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Opinion: From a Lurker

Welwyn Garden City - pink fountain - some rights reserved by John Barnabas LeithWatching the election coverage last week was painfully gut wrenching. My only involvement had been to cast my vote, as I have done all my adult life for the Lib Dems. I can only imagine the hurt and despair of those of you who have been eating and sleeping that campaign, put body and soul into them and been confronted with those results.

I wasn’t always a lurker, I was an active member as a student at Birmingham University …

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