sorry chris but as far as I'm concerned willie rennie sounds like some kind of urinary laxative. never heard of the guy except in your missives.
I don't eat and sleep politics like you do nor comb through all the entrails looking for things to attack political opponents. I'm not a Lib Dem to begin with any way. I'm Labour, but disenchanted by Blair and where he's taken the party.
Lib Dem is my way of voting against him. My experience of john leech has been 100% positive. He was a good councillor, and I've seen nothing whatsoever to suggest he's anything but a good MP. Nothing on this website has dented that belief, because it is all so hopelessly biased and therefore devalued as argument.
You and john holliker and sedgely park and thomas do at least seem to understand where Labour's been going wrong , and you have the wit to realise that John did not win this seat - Labour lost it.
And it was not primarily lost at a local level, it was lost mostly because of national policies.
The same principles will obtain next time round. Work as hard as you like , but if your national policies don't change drastically, you'll face the same set of negatives next time round.
Blair seems hellbent on making sure that even if Gordon Brown does offer true alternatives, he won't get enough time to put them into noticable effect in time for the next election, and Blair's shadow will therefore pollute your best efforts at the next general election.
Myself, I doubt Brown will change much any way. After all, he has been Number 2 in Government for 10 years and can hardly wash his hands convincingly of what has been done by that government.
You think thar because the majority here was narrow, a concentration of effort will be able to swing it back for you.
I beg to disagree. John Leech has a good local track record as a councillor, and has put a lot of work in over the years building his profile with local voters (not , admittedly, with most contributors to this website).
You don't have anyone with those credentials. KB may have been able to claim similar local strength, but he's now a Lord, so you have to start again, and as yet you don't even have a candidate, so the idea of finding anybody to match john leech is probably a pipe dream, unless you parachute somebody in from outside with some status, which is unlikely to happen and less likely to impress local voters if it does happen.
So I think your stuffed until at least the election after next.
