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Why the lib-dems are shit

This last fee days reaslly sums up the remaining lib-dem voters: do you want to vote for a party that covers up sexual harassment and possibly worse allegation? Damn right i do. Bring in on!
 
Whilst I'm all for bashing Lib Dem voters, which party isn't guilty of that?
 
http://www.newstatesman.com/politic...have-almost-no-female-mps-after-next-election

The Rennard story has prompted much comment on the dramatic under-representation of women in the Lib Dems. Just 12.5 per cent (seven) of the party's 56 MPs are female, compared with 31 per cent of Labour MPs (the only party to use all-women shortlists) and 16 per cent of Tories. Aware of this problem, the Lib Dems will debate proposals at their spring conference next month to introduce "job-share candidates" in order to improve female representation. But barring a significant improvement in their poll ratings, the likelihood is that the diminished parliamentary party that returns to the Commons after 2015 will be even more male-dominated.

Back in 2011, research by the Fabian Society showed that five of the Lib Dems' seven female MPs, including Sarah Teather, Jo Swinson and Tessa Munt, hold seats among the party's 12 most vulnerable, while none hold any of the 20 safest.

In addition, the two 'safer' seats held by Lib Dem women - Cardiff Central and Hornsey & Wood Green - are vulnerable to a Labour challenge. As Sunder Katwala noted, "both were gained in 2005 from Labour, through appeals to students and voters disillusioned with Labour over Iraq and other left-of-centre issues."
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Women MPs in the 12 most vulnerable Lib Dem seats
1. Lorely Burt (Solihull) 0.3%, 175 votes
2. Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset) 0.6%, 269 votes
3. Norwich South 0.7%
4. Bradford East 0.9%
5. Tessa Munt (Wells), 1.4%, 800 votes
6. St Austell 2.8%
7 = Sarah Teather (Brent South) 3.0%, 1,345 votes
7 = Somerton 3.0%
9 St Ives 3.7%
10 Manchester West 4.1%
11. Burnley 4.3%
12. Jo Swinson, 4.6% (East Dunbartonshire), 2,184 votes
Other Lib Dem women MPs
Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green), 12.5%, 7,875 votes
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central), 12.7%, 4,576 votes
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Cathy Newman is not fobbed off with all the guff spouted by Swinson & Clegg at Brighton....

We have now requested interviews with Nick Clegg and Jo Swinson over the Rennard affair for 18 days. They have repeatedly declined.
Some have suggested we should drop it and move on. But when Ms Swinson, the women's minister, spoke to the Lib Dem faithful in Brighton tonight, her address failed to answer the questions we'd like to put to her. So the interview bid stands.
Apart from a brief written statement, tonight was the first time Ms Swinson had responded in person to the investigation we aired last month, which alleged that the party's former chief executive Lord Rennard abused his power by behaving inappropriately towards women.
'Unwanted advances'

But here are the questions left unanswered: she says "a number of women" confided to her about "unwanted advances" from Lord Rennard.
How many? And what form did her inquiries take? Was she carrying out investigations proactively, or was she a mere conduit for concerns which happened to come her way?
She says the women who spoke to her "had an entirely understandable wish for privacy which I was careful to respect - so of course I didn't name names when I spoke to people in the leader's office".
However, two of the women we interviewed - Bridget Harris and Alison Smith - were happy to identify themselves to the party, and indeed put their names to complaints to their line manager and the party whip respectively.
How many 'named names?'

And although Ms Swinson didn't "name names" to the leader, an email from a party campaigns officer to several women urges them to contact the leader's office themselves. How many did?
Ms Swinson says she "made sure that further action was taken". But that action appears to have constituted the leader's then aide Danny Alexander confronting Lord Rennard, who denied the allegations.
So why is the party dealing with the complaints now, belatedly, when Lord Rennard continues to deny the allegations? Why launch inquiries and talk to the police now, and not then?
Ms Swinson concludes by saying she hasn't heard "any account of inappropriate behaviour subsequent to the action Danny and I took".
We at Channel 4 are not aware of any recent incidents.
But does she admit that we nor she really don't know, because the party, as Mr Clegg admitted tonight, failed to deal with the complaints properly all those years ago?
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Top work Cathy!
 

Paddy Ashdown, the Liberal Democrat's former leader has called on his party to win a second term in office.
Mr Ashdown, heading the party's election strategy, told the Brighton spring conference he wanted being in government to "become a habit" and not be a "blip".
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Good luck with that!

