Why the lib-dems are shit

[William of Walworth]

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

I read that too. Very believable,, but is it definitely true?

 

[DotCommunist]

I read that too. Very believable,, but is it definitely true?

tonybee? christ knows I find her tone insufferable in all she writes but she's not a known fibber/inventor is she?

 

[belboid]

1300 votes were delayed in the christmas post so missed the deadline. Huhne would have won if they'd been allowed. Rennard, the fox, was in charge of the election.

 

[butchersapron]

But not the post.

 

[DotCommunist]

Tonybee has it that 'rennard adjudicated in Cleggs favour'. If the deadline was missed he wouldn't have been able to do otherwise, christmas delay or no. Twisty wording.

 

[belboid]

With a bit of forethought, the election coordinator should have known that it would be a bloody stupid time to set a deadline of a week before christmas. A liberal sense of fair play would have meant a ruling the other way. But, fuck em either way.

 

[butchersapron]

And Clegg blinks. Says it all about who has the power here.

Nick Clegg has indicated that the Liberal Democrat leadership may be prepared to accept a qualified apology from Lord Rennard in which he admits that he caused inadvertent offence to women.

Note 'lib-dem leadership'

 

[brogdale]

 

[butchersapron]

Excellent - like the 'should've joined labour'

Rafa would cost but he could only help. However, if you read his blog, he's a very clever chap whom takes things very seriously. So i think it'll be a no from him.

 

[poului]

Benitez as interim leader, please.

 

[J Ed]

Quilliam foundation co-founder and Lib Dem PPC Maajid Nawaz posted a 'Jesus and Mo' cartoon to his twitter, saying that as a Muslim he was not offended by it.

He has received death threats for the tweet. The source of some of the threats seems to be fellow Lib Dem Mohammed Shafiq who has labelled Nawaz an 'enemy of the prophet'.

Predictably the Lib Dem support for their PPC, who has been receiving death threats, is lukewarm at best, "The Liberal Democrats are a party of respect, tolerance and individual liberty. We fundamentally believe in freedom of expression and as such defend Maajid’s right to express his views. But as a party we urge all candidates to be sensitive to cultural and religious feelings and to conduct debate without causing gratuitous or unnecessary offence."

No condemnation of Shafiq or calls for him to stop inciting people against Nawaz.

 

[butchersapron]

Ooh yes, meant to post about this yesterday - so many angles on this.

 

[J Ed]

Shafiq even suggests that he can't, but someone else should campaign against Nawaz if he stands as a Lib Dem PPC https://twitter.com/mshafiquk/status/425667763815059456

The Lib Dems still seem to be taking his side though, I bet Nawaz gets deselected.

 

[Dan U]

Guido claiming to have the report in to Mike Hancock that the Lib Dems are trying to quash

Here it is https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=01a784143c206d42&id=1A784143C206D42!105

Some lowlights (according to Fawkes, I've not read it yet

• Told constituent “women had bucket crotches after hysterectomies”. Asked to be “first to road test it”.
• Hancock “started rubbing himself” begging for “a quick w*nk and said he wasn’t very big. I picked up guitar to distract him”.
• Hancock said he could not leave constituent’s house because “I have a peg leg and it won’t go down”
• Hancock to ill female constituent: “You have one of those faces. You have a f**k face.”
• “He knew I was sexually abused as a child and he asked me what sex was like with previous partners. I asked him to stop. He wouldn’t stop.”

They are so fucked.

 

[articul8]

Just beat me to it - what a shit.

 

[butchersapron]

Oh jesus.

 

[butchersapron]

And you know what, last night the lib-dem council in Portsmouth who commissioned the independent report, voted to keep it secret. I didn't think my hatred of these scumbags had anywhere else to go. It does now.

 

[Dan U]

And you know what, last night the lib-dem council in Portsmouth who commissioned the independent report, voted to keep it secret. I didn't think my hatred of these scumbags had anywhere else to go. It does now.

staggering isn't it. glad someone had the gumption to leak it.

 

[butchersapron]

Maybe a qualified apology would clear it all up?

 

[butchersapron]

And remember - this is very very important - Clegg was told about this behaviour as far back as mid 2011.

 

[J Ed]

And you know what, last night the lib-dem council in Portsmouth who commissioned the independent report, voted to keep it secret. I didn't think my hatred of these scumbags had anywhere else to go. It does now.

holy shit

 

[J Ed]

Solicitor representing the victims calling for Hancock to resign http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/lo...p-mike-hancock-1-5824285#.Ut-lf1WRhfQ.twitter

 

[butchersapron]

My reading of the report is that he targeted one woman because he thought she was particularly vulnerable.

 

[J Ed]

Yeah, representing the victim*

 

[Dan U]

once the rest of the media stop trying to score PMQ's, wonder how much traction this will get.

 

[butchersapron]

A lot i reck.

 

[frogwoman]

Scumbags.

 

[butchersapron]

Btw, the lib-dems have already - post allegations - selected him as their parties 2015 candidate.

 

[Dan U]

A lot i reck.

i hope so. really can't wait to see how this plays out.

 

[frogwoman]

Btw, the lib-dems have already - post allegations - selected him as their parties 2015 candidate.

Maybe they can pool resources with the SWP to send both him and comrade delta to university