Please Mr Clegg, end the coalition now | @guardianlettersDear Mr Clegg, please, please stop the coalition now. I have been involved with the Lib Dems/Liberals for over 40 years; I cut my teeth delivering Liberal leaflets when I was 13, including early-morning ones on election days. I drove around with my car covered in posters and ribbons on election days, I was a scrutineer at both local and general elections, I watched and seethed at how the Tories and Labour tried to bully the Liberals out of politics, I looked after a 200 club to raise funds for the ppc deposit. I have witnessed the highs and lows of election nights and have a lot of respect for how hard Lib Dem councillors worked to help constituents.But its all over now. I stopped being a member a couple of years ago, I wont be putting up any posters and, worse of all, I wont be voting Lib Dem. There will not be a Lib Dem party after the next election; you have lost many of the young and, being a local government worker, I can see you will lose many voters in my area of work where once you were the party to trust. I went on strike on Thursday (Report, 11 July) despite being a one-parent family and having big bills to pay. I stood on the picket line then I marched through Cambridge in the rain and came home absolutely exhausted. There are many women who are taking the brunt of all the cuts. Jobs are being made more efficient, downgraded and changed so that the salary can be reduced and offered to anyone who needs a job. Its a bad time, morale is low, the amount of work that is expected has increased and, what is worse, the Labour party will reap the benefits when voters go to the polls next year, despite Labour making a pigs ear of governing a few years ago. ... ...read moreBy Guardian Staff Dear Mr Clegg, please, please stop the coalition now. I have been involved with the Lib Dems/Liberals for over 40 years; I cut my teeth delivering Liberal leaflets when I was 13, including early-morning ones on election days. I drove around with my car covered in posters and ribbons on election days, I was a scrutineer at both local and general elections, I watched and seethed at how the Tories and Labour tried to bully the Liberals out of politics, I looked after a 200 club to raise funds for the ppc deposit. I have witnessed the highs and lows of election nights and have a lot of respect for how hard Lib Dem councillors worked to help constituents.But its all over now. I stopped being a member a couple of years ago, I wont be putting up any posters and, worse of all, I wont be voting Lib Dem. There will not be a Lib Dem party after the next election; you have lost many of the young and, being a local government worker, I can see you will lose many voters in my area of work where once you were the party to trust. I went on strike on Thursday (Report, 11 July) despite being a one-parent family and having big bills to pay. I stood on the picket line then I marched through Cambridge in the rain and came home absolutely exhausted. There are many women who are taking the brunt of all the cuts. Jobs are being made more efficient, downgraded and changed so that the salary can be reduced and offered to anyone who needs a job. Its a bad time, morale is low, the amount of work that is expected has increased and, what is worse, the Labour party will reap the benefits when voters go to the polls next year, despite Labour making a pigs ear of governing a few years ago. ... ...read more Source: The Guardian ift.tt/1gB4pon
Posted on: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 18:49:35 +0000
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