Southport Lib Dem Councillor Tony Dawson has nailed his colours firmly to
the 'Remain' campaign for the European Union. He is particularly concerned
at the increasingly wild allegations being churned out by former London
Mayor Boris Johnson.

Councillor Dawson, who, despite heading up the Southport Borough campaign,
also lived and worked in Spain and Germany for a number of years in his
youth, says:

"It is becoming increasingly clear that the people who are trying to take
Britain out of the EU are massively discredited. Nigel Farage of UKIP has
been exposed as having an offshore family trust and refusing to let people
see his tax returns. So they replaced him as a front man with Boris
Johnson. But many people have said that Boris Johnson's late recruitment to
the 'Exit' campaign for the EU is nothing to do with the issues and
everything to do with him trying to replace Davids Cameron as Leader of a
seriously- divided Conservative Party.

"In desperation, it seems, Boris Johnson has now gone completely Bananas.
Making up stuff about non-existent EU Banana laws and trying to bring in
Hitler on his side (when Hitler was originally trying to exclude Britain
from Europe) seems a wild and dangerous approach to a serious issue.

"Michael Heseltine is a Conservative and not someone I agree with too often
- yet he sums Boris up completely here.



Michael Heseltine attacks Boris and Brexit campaign with made up 'facts'
(17May16)

Good grief, it's started. We've got years of press releases espousing the views of Cllr Dawson as the jockeying for position gets underway to become the Lib Dem candidate in 2020. I'm glad he's talking about his earlier experiences though, perhaps he'll tell us the story of how he was the Lib Dem candidate in Saddleworth and was claiming a virtually empty house as his constituency home and the time I heard about when he couldn't remember his christian name for the nomination forms. All very strange.

Try as I might I really can't take Tony Dawson seriously. He really is a sad, pathetic excuse of a man who spouts interminable claptrap. A perfect example of a Liberal Democrat in fact.

Originally Posted by roving-eye

Southport Lib Dem Councillor Tony Dawson has nailed his colours firmly to
the 'Remain' campaign for the European Union. He is particularly concerned
at the increasingly wild allegations being churned out by former London
Mayor Boris Johnson.

Councillor Dawson, who, despite heading up the Southport Borough campaign,
also lived and worked in Spain and Germany for a number of years in his
youth, says:

Not sure why the word *despite* is here and working in Spain or Germany in his youth is relevant other than if he's trying to picture himself in the next Auf Weidersehn Pet series. I'd say the only close use of despite would be "despite "fighting for southport" for the last 15 years it's all been Bootle's fault"

Secondly, who cares what Cllr Dawson says, he's hardly an authority on these things and the amount of bile that comes out in relation to other boroughs is just disconcerting to comprehend him ever getting a position of power. A lib dem Cllr pushing the view of his party is hardly news.

As for him in 2020, doubt the Libs would risk their seat with him at the helm as all we'd get is fighting with other parties, it's someone else's fault and paperwork/letters to people.

Of course Boris is bonkers - that's why he is ideally suited to politics.

Leave Boris alone,he is the only one mentally sane.

So where did my post disappear to Q local,? I thought that this was an independent forum ? but when posts disappear it's taking the urine

Carnot be assed typing it all out again but boris always has been a toff and lune nothing new there but he is allegedly intelligent too, We do not really want that moron leading this country at any cost

I'm sure Boris is quaking in his boots after being savaged by some nobody from Southport's Lib Dims....

Well done to Dawson's PR team for their cut and paste skills.

Vote to leave gets my vote.

None of the remain In supporters (Nor have the Out ones) have mentioned that the bill in the Queens Speech to tighten up on so called Health Tourists, will not apply to anybody from the EU, including those from EU countries that charge UK visitors for any medical treatment they receive. I would have thought the Out people would have jumped all over it.