Brexit continues to poison politics

A member of Aberavon and Neath Liberal Democrats has resigned as a result of the English Liberal Democrats accepting as a member, and candidate in a local election in May, someone who would have stood for Farage's Brexit organisation in last December's general election (until Farage pulled her along with others where their candidacy may have affected Tory chances). The former member concerned is a French citizen who is affronted that the Lib Dems should so swiftly adopt a person who only a few months ago was prepared to stand on a platform diametrically opposed to our campaign to remain in the EU and one with barely-concealed racist undertones. One does wonder how committed the new recruit is to any political philosophy and why more time was not allowed for this to be established.

I am proud to say that our local party resolved tonight to back our members from the EU in any way we could in the face of the Tories' short-sighted, xenophobic, hostile environment.