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Ah, so it’s not the Lib Dems’ fault for enabling the vicious austerity policies of Cameron and Osborne by getting into bed with the tories? The state we are in is entirely traceable to the coalition years and the Lib Dems should be damned for all time for what you did in 2010-15. -
Not been cynical, I'd say he can't stand for a party which has moved so far to the right it has come to represent things he does not believe in. Quite apart from what happened to him personally, which was disgraceful. -
If I was cynical, I would say that he has jumped ship before the May elections where Labour councils across the country are in fear of a blood bath -
By James Barber · Posted
It is ironic that councillor James McAsh, a self avowed life long marxist who literally has written about wanting to overthrow capitalism, complains that there isn't enough money for councils. Austerity for councils started in the early days of the Blair government with central grants to councils ot rising with inflation.
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