With Alan Duncan being very silly, skiing instead of turning up to a shad cab away-day tour of recession-hit businesses, Kenneth Clarke is being touted as likely to replace him as Tory business spokesman. That is, Kenneth Clarke, one of those "big beasts" they keep on talking about that Cameron may (probably not) bring back to the shadow cabinet to make him and his colleagues, like Dominic Grieve
I was at the Natural History Museum today to see the Darwin Exhibition. It's an ambitious event, which covers not only the specimens he studied, but seeks to understand the man himself. His own life was an evolution: first he studied medicine, then theology and had planned to become a clergyman. His five year voyage on the Beagle at the recommendation of one of his Cambridge professors proved to be life-changing. Working as a naturalist, he discovered a love for the subject that proved to be life-changing. "Darwin explored remote regions and marvelled at a world so different from the ...
There was a great atmosphere at the Gaza demonstration in London this afternoon, despite the freezing weather (and snow at one point). Tens of thousands of Muslims, Christians and Jews of many nationalities marched side by side, many accompanid by small children, from Speaker's Corner at Marble Arch to Notting Hill Gate. It was good to see [...]
I'm not very good at being nice to Tories. But I'm prepared to make an exception occasionally. Call it late for Christmas. Or early for Lent. Or simply I've had a good week and I'm prepared to try to love my neighbour, even if he is a Conservative (which few of them are round here!). [...]
Chicken Yoghurt has a suitable video tribute. Perhaps someone should organise a whip round?
Saturday: We get a TWEET that Mr Dr Pax is off to the 1st London Ice Sculpting Festival... so we set off to see him putting the Icing on the Cake! Start Frosting {Posted by Picasa} Early Ices {Posted by Picasa} But WHERE was he??? We looked ALL DAY... but no sign! Is he over here? {Posted by Picasa} Is he over there? {Posted by Picasa} Has anyone seen him? Let's ask Security! {Posted by Picasa} You don't think he's been... frozen in ice! Not N...ice! {Posted by Picasa} Oh no! How will Ms Featherweight update her blog now! . ...
I am often surprised by the number of readers who come from beyond the Liberal Democrat family (or my own, for that matter) and, in some cases, from around the globe. Yesterday was a case in point. I received, by means of a comment on my blog, an invitation to have my blog included in a list of blogs which will appear on a website called GlobalPost.com. Naturally, I was suspicious, and had a
That nice John Barrett, MP for Edinburgh West bought Stephen and I coffee and a mincemeat tart as reward for getting cold and wet waiting till the end of the Gaza rally to hear him speak. It was great to catch up because I haven't seen him for ages, but I thought this observation he made was worth sharing with you all: "I was in London at the time of the July 7 bombings. These bombers came from Leeds. We haven't built a wall round Leeds and then started bombing Leeds." LibDig This!
(Just catching up - I find it very healthy only to look at Iain Dale's Diary when I really have nothing else whatsoever to do, which is about once every fifty years.) You have to wonder about the leadership of the Conservative party. They organised a hugely high profile "away day" to study the effects of the recession. All the big guns from the shadow cabinet were out on the road looking at
I see that the march in support of the people of Gaza in London has ended up with things being thrown at the police and a branch of Starbucks being attacked. As the BBC reports, "But as darkness fell a small number of people, several hundred, have begun confronting police and missiles have been thrown," he said. "Although these are ugly and unwelcome scenes, they do not represent what has happened for most of the afternoon." It's a sad fact that there are a number of Trots who join any demonstration in order to attack the police or shops and ...
Nobody should assume that I am some sort of TV snob. I like The X-Factor, I like Eastenders, indeed I even enjoyed the BBCs recent Saturday night show "Hole In The Wall". However, the new series "Total Wipeout" really does the BBC no favours at all. Why, for starters do they have the show presented from London by Richard Hammond, with a his commentary put on several weeks after the show was actually recorded, with the action back projected behind him ? This seems really rather cheap and nasty and reminiscent of Takeshi's Castle, which if you don't know already, ...
Vince Cable has made some comments in an interview that got conspirators like me into a thinking mode and I have had to comment on the comments. Vince Cable has said in an interview when asked about a possible coalition: "It would be arrogant for us to choose one or other. Whoever gets the largest number of seats . . . whether it is Conservative or Labour, we will work with either." Now that is an interesting comment because like Morus I have thought this one through several times before blogging and I think Vince is hinting something. The way ...
