New Liberal Democrat Leader

Nominations are now open for the candidates who wish to replace Vince Cable with the current Lib Dem deputy leader Jo Swinson and the party’s home affairs spokesman, Ed Davey, favourites to win the leadership contest. In many ways though, the party’s showing in the EU elections has made the race far more exciting than it was.

Before, any potential successor faced the unenviable task of reviving the Lib Dems’ fortunes, as they slumped in the polls and seemed destined for oblivion – the race to succeed him seemed like the political equivalent of two bald men arguing over a comb. Now, the next leader will inherit a party which came second in a national poll, is the Remain party of the UK, and has a formidable base of activists and local councillors heading into a general election.

When he announced his resignation, Cable said that he was ‘proud to hand over a bigger, stronger party.’ That may well be the biggest understatement of the year.

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Congratulations to Alliance Party Leader Naomi Long who has been elected as an MEP for Northern Ireland. An ally of the Liberal Democrats, she is expected to join the ranks of the ALDE in the European Parliament.

Nice to hear your explanation Varian, I am very involved with the LibDems here on mainland Europe and we are an active and positive group.
Off out now will pm you later.

I used to like the Lib Dems ( some while ago) but certainly don’t like them now.Whoever replaces Vince can’t be much worse I suppose.
Support for them will fade away once we are out of the EU and they will fall back into the obscurity they are used to.

I'm not sure why those who have never voted LibDem need bother posting here. For those who have supported the party, but never considered joining here are some of the benefits of membership
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Certainly a marked contrast to less democratic parties, like the LP, which retains union "block votes", the Tories, whose members are so far removed from the general population, yet will chose our next PM, let alone the so-called "Brexit Party" which is actually a company with few, if any members, other than NF and no policies other than a disastrous no-deal brexit.

The Liberal Democrats taught a generation of young people that even if a politician makes a pledge, they are still not to be trusted.

Vince Cable sold off the Royal mail at a massively undervalued price, the money paid for the company has nearly all been recouped by the buyers by selling off some valuable real estate that belonged to the Royal Mail, with no benefit to the public and no improvement to the postal service.

The Liberal democrats when in coalitian with the Conservatives not only voted enthusiastically for austerity measures (remember Nick cheering George Osborne before an aid told him that was not a good look) they also voted for Andrew Lansley's Health and Social care bill, which was preparing the NHS for privatisation.

They can be as anti Brexit as they like but a lot of people are never going to forget their previous actions when they had a change to govern.

I for one would love Nick to come back.

I agree, I have never voted Lib Dem before and doubt if I ever will again but they were very clear which way they wanted to go.

Brexit will be sorted one way or another by October and then their support will wane agsin.

I really like vince because he was truthful from the start and has great personal charm but they only got so many votes because of Brexit.

Don't trust Lib Dems they are same as Tory party brought in unnecessary austerity Don't have any new polices.