Liberty Central needs to be a positive, long term campaign. I’ll email you in a bit re another matter…

You’re right, of course; I’m much more interested in the long term goals, but the short term tactical votes campaign will be important. For now.

Liberty Central’s primary task will be to support the development of the new constitutional settlement for Britain - all the good stuff like a proper separation of powers, bill of rights, things like that.

If we come to look at tactical voting it’ll be when we’re heading towards the general election in 2009/10 and quite specifically limited and targetted towards clear goals - the ideal would be a no mandate to govern result, but whether that’s realistic is yet to be seen.

In a sense the target for the next couple of years is to try to set the agenda, put civil liberties high on it and then see how parties, MPs and candidates respond - give them time to take on board what we’re trying to achieve.

Any recommendations on voting that do emerge will come after that and be based on evidence and commitment and run across all parties - minimum interference and only when necessary.