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Stand against David Davis

Stand against David Davis

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Started by Anonymous 18 years, 2 months ago
We, the undersigned note with scepticism the recent resignation of Shadow Home Secrertary David Davis. We note that his campaign will be receiving no financial and logistical support from the Conservative Party and therefore feel that in fact his resignation is the result of internal wrangling within the Party. While we share his concerns about the recent passage of legislation to extend the limit of pre-charge detention to 42 days for terror suspects. We also share his concerns about this governments attacks on civil liberties. However, we do feel that he is not the best representative of our concerns. If Mr Davis is serious about building a cross-party coalition on this issue we call on him to prove that and tender his resignation from the Conservative Party. However, we, as Liberal Democrat members/supporters feel that these concerns would be best represented by the election of a Liberal Democrat MP and call on the leadership to reconsider it\'s position to not stand a candidate.

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June 20, 2008

Reaching this point has been draining but your response shows that people are finally seeing through the internal political games. We have a long road ahead to push for a candidate who actually represents our values. I am exhausted by the state of this process but I am not planning on stopping now.

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Simon Gallagher
18 years ago Featured

This whole thing is just a Tory PR stunt. We need a real Lib Dem candidate who actually cares about civil liberties instead of this political theatre.

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Mark Cunningham
18 years ago Featured

David Davis is just looking for a way to stay relevant. Lets show them the Lib Dems are the only ones taking this fight seriously.

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Sarah Cunningham
18 years ago Featured

Put up a candidate!! Sick of the parties playing games while our rights disappear.

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