We’ve not lately delved into what’s been bubbling away in the run-up to London’s elections next year. So Wilkommen, Bienvenu, Welcome to this new and possibly occasional feature to catch up with what’s going on out there. Let’s have a rummage and see who’s up …
You could be forgiven for not giving a fig about how the candidates for the London mayoral elections in 2008 are shaping up. Londonist, however, does. On the left, the Greens were first off the block in March with the selection of anti-4×4 campaigner Sian …
In 2012, eight out of ten London tourist sites will be inaccessible to people who can’t use stairs. So reckon the Liberal Democrats in the London Assembly. Their Olympic spokesperson, Dee Doocey, told the BBC: Disabled athletes and visitors to the Games travelling on the …
Thai PM update: he’s here on a private visit as a private citizen (although that didn’t stop him using the VIP reception suite at the Thai Embassy). The Lib Dems are demanding that bus deregulation must be reversed and councils given greater powers over services …
I.D. Cards Battle To End? It looks like the battle over the I.D. cards Bill is set to end today, with the government making a major concession to appease the opposition. Today, the Lords voted by 287 to 60 to accept an amendment which would …
Somewhat later than promised, here is the latest Inside Westminster report on the Lib Dems under Ming: The Rt. Hon. Sir Menzies “Ming” Campbell CBE QC M.P. (to use his full title) is the new leader of the Liberal Democrats after one of the funniest …
Ming Campbell Elected Leader Londonist must put its hands up and admit to being entirely wrong about the result of the Liberal Democrat leadership election. We thought Huhne would pip it marginally. The gossip in the House of Commons Members’ Tea Room was that Huhne …
The Lib Dems clearly aren’t damaged by the shambles that has been the deposition of Kennedy and the subsequent acandal-ridden leadership election. The results of yesterday’s by-election in Dunfermline and West Fife – a neighbouring constituency to the Gordon Brown’s. The Lib Dem candidate, Willie …
An eventful day at Westminster today, with many revelations. The first was that the Government has now decided to allow its backbenchers a free vote on the proposed ban on smoking in public places. The Health Secretary, Patricia Hewitt, has been under fire for some …
We really should consider a weekly No Shit Sherlock column which this week would be won by the BBC’s story that 79% of Londoners rate overcrowded trains as their biggest commuter gripe. So not the drunk drivers, bad armpit smells or hairy loons pleasuring themselves …
Rob: (To be sung to the tune of Elvis Costello’s ‘Watching the Detectives’) “Blogging the election. Blogging the election. Looks like we’re blogging the election” Well our computers might not be quite as fancy as the BBC’s but here we are. The coffee pot is …
