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Is this the next candidate to be axed for their online insults?

On Friday the new and traditional media were full of the tale of Stuart MacLennan, whose foul tirades led to his removal as the Labour parliamentary candidate for Moray. Amongst those leading the calls for his removal were the head on the Conservative’s press office, Henry Macrory and the Conservative Party leader David Cameron, who described the remarks as “pretty appalling“.

So you might wonder what the Conservative hierarchy might think of a candidate who posted this:

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No panic here, nothing to see, move along

Two different stories today, unconnected in one way but both – particularly when put together – speaking volumes for the current state of the Conservative Party. Obviously, panic or disagreements are in no way involved. Not at all.

First we have ConservativeHome’s take on the party starting to use YouGov in addition to Populus:

Up until now now the Cameron team has had only Populus telling them what the outside world was thinking. The intelligence from Populus was brought to them by the same team who run operations in the party’s marginal seats. In other words our marginal seats operation wasn’t

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  • Rob Parsons
    This is very good indeed. Excellent thinking to promote proper liberalism....
  • nigel hunter
    Yes, internal mechanisms of the party has to SELL RADICAL Liberalism to, 1st the party, and then the people.One way could be to get rid of both central plannin...
  • Jennie
    "Liberals have always been suspicious of too much power in too few hands." *looks at direction of travel of internal party mechanisms the last five years * ...
  • Margot Wilson
    Thankyou BLAC Libdems for this clearly written piece. I agree with Hywel. The term 'race realist' is a massive red flag....
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