Morning all :) A week on and already $100 oil seems just to be a thing - I wonder if we'll be thinking that in a month or two. On topic - a misstep by Ed Davey if I'm honest. It's not … (View Post)

Morning all :) Starting with the obvious - all politicians are ridiculed, they always have been. Go back to some of the cartoons in Punch in the 20th century and they were pretty merciless. Indeed, i… (View Post)

There was a lot of heat and passion in that hall that day but even then I could see how much potential damage voting down the motion proposed by the leadership was going to do. The writers from the M… (View Post)

You better believe this was also true 40 years ago. in the dim and distant, the Liberal Assembly was the policy making body for the Party - the leadership had to enact the policy decisions of the act… (View Post)

Afternoon all :) I was in the hall at Eastbourne that Tuesday afternoon in 1986 when the Alliance basically committed suicide. I don't think I heard a more passionate debate in all my time as a … (View Post)