It has been a while since I last posted here, and I am no
longer sure whether blogging is still the best medium. Even so, because my
earlier articles and opinions are still here, I am going to post again for a
while and see what response it receives.
However, firstly who am I and why here.
Back in 2005 I first stood for election for the Westminster seat of Linlithgow
and Falkirk East for the Liberal Democrats. I had been either a member or keen
supporter since my Polytechnic/University days at Kingston. Yes, I am of an age
that I filled in both an UCCA and PCAS form for my Higher Education choices and
like the Archbishops of Canterbury and York am proud to have started my Higher
Education at a Polytechnic (although by the time I graduated it was an
University).
Shortly after that General Election I got into blogging to
at the time a small readership. Then following the unfortunate death of Robin
Cook, the MP for the neighbouring seat of Livingston, this blog picked up with
stories about and from a high profile by election campaign. After which I
maintained a high level of daily posts on a vast array of topics, though mostly
political.
I grew up in Northern Ireland, did my degree in England,
where I also worked in my first job. Then after a brief return of five years to
Northern Ireland, moved to Scotland for love, stayed on after the relationship
ended, to return to Northern Ireland for personal reasons. Where I have been
living, apart from another period of working in Scotland, ever since. Apart
from politics I love my sport, am the family genealogist, play bowls and cycle.
There were some periods of inactivity on the blog, one
caused by the nature of the work I was doing, others due to personal
circumstances that the content dried up. This was not because I no longer had
opinions, but more because I had got out of the habit or lacked the time to
polish what I wanted to post. Trust me there are a lot more abandoned drafts
than finished blogs over recent years.
However, I am now in a position to start blogging on the political scene once
again. Please bear with me as I may not be as prolific as I once was but I will
aim to at least do a roundup of the week on a Friday as a minimum.
So count this a reboot of this method of me expressing myself and we will see
how this goes. No doubt some of the brief points mentioned in the above will be
fleshed out in the future (if not in the past content) when the context
requires an appropriate anecdote.
