Not even the snow and ice could stop this general election year from announcing its arrival. Within the first few days of the New Year, the campaigning began and already there's one word which looks set to dominate debate in this most exciting of elections. The word is 'cuts' and we had better get used to it. Britain can't afford to keep on spending like there's no tomorrow - Labour has built a mountain of public debt that must be cleared sooner, rather than later. The consequences of allowing that debt to rise could be devastating for the British economy, ...

Question Time panels are not at all unbalanced, says A.BBC-Spokesman, according to the Love and Liberty blog. Seriously, if you have a complaint about bias on BBC, fill in the form at www.bbc.co.uk/complaints. For ITV, the complaints webpage says: Tel. 0844 88 14150 (Calls cost 5p per minute from a BT landline. Calls from other networks may be higher, and from mobiles will be considerably more. The Viewer Services team are available Monday - Friday 8.00am to 7.00pm and Saturdays 10.00am to 7.00pm. They are closed on Sundays, Bank holidays and Bank Holiday weekends). You can also email us at: ...

Poor Mick Bates, eh? What rotten timing, to have a night out go completely Pete Tong for an AM right at the worst possible moment, when the Welsh Lib Dems are trying to have a nice bit of upbeat conference coverage. Oh, hang on. If you squint at this article you'll see that although it was written this morning, the incident in question happened on the 20th of January. Wonder why it wasn't considered news til over two weeks later then? I'm seething.

Well Conference is over, training is complete, my team is assembled and ready for sore feet! We have been out now for some time and are at present delivering our next leaflet, over 700 delivered in Llanrwst this weekend whilst I was at conference. (Thanks Gang) This week we will be Phoning, delivering and talking to residents in Aberconwy. I feel ready for the challenge and hard work ahead after listening to Nick and Kirsty this weekend. See what happened at conference: http://www.freedomcentral.org.uk

Yesterday's Sunday Times had an interesting article that outlines exactly why Liberal Democrats are lukewarm about Gordon Brown's proposed referendum on voting reform. They report that Michael Thrasher and Colin Rallings, who are professors of politics at Plymouth University, have re-run the results of the 2005 general election as if Brown's alternative vote system were in place. They say that the results show that Labour's majority in the Commons would have risen from 66 to 82, with the Tories getting 15 fewer seats. The Liberal Democrats would have gained an extra nine. Labour, with 36% of the popular vote on ...

Here are the rest of our videos from yesterday's Welsh Liberal Democrat Conference in Swansea, starting with Baroness Ros Scott, the Federal Party President: Jenny Willott was outstanding: Whilst Lembit was, well Lembit:

I am one of those boring old fogies who reckon that these modern beat combos all sound the same. But just occasionally one leaps out as, in my opinion, justifying their publicity, like Franz Ferdinand. Now I learn from the February-April issue of Asthma magazine that Alex Kapranos, singer and joint songwriter, has had asthma since the age of seven. He says: ¨Sometimes when I'm on stage I'll feel my chest tightening - I've used my inhaler on stage a few times - but in a way I feel I've actually got quite strong lungs because of the asthma and ...