Sunday, January 11, 2009

Strategies for the credit crunch: have you really checked your cupboards?

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With the first day of temperatures above freezing for what seems like an eternity, it seemed like a good idea to do a bit of tidying around ...
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Saturday, January 10, 2009

An invitation from across the ocean

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I am often surprised by the number of readers who come from beyond the Liberal Democrat family (or my own, for that matter) and, in some cas...

Selecting a PPC for Brent North - meeting the Returning Officer

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Brent North is not a constituency that has a long and noble tradition of Liberal success. Indeed, under the existing boundaries, it didn...

Is £800 a fair price for a Taser?

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I note that the Government have bought 5,000 Tasers for use by frontline police officers in England and Wales, as part of a programme whereb...
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Friday, January 09, 2009

Rejoice! Rejoice!...

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...for on this day in 1799, income tax was introduced by Pitt the Younger.

A day on the witness stand for God?

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It appears Stephen Green, of Christian Voice, has complained to the Advertising Standards Authority about the Atheist Bus Campaign adverts r...
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Have Liberal Youth no sense of romance?

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In my capacity as Returning Officer to Liberal Youth, I am required to attend those meetings where elections take place. So far, so logical....
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It isn't going entirely to plan...

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Liberal Youth have a wonderfully ornate set of rules pertinent to the co-option process. They read well although the phrase, "The Execu...

Israel and the Liberal Democrats: a bureaucrat responds further to Iain Dale

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I had taken some offence at Iain Dale's accusation that we might be becoming an 'anti-Israel' Party, and effectively 'call...
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Thursday, January 08, 2009

Irfan, take a deep breath, count to ten and then blog...

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I've been having a bit of an exchange with that Iain Dale over the past twenty-four hours, and will be resuming 'hostilities' sh...
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London Region: why building your strategy based on the views of four individuals is less than ideal

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James Graham reports that Chamali Fernando, an aspiring Mayoral candidate for the 2012 London elections has apparently resigned her membersh...
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On hearing from my local Labour representatives

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Dear Councillors Crane, Moher & Moher, I've lived in Kingsbury for about eighteen months now, in a Labour-held ward (Fryent) in a La...
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Alas poor Iain, I knew him well...is Mr Dale intent on becoming a rather mangy attack dog?

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Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Iain Dale has accused our Party of being anti-Israel. What is a nice boy from North West London who started his...
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Welcome to my freezer, sorry, home...

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Ros and I have spent most of the past three weeks in Suffolk, and I have returned to London to find that my house is like a refrigerator. Od...
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Friday, January 02, 2009

What a way to run a railway...

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I'll admit that I'm still hooked on the romance of trains. I'm not a train spotter, one class 47 locomotive looks very much like...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

2008: the year in review in three parts (3) - triumph and... actually, just triumph

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Nominations for the Party Presidency opened on 1 September. We knew that Lembit would run, although his campaign was a bit of a slow-burner,...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

2008: a review of the year in three parts (2): one of our opponents is missing

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We returned from India, tanned and happy, but with much to do. I had found time, even on honeymoon, to be annoyed by Bob Shaw once again. H...

2008: a review of the year in three parts (1) - renaissance bureaucrat in frockcoat surprise!

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As usual, it’s time for me to review the year past as seen from the eyes of a party bureaucrat. Except that this year was rather less about ...
Monday, December 29, 2008

It is cold and dark. I must really like Grace...

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Welcome to platform 1 here at a pretty cold Welling Station. At least, it's apparently pretty cold, although I've worked up a sweat ...
Thursday, December 25, 2008

A Christmas Message from the Honourable Lady Mark to an expectant nation...

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Whilst the Queen is telling us all that it's our turn for an annus horribilis, I thought I might say something a little more uplifting. ...
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