Anthony Wells is arguing about what percentage of don’t knows in the polls for the Crewe & Nantwich byelection are actually Labour voters who feel embarrassed to say so – analogous to the “shy Tories” of the 1990s. I would think the number is considerable. During my candidacy in Egham Hythe, I knocked on and…
Read More Bashful BrownitesYou may be wondering why this blog missed a week; the answer is, of course, a repeat of my 2006 candidacy for mayor of Aspen Runnymede Borough Council. As in 2006, I shocked the local Liberal party with the radical option of actually going and knocking on doors; as then, I achieved absolutely nothing. Both…
Read More Gordon Brown: My Part in His DownfallUnity is on to something with this rant about government Web sites. But I think we can take this a nudge further. Essentially, if you’re visiting a government Web site, you’re doing one of two things; you’re either engaged in some sort of transaction with the government, or else you’re looking for some sort of…
Read More Government Websites: Considered DireOK, so it’s frankly hilarious that a RESPECT councillor and Socialist Workers Party member has defected to the Tories. But describing him as a “socialist jihadist conservative” is offensive, stupid, illiberal and anti-democratic, not to mention libellous. For a start, it assumes facts not in evidence. Mr Hussain is not, to the best of my…
Read More James Graham Badly Needs to Wind his Neck InLiberal health policy. Apparently there’s to be a blogger Q&A about this on Tuesday; it looks roughly OK to me, although I’d like to see us offering something genuinely radical like converting some trusts into co-ops. Interesting question; how could that interwork with Clegg’s elected health boards?
Read More Co-operatingJames Graham asks: does your candidate for Mayor of London pass the 7th July competence test? This is of course a strong suit for the Liberals; perhaps the only one going in a dead campaign. Picking Brian Paddick as the candidate against lardbucket and International Marxists for Police Bullets was a cracking idea; wouldn’t JG’s…
Read More Liberal CompetenceKen Livingstone is surely unelectable now, sez one of the sinister faceless committee/gaggle of sockpuppets attached to Daniel Davies that is Aaronovitch Watch. Jesus, I hope not; the prospect of Boris Johnson being put in charge of London is too much to contemplate. Consider this; Ken brought a load of old hard-left mates with him…
Read More Open up my eager eyes…I’m Mr BrightsideI can’t begin to imagine why LibDem polls are up; especially as at the same time more of the population now oppose than support ID cards.
Read More What might explain this astonishing result?Who is this neighbouring Liberal who just knocked 12 per cent off the Tories in Datchet?
Read More In Local NewsSo what are the lessons of the Liberal conference? First up, get a bloody autocue already. We could have a blogger whipround. Out of all the speakers I saw on TV, excepting Ming’s big finish, all of them were very obviously reading off a bit of paper. Danny Alexander’s entire TV appearance consisted of him…
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