As a Lib Dem activist in your neighbouring constituency, Salisbury, I have also noticed a lot of people are swinging to the Lib Dems. Perhaps more importantly, almost all the young people I know are going tovote Lib Dem. We are seen as the 'young persons' party, and I think we need to continue that - not just through policies, but through the manner of our politicians.

James
James | Email | Homepage | 03.15.05 - 6:50 pm | #

I relished your comment:
The sad thing was the comment "All older people get a little more selfish and self centred in their old age"

This has always seemed to me to be the shameless comment of thoughtless youthfulness, supplanted in later years by selfish thoughtlessness. Usually uttered by those who were, they say, formerly left-of-centre in a pseudo-idealistic sort of way, but have somehow become transmogrified into their worst kind of nemesis - otherwise known as self-delusion. Such people were self-centred in their youth and have continued to be so in their dotage - in other words 'socialists'.
Bill (Scotland) | Email | Homepage | 03.17.05 - 3:23 am | #

Headline in my local evening newspaper “Old folk get wired up for a mobile moan”.
The piece was about a splendid piece of new technology which could offer real benefits to older people but when newspapers present it in this way it makes all the wrong assumptions. In my experience older people are not selfish in fact most of the voluntary work carried out in our economy is done by this age group and the folks I come into contact with don’t often moan even when they are in pain and would perhaps be justified in doing so. Could the press please please think before publishing such misleading headlines.
bob Tidmarsh | Email | Homepage | 03.17.05 - 3:16 pm | #