As I said yesterday, the election of two BNP members has stirred up the political establishment and the media. For most of this week, commentators have exhorted the main parties to fight the BNP by addressing the grievances which lead people to support it. So, we must crack down on immigration to stop the BNP. We must build more houses to stop the BNP. We must create more jobs to stop th...

Tomorrow Hope Not Hate are mobilising to stop the BNP, and we need your help to drop off leaflets in letter boxes across the country. Sign up to volunteer just two hours of your time this weekend to stop the BNP. These are the volunteers in action last weekend: The BNP’s success last year propelled their disgusting

The first by-election of 2010 has resulted in a Liberal Democrat gain from the Conservatives in Harrogate. The result: Liberal Democrat Greta Knight: 688 Conservatives: 246 BNP: 92 Labour: 73 The by-election was caused by the death of the previous councillor – who had been elected as a Liberal Democrat but subsequently defected to the Conservative Party. Congratulations to Councillor Knight ...

Tonight has been the Liberal Democrat Blog of the Year awards, with the prizes going to: Best new Liberal Democrat blog: The People’s Republic of Mortimer Best use of blogging or social networking by a Liberal Democrat: Baroness Ros Scott’s campaign for party president The Tim Garden Award (for the best blog by a Liberal Democrat holding public

Measures in the Economic Recovery Plan include tax cuts for low and middle income households, stopping unnecessary repossessions, action to cut energy bills and moves to stop reckless banks jeopardising economic security. Click here to read the Liberal Democrat Economic Recovery Plan Introduction from Vince Cable MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown's response to the economic c...

A potentially very worrying situation is developing with the rally to stop the BNP’s festival on 16th August. Nottingham Stop the BNP and othe rlocal campaigners have been working to build this event continuously over the last 9 months for this event. See . Over the months with the help of the Searchlight network they

Continuing the party’s excellent run of by-election results in Camden (and more generally in North London), Linda Chung is the new councillor for Hampstead Town ward: Liberal Democrat 1,242 (44.1%, +11.5%) Conservative 1,114 (39.6%, -6.9%) Labour 289 (10.3%, -1.0%) Green 140 (5.0%, -3.3%) BNP 29 (1.0%, +1.0%) Majority: 128 (4.5%) Swing: 9.2% Conservative to Liberal Democrat Congratulations L...

If you ask a Liberal Democrat what should be done to end the war in Afghanistan, the likely answer will be.... bring in proportional representation. Actually, if you ask a Liberal Democrat for an answer to any political problem... introducing proportional representation will likely creep in there somewhere. Last night on Newsnight, asked what could be done to clean up the House of Commons in the w...

Here's an hilarious piece in the FT from Alex Barker: Two people have already asked me why on earth I’m at the Liberal Democrat conference while the markets are in crisis. But it’s becoming more and more clear that I’m in exactly the right place. Bring more than 100 Liberal Democrat delegates together on a seaside resort and — with frightening regularity — capitalism seems to shudder. Ye...

Saturday 9th May, meet 10:00 am. please pass this on anti-BNP Leafleting of Corsham. Meet 10:00 am at Corsham Fire Station, Beechfield Road, Corsham, Wiltshire, SN13 9DN Organised by Wiltshire Trade Unions. Corsham is the local hot spot for the BNP in the West Country i) they have a town councillor there (elected unopposed) ii) they have a relatively large