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• Liberal England beats Guido Fawkes to story by five months

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 174
  Yesterday lunchtime Guido Fawkes posted about Adrian Hicks, the Liberal Democrat councillor who saw an alien in Winchester High Street. I pointed you to a video of Cllr Hicks discussing this encounter on 17 October and first wrote about it as long ago as 3 June. Liberal England: First with the stories that matter
  11 hours ago

• A Special Message from BNP Scotland on the Glasgow North East By-Election

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 650
  By Gary Raikes — As we enter the final three days of campaigning, the newspapers are suggesting that the British National Party could come third in Thursday’s by-election in Glasgow North East. We certainly know that our campaign has gone extremely well and that we have found a relatively high degree of support ...
  15 hours ago

• UK: ContactPoint database of 11 million children’s details to go ahead despite security fears

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 133
  Every child in England will have their personal details stored on a controversial database despite fears over security and privacy. Ministers are pressing ahead with the introduction of ContactPoint to every local authority in the country after claiming that a pilot project has proved a success. They say the ...
  19 hours ago

• Lib Dem councillor meets an alien

  
  Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG — Authority: 617
  The brilliance of this clip (and the complete speech is 27 minutes long) lies in the way in which you could miss the whole “alien” theme because of the sheer mundanity of its delivery… Lib Dem councillor Adrian Hicks has also had a close encounter with a “humanoid walking with a penguin-like gait” on ...
  20 hours ago

• Labour sends in big guns for byelection

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Alistair Darling and Alan Johnson will join Labours candidate, Willie Bain, in the Glasgow North East constituency today, following Gordon Browns visit on Friday Two senior cabinet ministers will visit Glasgow today to help drum up votes for Labour as campaigning in the citys byelection enters its last days. ...
  21 hours ago

• The contradictions of Mark Oaten

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 174
  Two years ago I wrote about the contradictions of Mark Oatens career. How he attempted to convert the party to his "tough Liberalism" when he was the Lib Dem shadow home secretary and later claimed that he had wanted to close all prisons but could not get his colleagues support. How he declared himself to be a new ...
  1 day ago

• 64% of public feel that the war in Afghanistan is “unwinnable”, ComRes poll finds

  
  Net News Daily — Authority: 575
  A new ComRes poll, commissioned for the BBC’s Politics Show, has found that 64% (nearly two-thirds) find that the Afghanistan War is “unwinnable” as more and more criticism hits Westminster over the controversial war. These new findings are up from 57% of the public last year on the same issue. The poll also ...
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• Redesigned Liberal Democrat site

  
  Simon Goldie — Authority: 106
  The Liberal Democrats have redesigned their site . It happened earlier this week but I was away and could not do a review. However, as someone who writes about how politics is communicated it would be odd not to give a quick overview. The site is a vast improvement on the one that went before. It is easier ...
  1 day ago

• Great Bowden public meeting on Focsa depot

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 174
  I could not make the public meeting on the new Focsa depot in Great Bowden. According to the Harborough Mail, I was not the only one who was missing: More than 120 people attended a meeting at Great Bowden Church Hall on Tuesday night to discuss the issue but representatives from Focsa and the council declined to ...
  2 days ago

• Obama’s Economy Hits 26-Year High Unemployment of 10.2%, As House Democrats Try to Add a New $1.2 Trillion Dollar Obamacare Entitlement Program

  
  Gospel of Jesus Christ, The Gift of Eternal Life — Authority: 121
  Pelosicare will cost a staggering $1.2 trillion, with small businesses wacked with HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS in brand-spanking NEW TAXES , courtesy of your business UNFRIENDLY Democratically controlled Congress  and White House. After that, everything EXPLODES in TRILLIONS MORE deficit spending on ...
  2 days ago

• 10.2%! What About That Mr. Obama?

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 457
  Friday the Department of Labor released the latest unemployment numbers. Leading up to the release the talking head “experts” thought that it would go up to 9.9% or maybe 10.0%. But when it was anounced that the jump was far worse to 10.2% it seemed to take a lot of people by surprise. Yes, 10.2% is now our ...
  2 days ago

• Being against the Daily Mail is not enough

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 174
  Introducing the Britblog Roundup a couple of weeks ago I suggested that "sometimes being against the Daily Mail takes the place of constructive thought on the left". There is an example of this on Lib Dem Voice today, though it involves the Daily Express rather than the mail. Ian Roberts begins todays Daily View 2x2 ...
  3 days ago

• Four in fight for Ormesby Ward By-Election

  
  Chris and Glynis Abbott — Authority: 103
  Four candidates are standing in the Ormesby Ward By-Election for Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, which takes plave on Thursday 3rd December 2009. Martin Bulmer (UKIP), Steven Goldswain (Labour), Colin Jones (Conservative), Ann Wilson (Liberal Democrat). The vacancy has been created by the retirement of Lib ...
  3 days ago

• 10,000-20,000 Americans Pay “House Call” to Congress Chanting “Kill the Bill” as Democrats Move to Pass Pelosicare

  
  Gospel of Jesus Christ, The Gift of Eternal Life — Authority: 121
  Organizers had only hoped for 2,000, so when 10,000-20,000 showed up (some put estimates up to 50,000) at the Capitol on Thursday with only one weeks’ notice, they were pleasantly surprised. “It is just overwhelming,” Tea Party spokesman Everett Wilkinson said according to Newsmax.com . ...
  3 days ago

• This is our time

  
  BNP Scotland — Authority: 122
  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6905279.ece Mainstream parties say that Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time has raised the BNP’s profile. . The mainstream political parties are increasingly worried that British National Party could achieve a political breakthrough in Scotland in ...
  3 days ago

• Rands Out, So Who Is Next?

  
  Katy's Conservative Corner — Authority: 406
  With former NC Senate Majority Leader Tony Rand (D-Cumberland) having stepped down, supposedly to take over the chairmanship of the State Parole Board, inquiring minds have to wonder, who is going to be next? Naturally, the rumor for several years, has been that the Feds have been "after" NC Senate President ...
  4 days ago

• Letters: Striking support for Leeds council workers

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  In response to Councillor Richard Brett ( Letters , 4 November), refuse collectors in Leeds did not resort to strike action lightly, but because they saw their income and livelihood threatened. Despite eight weeks of the strike, with the mess piling up on our streets and bins overflowing, the refuse workers have the ...
  4 days ago

• Wikio Top Lib Dem Blogs, November 2009

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 174
  Once again there 14 Liberal Democrat blogs in the Wikio top 100 British political blogs. Liberal Bureaucracy has dropped out, but Andrew Reeves is a new entry and keeps up the Lib Dem numbers. 1 (5) Liberal Democrat Voice Falls 1 2 (12) Mark Reckons Climbs 1 3 (13) Charlotte Gore Falls 2 4 (27) Liberal England Falls 1 ...
  4 days ago

• David Howarth retires to spend more time with his books

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 174
  David Howarth, the Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge, has announced that he will be leaving the Commons at the next general election to concentrate upon his academic career. I shall be sorry to see him go. He is one of the most able and Liberal of our MPs. Still, an attractive seat has suddenly become available. As a ...
  4 days ago

• John Walker

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  John Walker, who has died aged 97, was one of a small but talented band who kept the Liberal party going in the 1950s, before Jo Grimond restored its fortunes from their bleakest ebb. His obstinacy and good humour were fundamental to the partys survival in the industrial north, where parliamentary election victories ...
  4 days ago

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