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There’s no prize at stake – just the opportunity to prove you’re wittier than any other LDV reader… Here is re-elected London mayor Boris Johnson with his fellow Etonian, Tory leader David Cameron. After this week’s local election results, what do you think might be being said or thought by or about them? And the [...]

With polls closed, here are my five predictions for the night to come… 1) I won’t win in Headington Hill & Northway, the Oxford City Council ward where I’m a Lib Dem candidate this year. The old adage applies: where you work, you win. This year our resources have been too stretched to contest all seats with equal effort. That’s  [ Read More ]

Here’s your starter for ten in our weekend slot where we throw up an idea or thought for debate… This Thursday, millions of voters will go to the polls to cast their votes in local elections. And although London is only one of those elections, its electoral size and the colourful prominence of its candidates [...]

Here’s your starter for ten in our weekend slot where we throw up an idea or thought for debate… The race to be London mayor took a fresh twist this week when the leading candidates pledged on BBC Newsnight to release their tax records. Lib Dem mayoral candidate Brian Paddick declared himself very happy to [...]

You may ask what could have inspired me to write such a headline. Well, it’s none other than George himself. As Iain Martin has blogged – twice, he found the Tory shadow chancellor’s state of denial so bizarre – George Osborne has issued a message to Tory supporters assuring them: It’s been another great week for our [...]

Two articles by broadsheet columnists on the prospect of a hung parliament bookended this week. In their contrasting ways, both made a convincing pitch for the attractions of neither Labour nor Tories ending up with an overall majority at the next general election. First up is Martin Wolf from the Financial Times, writing today that Britain [...]

Okay, okay I admit it – that title isn’t likely to entice in hordes of readers. But it is kinda important, so read on… In Scotland: The SNP will be able to pass its budget, second time around, thanks to the support of the Lib Dems. As the BBC reports: In return for the party’s backing, ministers have agreed to  [ Read More ]

Okay, so he’s one of nine listed, alongside The Metric Martyrs, John Sergeant and Boris Johnson (this is the Telegraph, after all) – but still when was the last time a Liberal Democrat earned such an accolade from the paper? VINCE CABLE Dubbed “Dr Doom” for his (accurate, as it turned out) predictions of economic meltdown, the man the Lib  [ Read More ]

In the immediate wake of Boris Johnson forcing the resignation of Sir Ian Blair as head of London’s Metropolitan police force, Lib Dem Voice asked readers how you think police chiefs should be chosen: directly elected by the public; or appointed by democratically accountable local police authorities. Here’s what you told us: They should be directly elected by the public  [ Read More ]

If you listened carefully, you will have heard David Cameron mention the environment in his speech to the Tory party conference today. Here are his remarks in full: I want a clean environment as well as a safe one. and [We] didn’t champion green politics as greenwash but because climate change is devastating our environment because the energy gap is  [ Read More ]