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Chris Huhne is a glass half-full kinda guy

by Ian Shires on 1 April, 2014

Published on Liberal Democrat Voice By  | Mon 31st March 2014 – 9:15 pm

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Chris Huhne’s weekly column for The Guardian is a must-read for me. Mainly because his writing is just as you’d expect: not afraid to put some stick about (yeah, yeah: he takes no prisoners) but there’s plenty of sharp intelligence too.

And there’s a pretty hefty dollop of optimism this week, too, as he looks at the polls for evidence of a Lib Dem revival:

There was also a straw in the wind pointing to happier times: YouGov just found more people saying they would vote Lib Dem in the European elections in May than in the general election. If true, that reverses the norm, whereby the Lib Dems poll lower in the European elections than in local or Westminster competitions.

Chris is right. We have reversed the norm. Though not, I think it’s fair to say, in quite the way the party might have intended. Still, liberalism is an essentially optimistic philosophy and it’s good to see Chris still sees the glass as being half-full.

* Stephen Tall is Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, and editor of the 2013 publication, The Coalition and Beyond: Liberal Reforms for the Decade Ahead. He is also a Research Associate for the liberal think-tank CentreForum and writes at his own site, The Collected Stephen Tall.

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