Archive for the 'LibDems' Category
Student tuition fees: a letter to our MPs
Yazan: Sara | 03 November 2010 | No Comments
Categories: LibDems, students
Today the government will announce its reaction to the Browne Report on the reform of student finance. The following open letter has been sent to Vince Cable, the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, who is responsible for the implementation of the Browne Report. It has also been copied to every other Liberal [...]
Danny, Champion of the World – or at least Scottish politics
Yazan: Sara | 30 October 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Labour, LibDems, Scotland
So Harriet Harman has been forced into a grovelling apology for her nasty remarks about Danny Alexander. Quite right too. The remarks also seem to have caused some embarrassment within the Labour party. Good. But full marks to Danny Alexander for his response that he was ”proud to be ginger”, adding that “rodents do valuable work cleaning up [...]
Why I’m backing tiggerish Tim
Yazan: Sara | 22 October 2010 | No Comments
Categories: LibDems
About 15 years ago, an article in a Sunday supplement used the word ‘tiggerish’ to describe the then Lib Dem leader, Paddy Ashdown. I won’t deny that for all his human frailties, Paddy is my political hero, I knew him quite well during his time as leader and my brief time in the sun in [...]
The ballad of Charles and Sarah
Yazan: Sara | 10 August 2010 | No Comments
Categories: LibDems
I feel a real sadness at the news that Charles Kennedy and his wife Sarah Gurling are to separate. Charles was Party President in 1991 when I met my now husband. Matthew was the Lib Dems head of finance and I an elected member of the Federal Executive. We got to know each other after meetings, in one [...]
When the Guardian’s story literally doesn’t add up
Yazan: Sara | 02 June 2010 | No Comments
Categories: LibDems
Earlier today, I commented on an article in The Guardian entitled ‘Will the Liberal Democrats survive the coalition?’. Apart from the forced political commentary, there was another point which really annoyed me. In trying to make a case that Nick Clegg’s leadership had damaged the party’s finances, Andy Beckett states: ‘ in 2009 the Lib Dems received a [...]
Guardian sniping may prove the coalition’s popularity
Yazan: Sara | 02 June 2010 | 4 Comments
Categories: LibDems
The ‘honour’ of penning this morning’s pointless anti-Lib Dem article in The Guardian goes to Andy Beckett. In trying to justify his headline that ‘Nick Clegg’s alliance with the Conservatives has damaged the Lib Dems’ popularity with leftwingers, both in and out of the party’ Beckett quotes one former party leader, partly quotes two others and [...]
What a waste of a talented man
Yazan: Sara | 29 May 2010 | No Comments
Categories: coalition, LibDems
So David Laws has been forced out? A big hurrah from tribal Labour supporters, right-wing Conservatives, who can’t grasp the fact that they haven’t got an internal majority, let alone a parliamentary one, and for homophobes all round. I expect the inhabitants of Telegraph Towers feel jolly clever tonight, as they claim another scalp. For goodness sake, [...]
Sexuality, sickening hypocrisy and CGT
Yazan: Sara | 29 May 2010 | 28 Comments
Categories: LibDems
When you are a Liberal Democrat, there is nothing as unsurprising as hearing that a colleague is gay. Or indeed, not hearing about it. Having a sexuality that is not monogamously heterosexual is no big deal in the party, but nor is wanting to keep your private life private. As someone who is happily MH, [...]
Why I want a vote
Yazan: Sara | 27 May 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: LibDems
So Vince Cable has stepped down as Deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats. Good. Don’t get me wrong, I love Vince as much as the next person. He’s given the party some real exposure and gravitas when we needed it, together with some great one liners – who can forget the ‘from Stalin to Mr [...]
The M42 and the meaning of life, the universe and everything
Yazan: Sara | 17 May 2010 | No Comments
Categories: LibDems
An enormous warehouse in the West Midlands isn’t the place you would usually go to find the heart of the Liberal Democrats. And if ever the soul of the party, the real meaning of its existence, was to be discovered, surely it would be somewhere more romantic than just off the M42? But yesterday the [...]
