According to Jonathan Isaby at the Telegraph, three LibDem frontbenchers will resign today: Alistair Carmichael - Scotland and Northern Ireland spokesman and MP for Orkney and Shetland (majority: 6,627) Tim Farron - Countryside spokesman and MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale (majority: 267) David Heath - Justice spokesman and MP for… read more…

Martin Crick has "hear" that the LibDem meltdown has begun: I hear that Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has already accepted one resignation from a front bench member over the issue of holding a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.… read more…

James Kirkup has written up Nick Clegg's Lisbon Treaty lobby briefing from earlier today, and the LibDem leader ain't budging: Yes, he's put his MPs on a three line whip not to vote at all when the Commons decides on a Tory bid for a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.  … read more…

The LibDem attitude to the Euro-referendum gets weirder and weirder: Next week, after months of legal argument and political squabbling, Parliament will vote on whether the Lisbon treaty should be put to a referendum. However, Lib Dems have been told to stay away from both the Aye and No lobbies,… read more…

Is Ed Davey telling a bit of a porkie pie in his note on the Indy's OpenHouse blog? Yesterday, much to my surprise, I found myself being dismissed from the Chamber of the Commons by the Deputy Speaker. This sort of thing doesn’t happen to Liberal Democrats, and I don’t… read more…

You've got to love the Lib Dem faithful — only they could dub Dave Cameron's Europe policy "bore for Britain" and fail to see the irony. That said, James Graham makes an interesting point about the opportunity facing Nick Clegg as he heads into the latter half of his first… read more…

Intriguing stuff over at politicalbetting.com, where Mike Smithson is calling out one of his commenters over welching on a bet. The commenter, called The Observer (maybe he's a Silver Surfer fan but The Watcher was already taken), claims to be a "senior member" of the LibDems and offered a bet… read more…

It wasn't just us who were confused by the apparent similarities between the two LibDem leadership candidates: the LibDems themselves could barely make up their mind. The Cultural Stereotyping Dept. has been warned but, really: LibDems who can't make up their minds? What next? Labour and dodgy property deals? Racist… read more…

World drying up..... politicians don't care..... British sovereignty being signed away..... police threatening strike action..... the world's identity thieves just waiting to pounce on 25 million poor benefit claimants.... Nadine Dorries..... There's certainly a bulging pre-Christmas basket of woe for any self-respecting third party seeking a narrative to delve into.… read more…

Vince Cable is really enjoying his hour in the sun, apparently skipping a LibDem federal executive meeting to attend the filming of the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special. Apparently he told Simon Hughes, the chair of the Executive, that the LibDem cause would be better served by his face appearing… read more…