Monthly Archives: November 2009

1st	Daily View 2×2: 1 November 2009 (11) by Mark Pack
	How you can help Liberal Democrat Voice (1) by The Voice
	Forthcoming Parliamentary selections (3) by Mark Pack
	The plans to cut election expenses may be dead but there are still lessons to learn (8) by Mark Pack
	Opinion: Consumer Politics‏ (8) by Andy Mayer
	The Sunday political TV shows: senior Tories go AWOL (1) by Mark Pack
2nd	Daily View 2×2: 2 November 2009 (2) by Stephen Tall
	Scottish Lib Dem conference: your LDV reader (0) by Stephen Tall
	LDV doesn’t do statporn, but if we did (Oct. ‘09) (3) by Stephen Tall
	Opinion: Why this is no time for “Savage Cuts” (29) by Bill le Breton
	Earthwatch debate (0) by The Voice
	Southport Conservatives and the missing £21k (1) by Helen Duffett
	Crack cocaine fines cheaper than a parking ticket (7) by Helen Duffett
	BBC launches new Democracy Live website (3) by Mark Pack
	“No one in Norfolk knows how to use Google” (20) by Mark Pack
3rd	Slough Conservatives update: convictions upheld on appeal (2) by Mark Pack
	Norwich North by-election report undermines the case for Friday counting (0) by Mark Pack
	Edinburgh, brace yourself: the first Lib Dem Bloggers’ Unconference (2) by Helen Duffett
4th	Daily View 2×2: 4 November 2009 (0) by Iain Roberts
	Opinion: Cast-iron Conservatism – brittle promises obtained from a flexible friend (3) by Ed Randall
	Introducing the all-new LibDems.org.uk website (39) by David Loxton
	Opinion: The Nutt affair – or, the thin line between evidence and policy (9) by Prateek Buch
	LDV USA: No surprises in Nov 3rd US state and city elections – Obama gets a bloody nose (5) by Paul Elgood
	Ros Scott writes… Party President’s report to members, October ‘09 (1) by Baroness Ros Scott
	Top of the Blogs: The Golden Dozen #141 (0) by Stephen Tall
	Cameron’s Euro line addresses all the wrong problems (11) by Alex Foster
5th	Daily View 2×2: 5 November 2009 (2) by Alex Foster
	Party Election Broadcasts: BBC Trust consults on new complaints procedure (0) by Mark Pack
	Cambridge MP David Howarth to stand down (15) by The Voice
	Imagine having a well-paid job for life (1) by Mark Pack
	Tories called on to disown councillor for pro-apartheid article (8) by Mark Pack
6th	Daily View 2×2: 6 November 2009 (1) by Iain Roberts
	John Pugh MP writes … Twitter ye Not – why Frankie Howerd was right (15) by John Pugh
	The LDV Friday Five (ish): 6/11/09 (0) by Stephen Tall
7th	How to handle comments (4) by Paul Walter
	MPs expenses: the details that you’ve probably missed (6) by Mark Pack
8th	Daily View 2×2: 8 November 2009 (0) by Mark Pack
	Lest we forget (1) by Mark Pack
	And in LDV parish news … (0) by Stephen Tall
	LDV readers say: no to all-women short-lists and quotas, yes to better training and support (30) by Stephen Tall
	Sopel on Sunday: Afghanistan (0) by Mark Pack
	Lib Dem peer admits exploiting expenses loophole (36) by The Voice
9th	Glenrothes by-election marked register set to rise from the dead (0) by Mark Pack
	Daily View 2×2: 9 November 2009 (4) by Stephen Tall
	Opinion: No to All-Men Shortlists‏ (57) by Jo Swinson MP
	Top of the Blogs: The Golden Dozen #142 (2) by Stephen Tall
	Academics say airbrushed images do harm girls and boys (12) by Helen Duffett
	Alan Johnson rejects Evan Harris’ claim that he misled MPs over Nutt (8) by Helen Duffett
	How Mike Hancock saved George Osborne (1) by Mark Pack
	Mystery emailer targets Cllr Jo Crotty (3) by Mark Pack
	Should Apple sell copies of Mein Kampf? (21) by Mark Pack
10th	Daily View 2×2: 10 November 2009 (2) by Richard Huzzey
	The weirdest criticism of Gordon Brown, ever – FACT (5) by Mark Pack
	Has Ashcroft met his obligations after a decade? (4) by Iain Roberts
	When is it ok to ban a journalist? (2) by Mark Pack
