Post Tagged with: "Liberal Democrats"

  • Meet Stephen Knight, newly elected Lib Dem AM

    Big Smoke spoke to newly elected Liberal Democrat Assembly Member Stephen Knight about the election, the future and who he voted second preference for Mayor.   Congratulations on your election. What was the best part of the election campaign for you (apart from it being over!)? The declaration of the […]

     

  • Big Smoke Interview: Mike Tuffrey, Lib Dem Assembly Member

    We spoke to Mike Tuffrey one of the two outgoing Liberal Democrat Assembly Members three weeks ago and, two days before the election, we’ve just managed to get it up online. Sadly, due to building works that suddenly started up next to where we were filming, we’ve had to edit […]

     

  • The London Liberal Democrat Election Broadcast

    Here we have the Liberal Democrat election broadcast for the London elections. See what you think then read our thoughts;   What about the policies? The first thing to say is where are the policies on transport, cycling, fares, inequality, climate change, green spaces, wages, the fire service, air pollution, […]

     

  • London Liberal Democrats launch campaign

    The Liberal Democrats have released this launch video. I was trying to place what this video reminded me of and then it came to me. A corporate video. Souless music, odd lighting and fake enthusiasm. Although without it we would not have had the comedy gold of the “nodding man” […]

     

  • I had that Paddick in the back of my cab

    Liberal Democrat Mayoral candidate Brian Paddick spoke to Radio Taxis on his Mayoral vision. Our view;   There are a few things to note here. a) nice theme tune. b) Brian Paddick would have us believe he calls Taxis “little black buses”. c) he is very concerned about parking around […]

     

  • Fact check: Lib Dems play dangerous maths on the far right

    A few weeks ago at the Uprise Mayoral “youth” hustings Brian Paddick made what seemed to be an off-hand remark. He claimed that a vote for the Liberal Democrats could keep the far right BNP out of the Assembly. There was so much nonsense being spoken that night that it […]

     

  • Assembly Budget: first real salvo of election campaign

    On Thursday the first meaningful salvo of the 2012 Assembly elections took place as the parties put forward their proposals for the Mayor’s budget. The Conservatives had already announced that they were proposing a tax cut (£3.10/year) and there were no significant surprises there. What the budget showed is that […]

     

  • London Assembly 2012: the Liberal Democrat woes

    In the latest in our series on the problems facing London’s four main parties in the coming Assembly elections we take  a look at the difficulties the Liberal Democrats will be facing come May. You can see our take on the Tory and Labour campaigns, and the final piece in […]

     

  • Lib Dems launch their even “Fairer Fares” policy

    In the week that 2012 fare rises came into effect (described by one Tory wonk as “a fucking PR disaster”) The Liberal Democrats have responded with their own answer to Labour’s Fair Deal campaign. Fairer fares. We should be on the look out for the Greens coming out with a […]