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  @william_summers: Paddy Ashdown speaking at #ldconf - we need a new Reform Act for Parliament
  About 5 minutes ago

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  @NickThornsby: My MP is the joint 59th most authoritarian http://rank.libdemvoice.org/ranked/
  About 10 minutes ago

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  @waswasere: You only get Vince Cable if you vote Liberal Democrat - Paddy Ashdown #ldconf
  About 10 minutes ago

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  @CatTurner: You only get Vince Cable if you vote Liberal Democrat - Paddy Ashdown #ldconf
  About 10 minutes ago

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  @peterblackwales: Paddy speaking to rally. Would Tories and Labour invite former leaders to address their conference? #ldconf
  About 16 minutes ago

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  @kmflett: Sam Cam has told ITV that husband Dave has 'annoying habits' Too right he has- he's a Tory
  About 21 minutes ago

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  @sarabedford: Four Birmingham PPCs and one MP telling #ldconf Rally what a LibDem government would mean for the country. Good stuff.
  About 25 minutes ago

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  @PhilCane: David Cameron MP is 12/100 authoritarian http://ldv.org.uk/r10777
  About 26 minutes ago

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  @AnneFairweather: thinks Alex Salmond doesn't understand devolution
  About 27 minutes ago

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  @krs133: If every story which right wingers considered a 'gift to the BNP' was actually a gift to the BNP, they would be in power by now
  About 36 minutes ago

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  @paulwalteruk: ‘Humiliation’ for Nick Griffin http://bit.ly/bd8kjD
  About 50 minutes ago

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  @CllrTim: This House (all the Cheethams) moves that Messrs P Davies and C Chope MPs should be thoroughly & utterly ashamed of themselves.
  About 59 minutes ago

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  @His_Grace: David Cameron on anti-Semtism, Israel, Conservative Friends of Israel and his own Jewish ancestry http://bit.ly/dBMuQg
  About 1 hours ago

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  @LukePollard: Sat on my train to Plymouth next to a Lib Dem Devon County Councillor - swapping stories. good tory bashing going on :-)
  About 2 hours ago

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  @fosterjon: BNP still racist shock! http://bit.ly/a4lUaD
  About 2 hours ago

Front Bench Blogs

• Party Conference: fair is worth fighting for

  by Jim Jepps (@jim_jepps) - Green Party on Sunday, 21st February 2010

  Now I'm back and conference is over I'll try to knock out a few posts to give a flavour of different themes going on over the last four days. I think it's only reasonable to start with the Greens theme for the election encapsulated in the slogan 'fair is worth fighting for'.

  Green Party leader, Caroline Lucas, made a very focused speech to conference on the prospects for victory, geeing everyone up and urging everyone to do their bit in the coming election.

  I particularly liked this bit though on social inequality;

  Inequality And it matters because it is the most vu... read more »

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• Brown's voting reform error

  by Jim Jepps (@jim_jepps) - Green Party on Tuesday, 9th February 2010

  The news that Gordon Brown was proposing voting reform as his parting gift for the Tories probably did not go down as well as he'd hoped. Those who like the current system were never going to be happy, but by putting forward Alternative Voting as a method of heading off Proportional Representation didn't meet with much enthusiasm from reformers either.

  What I hadn't realised at the time, although in hindsight it was predictable, it was also a way of Brown proving how rubbish the Labour Party is at unity. The BBC reports today that a number of Labour MPs are intending to vote against ... read more »

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• MPs to vote for vote on how we vote. Huh?

  by Constantly Furious (@constantfury) - LPUK on Tuesday, 9th February 2010

  Yes, our esteemed MPs will today vote on whether we should vote on how we are going to vote.

  You might have thought that, in the teeth of a disastrous recession, in the midst of broken Britain and in the depths of an unwinnable war - a war that has now killed more soldiers than we lost in the Falklands - there might be better things for MP's to spend their time on.

  But of course, if you thought that, you'd be forgetting the utter, naked desperation of Gordon Brown and his team to cling on to power.

  Not to 'do the right thing' or to 'help hardworking families'. No. Just ... read more »

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• Expenses: What is to be Done?

  by Phil BC (@averyps) on Sunday, 7th February 2010

  Elliot Morley, David Chaytor, Jim Devine. As Labour MPs go they're cards aren't they? It's not enough that they've allegedly swindled the system by submitting false expense claims *and* will be in receipt of at least £30k "relocation money" when they step down, but now the right honourable members have the cheek to pursue parliamentary privilege defence to avoid court action.

  In a society where the rich and powerful are litigious, this is an important democratic gain worth defen... read more »

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• MEPs nod through £1,300 rise

  by Marta Andreasen MEP (@mandreasen) - UKIP on Saturday, 6th February 2010

  Budget committee agrees to increase the parliamentary assistance allowance in €1,500 ( £1,300 )

  A long debate took place at Parliament's Budget Committee last week about how to cover the €1,500 increase on parliamentary assistance for the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty. The discussion was not about deciding whether or not it it should be paid but just how it would be financed. The decision to pay it out had already been made by the Bureau of the Parliament (made up of the President and Vice presidents of the European Parliament plus the Quaestors).

  ... read more »

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• Reach for your chequebooks

  by Constantly Furious (@constantfury) - LPUK on Thursday, 4th February 2010

  It may, at last, be payback time for some of our troughing MP's, when Sir Thomas Legg finally publishes his report.

  Don't hold your breath though. Sir Thomas sent out letters to MPs in October last year- more than 4 months ago - detailing his requests for repayment, and still these troughers continue to wriggle.

  More than half of MP's have already been told that they should pay large sums of money, that they effectively stole, back to us. The stories, and the ever-changing numbers, have been published so many tim... read more »

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