Why the lib-dems are shit

[danny la rouge]

Carmichael's election court case hearing was yesterday and today. The Guardian's summary of today's events:

Carmichael acted 'dishonourably' in denying Sturgeon memo leak, court told

 

[frogwoman]

Tory minister expelled by Labour was also a member of Lib Dems

You could not make this shit up.,

 

[DotCommunist]

george osborne gets a dig in in the Statesman.

That potpourri of centre-right liberals, Iraq war rebels, Celtic fringe Methodists [and] local populists turned out not to be very coherent,” he said.

(the rest is some garbage about corbyn-the-disaster)

 

[J Ed]

george osborne gets a dig in in the Statesman.



(the rest is some garbage about corbyn-the-disaster)

The union-busting rag has it right front and centre on its website too. The Fabians were not my cup of tea at all but this shames even their not so impressive legacy.

No doubt any complaints about a supposedly left-wing publication giving such a red baiting rant by the chancellor of the fucking Tory government will be met with accusations of 'virtue-signalling' by the likes of Helen Lewis but even from a business point of view it makes no sense. Why now would even the wooliest of Labour 'left' people buy their very expensive magazine? Why not just cut out the middle man and buy the Spectator or the frankly much better Economist? At least when buying The Economist you know that you are supporting unionised workers since it recognises the NUJ, unlike the New $tatesman

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Funny: Labour’s mission is played out – the door is open for the Lib Dems

 

[ViolentPanda]

Funny: Labour’s mission is played out – the door is open for the Lib Dems

Delusional.

 

[brogdale]

Yes, because the SDP's splitting of the counter-vermin vote worked so well at eroding the vermin's monopoly on power, didn't it Vince?

Desperate fucktards.

The progressive centre-left politicians from Labour and the Liberal Democratsneed to “come together” to stop the Conservatives monopolising power in the wake of Jeremy Corbyn’s victory, Sir Vince Cable has said.

The former Lib Dem business secretary who lost his seat to the Conservatives in May said his party was facing fundamental questions about how it relates to moderate Labour MPs unhappy with Corbyn’s leftwing leadership.

 

[elbows]

Comical levels of delusion there indeed.

The article ends with a more realistic opinion:

Lord Oakeshott, the former Lib Dem peer who correctly foresaw his party’s near wipeout and made an unsuccessful attempt to oust the former leader Nick Clegg, took a slightly more sceptical view about the party’s chances of being the main occupants of the centre-left space.

“A yawning chasm needs to be filled in British politics between Corbyn and Cameron,” he said. “If the general election had been a retreat and not a rout for the Liberal Democrats, they would have been in pole position to do this but now it all depends on Labour.”

 

[William of Walworth]

Yes, because the SDP's splitting of the counter-vermin vote worked so well at eroding the vermin's monopoly on power, didn't it Vince?

Desperate fucktards.

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Similar levels of deludedness here

(from their glorious leader ... )

 

[treelover]

What a puff piece that article in the Guardian is, you can see what many Guardian staffers are looking for, they really have been exposed.

 

[goldenecitrone]

A few dozen disillusioned Labour MPs plus 8 Lib Dems. Osbourne must be quaking in his boots.

 

[greenfield]

And the SDP was far, far to the left of the current Lib Dem MPs and today's PLP

 

[Pickman's model]

What a puff piece that article in the Guardian is, you can see what many Guardian staffers are looking for, they really have been exposed.

no surprise

 

[J Ed]

If only the plebs were smart enough to give Clegg a chance, don't they know how much he enabl--- err moderated the government that couldn't govern without him

 

[rekil]

This guy...

 

[rekil]

Dunno if this was featured earlier in the thread. From Mr.White's 2009 Lib Dem conference diary.

▶ Freudian slip of the day "We have had the doctrine of 'Kill Osama', then 'Root them out', 'Bolster the Kabul government' and 'Isolate the Taliban'" – delegate Paul Reynolds in the Afghan debate. Except that he said "Kill Obama". Whoops. Don't give those healthcare knuckleheads ideas, they've already got them.

 

[J Ed]

This guy...

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DAE think that any party or individual that the liberal media derides is basically exactly the same??? Trump and Corbyn both LOVE RUSSIA! *smugly collects pay cheque for analysis only made possible by towering intellect*

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

This guy...

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You there! What are doing being optimistic? Optimism isn't for the likes of you!

 

[redsquirrel]

This guy...

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God, I'll break out the champagne when that cunt pegs it. Two bottles if it's a early and/or painful death.

 

[J Ed]

You are just too STUPID to know when you are being lied to and manipulated for your own good.

 

[brogdale]

Fucking hell.

“I’ll be calling upon the Liberal Democrats here to steel themselves. Having had the result in May, against all the odds we matter more than we have done for perhaps a generation.”

Tim Farron jumps the shark in the brave new Lib Dem world

 

[Threshers_Flail]

Fucking hell.

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Tim Farron jumps the shark in the brave new Lib Dem world

That is beyond deluded, fair play.

 

[brogdale]

That is beyond deluded, fair play.

 

[andysays]

This guy...

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As a Guardianista, White clearly prefers glib pancetta politics

 

[brogdale]

 

[J Ed]

First Lib Dem to Labour defection since Corbyn afaik

 

[brogdale]

First Lib Dem to Labour defection since Corbyn afaik

Teddington Councillor Jennifer Churchill, partner of the borough's former Lib Dem leader and fellow Councillor Stephen Knight, said new party leader Tim Farron "doesn't seem to stand for anything".

Where the fuck has she been for the last decade?

 

[J Ed]

She's a Lib Dem so she's obv an idiot but who cares it's funny, we were supposed to be seeing tranches of Labour MPs go over to the Lib Dems instead none will defect and we'll probably see a couple of Lib Dems go the other way

 

[Pickman's model]

She's a Lib Dem so she's obv an idiot but who cares it's funny, we were supposed to be seeing tranches of Labour MPs go over to the Lib Dems instead none will defect and we'll probably see a couple of Lib Dems go the other way

rats fleeing a sinking ship

 

[brogdale]

rats fleeing a sinking ship

sunk