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• Chris Carrigan wrote a new post, Welcome LDER Members and Supporters, on the site Liberal Democrats 1 week, 1 day ago

  Welcome the hundreds of  people we added to the site on Saturday. You should find that your membership status is reported correctly in the comments to the left if not them please contact Chris Carrigan using the […]

• admin wrote a new post, A Tory-Ukip pact? Up to you, guys. But you do know there’s an easier way, right?, on the site Liberal Democrats 1 week, 1 day ago

  Ukip’s spectacular showing at last week’s local elections has got the Tories spooked. The full realisation is sinking in that this may not be a one-off eruption of popular protest.
  Nigel Farage’s band of […]

• admin wrote a new post, Opinion: Lessons from the local elections – a Congolese point of view, on the site Liberal Democrats 1 week, 2 days ago

  By David Lloyd Mayala

  Last week local elections took place up and down the UK.   As local elections go, I know these caused more of a stir than most because of the UK Independence Party’s strong showing.  The […]

• admin wrote a new post, LibLink: Richard Marbrow – Ukip is essentially a ‘party of the south east’ despite gains, on the site Liberal Democrats 1 week, 2 days ago

  By Nick Thornsby

  Writing for Public Service Europe, Lib Dem campaigner Richard Marbrow has an interesting piece on the distinctly geographical ‘success’ of Ukip.

  Here’s an excerpt:

  For those of us who ply […]

• admin wrote a new post, Opinion: The Liberal Democrats and the County Council elections – a whole new chapter?, on the site Liberal Democrats 1 week, 2 days ago

  By Ed Maxfield
  A wise man said to me today: “are you going to write a new chapter for the book after you came third in your election?” The chapters in 101 Ways to Win an Election are each the same length as an […]

• James Graham wrote a new post, How can we reform local elections?, on the site Unlock Democracy @ Reform Groups 1 week, 4 days ago

  The local election results are now in and the one thing everyone agrees is that the political landscape has shifted. The significant upswing in UKIP support has damaged the Conservatives, dented Labour’s […]

• Anthony Tuffin wrote a new post, DIY AV election in Isle of Wight!, on the site Electoral Reform & STV 1 week, 5 days ago

  An Isle of Wight STV reformer has reported that, in the Shanklin South division, the sitting member was the Conservative leader of the Isle of Wight Council, which had a Conservative majority.
  Initially, various […]

• Anthony Tuffin wrote a new post, Dorset’s democratic deficit, on the site Electoral Reform & STV 1 week, 5 days ago

  Here are some facts from one county – Dorset – where there were Council elections by First Past The Post on Thursday.
  It took an average of 815 votes to elect each Conservative Councillor, 1,936 to elect each […]

• Anthony Tuffin wrote a new post, FPTP robs Cambridgeshire Greens, on the site Electoral Reform & STV 1 week, 5 days ago

  The Conservatives were the main beneficiaries and the Labour and the Green Parties were the main losers in Cambridgeshire of the undemocratic First Past The Post voting system used in last Thursday’s County […]

• Anthony Tuffin wrote a new post, Tories win Kent although 6 out of 10 voted against them, on the site Electoral Reform & STV 1 week, 5 days ago

  Kent County Council elections 2013
  An analysis by Michael Steed and Eric Syddique
  Kent Conservatives will exercise untrammelled power in County Hall with the approval of little more than a third of the voters – […]

• Anthony Tuffin wrote a new post, SV (silly voting) in Doncaster, on the site Electoral Reform & STV 1 week, 5 days ago

  Doncaster voters elected a Mayor by SV on Thursday. SV is supposed to stand for Supplementary Vote, but it may as well stand for silly voting.
  The curious thing is that SV was invented to cope with the […]

• admin wrote a new post, Local elections 2013: the story in four graphics, on the site Liberal Democrats 2 weeks ago

  Here’s the story of this year’s local elections in three graphics…
  First, let’s start with the bald statistics: the Lib Dems made a net loss of 124 councillors on Thursday. As I pointed out here, that’s slightly […]

• admin wrote a new post, Opinion: Ironically, the rise of UKIP makes Britain a more European place, on the site Liberal Democrats 2 weeks ago

  UKIP’s relative success in the English local elections and South Shields by-election this week has met with predictable reactions across the political spectrum: from copycat politics and jealousy on the Tory […]

• admin wrote a new post, Polls are closed! Here’s some election reading to keep you going for the loooong wait…, on the site Liberal Democrats 2 weeks ago

  They’re over! Nothing more to be done now but wait. And it’ll be a long wait for most, with many of today’s local elections not due to be counted until tomorrow. I offered my preview of today’s local elections <a […]

• admin wrote a new post, The Sun refuses to back the Tories, says ‘Vote local’ (Aka: The Sun hedges its bets), on the site Liberal Democrats 2 weeks ago

  Does what The Sun says matter?
  In its own terms, of course not. Its own self-promoted myth that it was ‘The Sun wot won it’ for the Tories in 1992 with its anti-Kinnock front page belies the reality: it backs […]