	Opinion: Back to the future: why 2009 is really 1832 (9) by John Ward
	Liberal Youth: a successful Bootcamp weekend (6) by Elaine Bagshaw
11th	Daily View 2×2: 11 November 2009 (5) by Iain Roberts
	Evan Harris’s blog on #nuttsacking (12) by Alex Foster
	March with Nick and Simon (2) by Iain Roberts
	Former UKIP MEP goes down for two years (6) by Iain Roberts
	Haringey ‘gagged’ council chief with six-figure payoff (2) by Mark Pack
	Daniel Hannan back talking about the NHS (4) by Mark Pack
12th	Daily View 2×2: 12 November 2009 (4) by Alex Foster
	Move over James Purnell, there’s a new photoshopping king in town (0) by Mark Pack
	Conservative PPC kicked off council for non-attendance (2) by Mark Pack
	A photo-shoot too far for Cameron? (8) by Iain Roberts
	Opinion: Pull out our troops (8) by Chris Davies
	Nick Clegg meets Oxford – the live-tweet (5) by Stephen Tall
	Four Bradford Conservative supporters go on trial for postal vote fraud (3) by Mark Pack
13th	A Labour gain, but no revival (26) by Iain Roberts
	Daily View 2×2: 13 November 2009 (1) by Helen Duffett
	How do the messages on the main political party websites compare? (13) by Mark Pack
	Two Lib Dem by-election victories (7) by Iain Roberts
	Interning for MPs: exploitation or experience? (22) by Helen Duffett
	The LDV Friday Five (ish): 13/11/09 (0) by Stephen Tall
14th	LDVideo: American politics videos (0) by Alex Foster
	Context is king – link for victory (1) by Alex Foster
	Improving election counts: good moves from the Electoral Commission (2) by Mark Pack
	Labour council leader admits stealing £1,300 (2) by Mark Pack
15th	Daily View 2×2: 15 November 2009 (2) by Mark Pack
	“Electoral watchdog under fire as Lord Ashcroft inquiry threatens to run into election” (0) by Mark Pack
	Haggis, Neeps and Liberalism #11: Lessons from Glasgow North East (12) by Fraser Macpherson
	Sopel on Sunday: the best bits from the political shows (1) by Mark Pack
	Two converts to Twitter’s political benefits (1) by Mark Pack
	Nick Griffin’s Barking Plan (12) by Iain Roberts
16th	Daily View 2×2: 16 November 2009 (0) by Stephen Tall
	The DNA Database: Making faking easier (11) by Julian Huppert
	LibLink … Nick Clegg: Don’t waste our time… bring forward real reform (14) by The Voice
	Opinion: Six months to make the difference in Oxford East and across the UK (2) by Steve Goddard
	24,000 children will die today – support our campaign (0) by Patrick Watt
	Rabi Martins appointed Lib Dem Chief Exec Chris Fox’s diversity adviser (4) by The Voice
	LibLink … CK answers Indy readers’ questions (0) by The Voice
	Top of the Blogs: The Golden Dozen #143 (0) by Stephen Tall
	How The Times has left me worried I’m hallucinating (6) by Mark Pack
	NEW POLL: Who do you least want to be Prime Minister in a year’s time: Gordo or Dave? (55) by Stephen Tall
17th	The majority of voters are female, so does it matter that the majority of MPs are men? (20) by Lynne Featherstone
	Weekend voting: will this be the next trend in trying to raise turnout at elections? (13) by Mark Pack
	Three reasons Nick Clegg was right to call for the ‘cancellation’ of the Queen’s Speech (19) by Stephen Tall
	The Tories and control orders: saying one thing, voting another way (3) by Stephen Tall
	Northern Ireland residents back ending donations secrecy (1) by Mark Pack
	Ex-Tory councillor on trial for vote-rigging in election fraud hotspot (2) by Mark Pack
18th	Daily View 2×2: 18 November 2009 (1) by Iain Roberts
	Is Colin Byrne right about internet campaigning? (2) by Mark Pack
	LibLink … Vince Cable: Banks should pay for their own protection (2) by The Voice
	Alex Ferguson forced to unban BBC (3) by Mark Pack
	Nick’s Sheffield Hallam opponent quits as Tory candidate after just 10 days (17) by The Voice
