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Kick off the sandals and get on the DMs

By David Frearson | Tue 5th July 2016 - 11:55 am

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12000 new Lib Dems in 7 days. Wow. That’s a lot of angry people. Just the tip of the iceberg though: there are millions more angry people marching to Westminster and angry people venting on Facebook.

Tim Farron is resonating with them. Why?… because he and we are all angry. On 24^th June 2016 we woke up in a country that is no longer tolerant, open, progressive or friendly. Love not Leave: we want our country back.

But…

Although this is about the EU for the angry mob, we are about so, so much more than that.

Liberalism is living life how you choose without oppression and without oppressing others: a value all modern Brits hold dear. Brexit has woken-up the inner-Liberal of the digital generation. We need to help them into a new dawn.

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Posted in Op-eds | Tagged eu referendum | 7 Comments

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