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Liberal Democrat Councillor

Sincere apologies to those of you who are not able to read my comments on Facebook — I have been busy and then sick over the last few days hence the failure to update you all (following my last post).

On Tuesday I joined the Liberal Democrats. I would love to go into detail but I’m not feeling up to it but I welcome your comments — maybe its better to discuss my reasons than for me to write a long essay (which I could do).



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  1. #1 by Toque on November 22nd, 2009 - 2:13 pm

    Blimey! Congratulations. I can’t honestly say that I feel any closer to the Lib Dems than I do the Tories but they are certainly better on civil liberties and constitutional reform.

  2. #2 by jameshigham on November 23rd, 2009 - 9:20 pm

    How could you, Gav? They’re pro-EU.

  3. #3 by Gav on November 23rd, 2009 - 10:47 pm

    I know, I know. The truth is, I’m not anti-EU, I just think it’s fundamentally broken as it is. The Conservatives have shown in the past that they’re ineffectual in power when it comes to the EU so I could never be a pro-EU Tory. And now, with Cameron deriding the Lisbon Treaty not for any particular reason, but just because it’s an EU treaty, I couldn’t even be a comfortable Tory sceptic. Of course, the UK is broken constitutionally which doesn’t stop me from being in favour of the UK in principle!

    I genuinely believe that an EU President is better than no EU president, but I also firmly believe he should be directly elected by the people of the EU. At the moment the debate isn’t about the EU, it’s about whether The Sun readers like it or not, and that’s not an intellectual argument that can be argued sensibly.

    However, the main problem as I understand it, of LibDem support of the EU, is ironically in the realm of civil liberties — we (the party) support the EU arrest warrant because it’s an EU thing which allows me (a UK subject) to be arrested in the UK by UK police and extradited without a hearing, to Germany for denying the holocaust. But no party’s perfect!

  4. #4 by Ann Woolfe on November 30th, 2009 - 1:30 pm

    The whys and wherefores are a bit beyond my limited political knowledge but I think the LibDem coat suits you as a person much more than a Tory one.

  5. #5 by Gav on November 30th, 2009 - 11:12 pm

    @Ann Woolfe Thank you Ann!

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