Dr Geoff Seeff Selected as Prospective Parliamentary Candidate

6.14.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Sat 19th Apr 2008

Chingford and Woodford Green LibDems have selected Dr Geoff Seeff as their Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the next general election - due in May 2010 at the latest. The founder convener of the SDP in Redbridge, Geoff has been active on local political scene for over 27 years and, amongst other things, was the candidate for the constituency in 1997.

Geoff is a chartered accountant practising as a management consultant and specialises in the economics of Urban Regeneration. He has advised on major projects all around the UK and in many other parts of the world. He is married to Deanna, a schools counsellor, and they have two adult daughters. He is an enthusiastic amateur jazz musician, plating tenor sax and violin, and can often be found playing at local jam sessions and charity events.

Geoff believes that Labour's 11 years in office probably ranks as one of the worst, and certainly, given the high expectations of 1997, the most disappointing, periods of government in living memory. Messrs Blair and Brown have jointly:-

* squandered the opportunity of a strong economy to bring about a fairer distribution of wealth and a greener environment;

* progressively eroded our civil liberties and threaten to do so further with their proposals for detention orders and identity cards;

* mismanaged what proved to be an unnecessary and costly involvement in Iraq;

* failed to reform our constitution and eliminate the archaic, wasteful, partisan and often corrupt practices that bring politics into disrepute;

* failed to ensure effective regulation of the banking system until we had the first run on a UK bank for 150 years;

* shown contempt for due legal process by curtailing at the behest of a foreign power the SFO investigation into alleged corruption connected to arms sales to Saudi Arabia;

* displayed gross incompetence on agreeing GP and Police pay

* and flouted disgracefully their own laws on party funding.

Geoff says that they have done more than enough damage and their time is up!

Needless to say Geoff is no more impressed with Her Majesty's Official Opposition, who can hardly be said to have emerged with any credit on matters such as the Northern Rock debacle, loans for peerages and the abuse of parliamentary allowances.

Over the coming months as issues arise affecting residents of this constituency, through this site Geoff will be providing comment on the state of the economy and health, education and crime. In the meantime you are welcome to submit your own comments or questions and Geoff promises to do his best to respond.