Thank You... and What Next.

May I belatedly thank all those electors of Sefton MBC Manor Ward (Crosby, Thornton and Hightown) who voted Liberal Democrat in this year's election. Unfortunately the result was not the one that we had hoped for.

What is next is best summed up by colleague and elected Lib Dem candidate for Park Ward, Tony Robertson:

"Today in Sefton we Lib Dems seemed to do better than in many other parts of the UK. We lost 5 seats, Labour gained 5 seats and the Tories stayed the same. This makes Labour the largest party on the balanced Council despite them behaving quite irresponsibly before the election over the Council’s finances. ...

...my thanks to all who fought under the Lib Dem flag; times are tough for the only national political party that really does believe in gaining power only to give it away to the communities that we represent. Clearly, 2011 has been a step backwards for the Lib Dems and the community based politics that we stand for but Liberals have been through tough times before and come through. Tories and Labour will always stand for vested interests as they always have done; we will continue to fight against vested interests."