The One Thing We Can All Be

To Run An Effective Political Party You Need A Degree Of Tribalism, It's The Glue That Holds Everyone Together.

If You Were To Describe Me As Teetotal, On Behalf Of My Constituency I'd Have To Sue; That Would Lose Me Every Vote In The Highlands.

My Idealism Has Not Abated, But I Have Witnessed It Withering Away Nationwide, To The Point Where At Least Among The Young, To Have Ideals Is Akin To Being Blinkered And Oldfashioned.

We Liberal Democrats Believe In Dialogue. We Believe In Cooperation With Both Sides Of Industry And Between Both Sides Of Industry. And We Believe In The Language Of Cooperation. We Reject The Language Of Confrontation.

The Quicker We Get Rid Of The Lobby System The Better For All Of Us. I Don't Think In This Day And Age It Is Tenable To Have These Nods And Winks, And On-the-record And Off-the-record Briefings.