However i honestly do believe that he would be better for Chingford than the other candidates that run here. For one i find Cath Arakelian to be a very irritating person who looks like she been thrown in at the deep end. Barry White seems to be ‘fighting for whats right’ instead of what would actually be best, Whilst Nick Jones seems to have only two aims, neither i think are really important right now.
Oh and i’m just going to ignore Julian Leppert for now.

From the responses it is clear that Mr Above is far from being stupid. He is clearly more intelligent than Matthew who seems to be stuck in the party political mindset right or wrong.

If you look at my contributions to Liberal Democrat Voice, I think you will find I am rather far removed from having a “party political mindset right or wrong”, in fact I tend to be very criticval of the LIberal Democrats, and particularly of its leadership. Whether what I write manages to reach in intelligence the level of Mr Above’s material in his website, well, that obviously isn’t for me to judge.

I think you have made the easy mistake of assuming that None of the Above is a fool ( I think the phrase used was Muppet)

From the responses it is clear that Mr Above is far from being stupid. He is clearly more intelligent than Matthew who seems to be stuck in the party political mindset right or wrong.

Maybe he needs some assistance on the minutiae of the political process such as whether the ballot paper is alphabetical by first or last name or whether indeed it is written in iambic pentameter or as an inverse alphabetic acrostic but that is a minor issue. Look at the big picture and see what he is saying.

Those who challenge the system are often accused by the establishment of being on the lunatic fringe but all of us including the lib dems should sit up and listen to people like Mr Above who clearly has ideas beyond the imagination of party wonks who write in these forums.

He isn’t in my constituency but if he were, I would vote for him. I might even be persuaded to canvass for him.

If I were the lib dem candidate in Chingford, I would be very worried right now. Perhaps it won’t be Mr Above that loses his deposit……

Whilst I’m a Lib Dem supporter (really must get those leaflets out whilst we’re snow-free here).

To answer your question, I would like a party which has real integrity. The Lib Dems behaved pretty shamefully in the expenses scandal, it was quite clear that the Lib Dems do not personally see it as important to limit their expenditure of taxpayers money. Nick’s Rose Garden, Lord Rennard’s 2nd home. They were quite happy to pamper themselves at tax-payers expense and worse, after it became obvious this was not acceptable to the tax payers. They didn’t consider it worth taking any action,when they saw that no other party was going to either.

It leaves the Lib Dems with the position ‘well we’re really abit less corrupt than the other chaps’.

Now, in fptp and with our commitment to a change in voting system the Lib Dems are still the most sensible party to vote for. But it really does pain me to see the Executive drop the ball on such an easy way to promote our values just because they lack integrity.

If you want to see my manifesto go to http://www.noneabove.com.

Have just done so. It seems to contradict what you wrote in your message.

E.g.

There are too many children leaving school unable to read fluently, write and do maths. One thing that would change this drastically is to reduce class sizes in the primary schools allowing each child more teacher time.

Yes, so there would need to be more teachers and more classrooms. But you said you wanted to reduce tax and reduce the number of employees. This is what you gave in your message above as your MAIN aim. So you are just contradicting yourself when your details involve things which would require more employees and more tax to pay them.

In hospitals I am reminded of the same thing. Almost every person working there knows what they are doing, works hard and cares about the patients.

But this contradicts what you say about there being lots of people doing non-essential jobs and your main aim being identifying them and throwing those people out of their jobs.

Most of the rest of what you say in your manifesto seems to be “I don’t really have a clue, but I have good intentions”.

I think that may also count as “same as above”.

since you mentioned it I believe the answer to our current economic problems is to spend less, not tax more

So why don’t you call yourself “same as above” then?

You’re right (except for the Plonker party bit), a bit of an oversight on my part, although it’s tricky to campaign as Of the above None.
I believe independents go at the bottom of the ballot paper, below the main parties, so as long as I’m the only independent I’m safe, but in any case, it’s a figurative ‘above’, not necessarily a literal one. This raises another issue. The parties appear in alphabetical order, which puts the BNP at the top, which may give them an advantage. If the order does skew the result then there should be equal numbers of ballot papers in the various possible orders, even if this does slightly muck up my message.

I have never yet got an answer to that one. Mostly when people say “all the parties are bad” they are disappointed because none of them is offering less tax and more state spending, or some other such mutually contradictory policies.

NONE, Of The Above (Plonker Party)

…still leaving Geoff below, as Mark notes.

A lost deposit in any event.