Last week I received an email informing me that as a Euro candidate I was not allowed to endorse a candidate. Now, of course, the candidates may well be relieved at this news! The reason myself and other candidates have been thus silenced, is, in my view, a complete misinterpretation of the rule which states that we cannot have any endorsement in our literature from a "known" Lib Dem. I can accept that, not all candidates will have access to such endorsement. What I can't accept is this being interpreted as us not being able to endorse a candidate - guilt allegedly by association. This I can't accept, every single candidate is able to endorse a candidate if they so wish, so no one has an advantage. I am a Lib Dem because I am a liberal........I share the value of freedom of expression and that no-one should be "enslaved by conformity".........I thus find this ruling a tad absurd and illiberal....but am willing to be corrected.
Anyway, I am appealing this decision, but knowing how slowly the appealwheels turn in our party I am not holding my breath or expecting a decision pre 7th November (after which I can say what I like).
Friends and detractors alike will no doubt find it a little odd for me to keep my mouth shut on this really important issue.
I am considering my options, fellow bloggers are invited to vote in my poll..........
3 comments:
Don't worry... your endorsement would probably just damage your chosen candidate.
The people inventing these rules need to be taken out and shot.
That seems a terrible shame. I'm relying on you telling me who you're backing ... so I can go for the other contender :o)
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