Comments on: Picking a horse

By: Dominic

Dominic — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 08:26:48 +0000

Will - quite agree. Chris is also the best candidate to give us more economic credibility with the wider electorate. We all know that Lib Dems successfully run huge budgets in council chambers up and down the country, but when it comes to opinion surveys, this is regarded as an area of weakness.
Chris’ background - both as an economist and an econimic journalist - is the perfect antidote to that.

He’s also a candidate with real presence and gravitas, and hopefully retain for us the ‘trust’ agenda, where CK scored so highly.

By: Paul Leake

Paul Leake — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 02:49:09 +0000

Much as I like Simon Hughes and think he’d be the best candidate to keep me voting Lib Dem I’m not convinced that he would be more popular with the country at large. I also don’t think the press take him seriously, and while that shouldn’t matter, it does in that it would mean a lot of their readership won’t take him seriously. I think he’d be the perfect candidate for a strong deputy leader role. Not sure who I’d want instead though…

By: Yolly

Yolly — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 02:41:36 +0000

I respect your point of view, but I strongly believe Simon Hughes will be more popular with the country, which should be our over-whelming imperitive.

If we are ever again to seize the levers of power, Hughes will get us there.