Faux Outrage as Guildford Liberal Democrats miss a trick

Guildford Liberal Democrats are kicking themselves having been beaten to a trick by the Guildford Conservatives who have designated themselves on the local election ballot papers as “Conservatives: Stop The Hospital Cuts”. “But it's a cross party campaign!” bleat the Lib Dems, curiously, as to read Sue Doughty PPC or any local Guildford Liberal Democrat/Surrey Liberal Democrat website, you could have been excused for thinking that only the Lib Dems cared about the Royal Surrey. Remember, our Sue thanked us all for signing her petition. As ever, the anti-Tory (which in this part of the World means pro-Surrey Liberal Democrat) Surrey Advertiser has taken up the cudgels to beef up the Lib Dems' prating.

Whilst the Tories can claim to be the main opposition to the hospital cuts (after all, it is their MPs doing most of the running) it was perhaps provocative to use such a definition for the local election ballot. But wait a moment! Didn’t the Guildford Liberal Democrats make their opposition to the hospital cuts part of their Five Step Plan even though it is a cross party campaign and not relevant from the point of view of local politics? Um, yes. So as part of their manifesto they would raise it on the doorstep? Yep. And you can bet they wouldn’t mention the other parties’ opposition to the cuts. Nope. No way. After all, their websites currently make no mention of the other parties opposing the cuts, so they’re not going to mention the cross party campaign on the doorstep are they?

After years of being on the receiving end of Liberal Democrat trickery and the pulling of fast-ones, the old Tory dog has learned new tricks. So to the Guildford Liberal Democrats and their supporters, I say,

“Stop whinging and get a life.”


The Liberal Democrats. Hardly ever missing a trick.