Top Scottish LibDem Resigns Over Coalition

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laresMon 28/03/11 04:15

"A top Liberal Democrat candidate for the Scottish elections has quit the party.

Hugh O'Donnell was the leading candidate in the party's Central Scotland list. Mr O'Donnell said was unhappy with the direction of the party in Scotland and the UK Tory/Lib Dem coalition. Mr O'Donnell, who served as a Central Scotland list MSP for four years, will now stand as an independent candidate in the region.

Writing in the Mail on Sunday, he criticised the party's Scottish leader, Tavish Scott, and said founding principles had been "subsumed" by a desire for position and power"

"The decision by Hugh O'Donnell to resign from the Liberal Democrats is certainly not a shock – Mr O'Donnell has always been a member of the party's awkward squad – but what is a little surprising is the vehemence of the language he used in quitting.

No principled Liberal should stay in this party, he said, and the coalition with the Conservatives is a betrayal of Liberal principles. On the eve of the Scottish election campaign, it is certainly not what the party needed."

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