Carswell, Brexit and Gladstone
As we know, there were several fairly eccentric and spurious reasons given by the Leave side for supporting Brexit last summer. One of the most bizarre reasons, however, is that made by erstwhile UKIP...
View ArticleA refreshing note of dissent in UKIP on Farage’s HIV comments
View image | gettyimages.com One of the most awful moments of the 2015 election campaign was when Nigel Farage mentioned “foreigners” and HIV treatment in one of the TV debates. UKIP’s only MP is...
View ArticleClacton and the Lib Dems’ post-2015 wastelands problem
The Clacton by-election triggered by Douglas Carswell’s defection from the Tories to Ukip will take place on 9th October – David Cameron’s birthday, but also the day after the Lib Dems’ autumn...
View ArticleRegisters and recall: I support them both. But they’re not going to clean up...
The weekend’s revelations that two Labour peers and an Ulster Unionist were filmed offering to lobby ministers for cash, following hot on the heels of Tory MP Patrick Mercer’s resignation of the Tory...
View ArticleOpinion: Delivering local citizens’ initiatives
Five years ago, back in the final throws of the Blair government, when Cameron was still hugging hoodies and Ed Miliband was just a twinkle in the unions’ eyes, I worked for an organisation called Our...
View ArticlePMQs: Prime Minister’s tennis
#113286558 / gettyimages.com Prime Minister’s Questions today was preceded by Scottish Questions, with our man in the chair. So we had a real bonus today, LibDemmy Chaps and Chapesses ! Nick Clegg on...
View ArticlePMQs: Hattie opens up the Coalition’s Grand Canyon
I feel as though Norris McWhirter (late of the Guinness Book of Records) ought to have been kneeling at the foot of the Speaker’s Chair with his stopwatch for this momentous Prime Minister’s Questions....
View ArticleBritain’s best MP competition: the results
Our ‘Britain’s Best MP’ competition has come to a close with Douglas Carswell, Conservative MP for Harwich, a clear winner. The final results are: Douglas Carswell 47% Gisela Stuart 16% Tom Harris 12%...
View ArticleWhat makes a ‘good’ MP?
Well, there has been plenty in the news recently about what makes a ‘bad’ MP so we at Yoosk thought that it might be a good idea to focus for a while on the qualities of a ‘good’ MP. End the year on a...
View ArticleDaily View 2×2: Friday 4 September
Today I went to Wikipedia to see what happened today in history, and saw that it’s the birthday of the composer Edvard Grieg. Quick as a flash, the Kit and the Widow song “hundreds of Norwegians on the...
View ArticleLDV readers say: 85% wanted Michael Martin to quit
Well, y’know, I’m personally convinced that Michael Martin must have been finally convinced to quit when he saw the overwhelming result of LDV’s over-night poll showing 85% of readers thought he should...
View ArticleThe LDV 2×2 Daily View (12/5/09)
Welcome to what’s intended to be a daily feature here on LDV: an early preview of the two big news stories of the day, and a click-though to two of the must-read Lib Dem blog posts just published. Each...
View ArticleCarswell, Brexit and Gladstone
As we know, there were several fairly eccentric and spurious reasons given by the Leave side for supporting Brexit last summer. One of the most bizarre reasons, however, is that made by erstwhile UKIP...
View ArticleA refreshing note of dissent in UKIP on Farage’s HIV comments
View image | gettyimages.com One of the most awful moments of the 2015 election campaign was when Nigel Farage mentioned “foreigners” and HIV treatment in one of the TV debates. UKIP’s only MP is...
View ArticleClacton and the Lib Dems’ post-2015 wastelands problem
The Clacton by-election triggered by Douglas Carswell’s defection from the Tories to Ukip will take place on 9th October – David Cameron’s birthday, but also the day after the Lib Dems’ autumn...
View ArticleRegisters and recall: I support them both. But they’re not going to clean up...
The weekend’s revelations that two Labour peers and an Ulster Unionist were filmed offering to lobby ministers for cash, following hot on the heels of Tory MP Patrick Mercer’s resignation of the Tory...
View ArticleOpinion: Delivering local citizens’ initiatives
Five years ago, back in the final throws of the Blair government, when Cameron was still hugging hoodies and Ed Miliband was just a twinkle in the unions’ eyes, I worked for an organisation called Our...
View ArticlePMQs: Prime Minister’s tennis
#113286558 / gettyimages.com Prime Minister’s Questions today was preceded by Scottish Questions, with our man in the chair. So we had a real bonus today, LibDemmy Chaps and Chapesses ! Nick Clegg on...
View ArticlePMQs: Hattie opens up the Coalition’s Grand Canyon
I feel as though Norris McWhirter (late of the Guinness Book of Records) ought to have been kneeling at the foot of the Speaker’s Chair with his stopwatch for this momentous Prime Minister’s Questions....
View ArticleBritain’s best MP competition: the results
Our ‘Britain’s Best MP’ competition has come to a close with Douglas Carswell, Conservative MP for Harwich, a clear winner. The final results are: Douglas Carswell 47% Gisela Stuart 16% Tom Harris 12%...
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