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Why vote Liberal Democrat? Book review

If you go to Amazon searching for “Why vote Liberal Democrat?”, edited by Danny Alexander and just published  by Biteback, you may be surprised to find yourself being presented instead with a book of the same title from 1997, written by William Wallace. The new book is misfiled by Amazon under the title “Why vote Lib Dem?” but actually the 1997 volume provides an interesting contrast with the 2010 version.

The 2010 book is one of a series, covering also Labour, Conservatives, SNP, Plaid and the Greens. All the others are single person authored books (with the exception of …

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  • David Evans
    cim, The one thing too many Lib Dems don't understand fully is what is meant by the word balance. That is the key and is the opposite of dogma - which is where...
  • Slamdac
    Sorry I should have said £150,569 after 14 years. It is still a massive amount of taxpayer's money. I think they get paid more than enough. There is only a ...
  • Slamdac
    Any return to Freedom of Movement or the Single Market will require a Referendum of British Citizens, otherwise there is nothing stopping a future Conservative ...
  • Matt (Bristol)
    Oops, Richard Cripps not Roger Billins....
  • Matt (Bristol)
    Oh, and Roger Billins, I no longer see the party as a party of consensus, certainly not democratically derived negotiated consensus. Maybe the party of a consen...