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Post by fretslider on Nov 14, 2019 6:09:57 GMT -5
One could be forgiven for thinking the Lib Dems have gone anarchist...
Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson has insisted she is not losing control of party candidates after a standard bearer stood down in a key marginal. It came after Tim Walker said he would not contest Labour-held Canterbury because he did not want to split the Remain vote.
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"We have a healthy debate within the party and some candidates have made their own decisions."
The party leader has refused to stand aside for Labour remainers because the party will not reciprocate.
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Lib Dem President Sal Brinton admitted on last night’s Newsnight that her party had lost control of local branches. Questioned on Newsnight she admitted that it was the case in “just a couple of constituencies.” The central party is at war with some branches over putting candidates up against Labour Remainers in seats such as Canterbury where the local party and candidate wanted to stand aside, whilst London is forcing new candidates upon them. The candidate deadline is today and the central party is scrambling to crush local dissent…
order-order.com/2019/11/14/lib-dems-admit-losing-control-just-couple-constituencies/
All the parties are having discipline trouble where Brexit is concerned, for example...
Conservative
The former Conservative justice secretary David Gauke is urging people to vote for Liberal Democrat and independent candidates at the general election to deny Boris Johnson a majority.
The rebel politician, who lost the Tory whip for voting against a no-deal Brexit, announced he was standing as an independent candidate in his seat of South West Hertfordshire but said traditional Tory voters should back Lib Dem candidates in many parts of the country.
www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/13/vote-lib-dem-urges-former-conservative-minister-david-gauke
Labour
A third now former Labour MP denounces Corbyn unfit to lead: former Labour minister has urged voters to back the Conservatives in the general election to keep "extremist" Jeremy Corbyn out of power.
Tom Harris claimed that Mr Corbyn had "instinctively sided with our country's enemies" over the years.
And he said the prospect of the Labour leader becoming prime minister "chilled him to the bone".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-50403118
Business as usual is having some trouble. Must be those damned proles.
