There is the distinct possibility that the bill for an AV referendum might also be attached to a Bill with constituency boundary changes as well as the number of MP’s and the 66% dissolution of parliament rule. If this is true it may well be a very cleaver move by people high up in… [Read more…]
May 12, 2010
There are a lot of statements going round that Labour supporters were right to warn that if you voted Clegg you would get Cameron, this is utter nonsense. Firstly only people in Sheffield Hallam actually got to vote for Clegg but lets just ignore that mistake. In many constituencies, like mine, it is a choice… [Read more…]
May 3, 2010
They will change the voting system so that it is no longer a winner takes all affair. We propose a change to the STV system which will still provide constituency links (in multi-constituency districts) but will mean that every persons vote counts and no longer will a party with less than 50% of the vote… [Read more…]
April 14, 2010
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…]
April 13, 2010
Today I came across the “We got Rage Against the Machine to #1, we can get the Lib Dems into Office!” and very quickly joined! As one of the people who joined the campaign to get rage against the machine to number one at christmas and a member of the Liberal Democrats it was not… [Read more…]
April 12, 2010
I had up to this point convinced myself that here in the ward of Kingston and surbiton people would be pretty convinced of the benifits of immigration. New Malden has the largest Korean community in the uk, we also have very large tamil and a Muslim community who’s name excapes me. So when I was… [Read more…]
April 8, 2010
It would have been very easy for the Lib Dem’s to have joined the attack on Labours National Insurance tax rise (which it is, its not a conservative tax cut) but they haven’t, and it doesn’t seam to have annoyed that many of the Liberal Democrat grass roots, or Labour or the conservatives which poses… [Read more…]
March 26, 2010
In light of the Health Care Debate in the US it got me thinking about how very few Liberal Democrats would oppose this bill or the introduction of free health care of some such, and yet in America the opposition are calling on the cause of Liberalism to oppose these measures (which is interesting as many opposition are… [Read more…]
March 18, 2010
In case you haven’t heard there has been a latest update in the kingston hospital debate. There has been a general debate about hospital services in london espeically in regard to the possible closure of further accident and emergency facilities. The recent changes in the conservative position can be seen in the difference between the… [Read more…]
March 17, 2010
Is it possible or even right that we should not have negative politics? It really annoys me when all you hear are politicans critising the other party/s but I have been thinking that all this critisms of negative politics recently makes me wonder is it right, or even possible, not to have some element of… [Read more…]
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