Derek Draper has launched his baby LabourList.org it is a little different to the baby of Iain Dale, Total Politics but we shall see what LabourList.org grows up to be. The blog started by Derek Draper has some senior writers listed as contributors from the likes of Ken Livingston to Lord Mandelson. The blog will be controlled by Draper who has given himself the title of editor and it will be ran independently without any funding at the moment. I myself don't think Derek Draper will fund it for much longer and soon they will find a donor. I hope ...
I'm just back in and am thawing and drying out after the Gaza march and rally in Edinburgh. Due to a meeting over-running this morning, I didn't catch up with the march until it came back on to Princes Street after the trip to the US Consulate. I was really pleased to see so many people had turned out. The Police estimate was around 5000 but it looked and felt like more. Bob reckoned that there would have been at least 6000 when the march formed on East Market Street. I found Bob, Anna (who had been very good for ...
Today I took part in my first action day for Walpole ward, the ward for which I hope to become a councilor in 2010. I say "action day", but it was more like an "action few hours". The aim of today was to deliver the latest Focus, as well as a leaflet for a Save Ealing's Centre meeting taking place on 20 January. Brrr, was it a cold day; someone said that it was around -2c whilst we were out, though I'm not really too sure about that. There was also a light snowfall as well, making things a tad ...
A late evening call on Thursday, "would I join a delegation to Gaza?" "How do we get in, and what do we do there?" I ask. "The Egyptian authorities are offering help at the Rafah crossing, and UNRWA (the UN Reliefs and Works Agency) will do their best to provide transport and security." So I have a ticket in hand, hoping to join in Cairo with a group of MEPs of different nationalities, but not convinced that the Israelis will let us pass into the Strip. If they do, I hope to use my eyes and ears, and then report ...
A visit to the coal-fired power station at Fiddler´s Ferry near Widnes, the largest source in the North West both of electricity and of CO2 emissions. The environmental problems caused by acid rain are now much reduced in Western Europe thanks to EU measures to curb sulphur dioxide emissions from plants like this. A major new flue gas desulphurisation plant has been completed, allowing the limits on operating hours to be lifted. Under the terms of the Large Combustions Plants Directive (LCPD) the plant will now be able to stay open till the end of 2015. I was interested to ...
They´re a shadowy lot, these faceless, unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. I know they must be because the Daily Mail says so. Maybe I should have worn a cloak and carried a dagger when I stepped into a lift in the Berlaymont - European Commission HQ - on my way to meet with the boss, the Secretary-General, Catherine Day. But close up, Brussels bureaucrats usually seem like ordinary human beings. Catherine is striking - Irish, tall, and formidably on top of her brief (or if not she is a class act at bluffing). She is a former head of DG Environment ...
If you are going to sell some Charles Darwin cuddly toys that don't look like Charles Darwin, it is best not to put them on a shelf next to lots of pictures of the man himself.
So Lucy Pinder is the first person to be voted out of the Celebrity Big Brother house. I expect that was news to most of you - it was certainly new to me that she was a celebrity, although that goes for most of them this year - a sign of the times or of [...]
Today's "D'oh!" award goes, a tad belatedly to Princess Beatrice, who left her prized Series 1 Black BMW (a gift from her father, Prince Andrew) outside a shop in central London with the keys allegedly in the ignition and the doors allegedly unlocked. Not surprisingly, someone jumped in and drove it off at high speed while she was in the shop. And she had a bodyguard with her at the time....
Don't forget, if you're a party member you can register for the Lib Dem Voice members' forum. You'll be in good company: there are 869 registered members, all of whom have the opportunity to read and post on a rich variety of topics which don't always make it into the public blog, as well as having the chance to vote in LDV's monthly tracking surveys. Here's a selection of the currently active threads to whet your appetites: >> Young Tory expelled from party for Maddy Mcann fancy dress >> Tesco, Financial Complexity and the Libel Laws >> Why do we ...
One of the main difficulties faced by anyone who wants absolute equality, as in, no-one is richer or poorer than any other person, is human activity. Cash is tradeable. Human beings invariably spend money and trade with other which, if you wanted absolute equality, could not be allowed. Consider Chip and Pin devices and other electronic payment systems though: The model is that of invisible cash but the nature of the 'units of value' behind these systems is not something fixed forever in stone. So say I was a Totalitarian Socialist dictator. First thing I'd do is replace money with ...
