Saturday, February 11, 2006

The Lib Dems would do well to remember history as this article from The Times shows


Does life really go in circles?

"I CANNOT SAY my eye was drawn, on the morning of March 30, 1979, to a small report in one corner of the front page of the Daily Mirror,.......The Liberals had captured Liverpool Edge Hill in a by-election. Edge Hill had been a comfortably held Labour seat.

The result surprised commentators. The Liberal Party was in a dreadful mess. Its former leader had been facing charges for conspiracy to murder. Yet here it was in Liverpool, bouncing back with almost 13,000 votes and a 32 per cent swing from Labour. The Tories came a bad third."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

''Never underestimate the Tory's, never overestimate the Lib dems''