Focus on Putney? Anything but!

I've just taken this screen-capture from the website of Putney Liberal Democrats.
As you can see, they're still asking you to vote for their candidate for London Mayor - who lost that vote almost three months ago. And turning to their "Our News" section, we can see that January 2008 constitutes the last time they had something vaguely reportable to say.
And of course they still haven't bothered to find a candidate to contest the next General Election.
We all know that Putney isn't a seat in which the Liberal Democrats do very well: they polled just 1 vote in every 6 cast in the 2005 general election. Nevertheless, there were nearly 6,000 people locally who voted Lib Dem last time and I think this is treating those voters - and anyone contemplating supporting them next time - with complete disrespect.
And this despite Putney being the constituency their own party leader lives in!
It's clear the Lib Dems have written off Putney and those who entrusted them with their votes three years ago. I haven't and would value the support of anyone locally who wants Putney to be represented by a progressive MP once again.
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