• Uninsured

    Updated: 2011-08-31 13:24:46
    This week it was revealed that 65 people are injured by uninsured drivers every week. 15 people were killed, 307 seriously injured, 3,085 injured during 2010. by uninsured drivers. That is an awful lot of people lives wrecked. People willing to drive while uninsured (compared to insured drivers) are: Ten times more likely to have been convicted of drink driving Six times more likely to have been convicted of driving a non-road worthy vehicle Three times more likely to have been convicted of driving without due care and attention On average every insured driver is paying £30 more each year ...

  • The Nick Clegg biography - an updated review

    Updated: 2011-08-31 11:54:40
    As the title says, I've expanded my review of the Nick Clegg biography having had the chance to chew over a few of the contents further (and prompted by Gaby Hinsliff to make a comparison with the Ed Milibiand biography that has also come out recently). The Nick Clegg review, revised is here.

  • New opinion polls ask some interesting questions for Lib Dem strategy

    Updated: 2011-08-31 09:32:01
    Opinion polls throw up more questions than they answer but sometimes the questions are very interesting. It is interesting questions where progress is made as shown by the head of Google who says that he runs his company on questions not answers. So the recent MORI results have shown up some interesting questions too about ...

  • So if we had a General Election right now, what would happen?

    Updated: 2011-08-31 00:30:05
    Let's say the Coalition ends overnight and a General Election is held immediately, scrapping all plans for boundary redrawings and reductions in numbers of MPs and running on current opinion levels. I've plugged the numbers from the most recent ICM Voting Intention poll (C37/L36/LD17) into the election prediction at ElectoralCalculus.co.uk. The result is something like this: Use your own imagination as to what the government formed from that parliament would look like. Now I will indulge my optimistic side and say that I think that Lib Dem incumbency would help shore up our vote, and that I think we really ...

  • Postscript to last blog re: Conference insecurity

    Updated: 2011-08-30 23:09:50
    It should be made clear that the quotes in my last blog about the Liberal Democrat Conference insecurity regime were actually not mine, but taken from a quote by a respected Manchester Lib Dem colleague. (the quotes about the Newbury event with Nick Clegg, however, were). Unfortunately it does seem likely that there will be further developments in this story later in the week. socialise this: [IMG: add 'Postscript to last blog re: Conference insecurity' a Del.icio.us] [IMG: add 'Postscript to last blog re: Conference insecurity' a digg] [IMG: add 'Postscript to last blog re: Conference insecurity' a Stumble Upon] ...

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