My vote is in the post

My ballot paper is in the post so thats another definite vote for Nick Clegg.

I was surprised to see a report in this mornings Guardian that there was all still to play for and that their sample poll showed Huhne ahead.  To be fair they did state that “The figures need to be treated with caution: the east of England is a strong area for Huhne and some believe he boasts more support among activists – the sort of people who attend such debates – than armchair members, who form the majority of the 65,000-strong electorate.”

 The thought of Huhne winning this election really worries me.  His behaviour (and that of his campaign) during the campaign has been so appalling that I fear that the party will take a long time to recover.  The famous dossier by itself was bad enough although this was blamed on a junior member of the campaign team.  But Huhne clearly knew about the dossier and repeated its contents quite happily.  Even worse in my mind was the way in which Huhne continued to allege that Nick Clegg supported certain policies even when Nick had repeatedly denied this.

 And then we come to the parliamentary party.  According to the Guardian Nick has the support of 39 MPs and Chris has the support of 11.  It seems that 8 will not declare for either candidate and presumably 3 have still to say who they support.  Even if all of the 8 who will not declare and all of the 3 who have not declared yet were to be supporters of Huhne, Nick Clegg would still have the support of over 63% of the parliamentary party.  Yes we are a one member one vote party and all our votes count the same but the winner still has to lead the parliamentary party as well as the party as a whole.