It's almost a month since we first alerted LDV readers to the following: The deadline to enter the Orwell Prize, Britain's pre-eminent prize for political writing, is fast approaching: 14th January 2009. Submissions are invited for work published between 1st January 2008 and 31st December 2008 (inclusive). It won't surprise you to know that, with the elapse of a month, the deadline is even faster approaching. Of special interest, perhaps, to Lib Dem bloggers is the new Blog Prize: In the year that we have made George Orwell a blogger, the Orwell Prize is delighted to announce a Special Prize ...
Tony Blair has warned about radicalism in Muslim's because of the problems in Gaza by saying that the situation in Gaza had "no justification" for Muslim's to become radical in Britain. I agree with the ex Prime Minister that protests are the best way to demonstrate the anger that people feel against the Israeli's and the situation in Gaza. I agree with the ex Prime Minister that Muslim's in Britain should not get worked up and look towards terrorism because that will only increase the propaganda against Muslim's throughout the world. Muslim's need to look towards democratic ways of voicing ...
Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg today announced his team for the next General Election. He said: "I am proud to lead the best front-bench team in British politics, a team which has consistently been ahead of the curve on the big debates that matter to the British people. "This team leaves the Liberal Democrats well placed to take the fight to both Labour and the Conservatives in the run-up to the General Election and to bring about the change that Britain needs." The new roles are: Simon Hughes Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Steve Webb Shadow ...
{Hexham Road_by_bottle_bank} Earlier in the week I popped down to Hexham Road estate to visit a constituent and this churned up grass verge, or what's left of if,on Hexham Road caught my eye. There is very little green space on the estate so what there is should be safeguarded. Cars have been parking on verges all over the estate, partly because of the real lack of available on-street parking in the area. I wrote to RBC about the damage to the grass verge and they have agreed to install a couple of bollards to prevent vehicles driving on the verge and causing further damage. We have successfully ...
This is all the more amusing for having been written in the 1930s! Officialdom classifies activity according to the capacity for undertaking it formally acquired by means of examinations and a certain period of service. 'Training' and 'length of service' are the only things which the official brings to the 'job'. If the work of a body of officials appears unsatisfactory, there can be only one explanation: the officials have not had the right training, and future appointments must be made differently. It is therefore proposed that a different training should be required of future candidates. If only the officials ...
Brent North is not a constituency that has a long and noble tradition of Liberal success. Indeed, under the existing boundaries, it didn't have much of a Liberal Democrat presence, even though we hold 26 out of 63 council seats in what was a three-constituency borough. However, the Boundary Commissioners have changed that, creating a new Brent North that is rather bigger, and contains nine wards
Recent reports in the Herald Express confirm the need for the campaign that Consumer Direct are currently running, called Don't Let Them Con You. Every year, millions of innocent people lose money to scams that come by post or phone, such as fake lottery and prize draw wins, bogus psychic predictions and 'miracle' health cures. Just this week, I received a call from an unknown number, which was a call to try and get my bank details. Consumer Direct, an offsuit of the Office of Fair Trading have published some simple tips to keep yourself safe. * Never reply straight ...
ThirdSector.co.uk brings us the news: A survey has suggested that more voluntary sector campaigners support the Liberal Democrats than Labour, with a significant percentage supporting the Conservative Party. The survey was carried out by recruitment consultancy The Right Ethos, which finds campaigners jobs with charities. It looked at all 550 people on its database and found that, of the 80 who mentioned an involvement with a political party on their CVs, 45 per cent had a link with the Liberal Democrats, 31 per cent with Labour and 19 per cent with the Conservatives. Only 5 per cent favoured the Green ...
I am well aware that it has been a long time since I blogged, but December was an extremely busy month for me. At the last Full Council meeting before Christmas, I was unanimously elected to the Executive of Teignbridge District Council, taking over the Communuties and Regulation Portfolio that was left vacant by the sad death of Councillor Brian Berman. This portfolio covers a number of areas within the Council, including the legal department,emergency planning and promoting democracy throughout the District. Since my appointment was confirmed, I have spent time meeting with the officers responsible in order to learn ...
