Liberal Democrats Battle in General Elections for Cornwall

The

recent Conservative campaign abounds in Falmouth with giant posters looking

down on passengers stating, ‘I've not voted Tory before, but I want to mend our

broken society’. The Labour campaign is a little more subtle and less inventive

with flyers through your door saying ‘A vote for Tory is a vote wasted’. Yawn,

we have all heard this before!

Cornwall

has traditionally been a Liberal Democratic county. According to the BBC News there are five

parliamentary seats in Cornwall and at present the Liberal Democrats have all

five. In the run up to the general election the Falmouth and Camborne seat has

become a three way split between the three parties and it has become hard to

determine which party may win.

People

in Cornwall often feel ignored. One complaint is that people have to leave the

county to go to University often never return and therefore the most educated

people leave Cornwall. This has changed recently under Labour with the new degrees

at Cornwall college campuses at Cambourne, Falmouth, Redruth and Saltash.

The current Falmouth and Camborne MP Liberal Democrat

Julia Goldsworthy, 31, hopes that her local campaigning will be sufficient to

beat the Labour and Tory party. "One of the defining characteristics is

the fact that the Liberal Democratic Party really does think that local issues

are important in Cornwall".