Liberal democrats
This jibe that only the Lib Dems could have a sex scandal with no sex is so unfair
The Conservatives have had at least three sexless sex scandals since Thatcher’s day.
By Andy McSmith | McSmith | Thursday, 28 February 2013 at 4:59 pm
“The broken scales of our democracy”
Ed Davey, Liberal Democrat Energy Secretary, was interviewed by Andrew Neil on BBC1’s Sunday Politics, who put to him a terrific quotation from Nick Clegg from September 2010:
On the broken scales of our democracy ten voters in Glasgow North have the same weight as seventeen voters in Manchester Central, and this isn’t just a single [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 10 February 2013 at 1:31 pm
Cameron boasts he has “hit the richest households hardest”
I hadn’t had time to read the Institute for Fiscal Studies Green Budget before Prime Minister’s Questions, but it was brought up by Lorely Burt, the Liberal Democrat MP for Solihull, who asked David Cameron if he had noticed that the IFS had “confirmed” that raising the income tax threshold “is right”, and that the [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 6 February 2013 at 2:03 pm
A Digression on Drugs
I digressed in my column for The Independent on Sunday today. It is about Nick Clegg’s plan to defend as many as possible of the party’s 57 seats at the next election. The Liberal Democrats realise that they might lose seats to Labour, but they hope to defend well against the Conservatives in the south, [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 16 December 2012 at 8:21 pm
Those Alternatives to Trident In Full
Marvellous. Nick Clegg’s spokesman has briefed journalists on the Liberal Democrat position on nuclear weapons. He said that today’s news that Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, was spending £350m on the design phase of the Trident replacement does not mean that the Lib Dems have given up their opposition to a “like-for-like” replacement.
The Lib Dem [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Monday, 29 October 2012 at 4:28 pm
ComRes: Labour lead down to 4 points
Labour is only four points ahead of the Conservatives, the lowest lead in any opinion poll since April, in the latest ComRes poll for The Independent on Sunday and Sunday Mirror tomorrow.
Conservative 35% (+2)
Labour 39% (-3)
Lib Dem 10% (0)
UKIP [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 22 September 2012 at 7:23 pm
The tale of the 8.9%: Why I left the education system
Just under a year ago, I faced a pretty monumental decision. At the age of seventeen, I had to weigh up two contrasting options for my future. In September 2012, I could have chosen to remain within the stable borders of the conventional education system, but stack up a minimum £27,000 of debt. My alternative was to enter the world of work and search for a modest income, whilst youth unemployment soars.
By Callum Jones | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 26 July 2012 at 2:00 am
A rise in tuition fees might just be exactly what this country needs
Much to the anger of student organisations across the country and the shame of red-faced Liberal Democrats, university tuition fees have gone up. But is this such a bad thing?
By Will Robson | Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 13 July 2012 at 6:00 am
The Shirley Williams Twist
Now that the Liberal Democrats have fallen in line behind the Health and Social Care Bill, I repeat my contention that the only things that they have got from the coalition that the Conservatives did not want to give them are (a) the raising of the income-tax threshold and (b) ministerial jobs.
The raising of the [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 10 March 2012 at 3:38 pm
Bumble Bee Update
Jeremy Browne, the Liberal Democrat Foreign Office minister, was interviewed by Andrew Neil on BBC1 Sunday Politics today, and was asked about the man in a bumble bee costume about which I wrote in The Independent on Sunday. Here’s the transcript of that part:
Neil: You held an away day on Friday to work out how [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 5 February 2012 at 9:56 pm
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