A very reasonable-sounding Menzies Campbell has just been on Sunday AM giving his first post-leader interview. He was saying that the LibDem values of liberal democracy were needed more than ever before, particularly as New Labour has become so authoritarian. Andrew Marr then pointed out that David Cameron had embraced the idea of decentralisation more than any Conservative leader in memory, to which Ming replied:
"Yeah, but he's still got the eurosceptics who are determined to spend the next few weeks navel-gazing."
Eh? Why should the principle of decentralisation stop at the English Channel? And how on earth can having concerns about a continent-wide political union be described as navel-gazing?
As Direct Democracy points out, to be coherently localist you surely have to be moderately eurosceptic too. Somebody really should tell the LibDems.
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