Sanders: ‘Fundamental difference’ in the party
Lib Dem MP Adrian Sanders raises concern in his blog over the party’s leadership:
“If lessons are not learnt from the higher education train crash then the next four years are going to be very long indeed, with our prospects of advancement probably non-existent for a generation.
“Unlike the bulk of the Liberal Democrat membership, the current leadership and their advisors are dominated by people who give the impression they didn’t, among other things, enter politics to deny the Conservatives political power. That is the fundamental difference between them and those who have spent a lifetime campaigning against the enemy, and who view the Tories as the opposition to just about everything we stand for.
“We have a leadership that seems keener on impressing the Conservatives as to how much we can be relied upon to take ‘tough’ decisions, than on asserting how much the Conservatives need us in order to remain in government.
“This has led to the leadership’s complete failure to recognise that the premise upon which difficult decisions are being justified is wholly false.
