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LibLink: Adrian Trett – Why do Europe and LGBT equality measures cause such splits in mainstream parties?

By Paul Walter | Mon 11th February 2013 - 1:23 pm

Writing for PinkNews, as Chair of LGBT+ Liberal Democrats and Vice-Chair of the Liberal Democrats European Group, Adrian Trett says there are political similarities when it comes to arguing the case for equality and the European Union:

If you have the fundamental freedom to travel and work, live and reside in the place of your choice, then so does everyone else whatever nationality. Just because we may have an influx of Romanians and Bulgarians next January, no Europhobe can turn round and say, sorry you can’t come here, because we belong to a market with free movement of

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    @jenny barnes - So form a community and live in it then. Or is what you really want the ability to compel others to be...
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    @Matthew Huntbach As regards Eastern Europe attitudes here are completely the reverse of what you think they are. For a start there is no culture...
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