I see that the Lib Dem former leader of Liverpool City Council has urged Party Leader and Depute Prime Minister Nick Clegg to pull out of the coalition government in a confidential letter seen by the BBC.
Warren Bradley urged his party leader to act before it "disappears into the annals of history".
He said Lib Dem councillors were set to lose seats in 5 May's local elections and the coalition was to blame.
Mr Bradley, who led the council for five years, said: "The boil is about to come to a head and burst (probably on election night)."
In the e-mail marked "In Confidence - Private", he writes: "Many other long-serving councillors could be defeated not because of their record, but because of your record and the perception of what we as Liberal Democrats now are."Mr Bradley, who has previously been critical of the leadership, calls for the end of the coalition: "We have to be independent and we have to sever ties from the coalition; if we fail to do this, we have only our parliamentarians to blame."
I wonder if Alan Blair, the former Lib Dem Leader of Inverclyde Council, shares his colleague's concerns about the coalition?
James Callaghans once responded to the SNP and Liberals who were responsible for putting Thatcher and the Tories in power,that it was a
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I am told that the current joke going around the House is that it is the first time in recorded history that turkeys have been known to vote for an early Christmas".
History seems to have repeated itself
Colin
unlike other lib dem councillors Mr Blair doesnt have a good record to defend
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