Why the lib-dems are shit

[Idaho]

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

It's hard to imagine how he could have fucked up any worse. Achieved the only liberal presence in government in 70 odd years, was completely out maneuvered by the Tories on the electoral reform referendum - not just losing the vote badly, but killing off all talk of change for a few elections. Has done nothing to prevent the excesses of the Tories and had guaranteed the party gets shat on this time round.

 

[J Ed]

Nick Clegg's non-campaign in Sheffield Hallam continues

http://www.theguardian.com/politics...stand-in-for-him-at-sheffield-hallam-hustings

The deputy prime minister Nick Clegg failed to attend an election debate in his Sheffield constituency on Sunday night, sending a student as his replacement.

Clegg, who is defending a 15, 284 majority, said he was too busy to take part in the hustings at Crookes Social Club, in the part of Sheffield Hallam where most students live.

Instead, Harry Matthews, 22, a university student running for councillor in the Crookes, was sent to represent the Liberal Democrats.

Clegg’s absence ended up a key talking point at the debate attended by the other party parliamentary candidates for Sheffield Hallam and 60 audience members.

Maurice Champeau, the social club manager who organised the debate, said his invitations to Clegg and the Lib Dems were ignored for four weeks: “Nick Clegg was directly emailed on his personal email account three times and Liberal Democrats central office were emailed in excess of five times. It was very frustrating,” he said.

So who is this wonderkid Harry Matthews? Surely the average Sheffield student wouldn't be put in that sort of position?

Well, here he is in action (starting at 3:17)



I get the impression he might be of a different background to the average Sheffield student, not sharing all of their interests...

Harry is paying only £3,000 a year for his degree, because he started it before fees soared. He joined the party just before the last election, when he was still at school. Where? “Eton College. So, I’ve got the background for it,” he says, presumably meaning politics. I’m not sure if that’s a joke.

When his finals are over, he plans to abandon physics for a career as an accountant with KPMG, although he will still campaign for the Lib Dems. “Nick has said sorry about fees. What other party leader does that?”

Seems like a realistic observation to me, not a joke.

 

[The Octagon]

“Nick has said sorry about fees. What other party leader does that?”

Brilliant.

 

[DotCommunist]

his haggard visage is a joy to us all.

 

[teqniq]

We will add ‘heart to a Tory coalition and brain to a Labour one

Best find some organ donors then Nicky boy.

and

Party leader says Liberal Democrats would offer conscience and stability in coalition after 7 May, in contrast to SNP or Ukip

Ahahahaha.

 

[belboid]

Best find some organ donors then Nicky boy.

and

Party leader says Liberal Democrats would offer conscience and stability in coalition after 7 May, in contrast to SNP or Ukip

Ahahahaha.

who's bringing the spine?

 

[belboid]

10:44 - power cut during their manifesto launch

14:28 - battle bus breaks down in Hornsey, for the second time in two days.

 

[Pickman's model]

10:44 - power cut during their manifesto launch

14:28 - battle bus breaks down in Hornsey, for the second time in two days.

 

[Tony_LeaS]

10:44 - power cut during their manifesto launch

14:28 - battle bus breaks down in Hornsey, for the second time in two days.

So there is a god.

 

[brogdale]

 

[Belushi]

 

[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).

...and how it was 'reported' by the Telegraph...

Brake does really have 'something of the night about him', doesn't he?

 

[Idris2002]

...and how it was 'reported' by the Telegraph...

Brake does really have 'something of the night about him', doesn't he?

He looks like something from Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation days.

 

[brogdale]

He looks like something from Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation days.

Yeah, there is a bit of the "Yus M'Lady" going on there!

 

[J Ed]

I'm pretty disappointed by the lack of Lib Dems in Sheffield - I haven't seen a single sign up or any campaigners to verbally abuse.

 

[belboid]

I'm pretty disappointed by the lack of Lib Dems in Sheffield - I haven't seen a single sign up or any campaigners to verbally abuse.

