Liberals Back Stop the War Rally in Liverpool

At the Caribbean Centre, Toxteth, about 70 people joined for a Stop The War meeting (Wednesday 13th September)

Cllr Steve Radford joined other speakers and gave a message of support as Leader of The Liberal Party Group

He spoke of the war on terror as being manipulated to promote the erosion of freedoms in the UK and to emphasise the point Steve gave out articles and flyers in promoting the NO2ID campaign
he re-afirmed The Liberal Party's opposition to replacing Trident

Cllr Steve Radford said that real Liberals always opposed wars of imperialism , Gladstone having rounded on the Afghanistan adventures of the British Empire even some hundred years ago

Cllr Steve Radford said that we needed to increase contact and trade with Middle East societies not supply and support Israel or the USA bombing them back to the stone age.

Lastly he warned "the stop the war movement" not to see the issue personalised as  the need to get rid of Tony Blair , the problem was the war was supported by a large element of the Labour Party. "we need to get rid of the politics of war not just one politician"