	Nick’s response to the Queen’s Speech: ” fantasy Queen’s Speech from a government that has run out of road” (0) by The Voice
	From our Correspondent in Barcelona – the ELDR Congress previewed (1) by Mark Valladares
	LDV readers say: overwhelming NO to idea of EU President Blair (5) by Stephen Tall
19th	Daily View 2×2: 19 November 2009 (0) by Alex Foster
	The National Lottery: what do you think of it? (14) by Mark Pack
	New figures reveal which candidates do the most campaigning (16) by Mark Pack
	Lib Dem Voice publishes exclusive general election prediction (57) by Mark Pack
	2,133 days of active service but no fuel allowance (3) by Michael Andrewes
	Queen’s speech not much fun for local government either (1) by Chris White
	Meral Ece appointed to Equality and Human Rights Commission (2) by Mark Pack
20th	Daily View 2×2: 20 November 2009 (0) by Helen Duffett
	Will the Conservatives deal with racism in the Orpington PPC selection? (4) by Mark Pack
	Are local council boundaries set to change? (6) by Mark Pack
	+++ OFFICIAL: Lib Dems cleared by Electoral Commission over Michael Brown’s £2.4m donation (34) by Stephen Tall
	My first Liberal Youth Conference (5) by Thomas Hemsley
	Welcome to the new bloggers… (3) by Mark Pack
	The LDV Friday Five (ish): 20/11/09 (0) by Stephen Tall
	Tory councillor suspended over “foreign names” slur (5) by The Voice
	Goodnight from Irfan (4) by Alex Foster
21st	LDVideo … Balls, Murdoch & Jon Culshaw’s Brown rap (2) by Stephen Tall
	How to build-up the size of your blog’s readership (1) by Mark Pack
	Electoral fact of the day: turnout and postal voting (0) by Mark Pack
	Live TV coverage of Parliament started 20 years ago today (2) by Mark Pack
	The LDV Saturday caption competition – Nick Clegg’s microscope (16) by Stephen Tall
	Vince talks to Iain Dale (4) by NewsHound
22nd	Daily View 2×2: 22 November 2009 (3) by Mark Pack
	A look back at the polls: October ’09 (1) by Stephen Tall
	Tory lead falls to 6% in Ipsos MORI poll (15) by Iain Roberts
	Former Islington Conservative candidate backs Bridget Fox (6) by Mark Pack
	Moving from Blogger to WordPress – ten lessons learnt the hard way (aka “The Long March”) (17) by Paul Walter
	Top of the Blogs: The Golden Dozen #144 (1) by Stephen Tall
23rd	Daily View 2×2: 23 November 2009 (2) by Stephen Tall
	Clegg asserts Lib Dems’ ‘hung parliament’ equidistance. (The headline you won’t read in today’s papers). (30) by Stephen Tall
	Lib Dem HQ: read what Nick said, not what the press reported! (69) by Stephen Tall
	John Lamont MSP sticks two fingers up the Kelly Report and outspends 128 MSPs (1) by Andrew Reeves
	Electoral fact of the day: turnout and age (0) by Mark Pack
	From our Correspondent in Barcelona – the ELDR Congress reviewed (3) by Mark Valladares
	Nick Clegg’s speech to the CBI conference (0) by The Voice
	What should be done with the PCC? (4) by Stephen Tall
	Tavish Scott on devolution, Donald Trump, liberalism and more (8) by Mark Pack
24th	Adding some colour to council emails (4) by Mark Pack
	Iain Roberts 4MP (4) by Iain Roberts
	£800k pay-out to victim of Tory spin chief’s “consistent pattern of bullying behaviour” (2) by The Voice
	So, farewell then, Richard (2) by Stephen Tall
	Scope for a public spending revolution? (1) by Chris White
	“You should have slept with mayor’s wife instead” (1) by Mark Pack
	“Race advisor slams Lewisham Labour over ‘apartheid system'” (2) by Mark Pack
	Is keeping the way MPs vote secret really the way to reform Parliament? (10) by Mark Pack
25th	Daily View 2×2: 25 November 2009 (3) by Iain Roberts
	Liberal Democrats back campaign to free our postcodes (10) by Mark Pack
	Follow the yellow brick road? The Liberal Democrats’ general election campaign (7) by Mark Pack
