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Lib Dem Blog of the Year Awards 2012 – nominations now open
The Liberal Democrat Blog of the Year Awards, run by Lib Dem Voice, are back for their seventh year. As usual, they’ll be awarded in a budget lavish ceremony at the party’s autumn conference in...
View ArticleLess than 21 hours to get your BOTY nominations in…..
It’s almost two weeks since Helen Duffett invited us to submit our nominations for the prestigious Liberal Democrat Voice Blog of the Year. Nominations close at 5pm tomorrow so if you haven’t done...
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Conference preview: Saturday and Sunday
This year, the Liberal Democrat autumn conference has one day per theme, covering jobs, education, environment and tax. Saturday is education day, with David Laws giving a keynote speech. For many...
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Blog of the Year Awards 2012: The Shortlists
Nominations for the Liberal Democrats’ Blog of the Year Awards 2012 closed on 14 September. Since then, the judges, Kirsty Williams (Assembly Member for Brecon and Radnorshire and Leader of the Welsh...
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It’s not Vince you should be texting Ed
Ed Miliband’s text messages to Vince Cable may have got him in trouble with his own political party and even resulted in party officials taking away his mobile phone. They also have been text messages...
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LibLink: Nick Thornsby – The Justice and Security Bill is the Liberal...
Our Nick Thornsby has been writing about the Justice and Security Bill over at the Guardian’s Comment is Free site. First of all, he gives his view about why this Bill is bad news for anyone who is...
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Clarke’s concessions on secret courts will not satisfy Liberal Democrat...
Isabel Hardman has written a piece on the Spectator’s Coffee House blog which essentially says that Liberal Democrat MPs and campaigners are on a bit of a collision course over Part II of the Justice...
View ArticleSecret Courts: Nick Clegg’s refusal to meet campaigners is not helping
Way back in March, I wrote a few words of advice to Nick Clegg in the wake of the NHS debate at Spring Conference. They seem relevant today as activists and leaders are at loggerheads over Part II of...
View ArticleLibLink…Nick Thornsby: The snooper’s charter has reminded Nick Clegg,...
Yes, I know, it is Snoopers’ Charter Central here on Liberal Democrat Voice today. I hope you will forgive us for being relieved and delighted that Nick Clegg has made sure that the Government will not...
View ArticleLibLink: Nick Thornsby – As a Liberal Democrat, I ask, “What are you, our...
LibDemVoice’s Nick Thornsby has been on recce behind enemy lines, writing for ConservativeHome on the past week’s Tory implosion over Europe: It is clear to everyone looking in from the outside that if...
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Ed Balls shifts Labour’s position closer to the Lib Dems: is this the start...
Ed Balls’ speech to Thomson Reuters yesterday grabbed headlines for its concession that paying a winter fuel allowance to the wealthiest 5% of pensioners could no longer be justified. The likely saving...
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Lessons of Coalition (4): what do the Lib Dems need to learn from the first 3...
LibDemVoice is running a daily feature, ‘Lessons of Coalition’, to assess the major do’s and don’ts learned from our experience of the first 3 years in government. Reader contributions are welcome,...
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The Liberal Democrat Voice Team at Conference
Last Saturday, the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre was full of trolls, superheroes, and Pokemon. I kid you not. 20,000 people, many of them in costume, turned up for the Scottish Comic Con...
View ArticleEconomy motion carried: Nick Clegg wins overwhelming backing from Lib Dem...
Lib Dem conference has spoken — and it has overwhelmingly backed Nick Clegg. Before the debate I had a hunch the result would be somewhat different. Though Nick had shrugged off a reported split with...
View ArticleLindsay vs Thornsby – House of Comments podcast comes to Conference
On Sunday morning, Nick Thornsby and Caron Lindsay joined Mark Thompson in the Liberal Democrat Voice broom cupboard in Glasgow and recorded a special edition of his House of Comments podcast. Have a...
View ArticleThe best speeches of Liberal Democrat Conference
I thought it would be good to remember some of the best speeches of this year’s Autumn conference. I wrote down a list of 7 that I thought were fantastic and then decided to ask Twitter. The list that...
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Christmas present ideas from the LDV team and friends – Day 2
On this Mega Monday, here are two Christmas present suggestions from our own Nick Thornsby. The letters of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Edited by his two sons, this collection of Arthur Schlesinger’s letters...
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Conference Photo Gallery Part 1 – What the LDV team did
The LDV team had a busy and fun Conference in York. Here are a few of the things we got up to: Co-editors, hard at work Thanks to Paul Walter for taking this. Nick questions Nick Caron meets...
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Jeremy Browne’s ‘Race Plan’. I’ve read it, so here’s my review…
Three points to make right from the start about Jeremy Browne’s new book, Race Plan. First, it’s a wholly Good Thing that a Lib Dem MP is choosing to think aloud, to set out clearly his views. Nick...
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Which member of the LDV team gets a mention in today’s national press?
Step forward….. If you follow our Nick on Twitter, you’ll know he loves interesting use of language, whether it be puns, silly signs or malapropisms. Some time ago, he suggested to John Rentoul that it...
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