So long, and thanks for all the fish

Running for the nomination has been an immense honour. It's also been a rare opportunity for us to openly and candidly suggest a range of bold policy ideas and initiatives. As such, it has been an exciting and unique experience as a candidate.

There are a number of people I'd like to thank for their help and advice, many of whom I can't here because of their day jobs. All in due course over a quiet pint. Above all, Andrew Dodge deserves to be singled out for some really sterling input, and thanks to the band G.O.D. for allowing me to use their fantastic anthem over the past year. Chris Heaton-Harris may not make 'waste czar', but he surely will be a cracking MP!

We walk away with a legacy, having left an ideas bank in the form of this site for whoever is finally selected. Policy suggestions on the need to have good government as well as less government in London, for instance, and practical recommendations for mending our broken society, on policing and defining multiculturalism. But also on a range of other principles too. How often do you get the chance to cooperate with people like Sir Patrick Moore (on light pollution) or Professor David Bellamy (on ecology)?! The campaign for the GC/VC memorial will certainly go on, in cross-party form. 

But that's it. the bandwagon is now firmly parked for others to review and carry on with what they like and what they find works.

Thanks for your support; and as said Cincinnatus of old, take me back to the plough.