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Liberal Democrats suffer setbacks
Liberal Democrats have had a poor night in Wales, losing Lembit Opik, one of their best known MPs, and failing to gain their target seats..

Liberal Democrats’ manifesto due
The Scottish Liberal Democrats are launching their UK election manifesto with a pledge to create green jobs..

Profile: The Liberal Democrats
A short history of the Liberal Democrat Party from its inception to the present day..

What are the Liberal Democrats’ policies on aid and development–
On Tuesday, 16 March, the Liberal Democrat spokesman on international development, Michael Moore, will be live online to answer readers’ questions. Here, Anne Perkins outlines the party’s policies on aid and poverty alleviationInternational development faces serious challenges, whoever wins the next election. When domestic spending on health and education is likely to face real cuts, protest at continued historically high spending on aid is inevitable. And when there is a lively debate about how well aid works, it is likely the aid budget will face a very tough fight.At their conference last autumn, the Liberal Democrats confirmed their support for the aid target of 0.7% of GDP, and called for renewed effort to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The party has also launched a new policy paper and a policy working group to bring their ideas up to date.The paper highlights the failure of rich countries to match Gleneagles promises, the impact of rising food prices and the pressure on land caused by the new demand for biofuels, the impact of global recession and the failure to stay on track to achieve the MDGs by 2015.But the Liberal Democrats are also trying to develop policy that reflects the new debate about whether aid works, and how best to make it effective. It takes the twin principles of a national moral obligation to seek to alleviate poverty, and of making poverty relief the primary objective of all aid policy.The areas where current aid policy fails, the policy paper suggests, are where the people themselves are not properly consulted.

Tory gay support drops 30 points as Liberal Democrats surge
A poll for Pink News gives Nick Clegg’s party 58% support and suggests it has supplanted Labour as the favourite of gay peopleOne of interesting aspects of this more-interesting-than-anyone-expected election has been the apparent shifts in opinion among gay voters.Now, it’s compulsory at this point for someone to leap straight into the comments to state that there’s no such thing as a “gay vote” ” just voters who are gay. However, in what are clearly self-selecting online polls of self-identifying gay people, there are certain trends and shifts that may turn out to be significant. So let’s stick with it.Over the last year or so there has been a noticeable rise in support for the Conservatives and fall for Labour among gay voters that was almost in line with national polls. And there has been a steady growth for the Liberal Democrats that didn’t mirror the (then) national trends.When I wrote on this last month, it appeared that this was a very different scenario from the 2005 election when Labour ” which had equalised the age of consent and introduced workplace equality legislation ” had been particularly effective at courting gay voters.But now, the latest of these polls from Pink News (which has its own demographically-weighted voter panel) is showing a 30-point collapse in Tory support over the last 10 months (39% in June 2009 to 9% today) and a 38-point surge for the Liberal Democrats (20% in June 2009, 58% today). Labour’s nine point fall over the same period to 20% is striking for being in single figures, though still dramatic. So while the earlier polls showed similarities between self-identifying gay voters and the national trends, the most recent are showing either a breaking away from them or exaggeration (you choose).The shift from Labour in 2005 to the Liberal Democrats in 2010 as the most favoured party for gay voters seemingly ignores the efforts that David Cameron made to make his party more attractive to them.

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Obama chooses 1st young appeals court nominee.

Liberal Democrats unveil election battle bus
LONDON (Reuters) – The third biggest party in parliament, the Liberal Democrats, fired up its election battle bus on Monday, a day before Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to name May 6 as polling day..

