What You Can Get Away With

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• #1 by James Graham on September 22nd, 2009

  

  You should care about the Social Liberal Forum building links with Compass because, post election, building a liberal, anti-conservative (big C and little c) alliance will become increasingly important.

  You should care about Clegg’s strong arm tactics because it is wrecking the delicate democratic compact within the party.

• #2 by Nick on September 22nd, 2009

  

  Well, I’m not convinced that liberal and anti-conservative (or liberal and left) are necessarily the same thing, especially in terms of dealing with groups like Compass who don’t seem to be offering much more than a new version of the Blair Project.

  And leaders have been picking fights with Conference for years, just to show how dynamic and free of the membership they are – yes, Clegg and Cable have worked this one particularly badly, but it’s nothing new.

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