Beaconsfield Lib Dems choose candidate

11.00.00pm GMT Sat 30th Jan 2010

John Edwards, candidate at the 2010 general election

John Edwards, 42, an accountant from Windsor, has been chosen as the Lib Dem candidate for the general election in a few months' time. He will contest the Beaconsfield constituency which includes Beaconsfield itself as well as Gerrards Cross, Denham, Burnham, Iver, Bourne End, Flackwell Heath and Marlow.

All paid up members were entitled to vote at the meeting in Beaconsfield last Saturday January 30th.

John said "I am really looking forward to my first general election as a candidate for the Liberal Democrats" From 2004 to 2008 John was a member of the cabinet in the joint administration which ran Slough Borough Council and put the environment and recycling firmly at the top of the Council's agenda.

John's experience will be useful as all three parties examine the financial crisis and the need to reduce the financial deficit and the National Debt. He works in Slough as a finance professional in a FTSE 250 company and is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants.

He has involved himself in Burnham Lions' Club and their successful fund raising for the last 10 years. John pledged support for Lib Dem policies to make education a platform for a fairer Britain, and to scrap the expensive ID card scheme. He continued "Politicians should stop using the NHS as a football and back the professionals, both clinical and non-clinical, to run it for the benefit of us all"

Most experts predict that May 6 is the likely date for Gordon Brown to choose for polling day as he runs out of time, hanging on to office for as long as possible.