Liberal Conspiracy

http://www.liberalconspiracy.org

Left-wing news, opinion and activism

• Top posts
  • The time when right-wingers celebrated the death of a politician
  • Thatcher’s key legacy – ‘trickle down economics’ – may come to an end sooner than later
  • What happened when the DCMS met some bloggers

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Guy Fawkes' blog

http://www.order-order.com

Parliamentary plots and conspiracy

• Top posts
  • Ding Dong the Cash is Going to Corporations
  • RIP Political Scrapbook
  • Victory: Guido’s Blog Will Remain Unregulated Government Tells Evan Harris to “Blog Off”

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Labourlist

http://www.labourlist.org/

Labour's biggest independent grassroots e-network

• Top posts
  • Blair warns Labour not to pander to party base, as Miliband responds – Media roundup: April 16th, 2013
  • One Nation Labour conference: Liveblog
  • Labour’s Lib Dem Dilemma: To be Tribal or Tactical?

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Pride's Purge

http://tompride.wordpress.com

an irreverent look at UK politics

• Top posts
  • Fraudster ATOS fined for supplying fake crip detectors for use in fitness for work tests
  • Oops! Homebase let cat out of the bag about using workfare to reduce wage bills
  • Facebook censors political satire after complaint from JobCentre Plus

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Left Foot Forward

http://www.leftfootforward.org/

Left Foot Forward is a political blog for progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy developments.

• Top posts
  • UK recovery slowest ever
  • Has the deficit really gone down?
  • If welfare spending is out of control the governments of Margaret Thatcher are to blame

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Liberal Democrat Voice

http://www.libdemvoice.org

Our place to talk - an independent website for supporters of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK.

• Top posts
  • Julian Huppert MP writes…I agree with Nick. He’s right to kill the Snoopers’ Charter
  • Julian Huppert writes: Update on the Defamation Bill
  • New LDV members’ survey now live: your views on immigration, the Lord Rennard allegations, Eastleigh, ‘secret courts’ and the Coalition

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ConservativeHome's ToryDiary

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/

• Top posts
  • We announce the new ConservativeHome editorial team. Paul Goodman is Editor.
  • Why is Cameron letting Labour, which last won 29% of the vote, gain 77% of the appointments?
  • Five snapshots of Cameron on tour

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Political Scrapbook

http://politicalscrapbook.net/

News and gossip from Britain's leading left-wing blog.

• Top posts
  • Osborne was driven past 230 other spaces to use disabled parking bay
  • Blinded, half-paralysed man dies day after Atos stop his benefits
  • Rumours of our demise are greatly exaggerated

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FullFact

http://fullfact.org

Full Fact is a tool to help ordinary people to hold influential groups and individuals to account on the claims made in political debate. We aim to take the spin out of statements and make it easier to see the facts behind a claim. Our main work is to: - Analyse, challenge and expose misleading claims - Enable people to verify or rebut claims and campaign for improved standards

• Top posts
  • £100,000 per year from housing benefit?
  • Are more married men than women suffering from domestic abuse?
  • Leeds General Infirmary: does it have an above average death rate?

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Stumbling and Mumbling

http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/

An extremist, not a fanatic

• Top posts
  • Scrounging: how big an issue?
  • What if demand for graduates falls?
  • Moral panics & the threat to freedom

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the void

http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com

narking off the state since 2005

• Top posts
  • Man Jailed After Comments Made In Atos Assessment
  • Meet The Nudge Unit – The Snake Oil Salesmen At The Heart of Government
  • The Daily Mail’s Slander Has Fanned the Flame of Anti-Thatcher Rage

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Mark Pack's blog

http://www.markpack.org.uk

All the original stories from my blog (excluding those cross-posted from www.libdemvoice.org)

• Top posts
  • My monthly email newsletter about the Lib Dems – sign up to get no.2
  • The richer you are, the more likely you are to think you can live on £53 a week
  • One in the Eye for Harold: Why everything you thought you knew about history is wrong

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ToUChstone blog

http://www.touchstoneblog.org.uk

Policy news and comment from the Trades Union Congress (TUC)

• Top posts
  • The new economic model is the old economic model
  • Fiscal Frameworks & Spending Plans
  • Is the benefit cap encouraging people into work?

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British politics and policy at LSE

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy

Experts analyse and debate recent developments across UK government, politics and policy

• Top posts
  • The economic legacy of Mrs. Thatcher is a mixed bag
  • No Triple Dip does not mean a good recovery
  • Margaret Thatcher has a fair claim to be called the most influential politician since the Second World War, but her legacy is still hotly disputed today because of her mistakes and weak points

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Iain Dale's Diary

http://iaindale.blogspot.com

Politics & Humour from LBC 97.3's evening presenter

• Top posts
  • Paolo Di Canio - If He's Good Enough for Swindon...
  • Damian McBride & Me: How the Book Came About
  • Mick Philpott: The Blame Game - Is It the Welfare State's Fault?

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politicalbetting.com

http://politicalbetting.com

The web's premier resource for political betting.

• Top posts
  • Ukip are fielding candidates in three-quarters of the local seats up on May 2nd
  • LAB set to win the battle for votes on May 2nd – but the blues, surely, will still win most seats?
  • If stepping up the rhetoric on welfare was supposed to boost CON poll ratings it has yet to work

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Jack of Kent

http://jackofkent.com/blog/

A website about law and other things.

• Top posts
  • How Liberal Democrat MPs voted against making it far harder for companies to misuse libel
  • “The silencing of the Munchkins” – what the BBC should have done.
  • The sentencing of Mick Philpott

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Dale & Co.

http://iaindale.com/

Politics & Humour from LBC 97.3's evening presenter

• Top posts
  • Paolo Di Canio - If He's Good Enough for Swindon...
  • Damian McBride & Me: How the Book Came About
  • And This is What Political Journalism Has Been Reduced To...

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The Green Benches

http://eoin-clarke.blogspot.com

Dr Éoin Clarke (PhD) - TheGreenBenches@Hotmail.com

• Top posts
  • 16 Political Policies that an Ed Miliband led Labour would do if they were in power today
  • The truth about the 'feckless' and 'workshy'.
  • Hands up who can solve this Tory v Labour riddle?

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Labour Uncut

http://labour-uncut.co.uk

Inside Labour Politics

• Top posts
  • Labour has got itself into a mess on welfare
  • Letwin checking up on Lansley: John Healey’s letter to David Cameron
  • Labour’s new way of selecting parliamentary candidates makes a mockery of calls for more working class MPs

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