Rear end analysis from Comment is Free

Okay, let’s get the blindingly obvious out of the way first. The Lib Dems are in trouble. We are floundering in the polls. Lewis Baston has a fair assessment of our woes over on Comment is Free. Sadly, Iain Macwhirter has also decided to have a go. Aside from the blindingly obvious – that our… Continue reading Rear end analysis from Comment is Free

Cameron and Merkin: let’s co-operate in splitting up

After a week during which the Lib Dems wobbled over EU policy, it is nice to have a reminder quite how scarily paranoid the Tory hive mind is regarding the Dark Continent. Pravdale’s mini-me writes this about Cameron’s meeting with Angela Merkin: What has this meeting really achieved for the Conservative Party? It could be… Continue reading Cameron and Merkin: let’s co-operate in splitting up

Ming toes the Stephen Tall line

Finally, a bit of coherence: Sir Menzies says he agrees with the prime minister – but as an ardent pro-European he is “not prepared to allow [Conservative leader] David Cameron to lead the Europhobes and their allies in sections of the media, to distort the debate on Europe without challenge”. The Lib Dem leader, who… Continue reading Ming toes the Stephen Tall line