I'm going to break with the tradition of a lifetime and talk seriously about the Lib Dems. No, come back, this might go somewhere - Scotland is shaped by 4 main parties. The left-leaning SNP, Lib Dems and Labour. That leaves a right-wing Tory party that, arguably, should be scooping up more votes than it does given the free reign that it has on that side of the political spectrum.As the smallest o...

Lib Dem Voice has got a bit random with this pile of steaming tosh talking up the fantasy of prospects of a hung parliament boosting the Lib Dem cause electorally, followed by an inevitable introduction of electoral reform. With the major parties vying for support from the Lib Dem franchisees, whether they are "Beverage", mostly drinking alone in the strangers bar, or non dipsoid "Orangers" ready ...

I blame the Tories. Ever since David Cameron became their leader, he’s been determined to ‘love-bomb’ the Lib Dems. Love-bombing is the ingenious tactic by which other parties claim to believe in enough Lib Dem policies without, y’know, actually being Lib Dems. Labour leadership hopeful Ed Miliband was at it last month. Then earlier this

The Lib Dems are a poorly disciplined party. Well really they are two parties - the liberals and the SDP. The Liberals would deal with the Conservatives, the SDP with Labour ( their old home ). Its time to start asking if the Lib Dems could really deliver a deal even if they agreed to it. I think whatever they agree to it won't be long before self serving Lib Dem MPs start breaking ranks to s...

Any remaining pretence that the Lib Dems are on the centre-left has been smashed by Nick Clegg's nauseating praise for Margaret Thatcher in the Spectator today ( There's a useful way to work out exactly where the Lib Dems are on the political spectrum, which is to look at the proposed mix of tax increases and public spending cuts the three main parties are proposing for tackling the deficit. These...

Every Tory I have spoken to this week has said the same thing, ‘aren’t the Lib Dems having a terrible time.’ The Tories are particularly happy because they see the Lib Dems’ credibility on economics taking a bartering thanks to the total confusion over Cable’s proposed new tax on million-pound homes. They also think that the new Lib Dem policy will hurt the Lib Dems i...

Article by Stephen Tall from Lib Dem Voice: This is a slightly interesting article, because it confirms that the Lib Dem campaign in Oldham and Saddleworth has seen the sort of all out mobilisation for a by-election that the Lib Dems are famous for. There is clearly no reluctance from Lib Dem activists to defend the record

With another poll showing the Tories short of the lead they need to be sure of a majority—ICM for the Sunday Telegraph has the Tories on 38, Labour on 31 and the Lib Dems on 21—we are going to hear even more about a hung parliament and the role of the Lib Dems; I can’t remember any Lib Dem leader getting as much media attention as Nick Clegg has had these past four days. But if t...

They look like Lib Dem, they dree like like Lib Dems but act like the Tories.

Guido Fawkes regularly attacks Labour for its blog failures, but Labour bloggers are nowhere near as tedious as the Lib Dems. The Lib Dem blogosphere centres on an extremely dull site called Liberal Democrat Voice. The rival, Lib Dem Blogs, is even worse. Yet the blogosphere is made for small political forces like the Lib Dems. It gives activists and candidates the ability to punch above their wei...