Opinion: Perspective – my thoughts on the Liberal Democrat conference
Oblivion; rebellion; split; tension. Words that the media reporting on the recent Lib Dem conference – and gosh weren’t there a lot of cameras, reporters and microphones present? – used both before and...
View ArticleThatcher papers show 25 Tory MPs considered joining early SDP
A number of things hit the headlines this morning as the Margaret Thatcher Foundation reveals papers from 1981. The early morning BBC radio headlines focussed on a meeting between Thatcher and Rupert...
View ArticleCarswell: Free Liberal. How it might have been
The more time I spend with him (Carswell), the more bewildered I am. Why on earth did he join Ukip? Well, he says, he could hardly have moved over to Clegg’s lot. “If the Liberal Democrats hadn’t made...
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Carswell: Free Liberal. How it might have been (part 2)
This is the continuation of an article posted previously on Lib Dem Voice. New readers should read the earlier post before this one. …Do you remember…… changing the mind of pretenders?… ‘September’,...
View ArticleDouglas Carswell: Free Liberal – How it might have been (pt. 3)
This is the concluding part of a trilogy of counterfactual pieces previously published on LDV. For Part 1 and Part 2, including the full results of the by-elections in Clacton and Heywood &...
View ArticleOpinion: What if ?
View image | gettyimages.com In February 1974 Edward Heath called a snap General Election in response to a second miners’ strike in three years. Heath famously posed the election as a decision on...
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