From the Coffee House blog:
The SNP and Plaid Cymru are tabling a motion calling for the dissolution of Parliament, and it will get debated in the House next Wednesday afternoon. The Lib Dems have come out in support of it, and William Hague has said that the Tories will too.
Follow @libdemvoice.org on Bluesky
Like us on Facebook
Subscribe to our feed
Sign-up for our daily email digest
By-Election Report 01.10.26 (Joe Nutt)
Picking our allies, a perspective on Israel/Palestine (Gillian Mosely)
Burnham is right to reform the triple lock; the Lib Dems should support it (James Hill)
Why I won’t Wayve goodbye to Black Cabs (Christian de Vartavan)
Keep the earnings link: don’t repeat the mistakes of the 80s (Chris Perry)
State of Play: a classic BBC political drama revisited
Lib Dems make another by-election gain in Highlands
The Joy of Six 1585
Has Ed Davey got it wrong on the triple lock?
Now We Are Severn released by Shrewsbury's Up Sewage Creek
The death of Dennis O'Neill and expertise in a narrow subject
Peer says his name should not be used in legal letter in island cafe dog snub row
A fair pension for every generation: a Liberal Democrat case for reform
Nigel Jones 
Jana 
Chris Bowers 
Chris Perry Chris Perry 
9 Comments
This is madness. If there’s a General Election now you can say goodbye to any meaningful reforms for at least the next five years.
On the other hand; if we vote against this motion then we will be seen as propping up a government which is universally devised and conniving with it to keep it in power against the clearly stated opinion of the overwhelming majority of the public. I suspect the latter consideration weighed heavy and Clegg feels the motion has little chances of success.
*despised even, damn typoitus….
In shock news the Lib Dems come second in the polls and now want an election. Durr!
Durr? No!
It makes more sense to push for the reforms. There should definitely be a number of bye-bye-flippers-elections though.
Neale,
I refer you to the comments I made some moments ago. Of course we should push for reform but realistically siding with the government on this specific vote would be the madness…not voting for it…
“It makes more sense to push for the reforms.”
That will be the reforms which Labour have had 10 years to introduce and are about to start thinking about when they are in serious trub.
We should be demanding an autumn election. That would give enough time to separate the real out-and-out fraudsters properly from the not-all-that-guilty, and then let the voters pass judgment. It should also give enough time to organise a parallel referendum on the voting system.
Mark is right- its strategic madness on PR and cowardly on the economy at a critical moment in the recession….pathetic really