Letters to Clegg...

[Megaton]

Dear Nick,

Please join the Tories, your party have never stood for anything and you are just a polished veneer on top of a turd. Join the Tories and any of your support either from the "vote libdem to keep the Tories out" or "libdem are left of labour" will realise their mistake. Join lib dem and in the meantime, with your once misguided supporters from the left will need somewhere to go, there will be a vacuum on the left and with a bit of luck, we can have our Labour party back.

Here here.

 

[big eejit]

I've written to my local Lib Dem MP telling him I didn't vote for him so his party could bend over for the Tories. (I didn't vote for him at all actually)

But if your local MP is Lib Dem, they could be v influential right now. So worth a polite email asking them to pass on your concerns to their boss. And, of course, you may not be able to vote LD again if they don't do the right thing this time.

 

[voiceofreason]

Two points.

One : let's wait until Clegg actually does sell out to the Tories before kicking him. He's been offered a share of power, it would be very strange if he refused even to talk to Cameron and see what kind of deal is possible. He knows that he would be slaughtered if he went into a deal aimed at keeping Brown as PM. Let's wait and see how Clegg plays this.

Two : people shouldn't be so shocked. There are Tory/Lib Dem coalitions in councils all around the country. This Guardian article names some of them and warns that they have a bit of a reputation for ushering in cuts and privatisations - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/03/ipswich-coalition-election-tory-lib-dem . I think people are right to be angry if talk of "acting in the national interest" is used as cover for keeping the Tories in power and allowing them to slash public services.

 

[Hollis]

Two points.

One : let's wait until Clegg actually does sell out to the Tories before kicking him. He's been offered a share of power, it would be very strange if he refused even to talk to Cameron and see what kind of deal is possible. He knows that he would be slaughtered if he went into a deal aimed at keeping Brown as PM. Let's wait and see how Clegg plays this.

Two : people shouldn't be so shocked. There are Tory/Lib Dem coalitions in councils all around the country. This Guardian article names some of them and warns that they have a bit of a reputation for ushering in cuts and privatisations - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/03/ipswich-coalition-election-tory-lib-dem . I think people are right to be angry if talk of "acting in the national interest" is used as cover for keeping the Tories in power and allowing them to slash public services.

I've told my local LD MP exactly where my vote will be going next time. Clegg's a smarmy and irritating twat.

 

[belboid]

letters? BY the time they get through and are ignored the deal will already have been made. Clog the switchboard up with calls claiming you've just voted for them but never will again if they support Camerons cunts. Ring your local party and say the same, pointing out how they'll lose any councillors they have in Labourite areas (like those northern councils they're so proud of). Make the party faithful shit themselves - and all for a deal that wouldnt even give them PR.

020 7222 7999 - national switchboard

 

[Hollis]

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020 7222 7999 - national switchboard

They are experiencing a high level of calls. However feel free to leave a message on their answering machine.

 

[belboid]

Therefore, in order to ensure that people have a chance to send in a view that will be read before the meeting, we’ve agreed with the Party President Ros Scott a special email address – [email protected] – which can be used to email in your views. A member of staff will collate all the messages and make sure that they are drawn to the attention of Ros and also reported to the members of the FE in time for their discussion.

A few tips when emailing this address:

* Don’t use it for an email to which you need a personal, direct reply as, given the short timescales, that isn’t going to be possible for every message sent to the address
* Given the pressures of time, short and concise messages are likely to be more effective than 12 pages essays
* As with letter writing or lobbying more generally, saying in full who you are and where you’re from is likely to add to the impact of the message
* Please send your message as soon as possible

 

[bi0boy]

Can we have a #dontdoitnick FlashMob on Whitehall this afternoon?

I'll set up a facebook group about it.

 

[sus]

Dear Nick
It's a shame that people can't see what this is, a negotiation, with carefully and inevitably choreographed steps...

Cheers

BK

Agreed The Conservatives will never accept PR and the Liberal Party will accept no less. Labour will accept it and Brown will agree to stand down as PM to allow the coalition to form. An agreement will be found to prevent a complete collapse of the pound. Brown even hinted at a National Government yesterday.

 

[Jackobi]

Here here.

Where?

 

[BettyBlue]

Therefore, in order to ensure that people have a chance to send in a view that will be read before the meeting, we’ve agreed with the Party President Ros Scott a special email address – [email protected] – which can be used to email in your views. A member of staff will collate all the messages and make sure that they are drawn to the attention of Ros and also reported to the members of the FE in time for their discussion.

A few tips when emailing this address:

* Don’t use it for an email to which you need a personal, direct reply as, given the short timescales, that isn’t going to be possible for every message sent to the address
* Given the pressures of time, short and concise messages are likely to be more effective than 12 pages essays
* As with letter writing or lobbying more generally, saying in full who you are and where you’re from is likely to add to the impact of the message
* Please send your message as soon as possible

Mind if i copy this? Gonna plaster it in a few places.

 

[belboid]

it's on the official libdem website, I'm sure they wouldn't mind at all - and am equally sure they wont havee time to check the electoral roll for the made up name(s) I'll submit my comments under

 

[BettyBlue]

it's on the official libdem website, I'm sure they wouldn't mind at all - and am equally sure they wont havee time to check the electoral roll for the made up name(s) I'll submit my comments under

Sorted.

Nice ere in Fullwood innit?

Ooh, check your pers details in your e-mail settings if you're doing the name thing tho.

 

[belboid]

I'd learn to spell it right first - only one 'l'

 

[BettyBlue]

I'd learn to spell it right first - only one 'l'

Damn, i went back and corrected my post as well

 

[butchersapron]

Dear Nick
It's a shame that people can't see what this is, a negotiation, with carefully and inevitably choreographed steps. They actually think, some of them, that you are going to get in bed with the Tories. They should calm down. There is no way that you will do this because your party and the Tories are ideologically miles apart on most things: but you do have to go through the motions because of the Lib commitment to direct democracy and voteshare/voiceshare. Cameron has to try to woo you because he's fucked without a majority and he knows it, plus he needs to look like he's making an effort. In fact, he looks kind of desperate, as well he might, with the right wing rump of his party already turning against him in fury for not sealing the deal.

And it's all a charade.

By the end of next week you will have set up a coalition with Labour, having won your key demands: the big two being Gordon Brown's resignation and a PR referendum. Then you and Labour as a 'progressive alliance' will settle back and watch a minority, hugely unpopular Government implode and fail.

It's a shame people can't see this but never mind, that's politics and a 24 hour news cycle which likes drama.

It's a grubby game, politics, and I personally am pleased that no party won a mandate so the worst idealogical excesses of each will be curbed by the need to thrash out compromises.

But I hope you can get on with it without too much grandstanding, that all 3 parties learn some valuable lessons in humility and that this year is over quickly.

Cheers

BK

Is that right? Doing the lottery this week?

 

[Sgt Howie]

Is that right? Doing the lottery this week?

Beat me to it