Our place to talk – an independent website for supporters of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK.

The most-read independent website by and for Lib Dem supporters. Not paid for by trade unions or millionaires.

Advert

Tag Archives: tam dalyell

Memories of Tam Dalyell 1932-2017

By Stephen Glenn | Fri 27th January 2017 - 9:05 am

At the 2005 General Election the people of West Lothian entered a new era. For the first time in 43 years there were facing the fact that for the first time in 43 years none of them would be represented by Tam Dalyell.

At that election I was selected to stand in the parts of his former West Lothian constituency that lay to the north, including his ancestral home the House of the Binns. When he first posed the West Lothian question, as it became known, about the role of MPs of devolved parts of the UK, I don’t think he thought he’d still be waiting for the definitive answer 40 years later when he died.

He dedicated his autobiography “The Importance of Being Awkward” to

the men and women of West Lothian – Labour, SNP, Conservative, Liberal, Communist – who, whatever their political opinions, were kind to me in all sorts of ways over 43 years as their representative in the House of Commons.

Continue reading »

Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged obituaries | 6 Comments

Most Read

Op-eds

The defence of International Law in an age of impunity (John Kelly)
Social care and the triple lock (Gordon Lishman)
Tom Arms’ World Review (Tom Arms)
Ukraine‘s plight means UK must rearm for war now, and not by ten years’ time (George Cunningham)
Observations of an Expat: Ukraine in Trouble (Tom Arms)

Advert

Recent Comments

Rose Runswick
Thank you for saying this, international law is our best hope for a fairer and more peaceful world, I worry the memory of why it came about in the first place i...
Tristan Ward
Sanctions should absolutely continue, but the idea that Britain should not rearm is to repeat the mistakes of the 1930s. Appeasement is not an option....
Katharine Pindar
Paul Barker: you are right, Paul, in the wider world we do seem largely invisible. That was for instance clear in today's Laura Kuennsberg show when, you could ...
tom arms
The first known use of the phrase "May you live in interesting times" was towards the end of the 19th century when Joseph Chamberlain used it in several speech...
Andy Daer
John is, of course, right to remind us all of the need to uphold international law. Today we've seen Trump congratulate the man he had previously distanced h...