Why the lib-dems are shit

[Spanky Longhorn]

I thought it was a Matrix reference

 

[danny la rouge]

It might be for all I know. That would have passed me by, because I haven't seen the Matrix.

It has bees, does it?

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

It might be for all I know. That would have passed me by, because I haven't seen the Matrix.

It has bees, does it?

no but it has a spoon that is not a spoon

 

[danny la rouge]

no but it has a spoon that is not a spoon

Does it? Is that in homage to Magritte?

 

[danny la rouge]

Danny Alexander says monetary union with an independent Scotland "simply isn't going to happen". That means monetary union with an independent Scotland is going to happen.

 

[laptop]

That means monetary union with an independent Scotland is going to happen.

The bookies haven't heard: best odds (insofar as I understand odds) still 3 to 1 against.

http://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/scottish-independence/referendum-outcome

 

[danny la rouge]

The bookies haven't heard: best odds (insofar as I understand odds) still 3 to 1 against.

http://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/scottish-independence/referendum-outcome

I refer you to my earlier reply to Quartz.

 

[laptop]

I refer you to my earlier reply to Quartz.

And I you to "deadpan".

Plus I had the window with the odds open anyway...

 

[butchersapron]

Lost deposit tonight i think.

 

[danny la rouge]

And I you to "deadpan".

I, for one, applaud your syntax.

 

[emanymton]

Lost deposit tonight i think.

Yep


Mike Kane (Lab) 13,261 (55.34 per cent, +11.21 per cent)

John Bickley (Ukip) 4,301 (17.95 per cent, +14.50 per cent)

The Rev Daniel Critchlow (C) 3,479 (14.52 per cent, -11.03 per cent)

Mary Di Mauro (LD) 1,176 (4.91 per cent, -17.44 per cent)

Nigel Woodcock (Green) 748 (3.12per cent)

Eddy O'Sullivan (BNP) 708 (2.95 per cent, -0.90 per cent)

Captain Chaplington-Smythe (Loony) 288 (1.20 per cent)

Lab majority: 8,960 (37.39 per cent)

Electorate 85,058; Turnout 23,961 (28.17 per cent, -22.82 per cent)

 

[butchersapron]

Lib-dems promised a right of recall for these people in his cast in stone coalition agreement. Where is it?

Here it is. Another lib-dem victory.

 

[brogdale]

Here it is. Another lib-dem victory.

Hilarious tweet from Goldsmith...

Zac Goldsmith ✔ @ZacGoldsmith
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Even by the shitty standards of dishonest UK politics, the LibDems really are revolting. I cannot understand why anyone supports them.

10:24 PM - 13 Feb 2014

 

[frogwoman]

My work colleagues have just been bitching about the lib-dems

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

some amusing links here

http://www.libdemvoice.org/wythensh...ories-to-2nd-lib-dems-lose-deposit-38222.html

http://www.libdemvoice.org/official-lib-dem-voters-least-bothered-about-penis-size-38231.html

http://www.libdemvoice.org/lib-dem-...serious-fraud-office-investigation-38235.html

They don't have much luck with their donors do they?

 

[brogdale]

some amusing links here

http://www.libdemvoice.org/wythensh...ories-to-2nd-lib-dems-lose-deposit-38222.html

http://www.libdemvoice.org/official-lib-dem-voters-least-bothered-about-penis-size-38231.html

http://www.libdemvoice.org/lib-dem-...serious-fraud-office-investigation-38235.html

They don't have much luck with their donors do they?

The Lib Dems will feel hard done by, losing our deposit for the eighth time this parliament – this time, by just a handful of votes. Our vote share collapsed, by an even greater proportion than did the Tories’, down from a decent third placed 22% to a fourth place 5%. That clearly isn’t a reflection on our candidate, Mary di Mauro, but on the impact on joining the Coalition, especially in northern areas like Greater Manchester.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

and this riposte from a party member in the comments

“That clearly isn’t a reflection on our candidate, Mary di Mauro, but on the impact on joining the Coalition, especially in northern areas like Greater Manchester.”

We were going to take a hit if we entered a coalition with either of the largest two Parties, but I don’t think anyone thinks we got less than 1/4 of the vote in this seat compared to four years ago just because we joined a coalition. The observation insults LDV reader’s intelligence and comes across as rather extreme spin.

lol just you keep thinking that dear

 

[DotCommunist]

i don't think the truth will sink in properly untill the next GE

 

[Kaka Tim]

As bad as I expected. I expect all our MEPS to be voted out in May. Things are getting worse , they are not stabilizing. The party is finished, we spent 30 – 40 years building it up and have managed to destroy ourselves in the first 6 months of the coalition

LOL.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Interesting - Reading LDV, there does seem to be a majority of posters in despair and many now calling for cleggs head. Previously the members were seemed to be making a virtue of being 'grown up' and taking it on the chin - but the mood does seem to have changed - but, apart from Farron, the mps and other senior lib dems are keeping schtumm.

The Euro and council elections in May will likely see the worst electoral disaster for the lib dems since going in to coalition. Their grassroots will be up in arms - but will their finally be a revolt?

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

I suspect it is more likely that those who have had enough will simply drift into dispair and apathy, as they know the leadership can't listen to them - they can't bring down the coalition, they need to stick with it now until 2015 and all the ex-councillors and no hope PPCs will often rediscover the world outside politics or at least the joys of being a passive observer for a change.

This could actually have the effect of leaving those remaining in a more bullish position at they will be focussed in the stronghold areas where their personal experience (for example in the South West) will still be around coming second with Labour a distant third or fourth.

 

[laptop]

worst electoral disaster for the lib dems since going in to coalition

Lack of ambition there. Surely they can manage the worst since the 1920s?

 

[butchersapron]

I feel sick.

It is humbling to see protesters in Kiev's Independence Square prepared to lay down their lives for freedoms we take for granted. At its simplest, the Ukraine tragedy is a fight for democratic rights at the frontier of autocracy. It is like Beijing's Tiananmen massacre or Caracas's Altamira Square. In the sound of their gunfire, there is the echo of so many through history who fought against oppression: "Freedom or death!"

 

[articul8]

Jesus - maybe there's room for a bloc with the Russian Liberal Democrats (Zhirinovsky etc) after all.

 

[seventh bullet]

Just wanted an excuse to post this again.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Via one of Staines' soggy biscuit boys, but still:

 

[Nylock]

check out the look on the staff member propping up the wall in the background... doesn't look impressed... 2010 libdem voter maybe?

 

[Dan U]

he is not in school today... http://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...ured-at-nick-cleggs-school-visit-9159735.html

 

[brogdale]

he is not in school today... http://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...ured-at-nick-cleggs-school-visit-9159735.html

Hope his Mum's not too hard on him; personally I'd be pretty proud if my son had done that.

I mean what do these lying fuckers expect? They think they can just swan around schools spouting shit without some of the kids rumbling this? WFT are headteachers doing allowing these vermin in to use their pupils for a photo opp?

 

[William of Walworth]

Vince Cable in 'yet another mistake' shocker ...

Top politico in 'gone bust' gaffe over town pub giant

It's the Burton Mail, who (unsurprisingly) look like an industry mouthpiece in that article -- personally I'd be delighted if Punch did go bust. But Cable's fucked up there nevertheless, or at the very least he's jumped the gun