Monthly Archives: July 2009

1st	Six (count ’em) families now benefitting from Labour’s mortage rescue scheme (4) by Stephen Tall
	Daily View 2×2: 1 July 2009 (2) by Stephen Tall
	LDV doesn’t do statporn, but if we did (June ‘09) (5) by Stephen Tall
	Opinion: Get Activated (5) by Martin Shapland
	PMQs: Nick tackles Gordon on public spending (3) by Stephen Tall
	Forthcoming PPC selections (1) by Mark Pack
	Jenny Watson responds to criticism of her speech (6) by Mark Pack
2nd	Daily View 2×2: 2 July 2009 (0) by Helen Duffett
	NEW POLL: is it time to make job applications anonymous? (20) by Stephen Tall
	Opinion: The Wisdom of Clare Short (10) by Rob Hart
	Bercow: deputy speakers should be elected (0) by Helen Duffett
	The Times: Osborne to be investigated by sleaze watchdog over #mpsexpenses (7) by Stephen Tall
	Norwich North: could Labour finish fourth? (5) by Stephen Tall
	Opinion: Fear was the key in Iraq (and Norwich) (14) by Terry Gilbert
	BBC Question Time – LDV open thread, 2 July 2009 #bbcqt (3) by Stephen Tall
3rd	How can you help Liberal Democrat Voice? (3) by The Voice
	CommentIsLinked@LDV: Paddy Ashdown – The age when the powerful can act unilaterally is over (1) by The Voice
	Daily View 2×2: 3 July 2009 (0) by Stephen Tall
	Wikio’s top blogs in the UK: June ’09 (13) by Stephen Tall
	Lib Dem not-so-good-news round-up (2) by Stephen Tall
	YouTube ‘cos we want to: back to the ’80s (3) by Stephen Tall
4th	The LDV Saturday Open Thread (4 July ‘09): what’s on your mind? (1) by Stephen Tall
	CommentIsLinked@LDV: Nick Clegg – While the Conservatives try to appear gay-friendly, they now stand shoulder with march-banning bigots (19) by Stephen Tall
	A look back at the polls: June ’09 (13) by Stephen Tall
	The Ashdown method: MP in 14 steps (8) by Helen Duffett
	Top of the Blogs: The Golden Dozen #123 (1) by Stephen Tall
5th	Daily View 2×2: 5 July 2009 (5) by Stephen Tall
	LDV readers say: BNP members should be able to be teachers (4) by Stephen Tall
	ALDE’s new Euro-leader announced (4) by The Voice
	Tory council leader accuses Lib Dem MP of smear (10) by Stephen Tall
	Top of the Blogs: The Golden Dozen #124 (0) by Stephen Tall
6th	CommentIsLinked@LDV: Vince Cable – Government cannot wash its hands of tax (0) by The Voice
	CommentIsLinked@LDV: Alex Carlile – Why it would be cruel not to put Gary McKinnon on trial in Britain (2) by The Voice
	An ethical dilemma (9) by Stephen Tall
	Vince Cable’s autobiography – title confirmed? (9) by Stephen Tall
	Daily View 2×2: 6 July 2009 (1) by Helen Duffett
	30 things any would-be politician should do this summer (Part I) (9) by Mark Pack
	CommentIsLinked@LDV: Anthony Lester – End the legal uncertainty over assisted suicide (0) by The Voice
	Opinion: Ebay – Europe is the Politics that Counts (29) by Antony Hook
	Speaker accuses whips of leaking information (0) by Mark Pack
7th	Lib Dems press on Kingsnorth climate camp policing (4) by Stephen Tall
	Event: Future Challenges and Opportunities for Faith Communities (30/7/09) (0) by Fiyaz Mughal
	Simon Hughes challenges Home Secretary over McKinnon extradition (1) by Stephen Tall
	Daily View 2×2: 7 July 2009 (5) by Stephen Tall
	Philip Hammond and the ‘Bonfire of the Quangos’ (6) by Stephen Tall
	Clegg on families: Tories want to “turn back the clock”, Labour “minimise importance of couples in family life” (4) by Stephen Tall
