Labour’s dishonest and vindictive campaign to discredit the Liberal Democrats for doing the responsible thing and bringing liberal policies to a stable government took a new turn today.
Labour activists in seats across Wales took to posing with large “under new (Tory) management” signs in front of Lib Dem offices – and a page was apparently added to the Welsh Labour website for “confused Lib Dems” to contact Labour.
Labour members were also distributing leaflets about ‘ConDem cuts to the Child Trust Fund’, with Labour Party membership forms on the back.
Welsh Liberal Democrat Leader, Kirsty Williams hit back:
“Why would anybody want to join the Labour party who has left the country’s finances in a mess, ruled for over a decade where child poverty has increased, presided over years of increasing personal and national debt, taken us into an illegal and immoral war in Iraq, failed to properly equip our troops, criminalized children, abolished the 10p tax band, forced poor families to pay back tax credits, locked up children in immigration centres, failed to clean up politics, refused to link pensions back to earnings, left our pensioners poorer, decimated our rural communities, closed post offices and eroded our civil liberties?
“As a result of the UK coalition, the people of Wales will see more money back in their pockets with our tax breaks, pensioners getting a fairer deal, cuts in government waste, our civil liberties restored and a cleaner form of politics.
“Stunts like this clearly show how sad and desperate Labour are after the people of the UK rejected them and their politics. They clearly do not want to participate in this new, grown up and responsible form of politics.”
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