lib dems

Shame to see Tim Farron step down as party leader, despite winning a further four seats for the Lib Dems. He came across well in the TV debates, making quips about Theresa May's absence, for example. He cited as a reason he had to handle suspicions about his Christian faith, but said he would...

He won, will politics be at all different now? I'm interested to see his first PM questions. Will he fail like Cameron did in making it anything but a Punch and Judy show. I read he wants to make it more inclusive of back benchers and the public, he has apparently already emailed many of...

The Lib Dems were utterly decimated in the by-election, losing their deposit and coming behind an Independent candidate with no party machine. Not a good omen for the local elections.. *Dan Jarvis (Lab) 14,724 *Jane Collins (UKIP) 2,953 *James Hockney (C) 1,999 *Enis Dalton...

David Laws falls on his sword: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10191524.stm Rather a shock all this. Not that he is outed as a gay person, but I had thought he was a very wealthy man and didn't need to fiddle his expenses. (Which despite his protestations this is). Also he is by all accounts a...

The election thread seems to have run into the sand, and we have a new government this morning. Does anyone want to discuss the coalition deal and the prospects for government? Rolfe.

The Independent argues that http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/clegg-has-a-real-chance-to-change-the-system-he-must-not-blow-it-1968188.html that Labour will offer the LDs a real chance at electoral reform and therefore he should go with Brown. Of course possibly if he went with...

I know he's in favor of greater ties to Europe and de-nuking the UK, but if the Leberal Dems pull it off (still hard to see how but I gather the polls are swinging their way sufficiently that it is becoming possible), what will the relationship with the US look like? Special relationship lite...

Hi All, If you have an opinion on British politics, maybe you can tell me why the upcoming election is being represented, as always, as a race between only two parties, with the Lib Dems serving only as a confounding complication. It seems to me always to be the case that when the Labour party...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4695270.stm Not bad for a party that lost it's leader recently.

Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy has <del>sacked</del> asked front bencher* Jenny Tonge to step down following her remarks about Palestinian suicide bombers. "Her recent remarks about suicide bombers are completely unacceptable," said Kennedy. "They are not compatible with Liberal...

In a local by-election, the previously safe labour seat of Brent east has been taken by the Lib-Dems. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3121336.stm Be afriad Tony, be very afraid. This may be an indicator of the way the next election will go; massive stay aways and lots of poeple voting...