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What’s being debated in our members’ forum this week?

LibDemVoice has two parallel sites. The first is our public blog, the thing you’re reading now. The second is our private members’ forum, which only current Lib Dem members can access.

If you’re a member and want to chat with fellow party members about any issue that’s on your mind, then why not sign up? In addition, you’ll be included in our regular surveys’ of party members’ views.

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LDV’s Sunday Best: our 7 most-read articles this week

Many thanks to the  17,300 visitors who dropped by Lib Dem Voice this week. Here’s our 7 most-read posts…

Statement by Maajid Nawaz and Mohammed Shafiq (47 comments) by The Voice

And the new Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader is…. (44 comments) by The Voice

Jane Merrick: “How we can all stop worrying and learn to love the Lib Dems” (46 comments) by The Voice

Tom Brake MP writes… Liberal Democrats have improved the Lobbying Bill (58 comments) by The Voice

The Malcolm Bruce Interview Part 1: on the Liberal Democrats’ achievements in Government and why SNP’s promises are undeliverable (4 …

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What’s being debated in our members’ forum this week?

LibDemVoice has two parallel sites. The first is our public blog, the thing you’re reading now. The second is our private members’ forum, which only current Lib Dem members can access.

If you’re a member and want to chat with fellow party members about any issue that’s on your mind, then why not sign up? In addition, you’ll be included in our regular surveys’ of party members’ views.

Here’s some of the most active discussions this past 10 days:

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Cowdenbeath by election

Mohammed Shafiq on Maajid Nawaz

Victory for Hemming over Family Court secrecy

Inside Harriet Harman’s Head

Another

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LDV’s Sunday Best: our 7 most-read articles this week

Many thanks to the 21,900 visitors who dropped by Lib Dem Voice this week. Here’s our 7 most-read posts…

We should support Lib Dem candidate Maajid Nawaz in the face of death threats (134 comments) by Stephen Tall

Internal investigation in to Lord (Chris) Rennard: new statement issued by Alistair Webster QC (37 comments) by The Voice

Opinion: What does bringing the party into disrepute mean? (110 comments) by David Howarth

Tim Farron’s email to Lib Dem members explaining the suspension of Lord Rennard (62 comments) by The Voice

Suspension of Lord Rennard (29 comments) by The Voice

QC’s report into

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LDV’s Sunday Best: our 7 most-read articles this week

Many thanks to the 14,800  visitors who dropped by Lib Dem Voice this week. Here’s our 7 most-read posts…

What’s with the Nick Clegg/Ed Balls love in? (18 comments) by Caron Lindsay

Opinion: Foodbanks: Are there more hungry people than a decade ago? (25 comments) by Iain Roberts

Don Foster MP to stand down in 2015 (12 comments) by Caron Lindsay

Opinion: The Immigration Trap (76 comments) by David Allen

Should MPs be allowed to take their babies into the voting lobby? (26 comments) by Caron Lindsay

Lorely Burt to stand for Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader (19 comments) by The …

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LDV’s Sunday Best: our 7 most-read articles this week

Many thanks to the 12,700 visitors who dropped by Lib Dem Voice this week. Here’s our 7 most-read posts…

So we might have Ed Balls in a Labour/Liberal Democrat coalition Cabinet after all.. (86 comments) by Caron Lindsay

NEW POLL: Who is your Liberal Voice of the year? (20 comments) by Stephen Tall

LibLink: Richard Reeves: The Clegg Factor (50 comments) by Newshound

New Year Reflections from Charles Kennedy: 2014 is not for the politically timid (17 comments) by Charles Kennedy

Opinion: Putting the facts into Britain’s fraudulent immigration debate (30 comments) by Giles Goodall

Going it alone (54 comments) by …

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LDV’s 2013 Best: our dozen most-read articles of last year

Many thanks to the  555,972 visitors who dropped by Lib Dem Voice in 2013. Here’s our 12 most-read posts…

The affair is none of our business, but how did it get in the papers anyway? (54 comments) by Caron Lindsay

Tom Brake on 38 degrees and the Transparency and Lobbying Bill (84 comments) by Tom Brake MP

