Organisation: UK Liberal Democrats
Total Economic Quackery
The All Party Parliamentary Group On Peak Oil (APPGOPO) has released a report backing Tradable Energy Quotas (TEQs) as "the fairest and most productive way to deal with the oil crisis and to simultaneously guarantee reductions in fossil…
Cleggover blunders again
Martha Kearney just nailed Nick Clegg (again). This time he's claiming he knows how much money will be brought in by removing various tax loopholes, but doesn't know how many people will be affected. He then comes up with a figure of 1…
LibDem magic - it will be so because we say so
Last Friday, the LibDems launched "new transport polices to create a zero carbon transport system by 2050." And no one noticed. Not even their website, which carried the press release, but doesn't seem to carry the document, -Towards Carbon…
PMQs & Climate Change
In today's PMQs, Ming Campbell asked the PM, with specific reference to the recent floods the following question: "The Prime Minister was responsible for the establishment of the Stern report which as he will recall pointed out the severe…
Do the LibDems know what "liberal" means?
Iain Dale has demolished in a few short words Ming Campbell's proposal to abuse local-authority powers to get more social housing built, so effectively that even the LibDem NorfolkBlogger agrees with him. This has provoked an…