When being called a Liberal Democrat is taken as an insult
LDV has mentioned previously the tendency of Gordon Brown to attempt (rather pathetically) to rile Liberal Democrats by referring to ‘the Liberal party’ at Prime Minister’s Questions. Well, up in...
View ArticleLiverpool Lib Dem loses election law breach appeal
The Liverpool Echo reports: A LIVERPOOL councillor failed to have his conviction for breaching election law upheld [sic - should say overturned]. Lib Dem Steve Hurst was found guilty in December of...
View ArticleBournemouth getting ready to welcome #ldconf
A piece in the Bournemouth Echo underlines just how important party conferences are to the resort’s economy – and just how huge an event conference is, even for the smallest of the three main parties:...
View ArticlePaul Twigger selected for Lib Dems in West Derby
ClickLiverpool.com has the story: Cllr Paul Twigger has been unanimously selected by the Liberal Democrats to fight the next General election for the West Derby constituency. At 28, Paul Twigger will...
View ArticleBiggest. Lib Dem conference. Ever.
Ahead of next month’s Liberal Democrat Conference, the Independent has a few superlatives on the party’s biggest gathering yet: One thousand extra pass applications are being processed for next month’s...
View ArticleHelp spread the word about tonight’s #Tweetup!
LibDemVoice are hosting four events at conference – fuller details are available here. As the week motors on, the evening planned for our Liberal Drinks / Tweetup night approaches. We’ll be in the...
View ArticlePaula Keaveney writes: The Leading of Liverpool
As I write I have just finished my first week as the new Leader of the Liberal Democrats on Liverpool City Council. And what a week it’s been. As the first female leader of a major party on the City...
View ArticleIn other news… Richard Kemp for Liverpool, Kennedy on the UK, defection in...
Here’s a round-up of stories we haven’t had time to cover on the site this past week… Richard Kemp to represent Liberal Democrats in Liverpool mayor election in May (Liverpool Echo) ‘He said: “I am...
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The 3 Lib Dem mayoral candidates profiled
Three mayoral elections will take place a week today. Though the media has fixated on London’s Boris/Brian/Ken campaign, there are contests also to elect the first-ever mayors of Liverpool and Salford....
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Kiron Reid resigns from Lib Dems to run as independent police commissioner in...
Kiron Reid, three-times Lib Dem parliamentary candidate and a councillor in Liverpool for a decade, has resigned from the party to enable him to run for the post of Police and Crime Commissioner as an...
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Eddie Clein on ‘Falling off the Fence’, his memoir of six decades in...
Eddie Clein, a long-standing former Lib Dem councillor and former Lord Mayor of Liverpool, has recently published his memoirs of his six decades’ involvement in the city’s politics – from his first win...
View ArticleTwo important deadlines for next week’s conference
Before the weekend is over, a couple of quick reminders about important deadlines to do with next week’s Conference in Liverpool. I am ridiculously excited about heading back to Liverpool. I’ve been...
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++EXCLUSIVE++ REVEALED: Evidence of LDV editor skiving off essential...
It was clearly the duty of all hard-working members of the Liberal Democrat Voice team to be paying attention and taking notes at the constitutional consultative session yesterday afternoon at...
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Thanks Liverpool!
My photo of the stage at the replica Cavern Club, The Beatles Story, Liverpool. When we visit a city for a conference, it has a significant positive impact on the local economy of that area. Our...
View ArticleLiberal Democrat success in Liverpool
I tend not to write pieces for political websites as I don’t consider myself a great writer and often shy away from the challenge. However, I couldn’t resist an opportunity to talk about, and thank our...
View ArticleRichard Kemp and Liverpool Lib Dems set up street stall outside Labour...
Knowing that there may be a lot of unhappy Labour members once the leadership result is announced, Richard Kemp and the Liverpool Liberal Democrats are setting up a stall outside Labour’s conference to...
View ArticleWhen being called a Liberal Democrat is taken as an insult
LDV has mentioned previously the tendency of Gordon Brown to attempt (rather pathetically) to rile Liberal Democrats by referring to ‘the Liberal party’ at Prime Minister’s Questions. Well, up in...
View ArticleLiverpool Lib Dem loses election law breach appeal
The Liverpool Echo reports: A LIVERPOOL councillor failed to have his conviction for breaching election law upheld [sic – should say overturned]. Lib Dem Steve Hurst was found guilty in December of...
View ArticleBournemouth getting ready to welcome #ldconf
A piece in the Bournemouth Echo underlines just how important party conferences are to the resort’s economy – and just how huge an event conference is, even for the smallest of the three main parties:...
View ArticlePaul Twigger selected for Lib Dems in West Derby
ClickLiverpool.com has the story: Cllr Paul Twigger has been unanimously selected by the Liberal Democrats to fight the next General election for the West Derby constituency. At 28, Paul Twigger will...
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