I've followed the events of of this erm  unhappy but hardy perennial  some time now  erm I've  found it unusual because there was no Liberal volte face until now  and er quite a lot of things happened where the Liberals changed their mind and I naturally started to wonder what has happened to make this  change of mind come about and all I'll say is I hope that it doesn't have much to do with events in other counties or with any by-election.