He added: "You can't change a country overnight. You can't deliver on the liberal promise in just one government. It takes time.
"And that's why, at the next election, we can and we must ensure that we have the votes and seats to continue the job we have, with such courage, started together."
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Fuck off.
Earlier, Business Secretary Vince Cable warned industry would suffer if areas like health were spared spending cuts.
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Fuck off x 100

Lib Dem president Tim Farron said on Friday the party was in a "critical state" and its survival was not guaranteed.
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Thats a real shame now isnt it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21724754
 
Today's Guardian : Jonathan Freedland drivelling on about prospects of hung parliaments, Clegg still holding balance of power, etc, after the next GE. Talking as if the Eastleigh result is more than just a Hampshire-specific freak result.

He's not quite as bad (IMO) as Patrick Wintour, but so many Graun opinionators seems as oblivious to their coming electoral destruction as the Lib Dems themselves. Believing what they want to believe maybe. Local elections may force some reality onto them a bit more.
 
William of Walworth said:
Lib Dems to lose 30 seats, and Labour to gain a shedload more (over 100), according to latest Lord Ashcroft poll ...
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YouGov's Anthony has put some flesh on (C)Ashcroft's latest polling on the LDs...

Perhaps the more interesting findings are what the poll says about the Liberal Democrats – the Con-v-Lab battle normally follows national polls, the Lib Dem battleground is sometimes different. When PoliticsHome asked the two stage voting intention question structure back in 2009 it found the Lib Dems did 10 points better in LD-Con seats when people were prompted to think about their own constituency (and conseqently was actually quite a good pointer to how well they’d do at the 2010 election – it had them getting 55 seats, compared to the 57 they actually got). In the Ashcroft poll today the tactical/incumbency boost the Lib Dems get in LD-Con seats when people are prompted to think about their own constituency is a mighty 13 points.
This is naturally good news for the Liberal Democrats, but still means they will lose a lot of seats. The reason that tactical/incumbency boost is bigger is probably simply because they are starting from a much lower base. Even with this prompting the poll suggests the Lib Dems will lose around 17 seats to the Conservatives. In seats where they are up against Labour the swing is bigger, the tactical/incumbency boost is smaller, and the Lib Dems face wipeout. Overall, if this poll was reflected at the next general election – still two years away remember- it would leave the Lib Dems with around 25 seats, a very sizeable loss, but not the complete wipeout that some have predicted, feared or hoped for.
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A few of them are quitting and the party is unhappy over the secret courts. Its not a bad thing to hate this, but is sums up the innate process over people nature of the party. People getting shat on is not a big deal but when the process, the legal rules are changed they go up in arms.
 
ferrelhadley said:
A few of them are quitting and the party is unhappy over the secret courts. Its not a bad thing to hate this, but is sums up the innate process over people nature of the party. People getting shat on is not a big deal but when the process, the legal rules are changed they go up in arms.
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They're tories, in a tory party helping to run a tory government. What do you expect?
 
Mr Clegg described the Conservatives as "like a kind of a broken shopping trolley. Every time you try and push them straight ahead they kind of veer off to the right hand side."
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:facepalm:

But you chose that trolley, and did bother to change it when you found out it was fucked. In fact you keep on pushing it don't you? Twunt.

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That clegg quote is quite remarkable,despite all the evidence to the contrary he still believes that his party is the tail that wags the dog not vice versa.

Their purpose seems to me Rather to more to just waft Tory policies around like they were a particularly stinky doggy fart.
 
Cash for planning permission:

Easy access to local politicians, ensuring planning committees contained “friendly faces” and above all “a bit of cunning” — these were the keys to winning planning permission for developments across the country, he said.
The consultant, in his 30s, was in a relaxed and confident mood as he boasted to the two people sitting opposite how his company could help a group of overseas investors win approval for schemes in the face of local opposition.
But, unknown to him, he was talking to undercover reporters from The Daily Telegraph investigating how councillors and officials are working as consultants for companies trying to gain planning permission. And Mr Stone is not just a paid adviser, he has been a Liberal Democrat councillor for 12 years.

During their half-hour-long conversation, Mr Stone described how Indigo Public Affairs, his lobbying company, works for firms including Tesco, as well as large housing developments.

“Anything that’s controversial, basically”, he said.

He explained that like him, many of the company’s employees worked as councillors or were involved in politics in some other way.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...-estate-then-Im-not-doing-it-for-peanuts.html
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just seen retweeted on twitter

@labourwhips 49 Lib Dems voted against the mansion tax. The rest of their party were absent. So not one Lib Dem voted for their own policy
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This viper of a Lib Dem is a good reason why yoking together the Mirror with the Mail:

"On Monday the Mirror shouted ‘Shameful’, with a cartoon showing Thatcher, Cameron, Osorne and Clegg banging in the final nail of a coffin marked ‘RIP Welfare’. Each is exaggerating to make their own point. Both are gross over-statements: trollemics."
 
This weasel piece from Clegg whilst supporting £350mil legal aid cuts to ensure people in Britain can't access their human rights: Human rights: we won't be silent Britain must not step back from its historical commitment to human rights for the sake of commercial expediency
 
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