An interesting bar chart from Lib Dem HQ. I think it speaks for itself.
The final Thursday evening each month has grown into a bit of a social event for Gateshead Lib Dems. The last one was held yesterday at the Tynesider on Gateshead High Street. The video above is a slide show of the event.
Martin Zero and two companions follow the Porter Brook and then the River Sheaf beneath Sheffield, and beneath the city's railway station in particular. It's all as fascinating and mildly sinister as you would expect. The final stretch to the River Don had been "daylighted". It doesn't look much now, but it will be made to look more natural and form the focus of a new park. There are lots more videos like this on the Martin Zero YouTube channel - like and subscribe.
Welcome to my summary of the latest national voting intention polls for the next general election, along with the latest MRP projections and party leadership ratings. If you'd like to find out more about how polls work, how reliable they are and how to make sense of them, check out my book, Polling UnPacked: the History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls, or sign up for my weekly email, The Week in Polls: General election voting intention polls PollsterConLabLDGrnRefLab leadFieldwork Find Out Now 16% (-1) 16% (nc) 12% (nc) 17% (+2) 32% (nc) -16% (vs Ref) 29/10 GB YouGov ...
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Labour councillor defects to Tories after seeking to fight particular seat for Lib Dems, but there's...
There's a story on MyLondon about a deselected Labour councillor in Brent who has joined the Tories after first demanding to be allowed to fight a particular seat for the Liberal Democrats. I am reminded of the days when David Icke wanted to be the Liberal candidate for the Isle of Wight, but wasn't interested in any other seat. The MyLondon report says: A text message sent to the LDRS from a source at the Brent Liberal Democrat Group appears to show him expressing disappointment at the Party for not offering him the seat he demanded in Alperton. Instead, he ...
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[IMG: 4 parallel white vertical lines on orange background ALDC logo] This week, there was six by-elections, of which we were attempting to defend one. In Bromsgrove, congratulations to Councillor Sam Ammar and the local Liberal Democrat team, who were able to successfully gain this seat off Reform UK. This was a decisive victory for us, with an over 20% vote share increase compared to this May's election. Worcestershire County Council, Bromsgrove South Liberal Democrats (Sam Ammar): 1,416 (51.9%, +20.3) Reform UK: 911 (33.4%, -1.5) Conservative: 309 (11.3%, -5.8) Labour: 92 (3.4%, -4.1) Liberal Democrats GAIN from Reform UK Turnout: ...
When looking back at the 2024 General Election it is even clearer now that Labour did not win the election, but it was the Tories that had lost it. In fact, in many ways they did not win the election at all. Their overwhelming two thirds of the MPs was achieved by gaining an underwhelming one third of the vote. Nevertheless, they did win and immediately set about the task of losing the 2029 General Election. That is just about their main achievement to date! What people needed from Labour was change and hope. In fact, they got little change ...
Yesterday saw another good crop of Lib Dem council by-election results. Let's start with the main headline: Lib Dem gain from Reform in Worcestershire. This was one of the councils which, in May, switched to the Reform insurgents. Yesterday, a by-election was held in Bromsgrove South. We won it! Key points are:Reform loss means Lib Dem gain;The Greens failed to stand a candidate (where is
We need to talk about how the UK supports its growing number of older people, and in particular about the end of life. One of the many weaknesses of British politics is that its structure does not make it easy to link related issues, But the age of retirement, pensions for the elderly, the rising proportion of the NHS budget spent on those over 70, the cost of drugs, social care, palliative care, and the debate over assisted dying, are all interlinked - above all by the pressures they all put (now and potentially) on the UK budget. The problem ...
Editor's Note: In November party members will be voting to elect our next Party President. At Lib Dem Voice we welcome posts from each of the candidates - one to launch their candidature plus a maximum of one per week during the actual campaign. Friends, this week ballot papers have been sent out and are landing on (digital) doormats. Our members will choose our next Party President, and members of the federal committees. Since launching my campaign to be our next Party President I've been clear that ensuring the Liberal Democrats are the first and last line of defence against ...
Spelthorne Liberal Democrats report: Popular local councillor, Harry Boparai, has been reselected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Spelthorne in the next General Election. Harry says: "The campaign starts now! By the time the next general election comes around, I'll have knocked on every door in our constituency, listening to my neighbours, hearing your concerns, and sharing my plans to fix them. "Last year at the general election, I had so many ideas I wanted to bring to life if elected. I fell short due to tactical voting , but those ideas haven't gone away, they've simply been waiting for ...
So, Prince Andrew is to be "stripped of his titles." How satisfying. How symbolic. How utterly pointless. We can all share a brief moment of catharsis — the monarchy wagging a disapproving finger at one of its own. A round of headlines, a flurry of official statements, a sense of something being done. And yet, what has actually changed? Andrew remains, by sheer accident of birth, a prince. We can shuffle around the titles, hide him from the balcony, pretend he's no longer "His Royal Highness". And beneath it all lies the more uncomfortable truth: these gestures exist to fill ...
Embed from Getty ImagesI'm listening to an edition of Gyles Brandreth's Rosebud podcast in which he talks to the actor Samuel West. It was recorded a couple of weeks before the death of West's mother Prunella Scales and so far he has talked mostly about her and his late father, Timothy West. But there is one story he has not told about his mother... Vera Menchik was born in Moscow, to an English mother and Czech father, in 1906. She began playing chess competitively just before the family came to live in London in 1921. She was to become the ...
Liberalism means you can do what you want as long as you don't limit others' freedoms. That's why I have written to the party leadership asking them to step into the quota debate for the Federal Elections. Even if only a few party members are affected, making people register to stand for election by a gender they don't identify with is wrong. It goes against our core values and must not happen. Setting quotas in the way proposed may satisfy one group but harm another group's basic rights, indeed the new interpretation forces quotas to work in the opposite way ...
These steps at the far west end of Pentland Avenue (up to Pentland Crescent) are badly in need of replacement as they are badly deteriorated. Residents asked us to raise this with the City Council and the capital programme team leader responded helpfully as follows : "We are currently working with our colleagues in the engineers team to look at a step replacement project in the area. In the interim, Construction Repairs and Maintenance will be carrying out repairs to these steps."
I have already commented on Labour's planning bill and the fact that more than 5,000 of England's most sensitive, rare and protected natural habitats are at high risk of being destroyed by development as a result of this legislation. Now it seems that the EU believes that the bill could risk the UK's trade deal. The Guardian reports that EU ambassador Pedro Serrano is said by the Guardian's sources to have visited the environment secretary, Emma Reynolds this week and warned her that the planning and infrastructure bill going through the House of Lords could jeopardise the trade deal currently ...
Six principal authority council by-elections this week and let's start with a Liberal Democrat gain from Reform: [IMG: Sam Ammar and some of her Lib Dem colleagues] Sam Ammar and some of her Lib Dem colleagues. Bromsgrove South (Worcestershire) Council By-Election Result: [IMG: 🔶] LDM: 51.9% (+20.3) [IMG: âž¡] RFM: 33.4% (-1.5) [IMG: 🌳] CON: 11.3% (-5.8) [IMG: 🌹] LAB: 3.4% (-4.1)No GRN (-5.5) or Ind (-3.4) as previous.Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.Changes w/ 2025. — Election Maps UK (@electionmaps.uk) 2025-10-31T00:39:34.056Z William Galloway was the Lib Dem here – thank you. Note how, once again, across the by-elections there was ...
