Blair being no longer a Labour MP?

In fact, one of the main things that attracts people to us is that we don’t turn on an ideological sixpence whenever the climate suits us, unlike Blair or Cameron….

Here’s what he writes in his book “Have I Got Views For You”: ‘there is a third group, a minority, but a minority that possessses a characteristic human psychological deformity. They can’t stand the pettiness of intellectual consistency. They want it all ways, and are capable of holding to mutually contradictory positions at once. Their policy on cake is pro-having it and pro-eating it, and they need a party that reflects them and their politically schizophrenic personalities… There are not many Lib Dems in Parliament, but even in that tiny group they incarnate dozens of diametrically opposing positions.

‘You want to know what the Lib Dem policy is on taxation, for instance, and you want to know whether you are for or against a 50 per cent tax rate. One half of your cerebrum thinks it quite right that the rich should pay more; the other lobe thinks tax is quite high enough already. You are a perfect Lib Dem, a mass of contradictions, and your party supplies exactly what you are looking for.’

Blimey!

Whatever the Liberal Democrat campaign does it should be equidistant between Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson. Johnson would be an absolute disaster.

His (correct) decision was about a joint candidate

Not convinced. Remember the Peers List fiasco?

That he is a democrat and we are a democratic party

Jonathan Davies
Returning Officer

The question why didn’t you join before is a fair one – though the answer “because I was a police officer and couldn’t” would seem an acceptable one.

I hope, however, that we have the courage of our convictions and that we use the opportunity of people asking about drugs and crime policies to publicise what we really believe and what we can really acheive and that we don’t try to hide behind the same old hang-em-and-flog-em orthodoxy.

If he has been a member for at least one year than we are probably right to court him to run for us

That having been said – It does concern me that none of of high profile Party members are prepared to do the business for the Party

Is it a lack of their belief in Party Policies or a reluctance to take on a fight which they might not win holding them back?

If it is the latter it probably also expllains why so few women and BME members put themselves forward Parliamentary candidates in our no hope seats !!!