deltic
Established Member
- Joined
- 8 Feb 2010
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I am a Lib Dem member and been a candidate for them in council elections. Past support mainly came because we were not in power and a lot of the support was protest voters. Unlike Labour and the Tory party who have a large tribal support who will vote for them no matter what that did not apply with the Lib Dems. I feel we made the right decision to form a coalition with the Tories at the time but like the DUP in more recent times we were completely shafted by them. The wrong decision was made over tuition fees but unlike Labour and Tories who both made commitments on tuition fees that were broken we were unable to shake off the fall out from it. Today the Greens have become more the party of protest although they too have failed to break though to the extent that I thought they would have the Lib Dem collapse.
The Lib Dems have slowly started recovering their position in councils with over 700 seat gains in 2019 but I doubt we will see them getting back to 50 MPs in my life time.
The Lib Dems have slowly started recovering their position in councils with over 700 seat gains in 2019 but I doubt we will see them getting back to 50 MPs in my life time.