Elections

Malcolm Rifkind's venture into blogging is a curious fiction.

He claims Tories are inclusive in decision making.

Does this mean he was fully included in the Tory decision to ally with the marginal hard right, including Waffen SS commemorators, in the European Parliament or in the Tories' human rights alliance with Mr Putin's party?

Contrary to his claims, the Liberal Democrats are the only Party to publish in our Manifesto the cost of our plans to make Britain fairer.

And we plan to save more than we plan to spend.

The Tories must be seriously spooked to be misrepresenting Liberal Democrat policy so extensively so early in this Campaign! It's certainly true Kensington would have a genuinely local and much more assiduous Constituency MP with the initials RM instead of MR.

Only Liberal Democrats offer genuine local democracy and involvement.

The real Tory message is: "if you fall on hard times, you're on your own".

Tories have still not twigged that they have no automatic entitlement to rule.

The British people decide who goes to Parliament. If the British people decide they want parties to work together, then we should work together: as we do in Scotland.

If I may, I would like to use this page to extend commiserations to all Polish people, and most especially those living locally, on the tragic death of the President of Poland and his wife, The Rev Canon Bronislaw Gostomski of Shepherd's Bush and so many others, including former President in Exile Kaczorowski, in the plane crash at Smolensk.

In living memory, Poland has had to endure vastly more than its fair share of tragedy. This included the appalling Katyn massacre which Poland's leaders were today flying to Smolensk to commemorate.

...on this initiative.

It shows the value of an independent local press.

I had a go at the weekend, on www.chelseafulhamlibdems.org.uk, about the unfair competition the Chronicle faces from Tory Hammersmith & Fulham's propaganda and hope every reader will sign both the Chronicle's petition (http://campaigns.fulhamchronicle.co.uk) and the one on my website for the North End Road market.

It's not just the independent local press or North End Road market traders who face a hostile council in Fulham.

Local residents were even locked out of Fulham Town Hall last night FOR THE SECOND TIME RUNNING for their scheduled residents' meeting!

I am honoured to have been asked by local Liberal Democrats to stand as Parliamentary Candidate for the new Chelsea and Fulham Constituency when the next General Election is called.

Chelsea and Fulham is home to some of the World's wealthiest people and to some of Britain's most disadvantaged people. Your local MP must therefore support both sustainable jobs here and fair life chances for all local people.