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It really would try the patience of a saint…

Michael McFarland Campbell

It’s has happened again. What? I hear you ask. Nothing simpler than another occasion in which those in Lib Dem HQ in London forget about us in Northern Ireland.

It is often said to me that the Lib Dems don’t make policy on issues affecting Northern Ireland only – that is on issues devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly. Last time I looked, taxation was not one of them. It may be in the future, but at present it is not.

So why, does Tim Gordon’s great new website asking us what we would do with £60 extra in every month, not allow people from Northern Ireland to answer? Continue reading “It really would try the patience of a saint…”

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gyronny of eight #4: the restart…

Michael McFarland Campbell

Liberal Democrat Conference It’s been quite a while since we had a round up of blogs that I have enjoyed in the past week so with Liberal Democrat Conference all over for the year 2011, I thought I’d have a go and find the posts that had me grinning from ear to ear. In reverse order, № 8 – Lib Dem Conference Review 2011 It seems that Anders has been going to Party Conference for longer than I have been a party member – but only a year before I joined! He’s now getting old and can’t keep the pace… … Continue reading gyronny of eight #4: the restart…

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Watch yourself Nick Clegg: the 104/103 haven’t done it – but I will!

Michael McFarland Campbell
Nick Clegg's pledge on Tuition Fees - Void if elected
The Rt Hon. Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister, lies to the Electorate.

With the vote in the House of Commons on Tuition Fees approaching later this week, it is clear that most of the Liberal Democrats MPs are not going to stick to the pledges that they made

TO VOTE AGAINST
ANY INCREASE IN FEES
in the next parliament
and to pressure the
government to introduce
A FAIRER ALTERNATIVE.

As Gareth Epps said on Sunday,

I have heard rumours of at least one resignation from the Government, and think it in the interests of the Party and of higher education as a whole if this happens.  Continue reading “Watch yourself Nick Clegg: the 104/103 haven’t done it – but I will!”

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Nick Clegg MP: no confidence from party?

Michael McFarland Campbell

Featured on Liberal Democrat Voice Candidates’ Petition to MPs On another blog I have highlighted the petition on tuition fees sent to the 57 Lib Dem MPs on tuition fees. In writing it, it struck me that we are getting to the stage that the public is ending up with no confidence in the party as a whole. Are we all as members losing confidence in the leadership of Nick Clegg? Nick Clegg made a pledge The photograph pictured here is just a simple reminder that Nick Clegg signed the pledge TO VOTE AGAINST ANY INCREASE IN FEES in the … Continue reading Nick Clegg MP: no confidence from party?

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