We, as serving Liberal Democrat Councillors on Southampton City Council, have now left the Liberal Democrats to join The Official Liberal Party.
We urge Liberals across Hampshire to consider the actual policies that the Liberal Democrats are now committed to and how the continuing Liberal Party represents the best traditions of British Liberalism.
The Lib Democrats are euro fanatics who support a centralized European superstate, they support the euro currency despite the fact that Britain would lose any democratic control of our tax and expenditure policies.
In the case of Regional Government, the Liberal Party opposes an assembly for the whole of the South East with only 25-35 members elected by the Party List system. That would mean the whole of Hampshire would be lucky to have one representative.
Even worse the assembly would have no power over areas such as policing, education and skills, health or other public utilities. We need real devolution to real people not these sham proposals by Prescott which would lead to Counties like Hampshire being abolished.
We urge other real Liberals to rejoin the Liberal Party as we have done.
Cllrs George Melrose, Cllr Mike Gausden, Cllr Harry Mitchell
Southampton Official Liberal Party Group