Vince: how to tackle fuel poverty
by Stephen Tall on July 31, 2008
The Lib Dems’ deputy leader and shadow chancellor has written for today’s Independent setting out his measures for tackling fuel poverty. You can read the article in full here, but here’s a snippet to whet your appetites: The recent announcements (…)
Liberator on the Bones Commission: "Clegg has just effected a power grab"
by Stephen Tall on July 31, 2008
There’s a must-read article in the latest Liberator taking a behind-the-scenes look at the clearly heated internal Lib Dem discussions of the Bones Commission into party reform. You can read it in full here. Three things stand out: 1. That (…)
Membership of political parties –from mass movements to freakish oddities?
by Stephen Tall on July 31, 2008
The news in today’s Telegraph that the Labour party’s membership is now at its lowest in a hundred years is a stark wake-up call for the governing party (and doubtless will in the well-worn cliché of tired journalistic prose “add (…)
The PPC Files (4): What's different about being a Lib Dem PPC compared to being a Labour/Tory PPC?
by Stephen Tall on July 31, 2008
Imagine what it’s like to be a Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate – tasked with leading and motivating a group of diverse volunteers against all the odds, and organising foot-slogging campaigns on a shoe-string budget that will get you and (…)
