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Why the lib-dems are shit

Clegg is now backing the Tories plans for HB,

Er, hasn't Clegg made great play of the fact it was them who has moderated the coalitions welfare plans including "stopping Hb for under 25 year olds"...
 
butchersapron said:
I'll tell you why the lib-dems are shit. The association of lib-dem councillors used to run an by-election results service that i found very useful for laughing at their results and generally keeping informed of electoral movements They've just made it members only. And not only lib-dem members only but only fee-paying lib-dem members only.
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How odd. You'd expect the 'by-election experts' to want to publicise their gains as widely as possible.:D
 
In 1998, the journalist Geoffrey Levy published a fine piece in the Daily Mail that for the first time named all five. The “toughs” in the picture turned out to be George Salmon, Jack Catlin and George Young, three 13-year-olds who lived close to Lord’s and were in the same class at a Church of England school, St Paul’s Bentinck, a few minutes’ walk away in Rossmore Road. According to Levy’s account, all three had been to the dentist that morning and then decided to skip school and hang around instead outside Lord’s, where the Eton-Harrow match offered money-making opportunities to any boy willing to open taxi doors and carry bags, or to return seat cushions to their hirers and claim the threepenny deposit. “We did OK that day,” George Young told Levy. “I think we made about two shillings each. We didn’t really think about the way the toffs were dressed – we just assumed they were rich. And suddenly there was a photographer saying: ‘Just stand a bit closer together while I take your picture.’ ”
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That Geoffrey Levy...
 
Hilarious stuff from the old lag himself, claiming that no-one told him that UK spooks were spying:-

Cabinet ministers and members of the national security council were told nothing about the existence and scale of the vast data-gathering programmes run by British and American intelligence agencies, a former member of the government has revealed.

Chris Huhne, who was in the cabinet for two years until 2012, said ministers were in "utter ignorance" of the two biggest covert operations, Prism and Tempora. The former Liberal Democrat MP admitted he was shocked and mystified by the surveillance capabilities disclosed by the Guardian from files leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden.

"The revelations put a giant question mark into the middle of our surveillance state," he said. "The state should not feel itself entitled to know, see and memorise everything that the private citizen communicates. The state is our servant."
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The state is our servant! How liberal.
 
DotCommunist said:
Norman Baker for State

shit or shrewd? he seems to have a record of awkward question-asking...
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LD therefore shit. That aside, it is interesting to speculate exactly what Clegg was up to when he placed this high-profile conspiracist into such a role.

Bliar can't be pleased.
 
He's a conspiracy freak. He thinks the police, who his department now run, were involved in covering up the actions of an Iraqi hit squad who killed David Kelly and made it look like murder rather than suicide. And that's just the start of it. Still, nice to see such fearless truth seekers can be bought by a few shiny baubles.
 
well good to see the graun leading with the idea that this will anger Theresa rather than pointing out that he's a conspiracy loon.

Wiki (yes I know, my research skills shine once again) credit him with awkwardly questioning mandleson into resignation.

written by himself?
 
butchersapron said:
He's a conspiracy freak. He thinks the police, who his department now run, were involved in covering up the actions of an Iraqi hit squad who killed David Kelly and made it look like murder rather than suicide. And that's just the start of it. Still, nice to see such fearless truth seekers can be bought by a few shiny baubles.
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Suicide rather than murder.
 
butchersapron said:
Maybe, I'll have a look in a sec. What it does demonstrate is that the lib dems have no one left to promote. No talent. No experience. No skill. But they need to keep their ministerial numbers up. So they promote jazzz.
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All about Clegg's desperate attempt(s) to salvavge some support from his own core/activists. Apparently Clegg regarded both Browne & Moore had 'gone native' and started to appear more indistinguisable from those who were supposed to be their political opponents.

Desperate stuff.
 
I have been utterly baffled by Nick Robinsons analysis of this round of reshuffles, he seriously seems to be claiming that this draws definite lines between 'red' ed and the coalition. He's just not even bothering is he?
 
butchersapron said:
The BBC won't tell you what they pay 'talent' (their term). I expect it's around 3000 million pounds a year though. Another one who had to struggle to overcome his private school then oxbridge background.
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so what we ( I use the term loosely cos I don't) pay these people to disseminate lies, half truths and state pravda is not even available via FoI?

welcome to the free world
 
Correct. As they take great pleasure in telling you if you bombard them with FOIs about it - and they'll place you in the vexatious file as soon as they can.
 
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