Last month I wrote that it was "excellent news" that Caroline Kennedy might become US Senator for New York. I would like to formally retract that opinion and correct it. I got my Kennedies mixed up. Stupidly, I thought they were talking about Kathleen Kennedy Townsend who has actually got some experience of public office. She was Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 1995 to 2003. I don't think
Other nuggets include: The Katie Couric interview wasn't her fault, of course. It was her media handlers' fault. It was the editing that ruined the interview, also. And after having several months to think about it, she has finally come up with the names of two newspapers she reads: USA Today and the New York Times. She was exploited by Katie Couric, Tina Fey and others.And the scrutiny of her
Stephen Tall recently asked us here on Lib Dem Voice to consider whether Nick Clegg's call for "big, permanent and fair" tax cuts, combined with £12.5 billion of green public investment would "strike a chord, appear flawed, or be ignored". Well, people might just find a flaw in our argument that tax cutting should be top priority, but so should increased public spending. It looks two-faced. It suggests we can't agree amongst ourselves. Facing enormous government debts, our policy seems to be to increase them in all directions - by taxing less, and by spending more. Come election time, the ...
A well-informed colleague informed me, and I have checked with reliable sources (including the BBC), that the Israeli military on 4 November seriously breached the Gaza ceasefire when it raided Gaza and it did so again on 17 November. Israel also sealed off Gaza leaving the 1.4 million inhabitants of this densely populated enclave in a dire predicament. My informant adds that on 23 December 2008 the Israeli government received a report from its own advisers that Hamas wanted to extend the ceasefire if the blockade was partially lifted. Ignoring this, the Israeli government launched the current campaign against Gaza. ...
Irfan Ahmed picks-up on a story about police being given the power to remotely access computers without a warrant. Obviously this is a disturbing development and one that needs to be resisted so, I thought it was worth turning to a question posed by Evan Price. Evan asks; "Does anyone else think that we, as political bloggers, should form an association, where the priority will be to use the membership fees to purchase insurance for members to cover the costs of legal fees in circumstances where we are sued for defamation?" I certainly do feel the time has come for ...
Today's Times has an in-depth interview with the Lib Dem shadow chancellor and deputy leader Vince Cable today. Lots of good stuff, as you might expect: While Gordon Brown was declaring the end of boom and bust and David Cameron was sledging with huskies, Dr Cable, a former chief economist at Shell, was foretelling dark times. For years he was ridiculed for suggesting that property prices were too high, that household debt was out of control and that the banking system was fundamentally flawed. But now everyone wants to hear his prophecy for 2009. ... Dr Cable supports a fiscal ...
Just a really quick one today. I find something really sickening about this jammy Tory coming to Wales to preach about the economy. It was the Tories that wrecked Wales. And yes, we tend to go on about it. Why? Because everywhere in Wales, we still feel the squeeze. In the Valleys, unemployment is still a major problem because of Thatcher. In all towns across Wales, the affects of a Thatcherite squeeze on local government funding has been felt over the years. And now, instead of sending anyone with any economic clout, they send Osborne. Seriously. Hold on Wales, help ...
I'm still on the train but am asking you to come back here later. I'm be Tweeting, Tweetpicing and taking a few vids of proceedings at the Scotland Gaza Demo starting at 12:30 from East Market Street Edinburgh. No doubt I'll be spending all afternoon up to my neck with technologies with YouTube, Flikr and whatnot getting you everything. In the meantime follow the tweets. Ciao for now. Update: I've reveiwing all the media I have taken through the day and really want to do it justice. However, I have plans for this evening In the meantime Caron has posted ...
And so we turn inevitably to the latest chapter in the saga of the Affordable Housing Legislative Competence Order. For the uninitiated an LCO is an order that enables the Welsh Assembly to draw down additional law-making powers. It does not in itself actually change anything but enables us to legislate for changes in the law on its particular subject matter once the order has been signed off by the monarch. More details about the impasse that developed over this order between the Welsh Affairs Select Committee and the Assembly Government can be found here. As I predicted a compromise ...
Daily Mail-o-matic! A new Daily Mail headline every time you click the button. Warning not politically correct. With thanks to Jonathan Calder. Actually the David Blunkett policy maker is much more fun...
