Why the lib-dems are shit

[redsquirrel]

They've fucked themselves quite hilariously over this haven't they?

Their response to gropegate has been to try and mollify the victims without actually tackling lord sexpest and hoping all sides just move on and forget about it. Now all sides are even more pissed off then they were before and clegg is being publicly humiliated.

Yeah made an a solute mess of it and I can't see this just dying away.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

I wonder what moon23 thinks of it all now?

 

[redsquirrel]

and Kippa
(are there any other LDs left on U75)

 

[ViolentPanda]

I wonder what moon23 thinks of it all now?

Probably trying his very best to pretend he never had anything to do with them.

 

[ViolentPanda]

and Kippa
(are there any other LDs left on U75)

trevhagl .

 

[SpineyNorman]

I wonder what moon23 thinks of it all now?

last I heard he'd made the transition to full on right libertarian

 

[brogdale]

Ah...the gift that keeps on giving...

The dispute in the Liberal Democrats over sexual harassment allegations surrounding Lord Rennard, the party's former chief executive, was in danger of spinning out of control as his allies released emails that they claim prove there is a political conspiracy to damage him.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jan/19/lord-rennard-allies-allege-political-conspiracy

Sounds like this is seriously veering to the law courts. Meltdown acclerates.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Love the fact that the mini gallows is made of bits of the clegg pinocchio puppet (a running gag in rowson's cartoons)

The graun seems to have disabled comments on any article or cartoon referring to lord sex pest

 

[Pickman's model]

and Kippa
(are there any other LDs left on U75)

if there are they should out themselves now

 

[butchersapron]

Clegg and the pest will have a face to face and hammer out something they're both happy with - (or, more accurately, Clegg will beg Rennard to do something that looks like an apology and not to let too many historic cats out of the bag and promise some future reward). They'll both say that they're now happy and looking forward to moving on. The problem is that this will again carve out the victims, the people in the party concerned with the way this whole thing was carried out and the cynical leadership model both in ignoring the original complaints and the attempted cover-up, and voters outside of the party. There is now no good way out of this for the lib-dems none at all. Not even if Rennard caves completely, that still won't leave Clegg looking strong an decisive - it will leave him looking weak, unable to control the party and the party itself internally divided, and internal division is electoral poison. Great stuff.

 

[Fedayn]

Sky News ‏@SkyNews 20s
Liberal Democrats Suspend Lord Rennard

 

[butchersapron]

...and faces investigation for bringing the party into disrepute. Now he has the motivation to press the button. Do it!

 

[butchersapron]

They've fucked up the fuck up as well. Now it appears that this is being taken more seriously than the sexual harassment. Cheeking Clegg is the more serious issue. So incompetent.

 

[butchersapron]

Blimey, have a good read of Rennards statement this afternoon. Fucks ups and twisting within fuck ups and twisting.

 

[killer b]

wow.

 

[yardbird]

His mate Lord Reese is defending him.
WHAT A JUMPED UP PRAT!

 

[yardbird]

I'm 66 in despair that men my age can be such fucking sexists.

 

[killer b]

essentially his statement is the party is run by incompetent cowards, and I didn't mean to put my hand there so they should get over it.

I agree completely with the first bit.

 

[laptop]

Blimey, have a good read of Rennards statement this afternoon. Fucks ups and twisting within fuck ups and twisting.

So it was all dirty tricks against the Party to which he is so loyal? Before the incompetence started, anyway...

 

[Tankus]

Maybe he should go to France like all good bunnies can and will

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

Just heard a Libdem say they are at civil war over the Rennard sex-pest stuff, "each half lobbing grenades at the other".

Curious how that didn't happen over demonising the poor, protecting the banking crimewave and driving vulnerable people to suicidal despair.

 

[brogdale]

Having proved themselves incapable of government, the Rennard debacle shows the LDs to be the world's first post-figurative political party. Some achievement.

 

[Wilf]

Having shown themselves incapable of government, the Rennard debacle shows the LDs to be the world's first post-figurative political party. Some achievement.

"What do you find the most frustrating, the most incompetent, the most embarrassing, the most morale sapping? Right! Build your temple here! I am Nick Clegg, look on my works and lol."

 

[killer b]

Clegg has the appearance of a prisoner approaching the gibbet in this clip from channel 4 news.

http://link.brightcove.com/services...p_Vh4qBcIZDrvZlvNCU8nxccG&bctid=3081809775001

 

[brogdale]

So where are they now with all this?

The party has chucked him out, he's going to sue them, and there seem to be claims from the victims that he is about to smear some of them. Is that it? Is that up to date?

Going well, isn't it?

 

[killer b]

looks to me like he smears them in his statement tbh. 'complainants' in inverted commas, a suggestion that as one of them accepted his apology previously she should have shut the fuck up.

lib dem tops going to war against clegg. everyone loses.

 

[brogdale]

 

[brogdale]

In all the media frenzy it's easy to overlook some of the back-story in all of this. I thought it might be a good moment to remind ourselves of the LD 'big beasts' who are being protected from reputational damage.

If my memory serves me correctly, the following have been implicated in the Rennard cover-up(s)...

• Clegg
• Alexander
• Lamb
• Swinson
• Burstow

Any others that I've missed?

I suppose if Rennard or one, or more, his victims actually 'pulls the pin' and goes legal...then all this stuff would tumble out?

 

[DotCommunist]

just read that during huhne/clegg leadership contest rennard discounted a load of delayed pro-huhne postal votes, thusly giving clegg the leadership. Bet huhnes smirking about the big fellas downfall now

 

[brogdale]

Farron's bid to 'captain the titanic' is, to some extent, driving this affair. We can only hope that Farron's mob are successful in pushing Rennard into the courts.

Rennard's allies think Tim Farron, the party president, is a key influence blocking attempts at mediation. Farron wants Rennard expelled from the party, Rennard's allies believe. They think this is part of a long-term attempt to position himself to win the next Lib Dem leadership contest. They say that Farron was presenting himself as a "new broom" who would be able to clean up the party (implicitly criticising the current leadership) when he said yesterday that an apology was owed not just to the women who complained about Rennard, but to Rennard himself. And Farron did say that. This is what he told Radio 4.