We’ve got no elections on Thursday in Littlehampton but there are in London and some other places and Gordy has helped destroy Labour’s representation even more than Bliar did last year. The 10pence tax thing has given the election away, soon there will be no one left in the Labour party. 

Interestingly, I have just played about with the Telegraph swingometer, and it helps proves how unfair the British electoral system is, I swung it to a LibDem victory and got a hung parliament.   

A LibDem popular vote of 50% gives 286 seats. Conservative pop vote of 32% gives 236 seats.

Labour popular vote of 18% gives 99 seats.

The others with 10% get 29 seats.   The Conservatives won a parliamentary majority with 39% of the pop vote and Labour won with 33% of pop vote.Give it a go http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?menuId=6770&menuItemId=10310&view=DISPLAYCONTENT&grid=A1&targetRule=1

When I heard that the government were thinking about using the minimum wage to deal with the abolition of the 10pence tax rate, I nearly choked on my cheese omelette!  

This government have absolutely no idea of empirical economics and the effect that their policies have on hardworking people. To ensure that all people on the minimum wage would no longer lose out from the 10p rate, the minimum wage would have to be increased for all people to £18,500 per year - or £9.49 per hour! That would leave thousands of people without jobs and hasten the death of British manufacturing.  

I have been involved in politics for fifteen years or so but I have never been so motivated to remove the government from office. The problem is though, that the British people will jump to the other end of the electoral see-saw and vote for the Tories and in fifteen years or so we’ll be back in the same situation again.

Only the good die young they say, John Peel and Robin Cook are testament to that but Gwyneth Dunwoody was what parliament and representatives should be about, holding the establishment to account and not being a part of it.  I am genuinely saddened by her death, I think Britain is the worst for her passing and we need people like her with grit now more than ever in the throwaway and superficial politics of modern Britain. I make one guarantee; that the people of Crewe and Nantwich will never have an MP in the future (whatever their party) who will stand-up as tirelessly as Gwyneth has done over the past 34 years.

The Bank of England made a quarter of a point interest rate cut on Thursday, but I think it’s a bit like the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dyke. The economy needs a correction after 13 years of boom. The question is; what has the government done to try and soften the landing for those likely to be worst hit? I remember delivering leaflets in the north beaumont in 1994/5 and seeing so many houses with the repossession notice on the window. I fear this could happen again.

My LibDem colleagues and I went walkabout in Littlehampton town centre on Saturday. People are really, really angry about this government. I have never seen the public this angry before, I mean people were fed-up with the Tories in 1994/5 but this is real fury. I can’t see Gordy coming back from this now, especially with the credit crunch that will turn into a recession. We met a couple of people on Saturday who wanted to join the party, so that’s good!

Well, I’ve seen the new designs for the British coinage and apart from the fact that Wales loses representation on our coins and the value isn’t written in figures for foreigners, I’m quite impressed BUT I thought it was government policy to join the Euro when the economic conditions were right. Well either that policy has been abandoned, we’ve just wasted a fortune on designing coins to be used for just a few years or Gordy doesn’t think we’re going to have the right economic conditions for the foreseeable future. 

I fear for Zimbabwe, I think even if a new president takes office the country is now so poor that the familiar culture of corruption and low-level civil war that we’ve seen all over Africa will befall Zimbabwe.