Sunday
To St Asquith’s, where the Revd Hughes takes as his text Matthew 8:9: “For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.“
All I can say is that whoever wrote that never employed Meadowcroft.
Lord Bonkers was Liberal MP for Rutland South West, 1906-10.
Earlier this week in Lord Bonkers' Diary...
"All I can say is that whoever wrote that never employed Meadowcroft".
ReplyDeleteI worked down the corridor as National Youth Officer at LPO way back in 1964 when Michael was the party's Local Government Officer. My response is Michael is a proper Liberal, always knew what he was doing (and still does), and the Party should listen to him now. He was a major force in revitalising and rebuilding the party back then, and later, won a 'No Hope' parliamentary seat in West Leeds.
If the modern LD party merely focuses on a narrow band of temporarily disillusioned Home Counties Tory seats then it will lose its identity as a radical force. It will lose seats gained there when the tide inevitably turn again - as it will, and it will cease to be a national political party.
A mere 10 votes in a Durham local by-election last week ought to set alarm bells ringing - and there are now dozens of derelict seats in Wales & Scotland and the industrial North.
It's time for Davey/Pack et al to wake up to what's really going on outside the leafy home counties.
I am an admirer of Michael Meadowcroft too.
ReplyDelete