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Why vote Liberal Democrat? Book review

By Mark Pack | Sun 7th March 2010 - 7:00 pm

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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Posted in Books, General Election and Party policy and internal matters | Also tagged brian paddick, charles james fox, colin firth, Danny Alexander, david howarth, duwayne brooks, ed fordham, featured, floella benjamin, gary mckinnon, ken macdonald, nick clegg, polly mackenzie, vince cable and william wallace | 19 Comments

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