Tue 12th June 2012 - 1:10 pm

The Eurozone crisis isn’t, by common consent, a sexy topic rich with comic potential. Important, yes. A rib-tickler, no. So kudos, immense kudos, to comedian John Finnemore who performed a pretty acute summary for BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show this week. In just 6 mins and 35 secs. Enjoy…

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Paul Walter

Video: Lords Ashdown and Phillips clash over second chamber reform

By Paul Walter | Mon 11th June 2012 - 5:54 pm

This was already covered by Stephen Tall on Liberal Democrat Voice last month, but, in case you haven’t seen it, it is worth viewing this good-humoured but impassioned clash in the House of Lords between Paddy Ashdown and Andrew Phillips. Most entertaining.

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Mary Reid

From today’s Lib Dem News

By Mary Reid | Fri 8th June 2012 - 1:00 pm

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From today’s Lib Dem News

By Mary Reid | Fri 1st June 2012 - 12:55 pm

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From today’s Lib Dem News

By Mary Reid | Fri 25th May 2012 - 3:29 pm

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From today’s Lib Dem News

By Mary Reid | Fri 18th May 2012 - 12:55 pm

Lib Dem News cartoon

 

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Nick T

LDVideo: Tessa Munt in fit of giggles in Commons as Minister sits on Davey

By Nick T | Thu 17th May 2012 - 4:28 pm

Well, there’s a headline you probably didn’t expect to read today.

Enjoy.

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Mark Pack

Which of the five Lib Dem reshuffle options will Nick Clegg pick?

By Mark Pack | Mon 14th May 2012 - 2:23 pm

Five scenarios for your delectation:

The Lib Dem night of the long beards

The drastic, dramatic and painful option. Clegg says the Liberal Democrats need David Laws’s expertise and media savvy at the heart of economic decision making, restoring him to Chief Secretary to the Treasury and expressing tearful regret that Danny Alexander is off out of the Cabinet, with a resting place as a new Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Cabinet Office where he will not have to handle quite so many tricky TV interviews.

Education, education, education

Too problematic to bring back Laws in a tax and cut role? Bring him …

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Mary Reid

From today’s Lib Dem News

By Mary Reid | Fri 11th May 2012 - 12:52 pm

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Mark Pack

The technology that will defeat the government’s online monitoring plans

By Mark Pack | Thu 10th May 2012 - 10:25 am

Following the Queen’s Speech it is becoming a little clearer – although only a little clearer – what it is that some parts of the Home Office want to achieve by pushing for the Communications Capability Development Programme (CCDP, aka Online Snooping Charter).

One scenario is this: the law enforcement authorities start having solid grounds for suspecting someone is up to no good. Currently, they can then get access to the history of that person’s phone calls – who they rung and when from their landline or mobile. Getting such retrospective data for some forms of internet-based communications is possible, albeit …

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Daisy Benson

NOW PLAYING: A post-election playlist

By Daisy Benson | Mon 7th May 2012 - 5:15 pm

Like a lot of Lib Dems this Bank Holiday weekend I’ve been recovering from months of hard slog otherwise known as election campaigning.

A diet of canvassing, leafleting, takeaways and late night phone calls isn’t healthy for an extended period of time, so if you’re feeling knackered – worry not – I have just the thing!

In between resting aching legs/reminding friends and family what I look like/feeding the cats/watching the mayoral election/watching the French Presidential elections/sleeping I have put together a post-election playlist.

I was partly inspired by the Obama 2012 …

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Mary Reid

From today’s Lib Dem News

By Mary Reid | Fri 4th May 2012 - 12:15 pm

Lib Dem News cartoon 04-05-12

 

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The Voice

Lib Dems pointing at things #wherewepointwewin

By The Voice | Mon 30th April 2012 - 1:23 pm

As we go into the last few days before widespread elections, what better time to highlight what Lib Dems do best? Yes, pointing at things.

Well done to LibDems who point at things for a providing a comprehensive and voluminous collection of pointy photos.

