Why the lib-dems are shit

[BigTom]

wow, that's awful. Someone in the lib dems likes Cassette Boy but that is a shit attempt to do something like what he does by someone in the lib dems who knows how to use a video editor.

I think in the party songs stakes, UKIP's racist calypso number isn't looking so bad now eh?

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

It's fucking amazing

 

[DotCommunist]

should have been our eurovision entry

 

[Jeff Robinson]

I'm surprised the lib dems haven't disabled the ratings and comments on the youtube channel.

This one is better...

 

[belboid]

Candidate arrested on suspicion of child sexual abuse. Deader n deader by the day

 

[brogdale]

Not only their (alleged) noncery that's interesting the OB today...

15.05 BREAKING Police investigate Liberal Democrat donations

The Metropolitan Police is investigating allgeations regarding donations to the Liberal Democrats raised in the Daily Telegraph's undercover investigation.

The Elecotral Commission has passed a file of allegations prepared by the Telegraph to the police.

The police are now examining allegations of "potential evasion of restrictions on donations in contravention of section 61 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000".

It followed a Telegraph investigation into Ibrahim Taguri, a Liberal Democrat candidate and Mr Clegg's spokesman on racial equality. He was filmed telling a wealthy Indian businessman he could donate to the party via a cousin in order to protect his identity.

 

[William of Walworth]

Candidate arrested on suspicion of child sexual abuse. Deader n deader by the day

Yet again

See that candidate's exact words in that quote/statement.

He does not 'refute' those allegations, he (attempts to) rebut them ....

 

[butchersapron]

A Nottinghamshire police statement said: “The 34-year-old was arrested yesterday and questioned about an allegation of buggery and gross indecency with a male under 16 between September 2003 and April 2004, sexual activity with a child between May 2004 and December 2007 and an allegation of meeting a child under 16 following sexual grooming from May 2004 and December 2007.

“The offences are alleged to have been committed against one victim.”

Making the alleged victim 12 at the oldest at the time of the first alleged offence.

 

[elbows]

The Lib Dems have been up to something for the last 5 years but I don't think I'd call it "incredible resilience".

You must be forgetting the way they skilfully achieved their electoral reform agenda, setting the scene for better party performance in general elections. Oh, wait.

 

[Celyn]

You must be forgetting the way they skilfully achieved their electoral reform agenda, setting the scene for better party performance in general elections. Oh, wait.

Well, that was definitely heading towards "incredible", I suppose.

 

[brogdale]

...and getting back to one of their key strengths...covering up noncery...Danczuk launches another broadside against the integrity of the former leadership (not members in this case).

Liberal party officials tried to bribe two local activists who witnessed the late Liberal MP Cyril Smith grope a teenage boy, in a bid to cover up the abuse, Labour MP Simon Danczuk has claimed.

The boy, who was 14 at the time, was groped by Smith at a Liberal activist’s Manchester flat in 1979, when it was being used as the campaign headquarters for the local byelection, according to Danczuk’s account of the incident.

Writing in Saturday’s Daily Mail, the Labour MP for Rochdale said the two activists, a teacher and a retired policeman, contacted both the regional party office and also spoke to the office of David Steel, the then Liberal leader, about the alleged abuse.

A few days later, a party organiser offered to give the activists, who were husband and wife, £200 in “expenses” to cover any “inconvenience” they had suffered over the incident. The couple, who reported the matter to the police, rejected the money and stopped their involvement with the party.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

dark as fuck

 

[danny la rouge]

Steele up to his neck, if that's true.

 

[brogdale]

Steele up to his neck, if that's true.

Does he like hill-walking?

 

[danny la rouge]

Does he like hill-walking?

He has a castle, I believe. If that helps?

(I'm not getting the reference).

 

[brogdale]

My LD MP....

• Voted strongly for reducing housing benefit for social tenants deemed to have excess bedrooms (which Labour describe as the "bedroom tax")
  
• Voted very strongly against raising welfare benefits at least in line with prices
  
• Voted very strongly against paying higher benefits over longer periods for those unable to work due to illness or disability
  
• Voted very strongly for a reduction in spending on welfare benefits
  
• Voted very strongly against spending public money to create guaranteed jobs for young people who have spent a long time unemployed
  
• Voted very strongly for increasing the rate of VAT
  
• Voted strongly against increasing the tax rate applied to income over £150,000
  
• Voted strongly against a banker’s bonus tax
  
• Voted very strongly against an annual tax on the value of expensive homes (popularly known as a mansion tax)
  
