Gordon Brown has upped his eco credentials by pushing the expansion of wind power turbines throughout the nation. Over the coming decade, the £100bn plans will hopefully see that the UK becomes in leader of renewable energy, with a targeted 15% of its power coming from renewable sources by 2020.… read more…

Council Tax. There is nothing quite as vile, feudal or primitive in the whole world. It has all the charm of a malignant brain tumour or a boot in the crotch and, unfortunately for us, it is a disease in which the symptoms are only concentrated around a select area… read more…

Research suggests that Labour were 'hammered' in the local elections, slipping to third place beneath both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. BBC. The Telegraph. The results for the London Mayoral Election will be revealed today. BBC. The Guardian. Tony Blair has made his first appearance on Time Magazine's list of… read more…

Westmonster is excited to announce that Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik is engaged to his girlfriend, Cheeky Girl Gabriela Irima. We hope that our readers feel the same sense of awe and bewilderment as we do. The couple, who reportedly met at a Convention for Lop-sided Smilers in 2006,… read more…

Andrew George, Annette Brooke, Alistair Carmichael, David Heath, Greg Mulholland, John Hemming, John Leech, John Pugh, Mark Williams, Martin Horwood, Mike Hancock, Paul Holmes, Richard Younger-Ross, Sandra Gidley, Tim Farron. See me afterwards. Interestingly, five of these sites were unavailable this morning. And not one of the LibDem 15 had… read more…

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…