Today is the last day of the conference and, with Norman Lamb and Vince Cable's speeches on the agenda, it will end on a high note. However first I support Kelly-Marie Blundell (Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Lewes) and Daisy Cooper (Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for St Albans) in voting in favour of their 'Protecting Small Businesses' motion.
The Brox Lib Dems will be meeting at Barclay Car Park (off of Cock Lane) at 10.30 am in preparation for the 11am March.
I've been an avid reader of Polly Toynbee's columns in The Guardian for some time. In her latest piece, "Ignore the cynics. Corbyn is forging a path to power", it would appear that her Damascene conversion to the cause of Jeremy Corbyn (JC) is now almost complete. This time last year, reading some of her columns, you would have been hard put to not to think that she regarded JC as the anti JC. Is this the same Ms Toynbee who was a 'leading' member of the SDP when I joined, like Sir Vince Cable, back in the 1980s - in my case as a member of the old Liberal party rather than Labour? I would guess that the reasons both followed the Gang of Four was the left wing lurch in the shambles that the Michael Foot led Labour Party had become.
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The Liberal Democrats have tabled a debate on electrification at the next meeting of the Leicestershire County Council to be held on Wednesday 27th September. A motion has been tabled by Hinckley County Councillor Michael Mullaney that expresses disappointment in the recent Government decision to cancel the Midland Mainline electrification project.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has written to the DEFRA secretary Michael Gove asking him to finally withdraw the threat to shut the drainage pumps in the Lyth Valley.