http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-27561917Liberal Democratic Candidates Jackie Porter (Running to be an MP from Winchester, Currently a Member of Hampshire County Council from Itchen Valley) and Ros Kayes (Running in West Dorset), have called for Liberal Democratic Party leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to step down as Party Leader.
Porter in a statement to the BBC stated that "we have to make decisions to save the party, not the person", while Kayes, who along with Porter is one of two hundred party figures who have put their name to an open letter asking Clegg to step down, stated that "If one was to ask the general public what they didn't like about the coalition, they would say they don't like Nick Clegg"
After Thursday's calamitous results in local elections, where the Liberal Democrats lost over 300 Councilors. the co-chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Committee for Health and Social Care, John Pugh, said he had canvassed a dozen-backbenchers (though he didn't say who) and went to state that "The High Command is in danger of seeming like generals at the Somme, repeatedly sending others over the top while being safely ensconced in Westminister and claiming the carnage is inevitable" adding that "the time had passed for a policy of misguided stoicism".
