10 quick thoughts on the current state of the Liberal Democrats
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Vince Cable marching against Brexit – photo copyright John Russell .
Some thoughts on how the Liberal Democrats are doing – and rather an unusual week for the party as it comes to the end of Vince Cable’s leadership:
Starting off, obviously, with the party’s biggest gains in local elections in the party’s history and probably even in the Liberal Party’s history back to before 1945 /2https://t.co/4KMjpz0Lwr
— Mark Pack (@markpack) May 10, 2019
To #StopBrexit vote #LibDems also has a strong simplicity the party's messaging has often lacked in the past /4
— Mark Pack (@markpack) May 10, 2019
Along with picking up significant new support – not only the membership surge post-local elections but support of a former Conservative/nearly Change UK MEP /6https://t.co/0JIEtfD4im
— Mark Pack (@markpack) May 10, 2019
If we can keep this going, Lib Dems can even dream of moving ahead of the Tories in the Euro opinion polls /8 pic.twitter.com/ESTSQqAk7r
— Mark Pack (@markpack) May 10, 2019
And the combo of Euro elections and the struggles of Change UK provides the @libdems with a huge opportunity to reestablish the party in national politics /end
— Mark Pack (@markpack) May 10, 2019
P.S. On that last point, Labour is rather helping too:
A vote for Labour = a vote to go ahead with #Brexit. pic.twitter.com/eYskboEBFt
— Mark Pack (@markpack) May 4, 2019
the remain/pro-European message has been forced through the media in no small measure by The New European, a serious newspaper with connections that ensure what it says does permeate. But until we can get ahead of the massed ranks of the Brexit tabloids we are destined to struggle. Even James O’Brien can’t be persuaded to speak positively about us(he must be Labour).
Even marches on Parliament cut no ice, and Farage still gets supportive airtime courtesy of the BBC, and the chairman of the CBI still talks about ‘the two parties’.
We either have to launch our own news paper(NOT called LibDem News) or start our own phone in radio station… or do something dramatic like painting Parliament square yellow..