I saw a few on the edges of Whirlow, you know, the really posh bit.

 

[brogdale]

I saw a few on the edges of Whirlow, you know, the really posh bit.

This is good.

A former Conservative party candidate for Sheffield Hallam has written to people in the area telling them to vote for the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, in order to prevent a Labour win.

In a letter sent out by the Lib Dems as part of their election literature, John Harthman – who stood against the rival party’s last MP in the constituency, Richard Allan in 2001 – says that Clegg was “incredibly brave” to put “the country’s interests before his own party interests” when he went into coalition with the Conservative party at the last election.

Lol

 

[J Ed]

Fuck it, putting a bet on Labour taking the seat. The vermin are getting hilariously desperate

 

[belboid]

Fuck it, putting a bet on Labour taking the seat. The vermin are getting hilariously desperate

still available at 19/10 at Betfair

 

[brogdale]

"Local" thought this may be, I think it deserves an airing (no pun intended). I'm well aware that the vermin-supporting local press will be hoping to dent Brake's chances in C&W, but what it exposes proves that something is rotten in the state of Sutton...

A church listed on the declaration of interest for the chairman of the Sutton Liberal Democrats – used as a venue to hold party action days and where one of itscouncillors holds surgeries – has received £275,000 in funding from the company hoping to build the Beddington incinerator.

The Holy Trinity Church, in Wallington, has been awarded the fifth most money overall across the country out of the 250 donations waste giant Viridor has issued.

The two religious sites to receive more money than the Maldon Road church are Canterbury Cathedral and Glastonbury Abbey.

The incinerator was approved amid much controversy in 2013 by Sutton Council and work has still to begin as campaigners Stop the Incinerator have battled the authority through the courts.

Following the approval, Sutton councillors at the time Margaret Court, John Drage and Paddy Kane, as well as MP Tom Brake, felt compelled to publish a special edition Hackbridge Focus in praise of the incinerator, and highlighting nine benefits it would bring to Beddington.

Mr Drage is now the chairman of the Sutton Liberal Democrats.

During his time as a councillor Mr Drage listed the chief executive of Viridor, Colin Drummond, and his wife as “longstanding personal friends”. It is in this same document that he lists Holy Trinity Church, Wallington as an interest.

Smelly indeed....and so good to see that the LD manifesto makes all those commitments to clean air etc.

The ever excellent 'Inside Croydon' also has a good piece on this LD corruption..
http://insidecroydon.com/2015/04/17/dear-libdems-i-remain-a-liberal-a-democrat-and-a-councillor/#more-24963

 

[butchersapron]

We need to update the lib-dem celebs list. Any spottings please post them.

 

[butchersapron]

This one is lab even though he looks lib-dem/ISIS/putin

 

[rekil]

IS = Islington State

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

This one is lab even though he looks lib-dem/ISIS/putin

it's a Kronstadt reference, he's another anarchist for Labour

 

[butchersapron]

it's a Kronstadt reference, he's another anarchist for Labour

How come the swine has sent not one but two kids to private school then?

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

How come the swine has sent not one but two kids to private school then?

are you seriously saying you've not come across "anarchos" who have sent their kids to private school?

(not that I'm really claiming him for anarchism obviously)

 

[butchersapron]

are you seriously saying you've not come across "anarchos" who have sent their kids to private school?

(not that I'm really claiming him for anarchism obviously)

Yes.

 

[killer b]

reckon there's plenty of soi-disants with kids at steiner schools to start with...

 

[butchersapron]

reckon there's plenty of soi-disants with kids at steiner schools to start with...

Ah but they're racists with anarchist pretendings. Rather than anarchists who send their kids to racist school.

 

[King Biscuit Time]

Seriously - Nick Clegg must be shitting it now. I'm getting one or two letters a day from the Sheffield Lib Dems. Three in one day last week. He's fucked.