Country before party is brave.
Isn't that "brave" as in backstage after the play's first night: "That was... brave, darling."
Country before party is brave.
A spokesperson for the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner has confirmed that they have launched an investigation into whether Vince Cable broke Commons rules by failing to declare the Oakeshott poll in his constituency. The BBC reports that an inquiry has also begun looking at whether Tessa Munt, Cable’s PPS, should have declared a poll by Oakeshott in her own constituency as a gift in her register of interests.
Paul Scriven - once Lib Dem leader of Sheffield City Council. He missed out being MP for Sheffield Central in 2010 by about 100 votes, and since then he's lost the council leadership in 2011 (as Lib Dems dwindled), and ultimately his council seat (came third in his ward after Labour and The Greens) - Anyway, he pops up on twitter now and again and last week he's been touting the 'The lib dems are so fucking brave' line.
Paul Scriven @PaulscrivenThanks to the brave decision by @nick_clegg @LibDems to put country 1st Britain's GDP surpasses pre-recession peak - fb.me/6T84IEHz8
Moses Humberstone @MoHumb:
@Paulscriven @LibDems @nick_clegg So brave.
Paul Scriven @Paulscriven: @MoHumb @LibDems @nick_clegg Yes it was as we knew the road was rocky and a backlash would ensue. Country before party is brave.
Moses Humberstone @MoHumb: Enjoying @Paulscriven trying to paint @nick_clegg & @LibDems as Capt Oates figures. You made the supreme sacrifice, boys. #maybesometime.
Paul Scriven@Paulscriven: @MoHumb @nick_clegg @LibDems Not Certain death, but at least we did the right thing..
Hancock's son was found guilty of ABH and CD for that little kerfuffle last week. The express stuck their own boot in with these lines:
which, i guess gives us the green light to use sex-case MP Mike Hancock as reported speech.
MP Mike Hancock has made a public apology over "inappropriate and unprofessional friendship" with a constituent.
Civil action against Mr Hancock alleging he sexually assaulted a female constituent was dropped earlier this month.
A statement said both parties had agreed a confidential settlement.
Mr Hancock, who remains an in-patient at the Priory Hospital, released the statement as part of the agreement.
A psychiatric report was obtained confirming Mr Hancock had full capacity to make the statement.
The chairman of Portsmouth Liberal Democrats, Simon Dodd, said Mr Hancock would now be subject to an internal disciplinary hearing.
He said: "After today's developments and the admissions he has made, we are incredibly disappointed that Mike Hancock has chosen not to proceed with the court case in order to clear his name.
"Mike Hancock has admitted behaving in an unprofessional way that caused harm and distress to a constituent and we are very disappointed that his apology was not made at a much earlier stage."
That just means he isn't currently taking the lib-dem whip in parliament. He's still in the party - and votes as the lib-dems wish. Note Clegg isn't calling for him to resign from parliament the weasel.I thought hancock had become an independent... or maybe i totally misheard that yesterday...
That just means he isn't currently taking the lib-dem whip in parliament. He's still in the party - and votes as the lib-dems wish. Note Clegg isn't calling for him to resign from parliament the weasel.
Thanks for clearing that up... Was wondering how the libdems could discipline an independent... now i know why they said thatThat just means he isn't currently taking the lib-dem whip in parliament. He's still in the party - and votes as the lib-dems wish. Note Clegg isn't calling for him to resign from parliament the weasel.
The deputy prime minister said he could not have reacted to things that he did not know about and acted swiftly when he was made aware of the allegations in early 2013. "The moment I got something put in front of me which was specific, which was related to the court proceedings, early in 2013, I acted immediately," Clegg said on LBC Radio. "But you're quite right, and she's quite right to say back in 2011, something was sent to my office. It didn't reach me." However the complainant, known as Annie, said: "Can the Liberal Democrats be so inefficient that Nick Clegg's office failed to pass on the letter I sent to him?" She added: "It is difficult to see how Clegg failed to read so many stories about what Hancock did and said to me."
FactCheck has been keeping a close eye on the recent explosion in the number of apprenticeships - on-the-job training schemes for over-16s, part-funded by government.
There’s no dispute that numbers have soared since the coalition came to power. So much for quantity, but what about quality?
Critics have long raised objections that not all apprenticeships were created equally, raising concerns about the length and rigour of some training offered by employers.
Today the Lib Dems launched an attack on Labour’s plans for apprenticeships, accusing the opposition of harbouring “secret plans to scrap half a million” of them.
A press release, headlined “Labour calls half a million apprentices ‘Deadweight’”, rammed home the point with a graph neatly showing what will supposedly happen under a Labour government.
yeah I noticed that, huhnes a cunt
Just fuck off Nick. Your support in this city has collapsed, you've lost more than half your councillors in the last four years, your candidates are going to bomb at the election next year, and nobody is listening now.
Nick Clegg will set the Lib Dems on a major collision course with the Tories over his plea to axe the hated Bedroom Tax.
The Deputy PM has finally agreed the crippling penalties are battering the poorest in society and will push for change before next year’s general election.
Until today, Lib Dem ministers had staunchly defended the tax and voted for it repeatedly in the Commons.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bedroom-tax-must-axed-says-3870933
LOL who the fuck is going to vote for Lib Dems cos they are anti-bedroom tax?
What I wore to the office today. Fingers crossed the Mail approves. Hope I don't look too '80s cabin attendant'.
Fuckers.
Lib dems, five cabinet ministers, none women. Who is he to be giving out to anyone over sexism?Credit where it is due, if there is one thing Clegg is actually vaguely good at, its having a pop at the horrors of the Daily Mail.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics...tweet-mocks-daily-mail-coverage-women-cabinet
Lib dems, five cabinet ministers, none women. Who is he to be giving out to anyone over sexism?
Hopefully they will be completely obliterated at the general election.
Hopefully they will be completely obliterated at the general election.