On Monday evening the House of Lords held a debate on a LibDem (- called by some bloggers the LimpDumps) motion about parliamentary standards.
During the debate Lord Shailesh Vara, a Conservative frontbencher, quoted extensively from a LibDem strategy handbook, giving page references in the process. He confirmed what most of us have already noticed.
Page 4 suggests, "Positive campaigning will not be enough to win control of the Council." Really, LibDems engaging in negative campaigning, surely not?
Page 6 claims, "..you can secure support from voters who normally vote Tory by being effectively anti-Labour and similarly in a Tory area secure Labour votes by being anti-Tory." So whatever impression is given, where do they actually stand on the various issues?
Page 21 urges, "Be wicked, act shamelessly, stir endlessly" and page 23 advises, "Don't be afraid to exaggerate. For example, responses to surveys and petitions are always 'massive'. If a council is doing something badly public expressions are always of 'outrage'."
These seem very appropriate quotations about the party which instituted the debate on parliamentary standards. Significantly the LibDem MP who introduced the debate left the chamber after Lord Vara's speech. Presumably he had read it all before?
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