Do Do you know someone who is good at repairing the local church roof? Who is very popular in your community? Well, if we want to make the comments from the Kemi Badi Conservative Conservative Party, they are very likely to be a liberal democratic candidate in the local elections of the next week.
Yes, that's right. According to Badenoch, a lib is the “someone who is good at repairing their church roof. And … the people in the community like you.”
Readers, I will get her into a secret. I think she meant it as an insult. But I will be happy as an honorary badge-like more than more than 1,000 lib-dammer candidates who are available all over England on May 1st. And don't your comments tell you everything you need to know about the condition of the Tory party in 2025? To serve in a serial online and with a mocking attitude.
The conservatives were rightly thrown out of office by the British public last year. Unfortunately, entire parts of the country still have to endure with the poor record of the failed Tory-led Council and the council members. And in so many parts of England – from Cornwall to Cambridgeshire – it is the Lib Dems that are the main challengers. We are a party that is an advocate of the locals – repairing a church roof or pothole or cleaning up a local river – as something for which it is worth fighting.
I have traveled through the country in the past few weeks – albeit through some unusual means of transport: swan boats, excavators, tea cups and of course a horse (the hobby variety). And so many of the locals I met told me how they want to throw the conservatives from the local government in their area.
But I was also impressed by the disappointment of the new Labor government. Before I started a roller coaster ride in Devon last week, the owner explained to me how they were looking forward to a new government, after they had fought for years through livelihood, the changes of Labor actually made even worse. The hotel industry in the southwest and in so many parts of the country is hammered. Wherever I go, there was a feeling of despair – be it about the reduction in winter fuel payment, which the pensioners forced to choose between heating or food, or the failure to solve the long -term crisis in social care.
Anger about conservative, despair at work. Under these conditions, the simple sound bites of Nigel Farage and Reform UK can sound convincing. But the occasional member for Clacton and his ILK do not offer any real solutions.
Let's be honest: if you want to repair the NHS (Whatever he can say now)? If you are interested in high -quality British food, why should you support someone who allows us to chlorine chicken in the British supermarket shelves? And if you love your country, why should you stay with someone who prefers to suck into Vladimir Putin – the world leader he admires most – to stand up for the UK?
In the mayoral elections in Hull and East Yorkshire, what everyone was expecting will be between the Lib Dems and the reform. Therefore, the opportunities of the bookmakers now show reforms and the lib dems in the first two, with the work in fourth place as eight to an outsider. If you compare the records of the two parties, there is no competition. We have a strong recording that the Hull Council – and many other local authorities across the country – are an effective opposition in the East Riding. In the meantime, Farage cannot even lead his own party. He and his MPs fight like rats in a sack. He monitors a binfire – however, they want to believe that reforms can trust if they lead their local container collections.
The basic difference is that the Lib Dems work hard for our communities. We win the country up and down. So remember whether it is a church roof that needs to be repaired, a local crime, the cut or a dentist or dentist.
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