Floella Benjamin with Hilary Myers on a visit to the Calder Valley
“History will be made this week in Calder Valley and across Britain as people vote for the first time since the start of the economic crisis and for the first time since the failure of the Copenhagen talks on climate change,” said Hilary Myers, speaking to a packed room of students in Calder Valley this week. “More and more people are realising that the key to solving the massive challenges we face, for us in the United Kingdom, is electoral reform. If we can change the voting system we will open the door to a brighter, more intelligent future. There are many steps on the road but this election represents the opportunity to take a step in a radically different direction, the first step of many down a different road toward a better, more democratic and effective solution to our problems.”
Hilary had the same message wherever she went in this last week of the General Election campaign. “I am getting an enthusiastic reception from voters across the constituency”, she smiled. “From Todmorden to Hebden Bridge, from Mytholmroyd to Ripponden, from Elland to Brighouse, in town centres and in outlying communities on people’s doorsteps, voters are starting to hope that Britain can be reinvigorated by fundamental political change, not just another change from red to blue”.
Hilary was joined on the campaign trail on Saturday by Floella Benjamin, the well-loved children’s TV presenter and President of the Ramblers Association. Floella was full of praise for the beautiful Calder Valley and talked enthusiastically to everyone she met about Liberal Democrat policies and how much she thought they would change things for the better. “And Hilary would be a great MP for Calder Valley and take people’s concerns seriously. You can see it in her face!” she said.