• Voted strongly for reducing the rate of corporation tax
  
• Voted very strongly for reforming the NHS so GPs buy services on behalf of their patients
  
• Voted very strongly for raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year
  
• Voted strongly for academy schools
  
• Voted very strongly against slowing the rise in rail fares
  
• Voted moderately for the privatisation of Royal Mail
  
• Voted moderately for restricting the scope of legal aid
  
• Voted moderately for culling badgers to tackle bovine tuberculosis
  
• Voted very strongly for allowing national security sensitive evidence to be put before courts in secret sessions
  
• Voted very strongly against restrictions on fees charged to tenants by letting agents

What's not to like? Can't wait to congratulate him when he knocks on my door in the next couple of weeks.

 

[brogdale]

Let's not let this thread slip just 'cause there's an election on.

Announcing this ("help to rent"), Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader, said:

You’ve got this generation that is sometimes called “the clipped wing generation”, or “the boomerang generation”, of an increasingly large numbers of youngsters – I think the estimates are now about two million people in their 20s and 30s – who simply can’t find the money needed for a deposit to rent a flat or home of their own.

 

[butchersapron]

Whatever happened to "alarm clock Britain"? Clock's ticking cunt.

 

[Sue]

Clipped wing generation indeed.

 

[Pickman's model]

Whatever happened to "alarm clock Britain"? Clock's ticking cunt.

bloody thing stopped

 

[Idris2002]

Whatever happened to "alarm clock Britain"? Clock's ticking cunt.

The only time you'll take is mine, ten years in Dartmoor dock.

And you'll count them by the ticking of your "auld alarm clock".

 

[brogdale]

Following Clegg's 'concern' for the 'clipped-wing generation' that he has helped to create...this in the latest Guardian puff-piece for the collaborator...

He [Clegg] is most animated by the Tory plan to find £12bn from unspecified cuts to the welfare budget. He calls the chancellor, George Osborne, “very dangerous” and accuses him and Cameron of peddling “a dangerous deceit” – the most lacerating description of the prime minister and chancellor that has ever come out of the mouth of the Lib Dem leader in the past five years.

“It is impossible to do that without hitting children, without hitting the poor, without hitting the disabled. It’s wilfully regressive.”

Like the electorate are supposed to somehow forget that those exact consequences have resulted from the government that he has led as deputy.

 

[William of Walworth]

'Alarm clock Britain' -- had forgotten that, But it was right up there with the very worst of them

 

[William of Walworth]

Following Clegg's 'concern' for the 'clipped-wing generation' that he has helped to create...this in the latest Guardian puff-piece for the collaborator...

Bizarre that the above article appears online as if it was a Guardian one. Was in yesterday's Observer in fact. Nauseating puff piece whichever it was though, true.

 

[Belushi]

Just watching Newsnight, Clegg really does look like shit nowadays. A broken man :thumbs :

 

[brogdale]

Bizarre that the above article appears online as if it was a Guardian one. Was in yesterday's Observer in fact. Nauseating puff piece whichever it was though, true.

Not very bizarre William. Both titles have had a common owner for 22 years, have always shared their online presence, and the latter has long been regarded as 'the Guardian on Sunday'.

 

[treelover]

Oldie but good one.

 

[brogdale]

Proud of my borough; yesterday Clegg was hounded out of a photo-op outside the St. Helier hospital by protestors against the (LD council approved) incinerator and the threatened closure of the hospital by Clegg's government.



Good account on 'Inside Croydon' (which also covers LB Sutton politics).

Nick Clegg, soon to be the ex-Deputy Prime Minister and possibly also soon-to-be an ex-MP and ex-leader of the Liberal Democrats, was forced to abandon a carefully stage-managed photo-op outside St Helier Hospital in Sutton this afternoon, when protestors from the Keep Our St Helier campaign and the Stop the Incinerator Campaign hijacked the event.

Clegg’s visit lasted barely five minutes, before he was whisked away in his official BMW, clutching, according to the protesters, one of the anti-incinerator leaflets.

 

[mauvais]

I like this one, even if it does make me a geek:



- it's an electric car, so what's that sound it makes?
- drives around with daytime running lights on, no headlights
- no actual steering
- changes the radio with the temperature dial
- no seatbelt
- drives through a red light (then blames Labour/the Tories)

 

[hipipol]

LIb Dems
Well good
You KNOW that makes sense