It's always good to see the tabloids fighting against each other. Earlier this week the Daily Mail led, on the day 40 kids were killed in a UN school in Gaza, with "The Great Light bulb revolt". With my normal searing intellect and endless patience I conducted a lengthy forensic deconstruction of the Mail piece. "Bollocks". For a proper deconstruction of the piece go to someone with real brains
Someone is listening to me at long last. I have written on this blog a couple of times now about the importance of sharing good practice with all local parties. I have argued that this will empower them to become stronger and help increase the opportunity of greater Lib Dem representation at all levels of government. This morning I was checking my emails and I got a personal email (I am almost
Word reaches us in the People's Republic of a New World. This New World is composed of many states, just like this one, and they too share in the munificent glory of the Wikio rankings. The inhabitants of this New World speak in strange tongues, making utterances like "Javascript", "Drupal", "user-led design" and "bugger, this still [...]
On it's front page, the Sun reports that two more Conservative Future activists have been expelled from the Conservative party. One is Flick Cox, who wrote on Facebook that she "could not wait to see the photos". And she joked she would have to end her friendship with Lewis when she became an MP because he had "done a Prince Harry" — a reference to the royal dressing up as a Nazi. The second is
The Police have been given powers to be able to remotely access computers without warrants from Court. Then the Guardian has gone onto report that this database that will store all our web history logs and emails will be run by a private company which is even more worrying. These powers are going to be given to Police and brought into action from March the 15th according to a report that I read yesterday, but how do these laws affect bloggers? I bet no blogger has thought about that but after I had a think it looks like these powers ...
It is clear to everyone that Zimbabwe is literally starving to death with a population malnourished, lacking the energy to revolt, living in fear of the repression of the government. The fact that Zimbabwe now produces virtually no goods, has nothing to sell abroad is made strikingly clear from the official website of the Zimbabwe government. Clicking on this site you expect to see news, press releases, announcements, but no, not in Zimbabwe. Literally nothing is happening, and still the world looks on doing nothing.
The whole city centre becomes a stage on January 10 2009. The newly regenerated public space at the Pier Head will come alive with light and sound for this people's celebration. At 6.15pm, a live MC will introduce a sound, light and visual reviewof Liverpool's history from 7,000,000,000BC to the present day. It will incorporate a history associated with its world heritage waterfront that has been reinvigorated like the rest of the city, and will be shown in full colour across several huge screens on the waterfront followed by a magnificent pyrotechnic finale from ships in the river at 7pm. ...
Now you can generate your very own Daily Mail headlines thanks to the Daily Mail-o-matic. With acknowledgement to Amnesty Blogs: Belfast and Beyond. Liberal England knows of no evidence to suggest that members of the travelling community are behaving inappropriately towards those who choose to express a wildfowl identity.
News this week that construction has started on the East London Transit scheme, a rapid busway between Ilford and Dagenham Dock via Barking. "The overall intention is to try and run ten buses an hour between Ilford and Dagenham Dock, taking in Barking town centre along the way. That puts the route in connection with the Hammersmith and City and District Underground lines, as well as National Rail at Ilford, Barking and Dagenham Dock. Sadly the abandonment of the Dagenham Dock extension means that an anticipated connection with the DLR will now not take place there." The London Reconnections blog ...
What backup Flickr photos? Flickr is a very powerful online photo gallery and is increasingly widely used by activists. Its online nature makes it a great way to share photos between different people locally, to build up an archive of photos for annual reports and the like and, as an added bonus, it automatically generates a range of different sized photos from the one upload. One other benefit: Flickr is also a widely used website, so putting photos up there will often result in them being seen by voters above and beyond their appearance in your leaflets and on your ...
A large survey reported in today's Guardian tells us that women want to see models that "mirror their own identities". In other words, not all young, white and super-skinny. Apparently, it would be a more successful approach for retailers. Call me a killjoy, but I'm not convinced. Sure, if you ask women about the size and type of women they want to see modelling clothes and beauty products, they'll give you that answer. But advertising isn't about getting people to make nice, rational decisions - it's all about gut reactions. It isn't about women, of course, but about people. Take ...
When watching the final moving episode of the Diary of Anne Frank on BBC One last night I wondered if it ought to become prescribed viewing for all those involved in conflict around the world. The strange parallels between the Frank family being taken from their homes by German forces and the news that Israeli forces in Gaza moved scores of people deliberately to one location before shelling the house with artillery just seems crazy. Sadly though the Israeli state seems to have learnt nothing from the holocaust. Take the Sabra and Shatila camps where the Israeli forces let in ...
