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  • Who I’m backing… for the Lib Dem Mayoral candidate

    In all the excitement of the leadership contest, I’ve just realised that I never got around to endorsing anyone for the Lib Dem mayoral candidate. Since the deadline for ballots has been extended, there are possibly 2, maybe even 3 votes out there that haven’t been cast yet, so here goes. It’s a total no-brainer:…

  • Extraordinary rant from Fiyaz Mughal

    Fiyaz Mughal posted this extraordinary rant at 2.15am on Wednesday morning: Come on! Don’t get taken in by ‘Big’ Names, Look at the Experience in Front of You 2.15.00am BST (GMT +0100) Wed 19th Sep 2007 Tomorrow is the first hustings of the mayoral candidacy for the Party and the past few days have shown…

  • Get tough on the fear of crime

    One of the things that most irritated me about the Orange Book a few years ago was David Laws hectoring the Lib Dems for not doing enough to acknowledge how the fear of crime affects people’s daily lives (I paraphrase as I don’t have the book in front of me right now). Boris Johnson made…

  • Knick-knack Paddick-whack

    Regular readers may recall that I don’t have too much faith in the capacity of parties to find suitable candidates for London Mayor. The problem is, there are simply too few roles available for people to perform credible “apprenticeships” for the top job, the GLA being an anonymous talking shop. Thus far the only elected…