Cheadle and Gatley Lib Dems are moving
Graham, Tom and Ian
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Cheadle and Gatley Lib Dems are moving
Cheadle and Gatley Lib Dems are moving
What were the local issues four decades ago?
Cheadle and Gatley Lib Dems are moving
The choice for Cheadle Constituency: Lib Dem or BluKiP
by Lib Dem team on 21 April, 2015
Every opinion poll for months has said the same thing: no one party will win an overall majority on May 7th. The Conservatives are not going to win outright – so if they end up as the largest party, who will they work with?
There is a real risk that a block of right-wingers in the Conservative Party, DUP and UKIP could be calling the tune in the next parliament – BluKip.
Listen to Conservative MP Edward Leigh, who described belief in climate change as a “thoroughly painful ideology” – one of a number of outspoken climate sceptics on the Tory and DUP benches.
Listen to the DUP’s Ian Paisley Jr, who said: “I am pretty repulsed by gay and lesbianism.”
Or take the Conservative backbench MPs who put their names to a Bill to bring back the death penalty.
The only people standing between BLUKIP and real power are a small number of our candidates like Mark Hunter in Cheadle Constituency. Voting for anyone other than Mark Hunter in Cheadle brings the prospect of BluKip closer.
16 Comments
So negative !!
We’ve run a very positive campaign, Phil, but it’s fair to point out to people what might happen if the Tories get their way.
Your candidate signed a pledge not to increase tuition fees and then when in power trebled them and increased VAT. Not only that they never show their leader, Calamity Clegg, on their brochures.
To be honest. If the ballot paper had an option for Conservative LibDem coalition for another term, it would get my vote. It’s a shame that both parties haven’t really championed their achievements. Labour have nothing new to bring to the table, UKIP, SNP are not trustworthy and I never liked my Greens……… I prefer meat!
Robert – beef is best!
Whilst tuition fees were a monumental piece of political naivety that will haunt you for a long time, your record otherwise is to be applauded. You get my vote!
The biggest failure of your party was the closing down of Remploy and all those vunerable people who had some where to go are now relying on welfare because they were never re-employed anywhere, and agreeing the bedroom tax another shocking bill.
Within any party, you can always find the odd nutcase/oddball, and Liberals are not without their own skeletons in the cupboard – Cyril Smith and all those who protected him
Its a bit much to pick out one sceptic comment on climate change from a conservative MP as somehow branding the conservatices as climate change denighers (a horrible term that has connotations with holocaust denighers). As a scientist the evidence is open to a range of interpretations from very mild warming upwards. Please remember there has been no significant increase in global average temperature since 1998 and claiming there has been does not make it fact. We are supposed to have free speech and that includes being sceptical on horrendous projections many decades in the future if they want to be. As regards the death penalty for the most extreme and horrendous crimes then there is a case to be made for it – this could be put to a referendum (wont happen as the political elites know what public opinion would vote for).
The lib dems should focus on the success of the coalition with the conservatives and the possitives a new coalition with them would bring rather than shrill negative comments such as these.
They have the death penalty in the States. It doesn’t seem to be much of a deterrent there!
The point is that a Tory government relying on UKIP, the DUP or far-right Tories would be relying on exactly these people to hold the government together.
Don’t forget Chris Huhne who was sent to jail for perverting the course of justice – using your logic no Libdem can ever be trusted again
Or David Laws claiming expenses he wasn’t entitled to so that he could pay his partner
Wow – a bit of ancient history there. You might remember that David Laws saved the taxpayer money – had he claimed what he was entitled to, it would have been more.
Ancient history – it was within the last parliament.
You idea of ancient history and mine are clearly very different.
I think Iain, when you state that he could have claimed more, you are trying to defend the indefensible.
Not to mention the disgraced Mike Hancock!