Paddy O’Connell

So the King's speeches are sort of, this is what we are planning, but how often do governments actually chop and change or ditch or transform the things that they've said they're going to do anyway?

Answer, all the time.

So it's not a tablet of stone, even though it is read out with great fanfare.

So that's your answer.

Yes, they can change it.

Lib Dem activist Mark writes, I'm a regular listener since Brexit cast.

I am appalled that in your election cast episode yesterday evening, there was absolutely no mention of the successes of the Liberal Democrats beyond our name being mentioned in an introductory sentence.

All the other major parties, including the nationalist parties in the devolved assemblies, were analysed in detail.

The Lib Dems have made steady progress over a record number of election cycles in increasing our number of elected councillors and this week took control of some key councils.

I trust you will address this in future episodes.

Many thanks in advance.

Well, we're very pleased to.

And I'm wondering if there's a very prominent Lib Dem activist called Mark.

surname that i shall keep mysteriously i wonder if it's him and if it is hello to you but yeah very happy to talk about the liberal democrats i mean eight years of gains elections absolutely and they're a really big force in local government and they did take some steps forward and they had a decent night and we talked about this a couple of weeks ago didn't we that they have

you know, the Lib Dems, they're playing a different game, right?

They're not trying to win seats absolutely everywhere.

They're much more focused on kind of hyper-local building blocks gradually.

So looking at an area, trying to grow their number of councils, trying to then get an MP there.

And they did have successes.

They won Stockport, they won Portsmouth.