	Huhne: G20 report highlights inadequate police strategies (1) by Stephen Tall
	30 things any would-be politician should do this summer (Part II) (5) by Mark Pack
	Brian Coleman in “mad, bad and sad” expenses smokescreen (4) by Helen Duffett
	CommentIsLinked@LDV: Claire Rayner – The only way to win back votes (13) by The Voice
8th	Daily View 2×2: 8 July 2009 (0) by Stephen Tall
	CommentIsLinked@LDV: Vince Cable – We’re the masters of the banking universe (1) by The Voice
	Millennium’s Credit Crunch Diary … June: Back to Business as Usual (2) by Millennium Elephant
	Who’ll be the 1,000th member of the LDV Forum? (0) by Stephen Tall
	Vince: “This is not so much a White Paper as a blank paper” (0) by Stephen Tall
	30 things any would-be politician should do this summer (Part III) (2) by Mark Pack
	Lib Dem Jeremy Wilcock selected to fight Prescott seat (7) by The Voice
	Gosport Lib Dem leader banned from council for two years (13) by Stephen Tall
	Lib Dem Graham Watson drops bid to become EU president (0) by The Voice
	Deputy PMQs: Vince tackles Harriet on bankers’ bonuses (3) by Stephen Tall
	Stoke update (0) by Mark Pack
9th	Daily View 2×2: 9 July 2009 (4) by Alex Foster
	Opinion: Cameron’s vision for local government is bleak (5) by Alex Foster
	Join Nick Clegg online for The Great Debate (1) by Helen Duffett
	CommentIsLinked@LDV: Nick Clegg – Afghanistan: We’re asking our troops to do the impossible (0) by The Voice
	Huhne calls for independent inquiry into newspapers’ phone tapping (0) by Stephen Tall
	Huhne on Yates’ ‘Coulson-gate’ statement: “This was a suspiciously quick review” (0) by Stephen Tall
	‘Coulson-gate’*: your LDV reader (4) by Stephen Tall
	BBC Question Time – LDV open thread, 9 July 2009 #bbcqt (3) by Alex Foster
10th	Daily View 2×2: 10 July 2009 (2) by Richard Huzzey
	Conferences: #lgaconf vs #ldconf (2) by Alex Foster
	Top RSS tips for local campaigners (1) by Alex Foster
	UPDATED: Facebook disables Tom Brake’s account (14) by Helen Duffett
	Opinion: Supermajority! (2) by Terry Gilbert
	CommentIsLinked@LDV: Nick Clegg – This vulnerable man has been hung out to dry by a government desperate to appease America (2) by The Voice
	Coulson-gate, day 2: Lib Dems refer NotW phone-tapping case to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (2) by Stephen Tall
	Online event: Reuters social media Q&A with Nick Clegg (13/7/09) (0) by The Voice
	Coulson-gate: your LDV reader, day 2 (1) by Stephen Tall
	April Pond’s moat: Iain Dale’s cheapest shot yet? (12) by Stephen Tall
11th	The LDV Saturday Open Thread (11 July ‘09): what’s on your mind? (1) by Stephen Tall
	Why has the Norwich North Tory candidate redacted her links to Tory MP James Clappison? (12) by Stephen Tall
	Opinion: Property and consumption taxes need to rise to fix the fiscal mess (8) by Giles Wilkes
	YouTube ‘cos we want to: Obama, Miliband and Mitchell & Webb (6) by Stephen Tall
12th	Daily View 2×2: 12 July 2009 (0) by Mark Pack
	Y Barcud Oren #9 (0) by Gareth Aubrey
	Launch: Engage, the new Lib Dem Policy Network (9) by Jeremy Hargreaves
	Top of the Blogs: The Golden Dozen #125 (0) by Stephen Tall
13th	Daily View 2×2: 13 July 2009 (0) by Alex Foster
	Nick live online now in virtual Town Hall Meeting #askclegg (1) by Helen Duffett
