And there’s still more to come… UPDATED – Arrest of LD councillor and candidate confirmed.

Following swiftly on from one Lib Dem’s wife being arrested on suspicion of involvement in electoral fraud in Nechell’s, the Stirrer are now reporting that two more Lib Dems, may have been arrested in the different part of the city in relation to offences that may have been […]

Vote early, vote often…

The problem with taking the moral high ground that its only good for as long as you can stay there… Lib Dem wife in vote fraud arrest The wife of a Liberal Democrat candidate has been arrested by detectives investigating potential vote-rigging at next week’s local elections in […]

Labour Peer alleged to have supported Tories

If a report in the New Statesman (newly redesigned and, like the Indy, subscription firewall free) is correct, then Lord Nazir Ahmed may shortly be re-styling himself not Britian’s first Muslim, Labour, Peer but as Britain’s first Muslim, Crossbench, Peer, assuming he doesn’t just cross the floor the […]

Educating John

Ever a source of entertainment, our local Libidinous Democrat John Hemming has this to say to our Imperious Leader… Over the past year I have, as a new Member of Parliament, asked a number of questions of your government. Sometimes this is via a written parliamentary question. On […]

Libertine Democrats

Let’s take a quick head count here. So far we have John Hemming getting jiggy with a Birmingham City Councillor and broadening his extended family, both the former Leader of the Parliamentary party and the Leader in the House of Lords on the ten-step programme and now former […]

A Tale of Two Cautions

One thing that’s bothered me throughout the whole debate around extending the period for which terrorist suspects can be held before being charged is that I’ve never quite seen what the police would actually get out of such an extension to their statutory powers. Obviously I’ve read Andy […]

Why me?

It difficult to decide quite who is more gaff-prone at the moment, Birmingham’s very own Libidinous Democrat, John Hemming, or David Blunkett who, courtesy of an adminsitrative error has no found himself having made a private planning objection on House of Commons stationary – you’d think his staff […]