John Warman, Lib Dem Councillor, Joins Welsh Labour

I was delighted today to welcome John Warman into the Welsh Labour Party. John has been the Councillor for the Cimla since 1972 and was at one time a parliamentary candidate for the Lib Dems. The decision to cross the floor of the council chamber cannot have been an easy one and I admire John’s courage and commitment to his principles.

John tells me that he reached a point, after the party leadership broke their pledge on student tuition fees, when he realised he could not continue as a Lib Dem Councillor. As he said today “I cannot abide hypocrisy in politics, and what Clegg and others have done in Government is unforgivable.”

I suspect there will be many other principled Lib Dems in Wales who have had similar feelings since the Coalition came together. I urge them to look carefully at the Coalition’s current policies, to compare these policies with those outlined in the Welsh Labour Manifesto, and to decide for themselves which most closely match their political ideals.

Gwenda