I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

Befriending provides a valuable lifeline to many people who feel isolated in their communities often as a result of ill health or poverty. I would like to thank all those who volunteer as befrienders and I hope that your numbers will increase in coming years. Your kindness and hard work is, I know, very much appreciated by those you help.

I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.