	Ming to head police inquiry into Damian Green police raid (0) by The Voice
	New edition of Liberator (4) by The Liberator Collective
	Opinion: Tories’ housing plot uncovered? (3) by Merlene Emerson
	Clegg on Afghanistan: Government strategy “over-ambitious and under-resourced” (6) by The Voice
	To tithe, or not to tithe? (28) by Stephen Tall
	Lib Dem MPs “more likely to be on Facebook than members of any other party” (0) by Stephen Tall
14th	The internet campaign of an Afghan Presidential candidate (1) by Mark Pack
	Brian Coleman was wined and dined before awarding contract (1) by Helen Duffett
	Ashcroft told: pay your taxes or don’t donate to the Tories (8) by Stephen Tall
	Tom tries to put the Brake on Google Street View (9) by Stephen Tall
	CommentIsLinked@LDV: Chris Huhne – Fresh questions for the News of the World (0) by The Voice
	Tories lose senior MEP over new right-wing Euro grouping (6) by Stephen Tall
	NEW POLL: should Radio 4’s Thought for the Day be opened up to secularists and humanists? (33) by Stephen Tall
	Vince Cable 1, Labour Party attack document 0 (6) by Mark Pack
	Nick Clegg at Reuters: the highlights #askclegg (0) by Helen Duffett
15th	Are these the most generous mileage allowances in the public sector? (9) by Mark Pack
	Daily View 2×2: 15 July 2009 (1) by Helen Duffett
	Nick Clegg in Twitter-only interview: 4pm today (0) by Helen Duffett
	Opinion: Berlusconi is no joke (4) by George Turner
	Lib Dem MP attempts to create devolved ‘Cornwall Assembly’ (4) by Stephen Tall
	Second senior Greater Manchester Lib Dem defects to Labour (10) by Stephen Tall
	Nick gets the Twitter-bug (0) by Stephen Tall
	Cameron new right-wing Euro group “backfiring on the Tories in spectacular fashion” (11) by Stephen Tall
16th	LDV readers say: almost half believe anonymous job applications “an unnecessary measure” (0) by Stephen Tall
	Cllr Milton Martin defects to Waltham Forest Lib Dems (0) by Helen Duffett
	Chamali and Chandila Fernando join the Conservatives (52) by Helen Duffett
	Arrested for being tall? (19) by Helen Duffett
	Total Politics Best Blog Poll 2009: vote now! (11) by Stephen Tall
	Opinion: Time to drag our treatment of parties out of the 18th century (15) by Costigan Quist
	Opinion: Gender is no cure to mistrust (7) by Antony Hook
	Stormin’ Norm: “One in seven MPs in luxurious Government cars” (2) by Stephen Tall
	BBC Question Time – LDV open thread, 16 July 2009 #bbcqt (4) by Stephen Tall
17th	Daily View 2×2: 17 July 2009 (1) by Stephen Tall
	CommentIsLinked@LDV… Nick Clegg: An end to the duopoly that dominated 20th-century Britain (1) by The Voice
	Lib Dem Michael Moore’s Tory opponent quits contest (1) by Stephen Tall
	Farron leads demand for better public toilets (6) by Stephen Tall
	Opinion: Calling all #libdem supporters – it’s time to tweet (11) by Sarah McCulloch
	Clegg: Brown’s “staggering chaos and confusion” on Trident (7) by The Voice
	Lib Dem not-so-good-news round-up #2 (5) by Stephen Tall
18th	YouTube ‘cos we want to: comedy special (0) by Stephen Tall
	The Independent View: Liberals must embrace republicanism (25) by Daniel Furr
	CommentIsLinked@LDV… Nick Clegg and Merlene Emerson write for Operation Black Vote blog (1) by The Voice
	Tom Brake MP writes… Google Streetview and British citizens’ privacy (5) by Tom Brake
