political news
Well the Liberal Democrats are up to 21% in the polls (with the initial article reading 23% initially!) which is much improved. Vince Cable is doing a good job as acting leader.

However one of our two Liberal Democrat MEPs here in North West England (Saj Karim) has defected to the Conservatives. This it seems is partly in response to party members putting him 2nd on the list of candidates for 2009. So as he's left the party now, whoever was number 3 gets bumped up to position 2 (or maybe we'll just have to run the whole thing again). Personally I wish Cllr. Flo Clucas (Liverpool councillor) hadn't withdrawn her name from the list. She lost votes because of the postal strike in Liverpool (the timing of which was unfortunate).

Oh well, at least at the university our Liberal Democrat Society is going from strength to strength - we're going to have a social after the meeting tomorrow and Christmas Party the week after. Students like a good party, especially if it involved alcohol! :D