MEP defects to Liberal Democrats after Tory links with extremists
Edward McMillan-Scott tells David Cameron he is leaving party because it propagates ‘extremism abroad’A former leader of the Conservatives in the European parliament today defected to the Liberal Democrats in protest at the Tories’ decision to form a group with “extremist” politicians.Edward McMillan-Scott, a veteran campaigner for human rights who led the Tory group in Strasbourg between 1997-2001, told David Cameron he was leaving the party because it propagates “extremism abroad”.In a statement released to coincide with the opening of the Lib Dem spring conference, the vice-president of the European parliament said: “I have long fought against totalitarianism and the extremism and religious persecution it brings. It was wrong of Cameron to associate with MEPs who have extremist pasts.”McMillan-Scott was deprived of the Tory whip last year after he stood successfully for the vice-presidency of the European parliament. This meant that the Tories’ key new European ally, the Polish MEP Michal Kaminski, was deprived of the post.Kaminski then insisted on assuming the leadership of the Tories’ new group, the European Conservatives and Reformists, formed after last year’s European Parliamentary elections in the wake of Cameron’s pledge to withdraw from the mainstream EPP-ED group.Kaminski, a member of the rightwing Law and Justice party, opposed a national apology in 2001 for the notorious anti-semitic pogrom at Jedwabne in which hundreds of Polish Jews were burnt to death in a barn in 1941.In a letter to Cameron, McMillan-Scott wrote: “You continue to refuse to accept that Michal Kaminski, who now leads the ECR and against whom I stood and won re-election as vice-president of the European parliament last July, has had ‘antisemitic, homophobic and racist links’. You say that you are against extremism at home, yet you propitiate it abroad.”In an article for the Yorkshire Post the MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber wrote: “It was wrong of Cameron to associate with MEPs who have extremist pasts in his new European alliance.”Next Tuesday, his associates in Latvia will no doubt join, as usual, in commemoration of the role of the Waffen SS during the war. His partners in Poland will continue to voice their opinions on the vile anti-Semitic Radio Maryja and preach homophobia.”McMillan-Scott’s remarks about Latvia were a reference to Roberts Zile, a member of the For Fatherland and Freedom Party (LNNK), some of whose members commemorate the Latvian Waffen SS. Zile says the ceremony, attended by members of other political parties, is to commemorate soldiers fighting for independence from the Soviet Union.ConservativesLiberal DemocratsMichal KaminskiDavid CameronThe far rightNicholas Wattguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds.

News Media

UK polls: Liberal Democrats emerge kingmakers – IBNLive.com
Liberal Democrats are expected to come third with about 61 seats. If that happens – Brown, as sitting Prime Minister, will get the first chance to form a …

Liberal Democrats suffer setbacks – BBC News
Liberal Democrats have had a poor night in Wales, losing Lembit Opik, one of their best known MPs, and failing to gain target seats. …

GOP consumer, liberal bank break-up plans fail – Newsday (subscription)
(AP) — In separate defeats for Republicans and liberal Democrats, the Senate on Thursday rejected two contentious regulatory measures — one to dilute …

Liberal Democrats gain control of Redcar – BBC News
Both the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives have made inroads into the Labour heartland of Teesside. Solicitor General Vera Baird lost her Redcar seat to …

Liberal Democrats fail to win top target of Guildford – BBC News
Liberal Democrat candidate Sue Doughty, who held the seat between 2001 and 2005, said: "Unless there is an election in a very short time it is most unlikely …

Senate Nod to Fed Audit Is Expected – New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday rejected an effort by liberal Democrats to break up some of the biggest banks, defeating an …

Inquiry called as queues of people denied right to vote in UK election – Sydney Morning Herald
At 4am (1300 AEST), the Conservatives had won 147 seats, Labour 120 and the Liberal Democrats 23 – on target to be far short of the breakthrough predicted …

Ex-home secretary Charles Clarke loses Norwich seat – BBC News
Former home secretary Charles Clarke has lost his Norwich South seat to the Liberal Democrats. Mr Clarke, an arch critic of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, …

Liberal Democrats PPC candidate in Thurrock – Yellow Advertiser
The last few weeks of the election build up has been great. I've worked for the party in 2006- 2009 and it's been hard for the party to get the resources …

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RT @bbcnews Nick Clegg acknowledges the Liberal Democrats have had a "disappointing night".
is still very glad he voted liberal democrats
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#ukelection #ge2010 : Latest update : Conservative 284, Labour 233, Liberal Democrats 50, Minor parties 26 …
RT @guardiannews: UK election results: Liberal Democrats acknowledge failure of Cleggmania http://bit.ly/d6aXUd
UK ELECTIONS-2010: 7.20 am…Conservatives-286 ; Labour 237 ; Liberal Democrats 50 .Still counting !Not enough for an outright majority
lol the liberal democrats are just a fail.
So Much for Third-Party Mania – Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats won a seat at the table, but fell short of expectati… http://ow.ly/17ify5
RT @SymonHill: Pleased that #PhilippaStroud has been defeated by Liberal Democrats in Sutton and Cheam. A defeat for homophobia. #ukelection #ge10
Why did the Liberal Democrats do so badly– They should have 20 or so more seats based on the polls over the last weeks. Jesus wept. #ge2010
RT @BBCElection: Nick Clegg says it has been a ‘disappointing’ night for the Liberal Democrats as they had not achieved what they had hoped.
Conservaties – 284 seats, Labour – 229 seats, Liberal Democrats – 50 seats, Others – 27 seats – 60 seats to declare. Conservatives need 42.
Thank you from the Liberal Democrats http://is.gd/bY2bG