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Opinion: Yes, we can – let’s go for gold!

By Stephen Chidgey | Sat 17th April 2010 - 10:30 am

How many times are we reminded and told the Liberal Democrats can’t and won’t win, or that a Liberal Democrat vote is a wasted vote? Too many times, I suggest.

It’s a message that was suggested glibly by none other than John Humphreys on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme earlier this week, in a blatantly unfair remark. Too often the BBC, which is supposed to be impartial, allows commentators to deride and discount the Lib Dems as somehow irrelevant compared to the other two major parties.

It really is time to challenge such comments, and, in the aftermath of Nick …

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