“It is in Britain’s long-term interest to be part of the euro.” – Liberal Democrat manifesto In The Times, Anatole Kaletsky explains why this policy would be disastrous for Britain: "The main advantage for any nation of having its own currency, at least since the gradual abolition of the gold standard in the middle years […]
First we had Lord Adonis' piece in The Independent discussing LibLab similarities. On Saturday, in The Times, Alan Johnson was openly welcoming the idea of coalition government. And then this morning on the Today programme – and I don't have the verbatim words – Lord Mandelson ended his 8.10am interview with something like 'the only […]
One thing that needs to be done over the coming days is to expose the myth that to vote Lib Dem is to vote for change. The electoral arithmetic is clear that even if there were an increase in the Lib Dem vote akin to the projections of some of the current polls, the Lib […]
We noted last night that The Sun's latest daily tracker poll which puts the Lib Dems one point ahead of the Conservatives. But delving deeper into the poll and there are some significant findings, as the Sun reports: "In the same opinion poll, barely half those asked said they knew what Mr Clegg stood for.And […]
Toxic stuff in Birmingham Hall Green. More on The Straight Choice website. Click on the scans to enlarge.
Thanks to West Cornwall CF for these two… If you have ideas please email them in. More anti-LibDem posters here and here.
The Liberal Democrats want to scrap prison sentences under six months. More anti-LibDem posters here.
On ToryDiary Paul Goodman explores anti-LibDem strategies. On this page we post some poster ideas that encapsulate two of the strategies; attacking the policies of Nick Clegg and warning that a vote for the Liberal Democrats is Gordon Brown's best hope of winning power. VOTE CLEGG, GET BROWN CLEGG WANTS TO SCRAP BRITAIN'S NUCLEAR DETERRENT […]
Shadow education secretary Michael Gove has today been giving the following explanation of the good reviews of Nick Clegg's performance last night: "Nick Clegg I think benefits from being the new kid on the block. With novelty comes curiosity, but also with novelty will come, now, increased scrutiny." And he signalled that such Lib Dem […]
Last week Transport Secretary Lord Adonis highlighted his view that the Lib Dems and Labour should be natural allies. Today he reaffirms this view in a further Guardian article: "Everything that has happened since simply reinforces my argument, and makes ever more absurd the Lib Dem claim to be equidistant between Labour and the Conservatives. […]
Zac Goldsmith, the Conservative candidate for Richmond Park, has exposed on his website an attempt by the local Liberal Democrats to infiltrate his campaign: Dan Falchikov — the same Lib Dem activist who was famously overheard by Kevin Maguire, the Daily Mirror’s chief political polemicist, boasting that he had cooked up Susan Kramer’s Kingston Hospital […]
Earlier in the week the Liberal Democrats launched a poster, warning of a VAT bombshell if the Conservatives won. Cross-examined by BBC1's Politics Show today the Liberal Democrats' Treasury spokesman admitted that the idea of a £389 bombshell was conjecture and conceded that he couldn't rule out a hike in VAT. Transcript below. JON SOPEL: […]
We have already covered this morning the assertion from Transport Secretary Lord Adonis that Labour and the Lib Dems are natural allies. And it would seem that there are even more senior members of the Cabinet who are urging tactical voting against the Conservatives – in other words suggesting that Labour-inclinced voters should back the […]
Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis was once actively courted by the Conservatives because of his commitment to education reform but the former Liberal Democrat uses a column for The Independent to woo LibDem voters and to argue that Labour and the Liberal Democrats are natural allies… Throughout history Labour and the Liberals have been natural allies: […]
Jason Beattie of The Mirror has started a blog and I think it's going to be essential reading. His latest blog focuses on what looks like an unhappy relationship between Nick Clegg and Vince Cable. Jason reports: "Mrs Clegg, Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, has been texting her Spanish amigos with gripes about Vince Cable. Apparently, Mrs […]