I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

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.

You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.