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Alex Foster

LibDemVoice.org at Conference

By Alex Foster | Sat 21st August 2010 - 10:29 am

Once again, Lib Dem Voice have a varied and exciting programme at the Lib Dem federal conference planned for Liverpool next month.

Some of our events are still taking form; others are now so well established they are almost traditional.

And don’t worry if you are unable to join us in person at conference – we will be making recordings of the events and making them available right here on the blog, so that you can get the conference feel coming in your ears wherever you are in the nation.

For your delight and delectation, here are some details.

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Mark Pack

Office of the Public Guardian finally starts to get some serious public scrutiny

By Mark Pack | Mon 16th August 2010 - 12:20 pm

The Office of the Public Guardian should be a wonderful public service, helping people have more control over how their lives are sorted out if they get to a point where they can’t make decisions for themselves. That’s the theory anyway. The reality is somewhat different, as I’ve chronicled with their long and complicated paperwork:

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Stephen Tall

Lib Dem MP Duncan Hames delivers his Mpinions

By Stephen Tall | Sat 24th July 2010 - 6:45 pm

Duncan Hames, the Lib Dem MP for Chippenham is the second of our newbie MPs to take part in a viral video campaign called ‘Mpinions’. Here’s the spiel from its creators:

Mpinions is allowing new MPs to properly introduce themselves to you and all in a few easily-digestible minutes! Consider it the speed dating of the political world! The video campaign itself will be running until the end of August and is being sponsored by The Electoral Reform Society and supported and promoted online by the Hansard Society, Operation Black Vote, Dod’s Parliamentary Communications and The British Youth Council. Videos

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Alex Foster

Hames, Swinson to wed

By Alex Foster | Sun 20th June 2010 - 9:13 am

I had hoped not to write this story immediately after the last, less happy one, but sometimes, them’s the breaks.

Not since Baroness Scott and the Lib Dem’s bureaucrat of choice Mark Valladares changed their facebook statuses to “engaged” has the Lib Dem online world been so charged with romance.

Now Jo Swinson and Duncan Hames used the medium of Twitter to tell the world of their engagement, to cheers of encouragement all round.

Every congratulation and wish for happiness from all your friends at t’Voice.

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Helen Duffett

Chippenham’s double Lib Dem win

By Helen Duffett | Fri 4th September 2009 - 4:06 pm

Lorraine Roberts Rance with Chippenham PPC Duncan Hames
Two new Liberal Democrat Councillors were elected yesterday in the new Chippenham constituency:

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