More gains for Libs

I am not surprised Felice, we have lost half of the members in our local Labour Party to the libs and I think more are to follow them . We expect our county council to be lib controlled after the elections in May, means a loss of excellent labour councillors

I was not going to mention this on here, I joined the Liberal Party in 1975 and have been active since. In fact I was elected onto the BELD(British and European LibDems) executive committee last year.
Our membership here on mainland Europe has quadrupled since the referendum with many new members coming from Labour. Many people since the referendum have become disillusioned with the Labour and Conservative parties, these were party activists and our gain.

The libs are regaining the trust of the voters , many do not want far right or far left parties

Jeremy Corbyn's relaunch was a farce. The Labour party is in meltdown. The SNP is single issue separatist party. The Liberal Democrats are the real voice of opposition.

I was pleased we had a coalition government and hoped for the same this time round,
But Lib Dem voters decided to punish their own Party! Simply because they had joined with the Conservatives to form a coalition.....what idiots to do this!

The LibDems have made many gains in the last year. As the party is strongly pro-EU this could be expected in areas which voted Remain but Sunderland voted to leave (very much against their own interest). Perhaps people now realise they were mistaken and regret being taken in by the lies told by Farage et al.

Sunderland has always been a Labour stronghold so a 29.9%:fall in the Labour vote when Labour is in opposition is pretty appalling.

There could be another factor, Left leaning voters who rejected the LibDems because of the coalition, now realise that the LibDems promoted good policies and stopped some awful Tory policies and the coalition government was much better than the unfettered Tory rule we have had since.

Now Tristram Hunt has resigned from his Stoke on Trent seat it will be interesting to watch there too.

We are prepared to lose seats to the libs here in Wales. And yesterday Corbyn insulted the Welsh nation, seems he doesn't know Wales is a country not an area in England

Yes, the Libs are making little gains here and there.Difficult to see the big picture about things, but people, on the whole do not like extremes and often go for the centre ground.In local elections,it could be the stance of the particular candidate on some matter.