D Day Chris Huhne, Simon Hughes and Sir Menzies Campbell has Opened Wounds Which Might Be Hard to Heal

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FOR an attentive political audience the interruption by two hecklers was unexpected. "You're a racist, Simon, you're not going to win . . . You did nothing to help the black community, we asked you for help and you did nothing." Had this been a Labour hustings, the hecklers would not have got past their first couple of words before security guards arrived to bundle them out of the meeting. But this wasn't Labour. This was the Liberal Democrats. And they do things differently.

The outburst from the two black demonstrators came on Thursday night at the Friends' Meeting Hall opposite Euston Station in London, the last official hustings where all three of the would-be leaders laid out their cases.

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D Day Chris Huhne, Simon Hughes and Sir Menzies Campbell has Opened Wounds Which Might Be Hard to Heal

Ray Stephenson and Masher Fontaine hadn't arrived to listen to the arguments and pleadings from Simon Hughes, Sir Menzies Campbell and Chris Huhne over who should be the new LibDem leader. Their grievance was over Hughes's alleged ineffectiveness in helping the pair who ran a nightclub - later closed - in Hughes's Bermondsey constituency.

"We ain't goin' nowhere, " they shouted as they were quietly asked to leave amid boos and the odd shout of "get out".

"We've waited for this for a long time."

When they did eventually leave...

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