Mary Reid

Well, I wasn't expecting that! 

Liberal Democrat bloggers actually featured in the news headlines at 1pm today, although the references to the blogosphere bursting with questions about Ming's leadership sent me clicking through to LibDem Blogs to check.  I counted 9 blogs on that topic over the weekend out of a total of 108; not all were anti-Ming and some of those were by the same person! Hardly a huge grassroots movement.

Lots of us were pretty fed up with the reporting of Party Conference - Andrew Neil was the worst culprit -  where viewers were constantly told that delegates were all busy discussing Ming's leadership. Nothing could have been further from the truth.

I've supported Ming quite publicly over the last couple of years - last March on Sky News, and recently on the BBC news website. He is a man of integrity and intelligence; I'm sorry to see him go so soon, but typically he took decisive action without fuss.

So who will be the next leader? - discussing this over a pint or two has always been a Lib Dem pastime, but now its a real decision that we have to make again before Christmas. The BBC lists some of the frontrunners, who include both of our Kingston MPs, plus Vince Cable from across the river.