YP Letters: Backing Lib Dem candidates is not a vote for our rivals

From: Salli A Martlew, Crofton.
By The Newsroom
Published 18th May 2017, 14:03 BST
Updated 4th Jun 2017, 21:52 BST
Former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg.Former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg.
Former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg.

RECENTLY we have received reports that at least one local Labour MP is saying that a vote for the Liberal Democrats is a vote for the Conservatives.

Equally we read daily in the press that the Conservatives are saying that a vote for the Lib Dems is a vote for Jeremy Corbyn and a coalition of chaos.

Neither is true.

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The Liberal Democrats are an independent party that will not support a Conservative Government that is hell-bent on a hard Brexit and equally we will not support Jeremy Corbyn who is trying to turn the clocks back to the 1970s. Marxism is great in theory but poor in practice.

The Liberal Democrats are proud of our time in Government when many Liberal policies were introduced. Sadly the Conservatives have undone much of our good work and we have learnt from this experience.

Today the Liberal Democrats have over 101,000 members and in the Wakefield District we have seen a 30 per cent increase in our membership since 2015. This increase is largely because people are starting to recognise the economic consequences of leaving the EU.

The Liberal Democrats are the real opposition to both Labour and the Conservatives on June 8.

From: Nick Martinek, Briarlyn Road, Huddersfield.

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NICK Clegg (The Yorkshire Post, May 9) needs to come clean. Both Leave and Remain politicians clearly stated, on TV and before the Referendum vote, that leaving the EU must mean leaving its single market.

Moreover the Vote Leave campaign majored on taking back control of our laws, courts, our borders, and our money. None of that is possible if we 
stay under EU single market control.

Before the referendum, Mr Clegg’s Remain “Project Fear” became a joke. By comparison the Leave campaign was a model of restraint and common sense. Mr Clegg is attempting to cover up the failings and distortions of the Remain campaign.

From: Howard Rainbow, Stanley, Wakefield.

IF Nick Clegg, Tim Farron and the rest of the failed politicians don’t like the result of the election, will we be having another until we get it right?

From: Hilary Andrews, Nursery Lane, Leeds.

ABOLITION of student fees if Labour get elected on June 8 – haven’t we heard that somewhere before? Will students be fooled again?

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