Why, they’ve even crowned a certain Dr. Mark Pack as King of the Pointies!

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Mark Pack

Nasty negative ad as political race turns sour

By Mark Pack | Mon 5th March 2012 - 2:50 pm

First there was the positive ad:

Now there’s this:

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Mark Pack

The original text of today’s speech from David Cameron

By Mark Pack | Thu 16th February 2012 - 1:54 pm

Due to an unfortunate computer virus prank, David Cameron was forced to give a speech today using the wrong text. The virus had swapped the words “United Kingdom” for “Scotland” and “Europe” for “United Kingdom” along with a couple of other small edits to muddy the waters. Here is the original text of the speech he meant to give.

I am convinced that for both the United Kingdom, and Europe, our best days lie ahead of us.

And that even though it may be a great historical construct, Europe is actually even more of an inspiring model for the future.

Think of the …

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Adam Bell

Introducing… Lib Dems Against Factionalism

By Adam Bell | Thu 16th February 2012 - 8:27 am

Today marks the foundation of Lib Dems Against Factionalism, a place for all Liberal Democrats who believe that the current upswing in sub-party organisations that purportedly represent ‘differences of opinion’ is a menace to all right- thinking undifferentiated Lib Dems everywhere.

We have formed this new group because we believe the following to be true:

  • That the public have a clear and coherent understanding of what the Lib Dems stand for and will in no way be confused by a new group putting clear tangerine water between itself and the rest of the party, and besides, the public loves internecine conflict;
  • That our

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Lord Bonkers

LibDems – the hopeless romantics – Lord Bonkers comments…

By Lord Bonkers | Tue 14th February 2012 - 10:24 am

Yesterday we covered a survey which suggests that the Liberal Democrats are strongly romantic. Today, Lord Bonkers gives the LDV readership the benefit of his insight on this subject…

We are great romantics here in Rutland. This morning I watched swains, as tradition demands, gather the first snowdrops of the year to take to their loves. (This afternoon I phoned the Oakham Royal Infirmary and Matron is confident that no toes will be lost to frostbite.)

I was pleased to see from this survey that we Liberal Democrats are great romantics too. If one thinks about it, however, it should …

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Mark Pack

The best spoof political interview. Ever.

By Mark Pack | Wed 18th January 2012 - 10:25 am

Earlier in the month I shared my two favourite clips of political canvassing going wrong from TV drama shows. Today it’s the turn of the best spoof interview, courtesy of Australian TV in the 1990s. Enjoy:

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Mark Pack

Rory Bremner does Paddy Ashdown with the aid of a little song and dance

By Mark Pack | Fri 3rd June 2011 - 8:58 am

Courtesy of YouTube, a musical trip down memory lane:

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Don Liberali

Don Liberali Messaggio di Natale

By Don Liberali | Sat 25th December 2010 - 3:00 pm

So, lot of people asking me, where you been? Last thing remember it 2008. I step outside Cowley Printworks for crafty cigarette with Don Clegg and all go very quiet.

See glint of sunlight on metal, trip over pile of discarded papers, (something about silly promises not worth keeping by Signor Alexander) and fall in front of Don Clegg.

After bang sounds, remember nothing until waking up in hospital few days ago.

Gotta say Family change quite a bit while away.

Walk down street in Little Sicily yesterday and where is the respect?

Liberali Junior minding show for me say we …

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Carlos Tevez and Local Government

By Martin Land | Sat 18th December 2010 - 11:34 am

So Carlos Tevez would like to leave Manchester City. He still has more than three years to run on his incredibly expensive contract, but has informed the press that he has played his last game for Man. City. Now, I’ve nothing against Man. City (other than them not being Liverpool) and my sympathy lies very much with their owners and management. No club should be bullied in this way, and I hope the rich Middle Eastern owners of Man. City will do football a real favour, by refusing to bow to this pressure and continuing to insist Tevez comes to …

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