Day: September 11, 2008

  • You’ve probably already read Danny Alexander’s attempt to clarify Nick Clegg’s position on tax cuts and Paul Holmes’ riposte to it. For the record I’m nothing like as sceptical as Paul Holmes is about tax cuts. I only ask for two things – that we are prudent and that we are clear about what we’re…

  • (Cross-posted from here) This article pretty much sums up what is wrong with the party’s communication strategy at the moment. Apart from the fact that it has been published roughly four days too late, it repeats many of the mistakes we witnessed last weekend. Reading it carefully, it is clear what Danny is getting at.…

  • No Lembit news today, so I thought I would just link to the launch of Kirsty Williams’ campaign to succeed him as Welsh Leader instead.

  • I’ve only just spotted this, and feel a bit foolish for not noticing it earlier, but have you noticed that the new Lib Dem website is Creative Commons? I’ve just checked and neither Labour nor the Conservatives have gone down this route. The Green Party has an inconsistent policy: a Google search shows that a…

  • Geoffrey Payne asks if the Green Alliance will ever acknowledge anything the Lib Dems do. Jo Christie-Smith gives her review of the new Lib Dem website design (broadly agree with her conclusions). An interesting article by Guy Hassan about the state of UK think tanks. Thoroughly Good Egg Mark Braund makes the case for Land…