Gordon’s speech – Danny Alexander responds (and so do I)

by Stephen Tall on September 29, 2009

Gordon Brown delivered his speech to the Labour Party’s conference in Brighton today – you can read it in full here, or watch it here. For the Lib Dems, Nick Clegg’s chief-of-staff Danny Alexander has issued the following response: Gordon (…)

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12 years to re-state a watered-down pledge. So much for progress.

by Stephen Tall on September 29, 2009

The Labour Party manifesto 1997: We are committed to a referendum on the voting system for the House of Commons. An independent commission on voting systems will be appointed early to recommend a proportional alternative to the first-past-the-post system. Gordon (…)

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Top of the Blogs: The Golden Dozen #136

by Stephen Tall on September 29, 2009

Welcome to the 136th of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (20-26th September 2009), together with a hand-picked quintet, partly courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise (…)

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To be fair …

by Stephen Tall on September 29, 2009

I made clear my view on Sunday that the BBC’s Andrew Marr was bang out-of-order to ask Gordon Brown whether he uses prescription drugs seemingly on the basis of nothing more than Internet rumour: … in making it an issue (…)

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