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Originally Posted by Raymond Finch
Regarding Greens/ LibDems.
I understood the LD vote dropped.
Even if it rose. Some of those voters would have been from Labour.
We were in a no-win situation with that election. Given the recent seismic shift in UK politics I believe we need to start targeting Labour voters. The Labour Party has now deserted the employed Working Class voters that it won back after Thatcher and we need to show them that our low-tax, freedom loving, socially serious policies are the ones they are looking for rather than Blair-lite Cameron or the racist ideology of the BNP.
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The Lib Dem vote did rise. I happen to agree that we can appeal to Labour voters. We can also appeal to Tory voters, but this appeal is lessened by the present popularity of the Tories. Unfortunately we didn't run our campaign in such a way as to appeal to either Labour or Tory voters. The fact is that with the Lib Dems and Tories pouring lots of resources into the cosntituency, everyone else was in danger of getting squeezed. The fact that the BNP and the Greens were able to beat UKIP and Labour despite using a fraction of the resources expended by the latter two parties suggests that our poor showing was the result of a failed strategy.