	ACT: the Lib Dems’ new action network launched today (11) by David Loxton
	Is downloading porn a reason to disqualify a councillor? (35) by Stephen Tall
	Tories rolling in dough shocker (0) by Alex Foster
	Cameron’s totally, completely new idea (2) by Iain Roberts
	PMQs: Nick tackles Gordon on Labour’s “suffocating and shameful culture of secrecy” (1) by Stephen Tall
	Vince: it’s time for a National Infrastructure Bank (1) by The Voice
26th	Daily View 2×2: 26 November 2009 (1) by Alex Foster
	More provisions of the Political Parties and Elections Act 2009 kick in (2) by Mark Pack
	Since when is something debated in public, in front of journalists called “hidden”? (3) by Mark Pack
	LibLink … James Graham: Lib-Con pact, or just a Marr moment? (1) by NewsHound
	LibLink … Nick Clegg: Crying wolf in 2003 destroyed all trust in Britain’s leaders (0) by NewsHound
	Tories hoist by their own Christmas card (12) by Stephen Tall
	Should copies of the electoral register be put on sale? (16) by Mark Pack
	Prime Minister removes all Christmas imagery from official Christmas cards (13) by Mark Pack
27th	Liberal Democrat victory in St Austell Bay by-election (9) by Helen Duffett
	Huhne slams “shameful” Johnson over McKinnon extradition: “stop being an American poodle and start being a British bulldog” (3) by Stephen Tall
	Daily View 2×2: 27 November 2009 (1) by Helen Duffett
	Jonathan Fryer selected for Lib Dems in Poplar and Limehouse (5) by Helen Duffett
	How will ACT and Facebook sit together? (7) by Mark Pack
	Big increase in the number of people who say they can name their MP (2) by Mark Pack
	Probably the most inappropriate Christmas card ever sent … (4) by Stephen Tall
	Nick Clegg’s Eid greeting message (3) by Mark Pack
	The LDV Friday Five (ish): 27/11/09 (1) by Stephen Tall
	Winterval: the Christian media has more questions to answer than local councils (7) by Mark Pack
28th	Lib Dem councillor expelled over police assault charges (11) by The Voice
	Even top Tory admits their shadow cabinet “haven’t run a piss-up in a brewery” (0) by Stephen Tall
	How to blog successfully as a councillor (0) by Mary Reid
	LDVideo … Mandy, Clegg and Coulson (0) by Stephen Tall
	The LDV Saturday caption competition – the Nick ‘n’ Vince show (9) by Stephen Tall
	If Vince is the Lib Dems’ Santa Claus, what does that make the rest of our MPs? (1) by The Voice
	New edition of Liberator (2) by The Liberator Collective
	Lord Roberts writes … Our Electoral System – not fit for purpose (1) by Lord Roger Roberts
29th	Daily View 2×2: 29 November 2009 (1) by Mark Pack
	Top of the Blogs: The Golden Dozen #145 (0) by Stephen Tall
	‘Who is Nick Clegg?’ Find out tonight on BBC Radio 4 (0) by The Voice
	Latest turnout news: bring on the curate’s egg (1) by Mark Pack
	What’s up on Act? (2) by The Voice
	Has Conservative candidate Margot James been breaking the law? (14) by Mark Pack
30th	Daily View 2×2: 30 November 2009 (6) by Stephen Tall
	Those Lib Dem donation figures in full (Q3, 2009) (8) by Stephen Tall
	Jo Swinson’s video from the UN (0) by Alex Foster
	Nick Clegg announces new Lib Dem tax policies with emphasis on fairness (5) by Stephen Tall
	Zac Goldsmith’s non-dom tax status: your LDV reader (20) by Stephen Tall
	Vince’s revamped Mansion Tax gets ‘twumbs-up’ from Susan Kramer (21) by Stephen Tall
	Opinion: Nation’s campaigners kickstarted (1) by Alex Foster
	Whitehall whips Wirral in off-the-shelf smackdown (8) by Chris White
	Nick: Government’s Afghanistan strategy “over-ambitious in aim and under-resourced in practice” (1) by The Voice
	LDVideo: Nick speaks about launch of Lib Dem tax plans (4) by Stephen Tall
	The FT on Zac Goldsmith (2) by Mark Pack
	House of Lords reshuffle: Chris Rennard joins front-bench team (33) by Mark Pack