Post Killed By Cable

It didn't happen, as we know. But it might yet.

There are various reasons why I will never join the Liberal Party. But I more than suspect that rather a lot of people are doing so at the moment. In addition to opposing the coalition with Cameron, it has been right about the neoconservative war agenda from the start, whereas the Lib Dems were horrifically wrong about Yugoslavia. Its pronounced EU-scepticism should play well in Lib Dem fishing strongholds from Cornwall, via North Norfolk, Berwick-upon-Tweed and North East Fife, to the North of Scotland.

And now, let the voice of rural Radicalism also be heard over the "part-privatisation" of the Royal Mail. Like UKIP for the anti-coalition, shire-based Tory, the Liberal Party is contesting Thirsk & Malton. But unlike UKIP, its candidate, a District and County Councillor in the constituency, is being ignored by the media. Why ever do you think that that might be?