Meet the Lib Dem candidate who says her 11-year-old daughter would run her party for a tenner and a bag of sweets - and do a better job than those currently in charge

The Devon Lib Dems would seem to be in a bit of a pickle after losing control of the county to the Conservatives last month.

Firstly, Julian Brazil, the Lib Dem candidate for Totnes - where the Tories today announced a full Open Primary to select a new candidate - came a cropper when he was suspended as a councillor for three months for "bullying a council officer".

Now my attention is drawn to another Lib Dem candidate in Devon, Sally Morgan (pictured), who is standing in the newly-drawn (and notionally Tory) Central Devon constituency, where the Conservatives are fielding a very strong candidate in Mel Stride.

Anyhow, Sally Morgan, having just lost her seat on Devon County Council last month fired off the following email to her colleagues, which has helpfully been leaked to the Western Morning News:

Dear Cowley St and Campaigns Dept.

Please do not employ apparatchiks to telephone me at home to tell me how well the party did in the local elections only days after I and many of my colleagues lost our seats.

I do not appreciate being told how the public decided to teach Gordon brown a lesson nor that a General Elections is around the corner and we have never been in a better position.

I no longer subscribe to that particular variety of bull****.

I was particularly taken aback to be asked if I would make a substantial donation and increase my standing order. Is that not the equivalent of frisking a mugging victim for any more pickings?

The party has benefited from several thousand pounds of my money as well as my blood, sweat and tears and yet the Party chooses to spend such money on employing ‘organisers’ whose sole purpose it seems is to forward centrally-generated emails that I have already received.

I would happily save the Party thousands of pounds a year by offering the services of my 11-year-old daughter who would be more than capable of performing such tasks for the price of a tenner and a few bags of Haribo cola bottles.

They obviously do little else as I have not seen sight nor sound of such organisers for many, many months despite being a Parliamentary Candidate.

Perhaps the Party thinks PPCs who are councillors and Mothers have not time for such fripperies. The lack of support would lead me to believe so.

For that reason I’ve cancelled my, already generous, standing order and when my membership expires in October the Party can sing for it.

Yours, with b***** all left to lose.

Sally

Amazing. Incidentally, her career as a blogger would appear to have been extremely short-lived - with just one post ever having appeared on her blog last year.