Liberal Landslide

This entire election campaign has seemed significantly more exciting than the last one, not least because the only scandal and intrigue has actually pushed us up in the polls. There is a genuine feeling that the party is on the march and that both candidates have been very able in setting out what it truly means to be a Liberal Democrat.

My choice, from the start, has never been in doubt. Nick Clegg has not just lived up to my expectations as a candidate, he has surpassed them. He represents, in my mind, a truly bright future for our party and one in which I believe there is hope once again for demolishing the two party megalith.

Chris has fought an undeniably valiant campaign, but his negativity, epitomised in his choice to fight in the instinctive fight or flight response to Sopel’s production of his briefing against Clegg, was unedifying and divisive. I also believe that he has been rather disingenuous in trying to break off the anti-trident wing of the party (of which I am an ardent member) by painting a picture of himself as a disarmer when actually he wants to maintain a minimum deterrent with a new land based missile system.

So for me, and many of my counter parts, it has to be Nick and then let him lead us for a good long time to come as I would much rather devote my campaigning efforts to blooding the Tories, the Nats and Labour than arguing the toss with friends and colleagues in my own Party.