Letter: Labour Attack on Lib Dems Was a Wasted Opportunity

Published on: 9 Apr, 2021
Updated on: 9 Apr, 2021

From: Lana Kirczenow

In response to: Lib Dems Winning Where Exactly?

I was very disappointed while reading the piece by Guildford Labour’s Brian Creese that he chose to waste the majority of the article complaining about the Liberal Democrats. What a lost opportunity to tell us about what Labour would do.

He has included a very misleading bar chart showing national voting intention which tells us nothing about Guildford or Surrey. The fact is that the Liberal Democrats did rather well in Guildford in May 2019, winning 17 borough council seats.

At Surrey County Council they are the leading opposition to the Conservatives.

Nationally, the Guildford parliamentary constituency is a target seat for the party, ranked as 11th most winnable in the country. In the December 2019 general election they were just 3,337 votes away from returning a Liberal Democrat MP to Westminster, something which perhaps Labour voters might wish to reflect on.

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