Mark Reckons
Blog URL http://markreckons.blogspot.com/
Located Sandhurst, Berkshire United Kingdom
Tags Politics, UK Politics, Electoral Reform, Drug Law Reform, Lib Dems, Liberal Democrats, Twitter
My real name is Mark Thompson (and no I am not the DG of the BBC!) - I am a Lib Dem activist, political obsessive, company director, computer programmer and a big fan of comedy. Oh and Walls Vienetta.
Latest Blog Posts
- 53% of people can name their MP on Nov 27, 2009 in British Computer Society Political engagement
The British Computer Society has published some research today as part of their "Savvy Citizens" campaign which aims to help people get more from Information Technology.They conducted a survey which asks various questions. The one that they clearly t...
- BBC Question Time Live Chat - 26th November 2009 - #bbcqt on Nov 26, 2009 in Live Chat CoverItLive BBC Question Time
It's #bbcqt day again and as usual the Live Chat on this blog will start tonight at 10:30pm.For the second time in four weeks the panel will not include a Lib Dem. This has caused someconsternation in the Lib Dem blogosphere, especially as Jo Swinson...
- House of Comments podcast - Episode 5 on Nov 25, 2009 in House of Comments Constantly Furious Charlotte Gore Podcasts
The latest "House of Comments" podcast with myself and Stuart Sharpe of the Sharpe's Opinion political blog is now live. The website for the podcasts is here and the fifth episode which we recorded on Tuesday 24th Nov is available to download via thi...
- Lord Digby Jones wants to legalise drugs on Nov 25, 2009 in Lord Digby Jones Drugs Evidence based policy Newsnight
It always amazes me how sensible the views of government ministers can be once they leave office.Lord Digby Jones who until a year ago was Minister of State for Trade is a good example. After leaving the government he was quoted as saying that his ti...
- Mark Reckons is one year old on Nov 24, 2009 in Mark Reckons Birthday
Yesterday, this blog passed a milestone. It is now a year since I did my first blogpost as a Lib Dem on here. It was about the BNP leaked membership list by the way and was entitled "BNP List - My Thoughts" and according to my analytics, 4 people rea...
- What will David Cameron do about Andy Coulson now? on Nov 24, 2009 in David Cameron Bullying Andy Coulson
I was going to do a more detailed post on the Andy Coulson/bullying case but Anthony Painter has pretty much said what I was going to here.All I would add to what Anthony has said is that tribunals don't usually give out £800,000 for nothing and Dav...
- John Redwood's high handed arrogance on Nov 23, 2009 in electoral reform First Past the Post John Redwood
Following yesterday's poll which suggested the Conservatives might only have a 6% lead over Labour, there is a lot of talk about hung parliaments.John Redwood has blogged about this today. He starts his post with some very sensible comments about thi...
