Labor councillor in the North says “Clegg must stay Labor asset”

By Michael Smith (Veshengro)

Sorry, what, who, where, when, why?

The way I have always read the term “asset” in such a context is as “double-agent” or as person doing the work for them as in “CIA asset.”

This is, maybe, something that anyone, therefore, dealing with the Lib-Dems and voting for them should consider. Or is there some other reason for this statement? Let's see what we can come up with.

Certain parts in the Labor Party see Nick Clegg and, I should assume, with him the Lib-Dem Party as a Labor “asset” and thus it could be implied that the Lib-Dems and Labor could be seen as being in the same boat.

The say this statement stands, the one by the Labor councillor, one could assume him to be inferring that the Liberal-Democratic Party and the Labor Party would, theoretically, be one and the same in many beliefs.

Not all that far fetched anyway for, if I remember rightly, the founders of the Lib-Dem Party were, in fact, originally members of the Labor Party. But is that really the case as made out by certain Labor Party folks?

Though I have never thought of it before in the way I shall be looking at it right now I am beginning to wonder as to whether there was more behind the establishment of the “third party” than a real breakaway from the Labor Party. Then again we may be being led up the garden path by that statement by Labor people.

The Lib-Dem Party, though often referred to still as Whigs, is not the Whigs, the Liberal Party of old, the second party of Britain, to the Conservatives, before the advent of the Labor Party.

The Liberal-Democrats may have Liberal still in the title but have very little to do with the old Whigs, of that we can all be certain. But they are also not, unless someone manages to keep an agenda firmly hidden, anywhare like Labor; far from it.

With statements like this from Labor, however, one can but wonder two things.

One: Can the Lib-Dem Party be trusted, and not just as a coalition partner for the Conservatives, the Tories

or

Two: Is this statement intended to sow the seeds of mistrust in British politics and to cause the coalition to break up due to the senior partner not trusting the junior partner any more.

Definitely some serious food for thought.

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