tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274733202011-04-22T00:22:00.824+01:00Politics from a Liberal DemocratTrevorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00437747091247409522noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27473320.post-53579298700779712442007-11-30T18:16:00.000Z2007-11-30T18:34:27.506Z

Having given the 'kiss of death' to Ming Campbell with my last post I have refrained from comment on the Liberal democrat leadership election. I had hoped that Vince Cable would stand and he would have almost certainly have got my first preference vote. Unfortunately he decided against it but has certainly done an excellent job as temporary leader.The choice between Nick Clegg and Chris Huhne has

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Well for the first time in a long while I am inspired to write something on this blog. I watched Ming Campbells speech at the party conference on TV and was very impressed. He clearly set out how the Liberal Democrats differ from the other parties and did it with just enough humour and detail to make it both entertaining and of substance.Ming did not get my first preference vote when he was

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John Farquhar Munro comfortably held his Scottish Parliamentary seat while in the first elections to the Highland Council by single transferable vote Independents won 35 seats, the Liberal Democrats won 21, SNP 17 and Labour 7 . Although this means that Independents have lost overall control it certainly shows that they can still do well under STV.On the Black Isle itself four councillors were

Trevorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00437747091247409522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27473320.post-1154545564501899222006-08-02T19:34:00.000+01:002006-08-02T20:06:04.556+01:00

It was good to meet fellow LibDem blogger Nick Barlow over the past two days as he continues on his walk from John O' Groats to Land's End. More info on my main blog.

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Yesterday Ross, Skye and Inverness West Liberal Democrats unanimously re-adopted John Farquhar Munro MSP to stand in next years Scottish Parliamentary Elections. The adoption meeting had to be held on a Saturday afternoon to give everyone in this geographically huge constituency chance to get there. It was particularly pleasing to see Charles Kennedy there together with his wife and son. Both he

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Well I must admit I am slightly disappointed in the overall increase in the number of Liberal Democrat councillors and Councils as I had hoped for net gains of 30 and 3 respectively. I expected that we would lose some seats to the Tories but had hoped we would gain far more Labour seats. On closer analysis I note we lost 12 seats to Labour in Islington. This one Council, therefore, accounts for

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This blogg is intended to be the 'political wing' of my original blog.

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