Lib Dems
Election 2012: Polling Day
By TSF at May 3, 2012 | 12:08 am | 0 Comment
Today important elections are taking place across the United Kingdom, voters in London, Liverpool and Salford will decide who they want to be their directly elected Mayor whilst voters in Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Coventry, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield and Wakefield will vote on whether to have a directly elected Mayor or not. Council more...
Conservatives , Election , Labour , Lib Dems , Politics
Election 2012: Why you should vote Lib Dem
By TSF at May 3, 2012 | 12:07 am | 0 Comment
Tristan Pithers (@TristanPithers) is a member of the Liberal Democrats It’s the day of local elections across the UK today as well as the vote for the GLA and the eagerly anticipated election of the next Mayor of London. I make an unashamed call for you to get down to your local polling station and put your cross in the box marked ‘Liberal Democrat’. After the more...
A Nail in the Coffin for Clegg?
By TSF at March 7, 2012 | 11:20 am | 1 Comments
The increase in student fees sparked a massive uproar in 2011 with many students taking to the streets to show their anger towards the supposed concept that Nick Clegg had turned his back on Lib Dem voters on student fees; this has had a damaging effect on the party. From then onwards Clegg’s popularity has been decreasing. People do not see the same leader that pinned more...
Huhne resigns from Government
By TSF at February 3, 2012 | 12:49 pm | 0 Comment
Chris Huhne the Energy and Climate Change Secretary has resigned from the government after it was announced that the Crown Prosecution Service will charge him with perverting the course of justice. Mr Hughes played a key part during the negotiations to form the Coalition Government in May 2010. In a statement the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC more...
Lib Dem Leadership Challenge
By TSF at February 21, 2011 | 11:53 am | 4 Comments
How times change, in April and May 2010 when election fever was spreading right across the country, it wasn’t clear if the Conservatives or Labour could form a majority government, polls in the run up to the election showed that Britain was heading for a hung parliament. It is quite clear Nick Clegg is unpopular with Liberal Democrat grassroots as well as with some more...
SDP Founder May Rejoin Labour
By TSF at January 16, 2011 | 12:47 pm | 2 Comments
Ed Miliband has been leader of the Labour party for 5 months, in that short space of time he has been honest where we went wrong and why we lost the election but of course there is a lot more we have to do as a party, he wants to move on from Iraq and being the party that is no longer trusted on civil liberties. I noticed on Twitter a tweet from a member of the shadow more...
TSF’s Political Review Of 2010
By TSF at December 31, 2010 | 4:30 pm | 3 Comments
What a year 2010 has been for politics, we now have a change of government with a completely different style to the previous administration, it has been a year of scandal, history, protests and cuts. From the Bigot gate incident to Nick and Dave in Number 10, here is my political review. January 2010 was a rather busy month for politics in Britain. The race for the more...
Articles , Conservatives , Crime and Justice , Economy , General Election 2010 , Labour , Leadership 2010 , Lib Dems , Politics
Saint Vince
By TSF at December 23, 2010 | 1:51 am | 1 Comments
What a week it has been and it's only Thursday! We have seen Saint Vince declaring war on Murdoch thus being stripped of the power to decide whether the news corp boss can buy up the remaining 61% of Sky, that power has been handed to Mr Cable's Conservative colleague Jeremy Hunt. Think we can guess what the answer will be on that issue! So after Vince was caught up in more...
RIP Lib Dems 1988-2010
By TSF at December 9, 2010 | 11:27 am | 3 Comments
Could today be the day the Liberal Democrats die? Might sound daft but if Liberal Democrat MPs vote for the increase in tuition fees then it's a possibility. Remember they campaigned and signed pledges at the general election to vote against any increase in tuition fees, in fact their policy was to abolish tuition fees. Fair enough with the economy how it is you can't more...
Priorities Mr Osborne
By TSF at November 22, 2010 | 5:09 pm | 1 Comments
Why has the Chancellor George Osborne committed the UK to providing a £7 billion loan to bailout Ireland when this Coalition government cancelled a loan to Sheffield Forgemasters which would have allowed the company to expand and create new jobs. Had the £80 million loan (which would have been paid back!) gone ahead it would have allowed the company to grow to be one of more...
