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Opinion: Why aren’t we borrowing more? 27 Aug 2013 | 05:39 pm
At the moment the yield on the UK’s five year government gilts is 1.65%. What this means in plain English is that if our government wanted to borrow £1,000 it would have to pay back £1,083 in five yea...
Party Reform: The Interim Peers List, is it fit for purpose? 27 Aug 2013 | 03:52 pm
Tim Farron, our Party President has long championed concerns about how democratic the Lib Dems really are and how can we do better. Federal Executive has now set up the Democratic Reform Group which...
The Independent View: Liberal Democrats should support nuclear power 27 Aug 2013 | 02:03 pm
Liberal Democrats should vote to support nuclear power at the 2013 conference. I say this after 20 years campaigning against nuclear power, including five years as head of Greenpeace UK. Nuclear is no...
Opinion: We need urgent debate about Syria, not just rhetoric 27 Aug 2013 | 12:55 pm
If recent news reports are to be believed, we are now edging closer and closer some form of military conflict with Syria. It is a fast moving situation; indeed, one that could escalate drastically wit...
‘I have a dream’ speech on Radio 4 26 Aug 2013 | 04:43 pm
This Wednesday the BBC will be marking the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King’s ’I have a dream’ speech’ with a special programme at 9am on Radio 4. The entire speec...
How you can take part in LibDemVoice’s exclusive party member surveys 26 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
LibDemVoice’s surveys of party members signed-up to our discussion forum have been running for close to four years now. (I posted yesterday the final set of figures from our most recent poll.) Our su...
LDV’s Sunday Best: our 7 most-read articles this week 25 Aug 2013 | 06:20 pm
Many thanks to the 11,500 visitors who dropped by Lib Dem Voice this week. Here’s our 7 most-read posts… Nick Clegg’s office speaks out on Miranda detention and destruction of Guardian data (87 comme...
The lessons we must learn for Nick Clegg’s next holiday 25 Aug 2013 | 03:24 pm
Nick Clegg’s two spells of holiday this Summer have been characterised by the Home Office in particular getting above itself in his absence. Both the party and Nick’s Special Advisers should have lear...
The Observer claims Lib Dems officially ‘blast fracking’ – no! 25 Aug 2013 | 02:01 pm
Today’s Observer splashes with “Liberal Democrats blast environmental damage caused by fracking.” Not quite. We’ve had quite a lively debate here on Lib Dem Voice on the merits and demerits of fracki...
Jo Swinson to name and shame rogue employers who fail to pay minimum wage 24 Aug 2013 | 07:47 pm
Jo Swinson was featured widely in the media yesterday talking about her plan to tackle employers who fail to pay the National Minimum Wage. The BIS website outlines the plan: Employment Relations Mi...
