It was great driving round Littlehampton today seeing houses covered in lights and decorations, even though I’m not a Christian or even have any decorations in my house, winter in Littlehampton is fairly miserable, the lights brighten it up. 

Congratulations Cleggy! I hope now we can move into a long period of stability with a real promotion of liberalism as a philosophy and not just a cynical PR campaign for personalities or individual LibDem policies. The true shocker for the poll was the turnout, just over half of eligible voters. It is absolute disgrace that a party which sincerely believes in political participation can’t even convince 90% of it’s own members to put a ‘1’ on a ballot paper in an envelope and post it. The only conclusion I have come to is that the membership really couldn’t see a difference between Cleggy and Huhne and didn’t mind who won, either that or there are 30,000 members who wanted someone else as leader?