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For those interested in issues affecting people with disabilities, LDDA have now got their website up and running. As this is an important issues taken on-board by the party, it would be appreciated if other Lib Dem Bloggers could support the work of the organisation by adding the link to their blogs and websites. Liberal Democrats Disability Association To readers of this blog who are not Lib Dems it's a site worth visiting.

Martin Kettle in the Guardian this morning writes that the Conservative Conference has started to turn the tide in their favour. However, there is a catch: But the die is not yet cast. The Tories are massing on the banks of the Rubicon without yet having crossed it. There is still a lot to do. The polls remain very bad - the Tories have flatlined for a decade and more, only rarely hoisting their ratings above 35%. A survey by Populus in the Times this week underlined how much work they have to do to persuade the undecideds. Three ...

Friday saw those researchers who could be bother to haul their carcasses into work wandering the corridors of Parliament with a glazed look, indicating either sorrow at the end of their care-free recess, or that they were drunk. After a truly excellent lunch in the Adjournment and a trip to the Red Lion, I was probably in the latter camp, and was ready to meander home. The poor MPs now face returning from either the provinces, or their Umbrian villas for a whole two months worth of dashing around and being grumpy. What a life eh! Seriously though, it does ...

City Plaza have kindly agreed to host the regional wall of fame. This will enable us to launch the process of working out who should be on the wall of fame.

It's an important football day today, we really need to beat Austria. I can remember staying up at late as a 12 year-old watching us play Germany in 1970 and feeling utterly miserable when we lost 3-2. But according to the brilliantly inventive Anthony Wells, it would have been far worse for our country if we had won. What political events might follow from England doing well in the World Cup

Good to see internal party chit-chat officially confirmed by the media. The Lib Dems are cleared of any wrong-doing over a £2.4m general election donation . I never considered the possibility of the party not being cleared because they are sticklers for complying with the Electoral rules. Pleased that the statement below was issued by Chris Rennard from Cowley Street yesterday. This firmly shuts the door on the issue. Party Chief Executive Lord Rennard said: The Electoral Commission has now been in touch with us concerning the donations ...