tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post3897347434402938316..comments2024-03-27T16:39:43.522+00:00Comments on Liberal England: The politicking around the Lib Dem conference vote on the EUJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-24214127464029884432020-10-05T13:23:42.269+01:002020-10-05T13:23:42.269+01:00I had a conversation with a Blair/Starmer Labour-i...I had a conversation with a Blair/Starmer Labour-ish friend the other day who has voted Lib Dem once or twice in the past for tactical reasons...<br /><br />I moaned about the leadership's proposed policy of 'options open' and how relieved I was that it had been replaced by the (admittedly not amazing) waffly fudge you've now got, and my misgivings about the brutality of trying to do too-invasive surgery on the pro-European part of the party's insane coalition of disparate factions, this early.<br /><br />He scoffed, and basically said that ship had flown, and no practical party would try to campaign to rejoin the EU.<br /><br />As a counter, I asked him to consider the hypothetical model that in 1981, Michael Foot had gone to the Labour party conference and asked it to amend Clause 4, and the consequences that would have had.<br /><br />There was a very long pause. 'Yes, I see what you mean...'<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com