Sarah Teather won’t fight 2015 election (286 comments) by Caron Lindsay

The Economist’s political map of the UK: north/south divide revealed (35 comments) by Stephen Tall

Simon Hughes MP writes: My vote on the same sex marriage bill (111 comments) by Simon Hughes MP

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LDV’s Sunday Best: our 7 most-read articles this week

Many thanks to the 9000 visitors who dropped by Lib Dem Voice this week. Here’s our 7 most-read posts…

Time to expose UKIP (32 comments) by Issan Ghazni

Telegraph: “Liberal Democrats believe that party can oust several Tories” (22 comments) by Caron Lindsay

Same story, two very different headlines (30 comments) by Caron Lindsay

Vince tells Andrew Marr: Immigration panic does damage, politicians should give facts not resort to harmful populism. (42 comments) by Newshound

Two thirds of Lib Dem members say yes to HS2 (12 comments) by Stephen Tall

Duncan Hames steps down as PPS to  Nick Clegg and Simon

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LDV’s Sunday Best: our 7 most-read articles this week

Many thanks to the 13,000 visitors who dropped by Lib Dem Voice this week. Here’s our 7 most-read posts…

Porn blocking comes in and blocks the LGBT+ website as porn (30 comments) by Alisdair Calder McGregor

Lib Dem Deputy Leadership runners and riders. Who’s your choice? (45 comments) by Stephen Tall

Exclusive: What Lib Dem members think about the Lib Dems and the coalition (16 comments) by Stephen Tall

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What’s being debated in our members’ forum this week?

LibDemVoice has two parallel sites. The first is our public blog, the thing you’re reading now. The second is our private members’ forum, which only current Lib Dem members can access.

If you’re a member and want to chat with fellow party members about any issue that’s on your mind, then why not sign up? In addition, you’ll be included in our regular surveys’ of party members’ views.

Here’s some of the most active discussions this past 7 days:

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LDV’s Sunday Best: our 7 most-read articles this week

Many thanks to the 16,500 visitors who dropped by Lib Dem Voice this week. Here’s our 7 most-read posts…

The Clegg family Christmas card, with a little help from their sons (4 comments) by Stephen Tall

FOUND: David Cameron’s Little Black Book (16 comments) by Helen Duffett

Three scenarios for the 2015 election based on current polling. Which do you think looks most plausible? (50 comments) by Stephen Tall

Our liberal identity crisis (80 comments) by Steve Bradley

“Good” gender segregation and “Bad” gender segregation? (58 comments) by Stephen Tall

Lib Dems should aim for a budget surplus, not because

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LDV’s Sunday Best: our 7 most-read articles this week

Many thanks to the 16,600  visitors who dropped by Lib Dem Voice this week. Here’s our 7 most-read posts…

Opinion: Child taken from the womb by social services.  Really?( 137 comments) by Evan Harris

Jo Swinson takes on Daily Mail’s Liz Jones, who thinks she shouldn’t be “procreating” (11 comments) by Caron Lindsay

Hemming helps woman in forced caesarean and adoption case (28 comments) by Caron Lindsay

Times: “The increasingly confident and powerful Mr Clegg” (28 comments) by Newshound

Opinion: Women must stop stepping into the political shoes of men (45 comments) by Andy Boddington

Nelson Mandela: the long walk is

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LDV’s Sunday Best: our 7 most-read articles this week

Many thanks to the 14,000  visitors who dropped by Lib Dem Voice this week. Here’s our 7 most-read posts…

Nick Clegg is an idle f****er says David Cameron” (12 comments) by The Voice

Launch of Scottish Government’s White Paper on Scottish Independence (11 comments) by Mary Reid

It’s “Immigration Hysteria Day”. Again. Here’s how Lib Dems need to respond (44 comments) by Stephen Tall

SNP’s white paper on Scottish independence: some first reaction and three initial questions from me (37 comments) by Caron Lindsay

Free school meals for infants – the controversy over Nick Clegg’s pledge rumbles on (42 …

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LDV’s Sunday Best: our 7 most-read articles this week

Many thanks to the 18,000 visitors who dropped by Lib Dem Voice this week. Here’s our 7 most-read posts…

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What’s being debated in our members’ forum this week?

