The Lib Dems are a strang bunch, but this is probably odder than normal. A Lib Dem councillor in Hampshire has seen aliens, in the local shopping centre (thanks to Paul Staines for that little gem. Believing in aliens in your back garden is fairly odd, you’d think.
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall you’d also think that it was odd to believe that the Soviet Union was better run than Britain, but as recently released Soviet archives now show a whole swathe of senior Labour Party officials did, despite what they said at the time. To get on in the Labour Party in the late 1970s and especially after the SDP left in the early 1980s it helped to be either pro-Soviet or ambivalent about the crushing weight on the human spirit that was expansionist communism.
So which political figures in Bridge Ward did well in the loony left early 1980s. Why step forward Councillors Jim Powell and Phil Smart who first became councillors in 1982 and 1983 respectively, the time when the Labour Party was clinically insane (and it turns out a large chunk of its leadership, including the genial liar Michael Foot, were treating with the enemy).
It would be interesting to know who they thought was worse, Thatcher or Brezhnev.
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