“With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives”

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

Be nice to everyone and all that.

Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.

I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause.

People have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.

I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks.

There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners.

For me it’s more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community

After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour

The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging.

But also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.

I’m the first to admit I’ve had a sheltered life.

We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.

I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business

I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat

I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.

Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on – and public acceptance of – the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.

The news media in general are liberals.

I want to live a really positive ass life. No matter what is in the media about me or what’s said in the comments.

I couldn’t say a specific thing, but the media is not really held to high standards anymore.

The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.