LibDemVoice has two parallel sites. The first is our public blog, the thing you’re reading now. The second is our private members’ forum, which only current Lib Dem members can access.

If you’re a member and want to chat with fellow party members about any issue that’s on your mind, then why not sign up? In addition, you’ll be included in our regular surveys’ of party members’ views.

Here’s some of the most active discussions this past 7 days:

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LDV’s Sunday Best: our 7 most-read articles this week

Many thanks to the  14,000 visitors who dropped by Lib Dem Voice this week. Here’s our 7 most-read posts…

Tim Farron “set to vote against the Bedroom Tax” while Swales, Mulholland, R Williams and Sanders table motion against it. (66 comments) by Caron Lindsay

Nightmare scenarios – what are the election results the Lib Dems, Tories and Labour most dread (51 comments) by Stephen Tall

Opinion: Lib Dem Voice compromised its independent voice with Heathrow sponsored post (65 comments) by Andy Boddington

Opinion: Auditors refuse to sign off EU accounts – the latest untruth from anti Europeans (19 comments) by …

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What’s being debated in our members’ forum this week?

LibDemVoice has two parallel sites. The first is our public blog, the thing you’re reading now. The second is our private members’ forum, which only current Lib Dem members can access.

If you’re a member and want to chat with fellow party members about any issue that’s on your mind, then why not sign up? In addition, you’ll be included in our regular surveys’ of party members’ views.

Here’s some of the most active discussions this past 7 days:

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Readers’ Editor: publishing and being damned…

It is, I suppose, an inevitability that, from time to time, an article published on a political website such as Liberal Democrat Voice will be controversial. Sometimes, the controversy is expected, occasionally it comes as a surprise.

For example, anything to do with the Israel/Palestine situation is almost certain to degenerate into an increasingly polarised slanging match, with pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian commenters quoting atrocity and counter-atrocity until the neutrals run for cover. And, if in doubt, the moderators make a good target if your comment breaches the comment policy – it’s obviously because they’re biased, right?

However, Leon Duveen’s recent piece calling …

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LDV’s Sunday Best: our 7 most-read articles this week

Many thanks to the 15,600 visitors who dropped by Lib Dem Voice this week. Here’s our 7 most-read posts…

Opinion: Labour’s living wage means the state taxes the poor more (31 comments) by Alisdair Calder McGregor

Opinion: You don’t have to wear a red poppy (29 comments) by Richard Church

Emma Gilpin-Jacobs appointed as Director of Communications to the Deputy Prime Minister (7 comments) by The Voice

Why do so many Liberal Democrat MPs not claim energy costs? (48 comments) by Caron Lindsay

Updated: Full list of Lib Dems standing in our held seats and top 50 targets (8 comments) …

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LDV’s Sunday Best: our 7 most-read articles this week

Many thanks to the  14,700 visitors who dropped by Lib Dem Voice this week. Here’s our 7 most-read posts…

Opinion: Russell Brand – a turgid mess of a manifesto (56 comments) by Jack Williams

Updated: Full list of Lib Dems standing in our held seats and top 50 targets (2 comments) by Stephen Tall

Time to do away with Lib Dem Friends of Israel and Friends of Palestine (37 comments) by Leon Duveen

Lewis Baston’s 2015 Election forecast: Labour 36%, Conservatives 34%, Lib Dems 16% (16 comments) by Stephen Tall

Opinion: What is with the Liberal Democrat love affair with

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What’s being debated in our members’ forum this week?

LibDemVoice has two parallel sites. The first is our public blog, the thing you’re reading now. The second is our private members’ forum, which only current Lib Dem members can access.

If you’re a member and want to chat with fellow party members about any issue that’s on your mind, then why not sign up? In addition, you’ll be included in our regular surveys’ of party members’ views.

