Liberal Provocateur

Lib Dems should back Tom Watson's EDM2000

2009-10-21T15:15:08Z

.. but of course you could fit all the lib dems who've signed his early day motion in a taxi - because almost all our MPs are so clueless on technology - Lib Dems still out of touch on anything that hints of computergeekywotsit - that's why the c...

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I've signed up to democracyclub, you should too

2009-10-01T12:48:41Z

DemocracyClub is a website that matches volunteers to parliamentary constituencie, and sends them requests for help doing small simple jobs for groups like mysociety and The Straight Choice, such as scanning election leaflets and providing informa...

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Credit where it's due - government getting a couple of things right..

2009-10-01T10:52:58Z

On the Digital Engagement blog they're pushing open data and trying to encourage people to use the data provided already, and hopefully they'll make more available in more standard formats. I'm quite interested in the data provided by the homeoffi...

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Which is worse, abusing Parlimentary Communications Allowance or reinventinging fixmystreet, badly?

2009-09-30T15:39:03Z

So Paul Clark MP has decided to do his own heavily politicised campaign site, thinly disguised as a poor imitation of fixmystreet... I wonder if he is, and hope he isn't, using his Communications Allowance to pay for it.

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UK Border Agency.. what they don't show you on TV..

2009-09-30T14:55:00Z

The UKBA are now piloting genetic tests to determine nationality of people seeking Asylum, because of course your genes will of course change when your grandparents cross an arbitary straight line drawn on a map of africa. Scientists describe ...

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Businesslink now pushing ID Cards

2009-09-29T15:36:17Z

Businesslink are spending money advertising the new ID Cards campaign on their website and with google ads, shows that they exist to serve the governing party rather than businesses.

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ID Cards, wasting money at every turn

2009-09-28T14:58:38Z

"The Home Office is to spend over £500,000 this year on a marketing campaign for the identity card which features cartoon fingerprints" : News from Kable about the Home Office starting it's "public information campaign" in the north west. ...beca...

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...and I (almost) got an answer from the panel!

2009-09-24T14:03:57Z

The last question of the Q&A was an amalgam of 3 questions emailed in on drugs, mine(with a typo introduced) and two others on a similar theme - i.e. prohibition, crime and prescribing heroin to addicts. And then after merging the 3 questions tog...

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I sent a question by email for a Q&A at conference..

2009-09-23T09:16:19Z

.. so how do I find out if I got an answer? I can't find video, let alone transcript on the Crime Q&A on Monday morning, only 4 hour long broadcasts from BBC parliament that may or may not include the Q&A I'm looking for (which I can't even find ...

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"Liberal Democrats" just a name?

2009-09-04T14:30:04Z

Sometimes it feels like the name of our party is just a name, as meaningless or even misleading as when East Germany was called "German Democratic Republic"! If only Chris Huhne and Nick Clegg had the guts to break the westminster taboo and maki...

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