Image via Wikipedia Irish Minister for Europe, Dick Roche, has been re-elected as one of the Vice-Presidents of the European Liberal Democratic and Reform Party at its recent congress in Helsinki. He was originally elected last November at the ELDR’s congress in Barcelona. He was elected with 67% of the vote. The other Vice Presidents Elected were Graham Watson, of the UK Liberal Democrats, former leader of the ALDE grouping of the European Parliament and Vesna Pusic of the...
Image by origamidon via Flickr So here is a list of seats I will be trying to watch closely. They should give an indication to the wider picture. England Barking: Nick Griffin is the BNP candidate here, will he win? Brighton Pavillion: Green’s possible gain? Buckingham: Will the speaker hold on? (Counted on Friday though!) Dagenham and Rainham: Will the BNP gain a seat? Or will the Tories take Cruddas’ seat? Eastbourne: Can the Lib Dems take from the...
If I was in the god-bothering wing of Fianna Fail I would be very annoyed with the actions of some Fianna Fail’s allies in the European Liberal Democratic and Reform Party. One of the members of this party Brigitta Ohlsson (of the Swedish Liberal People’s Party) has along with a few collegues from the UK Liberal Democrats ( Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP), the Dutch Democrats 66 (Sophie in ‘t Veld) and the Danish Det Radikale Venstre (Lone Dybkjær) have...
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