Withnail
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Along with thisJohn Marwood said:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/07/tax-city-heist-of-century
you may well be right.
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End of the Lib Dems?
- Thread starter John Marwood
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/07/tax-city-heist-of-century
you may well be right.
John Marwood
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http://newsthump.com/2011/04/15/well-stop-pretending-to-disagree-after-the-local-elections-confirm-tories-and-lib-dems/
johnny come lately
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Thanks for this. I wondered if I was being cynical by thinking the latest spats were to try and rescue the Lib Dems at the local council elections.John Marwood said:
I was looking through candidates in Stafford and there isn't that many Lib Dems.....but quite a lot of independents.
I wonder, if some of these independents get in, will they form a group with any Lib Dems. Or am i again being cynical?
Are some of these indies really Lib Dems in disguise?
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Would you want to be associated with them right now? 
Not that we have any indies here, or Lib Dems
Not that we have any indies here, or Lib Dems
John Marwood
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Vote for the Disguise Party
You know exactly what you are getting
You know exactly what you are getting
johnny come lately
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Sad though it may be. I am drinking at home on a Friday night and feel like an investiagtive reporter having trawled through the election nominations for the local council in 2007. And I feel some satisfaction at uncovering a couple of lib dems in disguise.Gramaisc said:
Diane Key - Seighford. In 2007 Lib Dem.
In 2011 Independent.
Brendan McKeown - Haywood / Hixon - a 2007 Lib Dem (and a quick search he stood for MP as Lib Dem previously as well)
In 2011 Independent.
John Marwood
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Has the makings of a good local news story..johnny come lately said:
( hint hint )
johnny come lately
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Ah yes. the competiton to get most quotes in the local paper. They can credit me and put up a picture of that nice man from Asda.John Marwood said:
So let's sse the stafford journalists start asking why the Lib dems have shunned their party. They could find out if this is being replicated nationally
But I wont hold my breath.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
It hasn't yet!
Hi John
I am Diane Key who I believe you think is a Liberal Democrat in disguise. You are correct I did stand as a Liberal Democrat candidate in 2007 for the Seighford Ward and was a very active worker for the Lib Dems for several years prior to this. Unfortunately in recent months I have had to cancel my membership of the Lib Dems as I could no longer support them due to very personal reasons. The final straw for me on top of this was the issue of tuition fees as we canvassed for a local candidate in the last general we were very well supported by young people believing in the Lib Dem promise. The rest as you know is history.
As regards my recent involvement in standing in the 2011 Borough Council elections in the Seighford Ward. I was brought up in Seighford Village where my family have lived there for over seventy years. I am passionate about the this Village and the surrounding villages within the ward and would be absolutely priviledged to represent Seighford ward.
As far as your suggestions about this being a good local news story -I would have absolutley welcomed this so that I could have expressed my point of view.
Anyway well done in uncovering a non story. If you had ever had the decency to contact me to discuss why I was standing as an Independent at Seighford I would have been only too happy to explain in great detail my reasoning for this.
Kind regards
Diane Key
I am Diane Key who I believe you think is a Liberal Democrat in disguise. You are correct I did stand as a Liberal Democrat candidate in 2007 for the Seighford Ward and was a very active worker for the Lib Dems for several years prior to this. Unfortunately in recent months I have had to cancel my membership of the Lib Dems as I could no longer support them due to very personal reasons. The final straw for me on top of this was the issue of tuition fees as we canvassed for a local candidate in the last general we were very well supported by young people believing in the Lib Dem promise. The rest as you know is history.
As regards my recent involvement in standing in the 2011 Borough Council elections in the Seighford Ward. I was brought up in Seighford Village where my family have lived there for over seventy years. I am passionate about the this Village and the surrounding villages within the ward and would be absolutely priviledged to represent Seighford ward.
As far as your suggestions about this being a good local news story -I would have absolutley welcomed this so that I could have expressed my point of view.
Anyway well done in uncovering a non story. If you had ever had the decency to contact me to discuss why I was standing as an Independent at Seighford I would have been only too happy to explain in great detail my reasoning for this.
Kind regards
Diane Key
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Welcome to the forum, I personally would welcome any information on why you left the LDs. Lets face it, if the public are ditching them its hardly suprising their members are too. Also I keep hearing that they are tempering blue policies in government, any idea if this is true or a crock of **** as I see little evidence.