06/12/2019
Conservatives who are openly saying "don't vote Tory":
John Major - former Prime Minister - on Bojo, Gove, IDS - "the NHS is as safe with them as a hamster with a hungry python"
Ken Clarke - Longest serving MP, was in the Tory cabinet under Heath, Thatcher, Major and Cameron, including as Home Secretary and Chancellor - "I'm not voting for some crazy right-wing nationalist organisation calling themselves a Tory government"
Michael Heseltine - was in the Tory cabinet under Heath, Thatcher and Major, including as Deputy Leader - "vote Lib Dem"
Dominic Grieve - former Tory Attorney General - standing as an independent against the Tories in Beaconsfield
Justine Greening, former Tory cabinet minister - "Very hard to vote Tory"
Matthew Parris - former MP and 50 years a Tory - "Vote Lib Dem"
Dr Jason Aldiss, ex Tory chair in Yorkshire for 25 years - "Vote Labour"
and then, of course, there are the former Tory MPs who have defected:
Anna Soubry
Heidi Allen
Sarah Wollaston
Sam Gyimah
Phillip Lee
Antoinette Sandbach
Oh, and me, a former Conservative party member who now proudly carries a membership card for the Liberal Democrats.
I ended my Conservative Party membership because I was disgusted at the lies and manipulation used by current and former members of the party to support their Brexit campaign.
I didn't do this immediately after the referendum, as at that point I felt there were still some honest Conservative MPs who were challenging the xenophobia and nationalism. It wasn't until after the 2017 general election that I realised the lies were going to continue and the great British public were going to carry on being betrayed.
That's when I ended my relationship with the Conservative Party.
I always considered myself a 'Liberal Conservative' or a 'compassionate Tory', but in truth my actual priorities are far more suited to the Liberal Democrats. I know this, as I have used various tools to analyse my responses to political questions and indicate which UK party best matches my views.
Three different tools; each of which showed that my political priorities were best served by the Liberal Democrats.
Please, please think about it.
Before you vote on December 12th.
Look at the big picture and check which group of politicians will actually build a United Kingdom that you would want to be a part of.
Each of the tools above will help you to understand who best represents your views.
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