Letter to the Independent: Labour yet again tries to woo the LibDems
December 15, 2010 5:00 PM
Originally published by Sarah Ludford MEP
Originally published by Sarah Ludford MEP
You report (13 December) that Labour is to woo Liberal Democrats. This is after Ed Miliband promised to eliminate us.
The reasons that this new charm offensive will not work any better than past ones are supplied in too-little-too-late comments by John Denham and Yvette Cooper. Denham says Labour will not be "tribal" and Cooper says the Labour government "should have said very clearly and very strongly" that US policies under Bush, such as the Iraq invasion and Guantanamo, were wrong.
They thus concede that tribalism and toleration of gross abuses of human rights have been entrenched features of the Labour Party. Throw in top-down centralism, authoritarian trampling on civil liberties and contempt for the little guy, and the answer as to why Liberals will never regard Labour as progressive is obvious.
In my 40-year political lifetime Labour have never been able to make up their minds whether to try and crush us or lovebomb us, partly because they have no clue about Liberalism and what makes us tick. Regarding us as their wayward little brothers and sisters who can be shooed back into the family fold has no future. We're different and we're independent, Ed.Get used to it.
Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP
(This letter was sent to the Independent on 13 December 2010 and printed on 15 December 2010.)
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