	London Underground: should lines be completely shut to speed up engineering work? (8) by Caroline Pidgeon
	When twitter gets… heated (5) by Alex Foster
	Shirley’s six of the best (4) by Stephen Tall
19th	Daily View 2×2: 19 July 2009 (1) by Mark Pack
	Lib Dem bloggers’ summer reading (Part I) (5) by Stephen Tall
	Opinion: The Defection Spiral (27) by Lester Holloway
20th	Ros Scott’s Federal Executive report (July ’09) (17) by Baroness Ros Scott
	Daily View 2×2: 20 July 2009 (1) by Helen Duffett
	Vince on reform of banking regulation (11) by Stephen Tall
	CommentIsLinked@LDV… Lembit Opik: This much I know (7) by The Voice
	Opinion: Britain should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan – and soon (15) by Geoffrey Payne
	Lib Dem bloggers’ summer reading (Part II) (5) by Stephen Tall
	Top of the Blogs: The Golden Dozen #126 (0) by Stephen Tall
21st	Daily View 2×2: Tuesday 21 July (1) by Richard Huzzey
	Nick Clegg writes… The Labour party are worn out and irrelevant (14) by Nick Clegg MP
	The Independent View: Calling time on National Justice (2) by Shema Begum
	CommentIsLinked@LDV… Vince Cable: Some banks have not acknowledged their near-death experience (1) by The Voice
	Lib Dems oppose ‘non-dom’ Ron Sandler as chairman of Lloyds (4) by Stephen Tall
	Lib Dem Chris Davies sticks up for Ukip’s EU whistleblower (2) by Stephen Tall
	Can you help save Bletchley Park for the nation? (3) by The Voice
	Huhne on Coulson: “either complicit or incompetent” (15) by Stephen Tall
22nd	Clegg’s Fresh Start for Britain: education, ‘green jobs’, political reform (27) by Stephen Tall
	Final push for votes in Norwich North (4) by Stephen Tall
	A Fresh Start for Britain website goes live (7) by Stephen Tall
	CommentIsLinked@LDV… Paddy Ashdown: What we must do to win this war in Afghanistan (4) by The Voice
	Are the Tories set for Heathrow expansion U-turn? (2) by Stephen Tall
	CommentIsLinked@LDV… Nick Clegg: MPs’ holiday betrayal (0) by The Voice
	CommentIsLinked@LDV… Lembit Opik: We need a cosmic plan (9) by The Voice
	Tall photographer stopped again by police (7) by Helen Duffett
23rd	Boris Johnson breaks employment promise (0) by Mark Pack
	Daily View 2×2: 23 July 2009 (6) by Alex Foster
	Japan adds Twitter to the list of internet services banned in elections (1) by Mark Pack
	BBC Question Time – LDV open thread, 23 July 2009 #bbcqt #nnbe (12) by Alex Foster
	First Lib Dem win in Kensington & Chelsea – congratulations Councillor Caruana! (8) by Helen Duffett
	Danny Alexander MP writes… “We have a different, radical message about the change our country needs” (9) by Danny Alexander MP
	CommentIsLinked@LDV: Alix Mortimer – Why is Clegg picking this quarrel now? (10) by The Voice
	CommentIsLinked@LDV… John Shipley: Our record in power shows that we have vision and ambition (0) by The Voice
	Clegg: public has been “betrayed” by Parliament’s response to #mpsexpenses (5) by Stephen Tall
	What does the public think on tax, spending and the budget deficit? (3) by Mark Pack
24th	Is this the cheekiest piece of newspaper reporting this week? (7) by Mark Pack
	Accio voters! Harry Potter star Dan Radcliffe backs the Lib Dems (42) by Stephen Tall
	Daily View 2×2: 24 July 2009 (3) by Stephen Tall
	Norwich North by-election result: open thread #nnbe (81) by The Voice
	Parliament edges towards allowing footage to be put on YouTube (1) by Mark Pack
