SusanGaszczak

Lembit has sent out a press release asking people to stop a possible conspiracy against him. Lib Dem Voice reports it here.

It is a shame he has felt the need to press release this as this is an internal election. Many of us have been torn in who to support. Linda Jack blogged about this, my parents agonised over who to give their first preference to and many others I have spoken to have felt the same.

So far nearly 900 people have signed up to the ‘I'm 4 Ros' site declaring their support. They have to do it themselves or ask for it to be done centrally. I cannot see getting 900 Lib Dems to all ever agree on one strategy!

The parliamentarians have come out individually and one by one in recent months after they have watched Ros campaign for this for 18 months.

Internal elections always have two or three sides to them, and normally, because of our love of democracy we all rub along nicely laughing that we are on different sides. I remember one moment during the last leadership battle, after I had publicly declared for Clegg, helping team Huhne set up their stall because there was a mix up at the St Albans hustings.

So, can we put the ‘conspiracy' theory to one side and get on with what we do best - being democratic?