I'm off into Edinburgh later this morning to join the Scotland Wide Demonstration against the atrocities in Gaza. If you are able to get along assemble in East Market Street, that is the one behind Waverley, towards the old town, at 12:30 and join the march through the city centre to the US Consulate. I'll will be tweeting and twitpicing the event on Twitter. Click on the link to follow me.
I note that the Government have bought 5,000 Tasers for use by frontline police officers in England and Wales, as part of a programme whereby 10,000 will be provided in total. The cost? £4 million. I admit that I remain unconvinced that such weapons form part of an effective policing strategy. Whilst human beings are not designed to be submitted to high voltage electric charges, and anyone given
The SNP Scottish Government has clearly attempted to sell off publicly owned Forestry Commission forests to private timberland companies with the plans hidden deep within the Climate Change Bill. This would see the most commercially viable forests being leased for up to 75 years - possibly to foreign investors. The forestry provisions in the Scottish Climate Change Bill can be read by clicking on the headline above. Andrew Reeves of the Scottish Liberal Democrats has written a good piece on this in Liberal Democrat Voice - see A recent letter from the Environment Minister to the Convener of the ...
{Vince Cable talks to students and members of the public at the UoR} Martin Lewis' money-saving-expert site ran a poll for readers called 'Fantasy Chancellor' which asked:"Which current sitting member of parliament, irrelevant of political party, do you think would make the best Chancellor?"In first place was current Lib Dem Shadow Chancellor, Vince Cable. A man that the Independent newspaper recently (16th December 2008) described as: "Vince Cable: an aura of quiet authority" It is interesting to compare his result with the current Labour Chancellor and the Tory Shadow:Vince Cable (Lib Dem) - 34% George Osborne (Con) - 6% Alastair ...
Hazellville Road N19 is in the news - because new signs have spelled the street's name wrong, as Hazelville. Nearby Warltersville Road is often misspelled as Waltersville too. The roads were named after the Mr Hazell and Mr Warlters who built them, so although Hazel and Walter may look more natural, they're wrong. Hazellville isn't [...]
This is a special plea to politicians and their devoted followers to, for once, not ban something. I'm talking here about normal bulbs. Please don't ban normal bulbs. Please. Have mercy. Just this once. Everyone Else Is Wrong It's easy for you to ban old fashioned Tungsten bulbs. Hell, you might even want to ban Halogen bulbs too - why not? I've got 4 500w Halogen worklights that have got, "ban!" written all over them. So you click your fingers and, poof, like magic it's done - you've made the world follow your way and as a result you've changed ...
Private Eye magazine has finally obtained details of the lunches and dinners which Sir John Bourn, the now departed head of the National Audit Office, so lavishly provided at the taxpayer's expense. Among the many beneficiaries of what the Eye otherwise sees as mostly a mutual back-scratching exercise is the name of Janet Davies, treated to dinner at Bibendum and the Aurora (cost £328) within the space of a month, but after NAO had lost responsibility for WAG audit. The magazine was unable to obtain an explanation for this.
Overall the reshuffle leaves me feeling we have a stronger team. The promotion of Jenny Willott in particular is a big plus, and moving Steve Webb back to pensions can only strengthen our policy in this key area. Unlike some of my fellow bloggers I am also happy to see Lembit outside the front bench team. Parliament needs politicians who are prepared to reach out to all of society and leaving
My post about the situation in Gaza: let me show you it. I realise that lots of other people are blogging about this. I am purposefully not blogging about it. Any comment I could make other than I really wish people would stop blowing each other up, which is fairly obvious, would be spectacularly ill-informed about what is undoubtedly a Gordian Knot of a situation, and almost certainly utterly unhelpful to anyone on any side. So this will be the extent of my commentary. I really wish people would stop blowing each other up. That is all. Well, no, actually, ...
An interesting article in The New Republic asks whether Obama will lead the USA into the economic equivalent of a world war to stem national and global depression. Strikingly, it advocates investment in green jobs as the front on which that war could be fought: the same front, of course, where Nick Clegg deployed the Liberal Democrats, with his 'Green Road To Recovery'. Here's an extract from the article: One area that is ripe for such investment–and that is not, from what I have seen, a declared priority of the Obama administration–is high-speed rail. Amtrak's Acela trains–the closest thing we ...
I don't normally post such items as this but after hearing it and reading the comments both on Youtube and Digg it became obvious that this is exactly the sort of message we should be getting out. So, in a break with tradition, I am posting it here.
