Bold words from Young Master Clegg in his campaign email today: On our core liberal issues, I believe we must be bold. We must take our ideas, and turn them into action. This week I took the first step: we have always opposed identity cards but I became the first national politician to pledge to… Continue reading A case of overclegging the pudding
Tag: leadership-election
Clegg and Huhne need to pare it down to basics
The Lib Dem leadership campaign is starting to get spiky. Good, it’s past time for a bit of frankness. And while Nicholas Blincoe’s attack on Chris Huhne over on Comment is Free is ad hominem enough to make even me blush (making up a pretend speech impediment and then taking the piss out of it… Continue reading Clegg and Huhne need to pare it down to basics
Advice to Lib Dem Bloggers re Trident: shut up!
It is now almost a week since Steelgate. In that time, the Lib Dem blogosphere has been obsessed with the topic of Trident. It was a bad political miscalculation of Chris Huhne’s to make such a big deal of it over the weekend. Almost certainly, his intention was to make the announcement before his manifesto… Continue reading Advice to Lib Dem Bloggers re Trident: shut up!