Category: MP’s

Burnley Lib Dem breaks ranks over teen drink plans

One Lib Dem candidate has already broken ranks over the party’s plans to lower the legal drinking age to 16. Today’s Lancashire Evening Telegraph reports: THE LIBERAL Democrats’ parliamentary hopeful in Burnley is at odds with his party bosses over…

John Hemming MP’s Poetry Corner

Readers will remember that just before the terrible events of July 7th millionaire Lib Dem MP John Hemming had promised to write us a poem. After 7/7 he rightly said that it was not the time for humour and that…

John Hemming MP, The Love Child And The Libel Action?

Millionaire Lib Dem MP and adulterer John Hemming has, surprisingly, not responded to Lib Dem Watch’s latest story featuring him. We usually hear from him when he is featured on this site, so are disappointed on this occasion. He is…

It Couldn’t Have Happened To A Nicer Man

We’re suprised that millionaire Lib Dem MP John Hemming has the time to read and correspond with Lib Dem Watch – what with being a Member of Parliament, a councillor and, oh, having 26 extra-marital affairs. Yes, the “MP in…

Scottish Liberal Democrats – A “joke Political Party”?

Fraser Nelson in The Scotsman dissects the Lib Dems: The ten-point policy card from the Scottish Liberal Democrats yesterday will rank among the most intellectually dishonest documents which a Scots politician has ever had the gall to publish. He goes…

Greg Stone – Not Elected

Further to our story yesterday we can confirm that the man behind one of our so-called rival sites Labour Watch (or, at the very least, a major contributor to the site) is losing Lib Dem candidate for Newcastle Central Greg…

More On The Lib Dem Votes For Prisoners Plan

Charles Kennedy has received the backing of at least one person for his policy of giving prisoners including convicted killer Ian Huntley the right to vote. David Seary, a Lib Dem councillor in Stafford, rebukes us for suggesting that the…

A Disaster For Dunn

Lib Dem Jody Dunn’s chances of winning Hartlepool at the general election are looking more distant than ever. The Lib Dems couldn’t even make any inroads in last month’s local by-election in Rift House ward caused by newly elected Labour…

Mark Alcock’s Bar Chart Heaven

Not one bar chart – not two bar charts – well count them for yourself – bar chart heaven at www.markalcock.libdems.org.uk. They are some of the most extraordinary bar charts we’ve ever seen. Mr Alcock might as well say, this…