Len McClusky urges Lib Dem MPs to come over to opposition

11 March 2011

Speaking at an anti-cuts rally in Sheffield tomorrow (Saturday, 12 March ), Unite General Secretary, Len McCluskey is expected to say:

' It's time for Liberal Democrats to break with the Coalition and come over to the side of the British people.

Nick Clegg has turned LibDems into shock troops for a Tory counter-revolution that aims to dismantle everything ordinary British people have built up over generations – the NHS, welfare state, the very fabric of our communities threatened by the cuts.

We know that Lib Dem voters reject the course he has chosen. Polls and by-election results – not least in Barnsley up the road - tell us that. But I have come to Sheffield to appeal – not to Nick Clegg – but to Lib Dem councillors, activists and, yes, Lib Dem MPs, to put the people first, put their consciences first and come over to the opposition where they will find a warm welcome. '

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