Ming mercilessly conquers the planet Liberal
Sir Menzies Campbell was elected today as the new leader of the Liberal Democrats. Simon Hughes was defeated in the first round of the voting process, Chris Huhne took second place. Sir Menzies eventually took 57% percent of the vote.
In the end it wasn’t exactly The Sun wot won it, but a whirlwind of tabloid allegations around the other candidates allowed Sir Menzies to regain support he lost after a disasterous apperance at PMQs in his role as caretaker leader after Charles Kennedy’s departure. The new leader said he will:
“…build a strong, effective powerful Liberal Democrat party with the objective to ensuring a greener, fairer, decentralised and democratic Britain, a Britain at peace with itself at home and admired abroad.”
Certainly a laudable goal but the first thing on the agenda will undoubtedly be to rebuild the party’s badly tarnished reputation. The other candidates pledged their support to the new leader which should at least put an end to the back-stabbing of recent weeks.
Headline writers everywhere will be looking forward to the next election which could see Ming take on Flash Gordon. It just needs the Tories to elect Brian Blessed as leader and we’ll have the set.
More quotes and numbers at the BBC.