Liberal Democrat Voice is an independent, collaborative website run by Liberal Democrat activists, where any individual inside or outside the party can express their views. Views expressed on this website are those of the individuals who express them
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- August 2006
We reported last month the sad death of Anna Werrin, the highly influential personal assistant to Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy throughout his Parliamentary career until his resignation as party leader...
Our esteemed editor Stephen Tall has an article for Comment is Free today discussing the question that Lib Dem leaders have to answer again and again in any election, but doubly so in such a febrile one as the one expected in just over a hundred days’ time. ...
In his hardest-hitting attack yet on the Labour and Tory parties, Nick Clegg has used an interview for BBC News’s Hard Talk programme to denounce both parties for colluding in ‘corrupt politics’. You can watch a three-minute clip from the programme here, in which Nick discusses Afghanistan. The ...
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Opportunity for young people to be heard.
On the 3rd March 2010 the young people of the world have the opportunity to show their elders that they are watching what decisions are made about our Earth and will not accept inaction.
Please spread the word, tell any young people you know about the event. Join the Facebook Gr...oup (Schoolchildren Stand Up for your Planet) and tell your friends to do so as well.
We will all put our pens down at 10 am (in every country not GMT) for 10 minutes and if a whole generation does it they will have to listen to us.
Many thanks
With the thought that there are only 353 days to Christmas and considerably fewer until the General Election, we launch into today’s Daily View. On this day in 1918, the Free Committee for a German Workers Peace, which would become the Nazi party, was founded. ...
Iain Martin of the Wall Street Journal put in a pithy request to the political parties yesterday, Day -1 of the 2010 general election campaign: Better Slogans, Please. Iain is equally scathing of Labour’s efforts (‘Come on Labour, wake up, get a move on! Do...
1. Military language will be the order of the day for debate pundits. Fighting to the finish, knock out blows and accounts of who is ahead on points: deploy your military phraseology at dawn. 2...
New Year, old sabre-rattling. Gordon Brown and David Cameron are parading their leadership credentials, with a view to capturing an entire nation – the UK, that is. ...
From the Oldham Evening Chronicle: A selection meeting sparked a huge fall-out amid allegations of threats and candidate rigging...
The Voice is only a success because of the interest and support from our readers. For many people just lurking and reading the site is all they want to do – and that’s fine, we’re grateful for people taking the time to read the site. You ...
As a party, we get increasingly defined as one of the ‘3 main parties’, and accordingly lumped together with Labour and Tories as being the same. This view is encouraged by Cameron’s foolish “we’re all the same really” message (as that’sreally what the voters want to hear Dave. Let’s not ev...
Happy new year and best wishes to everyone fighting elections this year. Well, the Lib Dems amongst you at least Spare a thought though for another group of people facing an election in 2010. Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe (Zanu-PF) is talking of calling an election during the year...
One of the many interesting and challenging jobs I am tasked with as a member of the exec of Nottingham Lib Dems is to produce a members newsletter five times a year...
Throughout the festive season, LDV is offering our readers a load of repeats another chance to read the 12 most popular opinion articles which have appeared on the blog since 1st January, 2009...
Good morning on New Year’s Eve 2009 as we here at LDV Towers celebrate the passing of the year and indeed the decade. There’ll be fizz spilled on the Night Desk for sure, and I’m cooking beef wellington canapés and a chocolate/chestnut torte. But w...