Here’s some of the most active discussions this past 10 days:

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LDV’s Sunday Best: our 7 most-read articles this week

Many thanks to the  visitors who dropped by Lib Dem Voice this week. Here’s our 7 most-read posts…

Dunfermline by-election win for Labour, disaster for the SNP and Lib Dems hold 3rd place (26 comments) by The Voice

Time to do away with Lib Dem Friends of Israel and Lib Dem Friends of Palestine (17 comments) by Leon Duveen

Ed Davey MP writes…  Hinkley Point C – a bg step forward for energy decarbonisation (54 comments) by Ed Davey MP

Clegg on free schools and national curriculum: no more, no less than party policy and that’s for better and worse

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What’s being debated in our members’ forum this week?

LibDemVoice has two parallel sites. The first is our public blog, the thing you’re reading now. The second is our private members’ forum, which only current Lib Dem members can access.

If you’re a member and want to chat with fellow party members about any issue that’s on your mind, then why not sign up? In addition, you’ll be included in our regular surveys’ of party members’ views.

Here’s some of the most active discussions this past 10 days:

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Readers’ Editor – comments, need it all be so difficult?

OwlAs promised, this is the first ‘occasional musing’ on our website and how it works. Feel free to join in…

The recent decision by ‘Popular Science’, a long-established American magazine, to, for the most part, simply ban comments from the majority of its online content was a dramatic response to the difficulties brought about when you try to maintain a civil discourse on an interactive website such as Liberal Democrat Voice. And if they thought that scientists could be feisty, they have nothing on the politically active.

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Readers’ Editor – some thoughts from the first month or so

OwlSo, I’ve been in post for a few weeks now, and I thought that I really ought to give you a taste of some of the issues that have arisen so far.

Is it fair to judge someone’s performance whilst they’re on maternity, paternity or long-term ill health leave?

This question did spur some slightly guilty reflection on my part. Childless by choice, and with little experience of the impact of either children of long term ill-health on one’s ability to function, it had never crossed my mind that, by including someone who …

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LDV’s Sunday Best: our 7 most-read articles this week

Many thanks to the 17.000  visitors who dropped by Lib Dem Voice this week. Here’s our 7 most-read posts…

The Labour Party “Plebgate” website they no longer wish you to see (19 comments) by Stephen Tall

Danny Alexander MP writes: this is the Liberal Democrats’ policy and everyone knows it (38 comments) by Danny Alexander MP

Opinion; Being tough on drugs means being pro-reform (22 comments) by Ewan Hoyle

Jeremy Browne talks to the Times about his sacking and not being a Tory (36 comments) by Andy Boddington

Labour Uncut editor Atul Hatwal writes…The two paths to a Labour deal

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What’s being debated in our members’ forum this week?

LibDemVoice has two parallel sites. The first is our public blog, the thing you’re reading now. The second is our private members’ forum, which only current Lib Dem members can access.

If you’re a member and want to chat with fellow party members about any issue that’s on your mind, then why not sign up? In addition, you’ll be included in our regular surveys’ of party members’ views.

Here’s some of the most active discussions this past 7 days:

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LDV’s Sunday Best: our 7 most-read articles this week

Many thanks to the 18,000 visitors who dropped by Lib Dem Voice this week. Here’s our 7 most-read posts…

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What’s being debated in our members’ forum this week?

LibDemVoice has two parallel sites. The first is our public blog, the thing you’re reading now. The second is our private members’ forum, which only current Lib Dem members can access.

If you’re a member and want to chat with fellow party members about any issue that’s on your mind, then why not sign up? In addition, you’ll be included in our regular surveys’ of party members’ views.

Here’s some of the most active discussions this past week:

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LDV’s Sunday Best: our 7 most-read articles this week

Many thanks to the  13,800 visitors who dropped by Lib Dem Voice this week. Here’s our 7 most-read posts…

I need the Liberal Democrats to stand up for me when Conservative ministers denigrate me (62 comments) by Matt

On the Lib Dem conference polling bump (or lack thereof) and what it means for the party (68 comments) by Stephen Tall

Of course, the Daily Mail has form when it comes to smearing party leaders’ families (21 comments) by Stephen Tall

Might some of the welfare changes be a little more helpful to people than Osborne made out? (69 comments) by Caron …

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