25th	YouTube ‘cos we want to: by-election special (5) by Stephen Tall
	Norwich North: what to make of all that, then? #nnbe (77) by Stephen Tall
	Norman Lamb: the Lib Dem MP who helped launch Tinchy Stryder’s rap career (0) by Stephen Tall
	LDV weekend meme: what is the state of the Lib Dem blogosphere? (15) by Stephen Tall
	New research service offered to election candidates (3) by Mark Pack
	Lib Dem MP John Barrett to stand down at general election (5) by Stephen Tall
26th	Daily View 2×2: 26 July 2009 (0) by Mark Pack
	Are you on your way to the Forum? (4) by Stephen Tall
	Howarth: Labour should stop “playing politics” with voting reform (3) by Stephen Tall
	CommentIsLinked@LDV… Vince Cable: Silver Power, the force that could save us (4) by The Voice
	How to get your picture to appear next to your comments (7) by Mark Pack
	Top of the Blogs: The Golden Dozen #127 (0) by Stephen Tall
27th	Opinion: A Fresh Start is the most vacuous suicide note in history (15) by Bill le Breton
	Daily View 2×2: 27 July 2009 (1) by Helen Duffett
	Opinion: You say you want a revolution …? (9) by Simon Titley
	Which TV show cheers Nick up? And which public intellectual does Vince most admire? (1) by Stephen Tall
	Birmingham Ladywood Lib Dem PPC loses judicial review (10) by Stephen Tall
	CommentIsLinked@LDV… Terry Stacy: Councils must be transparent and accountable about surveillance (1) by The Voice
28th	Politics, money and elections: what changes with the Political Parties and Elections Act 2009? (3) by Mark Pack
	Daily View 2×2: 28 July 2009 (1) by Richard Huzzey
	Site Down Time (5) by Ryan Cullen
29th	Our new look (22) by The Voice
	Daily View 2×2: 29 July 2009 (1) by Stephen Tall
	Electoral register project bids to win “worst Government IT project” prize (5) by Mark Pack
	Time for a heated, televised debate? (8) by Stephen Tall
	Opinion: The high social price of A Fresh Start‘s ‘prudent’ decisions (19) by Matthew Sowemimo
	CommentIsLinked@LDV… James Graham: We need a harder line on voting reform (0) by The Voice
	Teather: “We need a massive increase in the number of social homes” (8) by The Voice
	48 hours left to vote in the Total Politics top blogs poll (0) by Stephen Tall
30th	Peston’s posers: where next for our mixed economy? (8) by Stephen Tall
	Interview with Stephen Williams MP (0) by Alex Foster
	Are you only interested in things you agree with? (3) by Mark Pack
	Lib Dems’ £550k deficit, 8.5% membership drop, and other facts from the party’s annual accounts (59) by Stephen Tall
	CommentIsLinked@LDV… Greg Stone: It’s time for the next Great Reform Act (1) by The Voice
	Clegg on Chilcot: Blair and Brown must not escape Iraq inquiry spotlight (1) by The Voice
	Where next for Lembit? (16) by Stephen Tall
31st	Daily View 2×2: 31 July 2009 (0) by Stephen Tall
	Expelled Tory MEP reveals fascist links of Tories’ new Euro leader (11) by Stephen Tall
	Interview with Bristol Councillors (0) by Alex Foster
	Mailing List Teething Problems (0) by Ryan Cullen
	Road safety advice for Londoners: avoid Boris’s bike (2) by Helen Duffett
	Full disclosure: what should be disclosed and documented on a political website? (2) by Mark Pack
	CommentIsLinked@LDV… Nick Clegg: Don’t leave the Liberal Democrats out of it (7) by The Voice
	PM4PM? If so, it’ll be the Lib Dems’ fault (9) by Stephen Tall