Weekly catchup 6 Oct

Life has been a little quieter this week as the Conference season concludes, the world comes to the brink of financial meltdown and Dr Pack sets off on his tour of the world’s paperclip factories.

Our own Vince Cable gave his thoughts on the economy, kicking off a Lib Dem campaign to highlight our plans for financial recovery. It’s been a good week for Vince – as even Tinsel Tits agrees.

Vince was joined this week as a guest contributor to the voice by Simon Titley, arguing that politicians should talk more than listen; Paul Burall sought your views on our new environmental policy; and Charlotte Gore asked just who should tell us how to live?

Our regulars this week: Mark Pack on making sure you can cope if an online provider suddenly disappears; Helen Duffett on inspiring Lib Dem women with inspiring as an exhortation and a description; Stephen Tall on the collapse of “vote blue get green”; and me on taking money from councils.

We covered the reshuffle here; the resurrection of the Hartlepool Monkey here; Ruth Kelley’s plans here.

You, dear reader, provided the content by commenting on threads. Dozens of you did so in our weekly look at Question Time, which also continued into the small hours of the morning to look at the US Vice Presidential debate. And you also commented a lot about the reports of Lembit in the Big Brother house, which were strenuously denied later in the day.

In the Lib Dem Presidential Race, the first candidate to avail themselves of the platform was Chandila Fernando. LDV remains strictly neutral in party elections, and we have offered the same deal to all three candidates contesting the race.

Lib Dem Riso Monkey made an anonymous debut on the Voice this week with the inside scoop on what working at the campaign coal face is really like.

And finally, Ryan Cullen, one of our two technical geniuses here at LDV rounded the week off with another new innovation, LibDig, which he describes here.

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2 Comments

  • Darren Reynolds 6th Oct '08 - 12:03pm

    Letters From A Tory wrote:

    > Bla bla bla bla bla. Bla bla
    > bla bla bla! Bla bla bla bla bla.

    Anyone agree that George Osbourne knows as much about economics as Vince Cable? OK, perhaps not, but at least Osbourne does talk to people all over the economy, which is far more important than knowing anything about it.

    Chortle chortle.

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