Who Could Resist!

A week is a long time in politics, and this one isn’t over!

I’m sure you have seen many references to this Harold Wilson quote over this last week and how especially true it has been for the Lib Dems. Many people have been commenting about how this change in polls (almost over night) has been crazy, and lets be honest it has! I Expected we might get a 3… [Read more…]

I know its only one poll (but I like it!)

Today’s ComRes poll (although initial released in spectacular unweighted form) what was expected by many commentators, the leadership debate helped Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems. It would be foolish to think that this means the marginal seats are now safe and that we will now win extra seats easily but this does have huge… [Read more…]

I Agree with Nick

Seams like this should perhaps be our new slogan, If Cameron and Brown are anything to go by then I think many Labour and Conservatives supports would be happy to repeated.

News Flash: Fabian Society Decides to start Income Tax on all Income

Well its the obvious conclusion isn’t it? If raising the Income tax threshold disadvantages those at the bottom end of the pay scale then taking away it completely will mean that the poorest will be best of. No that hasn’t been suggested? Well maybe its because that removes incentives to start working, Maybe its because… [Read more…]

My Review of the Lib Dem BlackBerry App

Today, to my suprise and joy, we had the release of the Lib Dem manifesto… On blackberry! For a while I had bemoaned the fact that whilst Labour and Tories had iphone apps (and a blackberry app for the Tories) we had none. Today that all changed and I have to say i’m pretty impressed!… [Read more…]

Episode one: Band of Brother Quotes

So I thought I’d start a series where I post Quotes from the “frontline” under the name “band of brother quotes” and possibly another one for quotes that aren’t from out canvassing (called Dad’s army quotes). Please send in any that you have (mention your party and constituency and i’ll mark them down) All of these are from my… [Read more…]

Guilty by association

A certain Conservative tweeter this morning suggested that they needed  ”…to get the message across, a vote for LibDems = a vote for Labour. The idea of Clegg & Cable playing politics is scary! #GE10″ it’s nice to know that on the morning when we announce our tax plans and that is what the twittersphere… [Read more…]

The Down Side of the Current Political Climate in Kingston and Surbiton

There have been a lot of comments, in the run up to the campaign, that the distrust and general negative attitude of voters towards Conservatives and Labour suggest that the Liberal Democrats could do very well (especially as the general perception has been that we haven’t been as damaged by the expenses scandal). The second is… [Read more…]

A Few Quotes from the Frontline

Today I finally got out and did my first piece of proper conversing for the party, I was lucky enough to go around with Two of the local Council candidates (Ghazala Hayat and Kerry Williams) and the Local MP Ed Davey, it was really good to get some advice from experienced candidates. Anyway I though it might… [Read more…]