Are Devon Lid Dems in disarray as Central Devon Prospective Parliamentary Candidate Sally Morgan ‘lets off steam’?

By PRSD, on Monday, July 13, 2009

It’s always nice when the South Devon scene is picked up by the nationals, and the latest brittle debacle of leaked emails and sore losers in South Devon Lib Dems has even made onto the pages of Guido Fawkes’ blog.

The Lib Dems performed poorly in the county council elections, and Sally Morgan, the Lib Dem Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the new Central Devon constituency, lost her seat on the county council. Imagine her chagrin when told how well the party was doing as it tried to sting her for some more cash.

Well, you don’t have to imagine, ’cause she provided a handy email (see below) about what she thought of the situation – just letting off steam you understand – and the email got leaked. Hmm, interesting unity within the party there.

Was it leaked to put Sally in her place, or destabilise her some more? She is after all no longer on the town council, out of the county council and her district council place will be fought next year.

But who would be able to stand-in as Lid Dem PPC at such short notice if Sally does decide it’s all too much? Could it be leader Lib Dem of Teignbridge Council Alan Connett, looking for something to do if and when the unitary council comes into play?

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How well will the Lib Dems do in the next election? They didn’t have the scale of scandal of Anthony Steen proportions and still managed to lose out to the Conservatives at the county council elections. Does this bode well for them come the general election? Comments below please.

• info shot: Central Devon is a new parliamentary constituency for: Ashburton and Buckfastleigh, Bovey, Chudleigh, Haytor, Kenn Valley, Moorland, Teignbridge North, and Teign Valley

Sally’s full email

Dear Cowley St and Campaigns Dept.
Please do not employ apparatchiks to telephone me at home to tell me how well the Party did in the local elections only days after I and many of my colleagues lost our seats.
I do not appreciate being told how the public decided to teach Gordon brown a lesson nor that a General Election is around the corner and we have never been in a better position.
I no longer subscribe to that particular variety of bull****.
I was particularly taken aback to be asked if I would make a substantial donation and increase my standing order. Is that not the equivalent of frisking a mugging victim for any more pickings?
The party has benefited from several thousand pounds of my money as well as my blood, sweat and tears and yet the Party chooses to spend such money on employing ‘organisers’ whose sole purpose it seems is to forward centrally-generated emails that I have already received.
I would happily save the Party thousands of pounds a year by offering the services of my 11-year-old daughter who would be more than capable of performing such tasks for the price of a tenner and a few bags of Haribo cola bottles.
They obviously do little else as I have not seen sight nor sound of such organisers for many, many months despite being a Parliamentary Candidate.
Perhaps the Party thinks PPCs who are councillors and mothers have not time for such fripperies. The lack of support would lead me to believe so.
For that reason I’ve cancelled my, already generous, standing order and when my membership expires in October the Party can sing for it.
Yours, with b***** all left to lose.
Sally