Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Following on from a LibDem defection in Suffolk to Cameron's Conservatives, news from Iain Dale's Diary is that Loughborough's LibDem candidate has switched to Labour now.

Why is it that LibDems struggle to keep hold of their defeated candidates? Or is it that those candidates, once defeated, choose to make a new political home where they can win?

3 comments:

Chris Palmer said...

Lib Dems are opportunists by nature.

Niles said...

Why is it that LibDems struggle to keep hold of their defeated candidates?

You're basing that remark on 2 defections out of, what 650 constituencies? Over 500 non-winning Lib Dem PPCs? Uhuh. Right.

Anonymous said...

If Lib Dems were opportunists by nature, why would we join the Lib Dems in the first place ? After all, it's a 100 years since the 1906 landslide :)