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Today is also both International Men’s Day and International Toilet Day.
2 Must-Read Blog Posts
What are other Liberal Democrat bloggers saying? Here’s are two posts that have caught the eye from the Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator:
- How much food can be grown on a balcony?
Cllr Alexis Rowell gives the answer: quite a lot, actually - Time to stop calling them “honour” killings
Meral Ece takes on a difficult subject.
Spotted any other great posts in the last day from blogs that aren’t on the aggregator? Do post up a comment sharing them with us all.
2 Big Stories
Ashcroft’s bank lent millions to disgraced premier
The Independent tells us:
Companies linked to Lord Ashcroft, the billionaire deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, helped finance the lavish lifestyle of the disgraced prime minister of Turks and Caicos islands, an Independent investigation has found.
Labour peers savage Brown’s free care plan
See the Times for more:
A key plank of Gordon Brown’s re-election strategy was condemned by members of his own party yesterday as irresponsible, unaffordable and based on a myth.
The Prime Minister’s plan to offer free care at home to the elderly, outlined yesterday in the last Queen’s Speech before the general election, was compared to “an admiral firing an Exocet into his own flagship”.
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