WILLIE Rennie has taken to water skis to illustrate a “rising tide” of support for the Scottish LibDems ahead of the European elections.
The party leader said a vote for the LibDems was a vote against Brexit during his campaign visit to Waterski and Wakeboard Scotland in Dunfermline.
The LibDems are second behind the Brexit Party in the most recent YouGov UK poll. In Scotland, Rennie’s party are in fifth place with 7% of the vote. The SNP lead with 38% of the vote, with the Brexit Party on 20%, the Greens on 11% and Labour and the Tories on 10%.
“With just days to go until the European election we are seeing a wave of support for the Liberal Democrats,” Rennie said.
“People want a party who are clear and unambiguous about their support for remaining in the EU. It’s about the rising tide of the LibDems. We’ve got more and more people rallying behind us to try and stop Brexit.
“They’ve had enough of the damage and the division in the country and they want to bring it to an end.
“The best way to bring it to an end is to back the LibDems.”
One European election poll shows the Conservatives and Labour are languishing in joint-fourth place in Scotland.
Just one in five Scottish voters said they will back Labour or the Tories in the upcoming election, with Ruth Davidson’s party set to lose their one MEP.
In Scotland, Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party are in second place behind the SNP, followed by the Scottish Greens, who are looking to win their first MEP.
Across the UK, the poll of 9260 people by YouGov and Datapraxis commissioned by Best for Britain and Hope not Hate had the Brexit Party on top, with twice the share of the vote of the second-placed LibDems.
Rennie, who described his water-skiing experience as “exhilarating”, added: “Change UK’s David MacDonald has stressed that Remain voters need to unite behind the Liberal Democrats and even Labour and Conservative grandees are voting for us.
“So many Labour and Conservative voters are lending their votes to the Liberal Democrats because their own parties have let them down. Meanwhile people are turning away from the SNP because they do not their votes to be twisted as support for independence.
“We are into the final stretch of the campaign. Let’s elect a Scottish Liberal Democrat and make the chaos of Brexit stop.”
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