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Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
Talkback Apparently the Liberal Democrats do have some IT related policies, they just don't know about them or choose to ignore them. Looking through the policies on the page provided and through any archive of parliament questions you will see that no...
[June 24, 2005, 9:39]
Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
News European politicians representing parties including the UK's Liberal Democrats have been accused of acting against party policy in a recent vote over the software patent directive. Hartmut Pilch, the president of Foundation for a Free Information...
[June 23, 2005, 16:00]
Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
Talkback To state "that Liberal Democrats have behaved in a "schizophrenic" manner over the patent directive" only reveals his ignorance of the disease and discounts the struggle it is to live life every day as a schizophrenic.
[June 26, 2005, 21:31]
Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
Talkback Errr, all that needs to be done to make the EU work is to kick out company (sponsored) lobbiest and politicians who listen to such people. The only problem is how to accomplish that and maintain that.
[June 24, 2005, 23:56]
Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
Talkback Well this shows that EU don't work. Solutiuon. Abandon EU now. In evey way say no to this corrupt goverment that more and more like a country called China.
[June 24, 2005, 11:01]
Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
Talkback The EP is out of order by even considering sw patents at this point. The EC could not have included the CIID as an A-item, as it claims. Due to objections by representatives of member states. The EP needs to send this back to the EC until such time...
[June 27, 2005, 14:04]
Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
Talkback I would like to hear ASAP what the EU politicians will do now that once again it turns out that plenty of them are being seriously misinformed in ways that clearly effects the way they vote. It's my understanding that such misinformation with such...
[June 23, 2005, 22:16]
Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
Talkback Uh yeah, how exactly would the EU be abandoned? Its an advanced trade organisation overseaing trillions of pounds worth of commerce. Sure the UK could 'go it alone' but with around 2/3 are real trade being with EU countries then they could easily...
[June 24, 2005, 18:20]
Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
Talkback I'll admit (anonymously) that I voted LibDem in the elections, and now which I had not. I liked the outcome but the Lib Dems are rubbish, they're so flaky when it comes to decisions. What a bunch of lily-livered pansies
[June 23, 2005, 18:30]
Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
Talkback How do we "crash" the EU? Very simple. If the UK withdraws then the EU is finished. The €4bn hole we would kick in the EU budget would completely cripple the whole organisation. The CAP would have to go and there would be riots in France as the...
[June 24, 2005, 22:06]
Labour wins tech policy poll
News While the tech industry rates Labour's manifesto e-commerce pledges above the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, it has given it a vote of no-confidence for its digital policies overall. In a virtual poll at Internet World UK 2001, Labour's...
[June 7, 2001, 17:35]
MP: ID card scheme is 'doomed to failure'
News The UK government's ID cards scheme has attracted heavy criticism from a senior Liberal Democrat MP, following the publication last month of an official report into a pilot biometrics programme. Nick Clegg MP, the Liberal Democrat Shadow Home...
[January 15, 2007, 12:36]
Lib Dems to oppose Mandelson copyright powers
News The Liberal Democrats are to oppose a clause in the Digital Economy Bill that would let the business secretary amend copyright law without parliamentary debate. The two Liberal Democrat lords have also proposed changes to the text of the bill, as...
[December 8, 2009, 14:50]
HMRC tax-credit losses approach £10bn
News The cost of flaws in the UK's tax-credit system has risen to almost £10bn, according to the Liberal Democrats. The Liberal Democrats said the quarterly figures released by HM Revenue & Customs show that the government has failed to hit its target...
[May 23, 2008, 9:29]
Government overspends on IT by £1bn
News The Liberal Democrats have blasted the Government for overspending on IT projects by over £1bn in the last five years. On Thursday the Liberal Democrats also severely criticised the estimated government spend on its controversial ID Cards scheme...
[May 11, 2007, 17:53]
Lib Dems brand 2007 'worst ever year' for privacy
News Research by the Liberal Democrats has revealed that 37 million items of personal data went missing during last year. Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, branded 2007 as the "worst ever year" for personal privacy.
[January 8, 2008, 15:10]
Why killing 80,000 desktops is worse than careless
News Following the news on Friday that around 80,000 desktop machines may have crashed in the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) following a routine upgrade, ZDNet UK spoke with the Liberal Democrat IT spokesperson Richard Allan MP about the dangers...
[November 26, 2004, 14:15]
Lib Dems urge immediate halt to NPfIT
News The Liberal Democrat shadow health secretary Norman Lamb has called for an immediate end to further spending on the NHS National Programme for IT. His comments followed a speech yesterday at the Liberal Democrats' annual conference in Bournemouth...
[September 17, 2008, 10:54]
Lib Dems: Don't count on Tories over surveillance
News The Conservatives do not go far enough in opposing government surveillance and databases, Liberal Democrat shadow ministers have argued at their annual conference. In a more detailed speech on Sunday, the Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson David...
[September 23, 2009, 8:45]
Labour accused of hacking Lib Dem email
News A Labour Party employee hacked into the Liberal Democrats' email system, obtaining confidential policy information which was then leaked to the Guardian, according to a confidential Liberal Democrat memo.
[October 10, 2000, 13:03]
