Shameless opposition

Published: 20 January, 2011

• I AM tempted to say the Lib Dems were very good at “confusion and division” when running the Town Hall (‘Cynical’ plan by Lib Dems to divide rivals, January 14). However, the plans you have uncovered are very much in line with the advice given in a pamphlet, Effective Opposition, by former Islington Lib Dem leader Steve Hitchins some years ago.

He wrote: “Be wicked, act shamelessly, stir endlessly” and also “Don’t be afraid to exaggerate. For example, responses to surveys and petitions are always ‘massive’. If a council is doing something badly public expressions are always of ‘outrage’.”

It seems the Lib Dems are not changing their spots.

CLLR BARRY EDWARDS
Labour, Holloway ward