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Boris, Davis, Kearney, Scott, Harris, Brown, Cameron, Clegg

Real life has been catching up with me recently and haven’t really been keeping up with the developments in political life so this is a quick run-down of my opinions on various matters:
Boris/Local Elections/Crewe
I know it was all a long time ago now and I hate to remind you all but I wasn’t overly optimistic [...]

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Lib Dem Liberalism @ ASI

The ASI blog gives Nick a good write up after yesterday’s speech on tax policy at Policy Exchange:
“In a speech at Policy Exchange yesterday, Nick Clegg said:
When Labour came to power in 1997, the Government took three hundred billion pounds a year in tax. This year the Government will take nearly double that. They take [...]

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A picture speaks a thousand words

Via Virtual Economics, I found this neat little visualization tool from Neoformix.
“Introducing News Spectrum ! It is a visualization of the words used for two topics in the latest results from Google News. One topic is coloured blue, the other red, and the associated words are coloured and positioned based on how highly they are [...]

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Get in my son

Who’s the white LibDem leader
That’s a sex machine to all the chicks?
(Clegg!)
You’re damn right

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Naive DC

Currently passing the time by watching an episode of the series Tory! Tory! Tory!, a documentary about the rise of Thatcherite conservatives in the 70’s and 80’s, available on Veoh.
Peter Clarke (PA to Keith Joseph) says this:
“I think you could say that the young Keith Joseph was not unlike the young David Cameron, that they [...]

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Gordon Brown - what a ….

prick.
Having wanted the job for so long, Brown seems unable to grasp the idea that he is now the PM and that at PRIME MINISTER’S QUESTIONS he is the one doing the answering.
I feel genuinely ashamed of PMQ’s.  I know people always say it is just a theatrical show but there should be at least [...]

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Nick Clegg: New Leader of the Liberal Democrats (on Youtube)

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Tory Lovebombing starts

Yesterday I blogged about the seven ways in which the tories are hoping to beat the libdems. It seems they have been quick off the mark with at least one of them:
“We hope that the Liberal Democrats under Mr Clegg will join us in putting pressure on the government to devolve power to local [...]

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Please step forward Mr…

Nicholas William Peter Clegg MP
Woohoo!
Well, I pretty chuffed as he was my man from the start. I really do have high hopes for the party now and am glad to be a part of it. Let’s start to get out there and communicate with the electorate and tell them why the Lib Dems are [...]

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The Mighty Who?

The Lib Dems are going up (or perhaps down) in the world as for the second week running, we have made it into the celeb-gossip newsletter, Popbitch, not for being so cool this week though:
>> The Mighty Who? <<
Clegg needs populism lesson from Cable
Last Sunday, the Tower Arts Centre in Winchester hosted a Lib Dem [...]