The end of Vince Cable's Mail on Sunday column means that a party with five Cabinet Ministers has no Fleet Street presence, although Charles Kennedy seems to have put in a bid in The Observer. As things stand, that party of government is exempt from an important form of scrutiny.
Meanwhile, the BBC has adopted a "Don't Mention The War" approach to the Liberal Party, with The World This Weekend adding the Liberal candidate as an afterthought to a report on the Thirsk & Malton contest. But whereas the fully covered UKIP candidate appears not to be local at all, the Liberal candidate is both a North Yorkshire County Councillor in the constituency and a member of Ryedale District Council, the whole area of which falls within Thirsk & Malton, and on which his party has something of a presence by its own standards, not least having taken a seat from the Lib Dems last year.
Fleet Street, why?
And Auntie, why?
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Have you ever thought of setting up some sort of comment magazine that did include the Lib Dems, the Liberals and other smaller parties, the Campaign Group, the Cornerstone Group and so on?
ReplyDeleteHave you ever thought of investing in one? Seriously. It would tie in with two other ideas of mine, and I really do think that it would make a tremendous difference for the better.
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