Conservative leader David Cameron is due to announce plans to tax banks - even without other countries' agreement.
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Lib Dem Voice launched our new website – How Liberal / Authoritarian is your MP? – at the party’s spring conference last weekend. LDV has identified 10 key votes from the 2005-10 Parliament – ranging from ID cards and freedom of speech to freedom of information and trial without jury – in order to rank
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LiberalDemocratVoice 23 hours ago (via libdemvoice.org)
The Digital Economy Bill is coming. The Lords have wasted most of their time wrangling over just how much they should support big business with laws, and now there are only a few days left to debate one of the most regressive laws to come to the parliamentary table. This is what the Government wants, to pass it without contest through the "wash-up" before an election. We must stand up for our righ...
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Lib Dem Voice launched our new website – How Liberal / Authoritarian is your MP? – at the party’s spring conference last weekend. LDV has identified 10 key votes from the 2005-10 Parliament – ranging from ID cards and freedom of speech to freedom of information and trial without jury – in order to rank
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LiberalDemocratVoice 1 day ago (via libdemvoice.org)
Turkey's prime minister has warned that he might deport up to 100,000 Armenians living in Turkey without citizenship, after resolutions were passed by US and Swedish lawmakers defining First World War-era killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.
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Yes indeed...Modo hung out with the Saudis for a week, and she's now taken off her burka and is an Expert on all things Israel!: So, Barack Obama can lose his temper without a teleprompter. And we have the supremely aggravating Bibi Netanyahu to thank for that. On St. Patrick’s Day, of all days, we wouldn’t want to think that our president did not know how to pick his donnybrooks....
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JOSHUAPUNDIT 2 days ago (via joshuapundit.blogspot.com)
Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Rights Group, writes about the Digital Economy Bill: The Open Rights Group would like to thank the Lib Dems for taking a strong policy stance against the Digital Economy Bill’s disconnection and web blocking proposals. The biggest danger now is that Parliament will not debate or amend the Bill at
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LiberalDemocratVoice 2 days ago (via libdemvoice.org)
Nancy Pelosi and the Do Whatever It Takes Solution To Passing Health Care Reminiscent of the John Kerry I was for it before I was against it gambit, the House Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi, are considering using a legislative trick to pass the health care reform bill without actually having to put an ay vote beside their names. Being called the Slaughter Solution, it is named after Representative...
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