Paddy: Scottish Lib Dems wrong to veto independence referendum
The Scotsman reports on the intervention of former Lib Dem leader, Lord (Paddy) Ashdown: THE Unionist parties in Scotland should back a referendum on independence to finish off the SNP as a political...
View ArticleTavish vetoes SNP independence referendum hopes
Despite Lord (Paddy) Ashdown’s public declaration last week that the Lib Dems should support a referendum on Scottish independence, Tavis Scott has made it clear he won’t budge – here’s today’s Daily...
View ArticleIs it time for the Scottish Lib Dems to back an independence referendum?
The Sunday Times reports: Senior Liberal Democrat figures will hold talks in an attempt to halt a growing rebellion within the party’s ranks over its opposition to Alex Salmond’s Referendum Bill. Party...
View ArticleTimes: Tavish Scott expected to see off Lib Dem rebellion on opposition to...
A week ago, LDV asked the question, Is it time for the Scottish Lib Dems to back an independence referendum?, amid suggestions in The Sunday Times that there was “a growing rebellion within the party’s...
View ArticleOver at Comment Is Free … Help save Labour with PR? No thanks
I’ve an article published today at The Guardian’s Comment Is Free blog, entitled, Help save Labour with PR? No thanks – republished below. (For the record, though I’m perfectly happy with the headline,...
View ArticleLib Dem MPs split on Euro referendum?
Almost two years ago, in the early weeks of Nick Clegg’s leadership, the Lib Dem parliamentary party managed to tie itself in knots over the question of whether to support a referendum on the Lisbon...
View ArticleLib Dem members say ‘No’ (just) to holding in/out EU referendum in next...
At the start of the week, Lib Dem Voice invited the members of our private discussion forum (open to all Lib Dem members) inviting them to take part in a survey, conducted via Liberty Research, asking...
View ArticleNick Clegg’s irrelevance to loss of AV vote
How important was Nick Clegg to the loss of the referendum to reform the electoral system? Very important if you believe this anonymous source quoted recently in The Guardian (hat-tip to James Graham):...
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How referendums are the most effective way to maintain the status quo & what...
Warning: this post contains paradoxes and thinking in progress… Paradox 1: When asked, most people in this country say the current system of British politics needs to change. Yet the public...
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