Why the lib-dems are shit

[killer b]

Anywhere the libs really have a chance, they've had candidates for for ages, so can't parachute anyone in. They have to find some places to shoehorn these people into, and they can convince themselves that an ex-Labour MP is going to have a decent chance of picking up more ex-Labour voters. There may be a couple of places where it could work (the specific circumstances in Finchley, maybe), but I don't see any great reason to believe it would in Altrincham.

they got their candidate to stand down for Heidi Allen. That was funny - eating all that shit only for her to bail anyway.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Funny article here:

To the Liberal Democrat campaign launch, then, in a small room all of fifty yards away from the House of Commons.

Britain’s third party has been through a radical reinvention in the last few months, from which it has now emerged as a pioneering rehab clinic offering a brutal treatment program for MPs suffering Brexit related political PTSD.

Only the Lib Dems are offering the full Brexit cold turkey. No customs union, no “strong single market deal”, no second referendum, no methadone, no Tramadol.

So a vote for the Liberal Democrats, really, is a vote for whatever you want it to be. It might be a vote to stop Brexit but it might enable it. It might be a vote to stop Johnson, but you might end up getting it. It might be a vote to stop Corbyn, but you might end up getting that too.

Oh well, best not to think too hard about all that just yet. No one said it was going to be easy. Results cannot be guaranteed. The first stage is just to admit you’ve got a problem. Then you check it in to the Lib Dems and from there, the best you can hope for is to take each day as it comes.

Jo Swinson has opened the Brexit rehab clinic, and its treatment program is brutal | Tom Peck

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

1.9k laugh reacts. It’s got to be uncommon to get more laugh reacts than likes on a not-deliberately-comical post on fb right?

 

[Fez909]

 

[ignatious]

Angela Smith of “funny tinge” infamy clearly hadn’t read the rules when deciding to switch seats...

Labour MP who defected to Lib Dems complains she'll miss out on £22,000 payout

 

[Buckaroo]

Angela Smith of “funny tinge” infamy clearly hadn’t read the rules when deciding to switch seats...

Labour MP who defected to Lib Dems complains she'll miss out on £22,000 payout

see post #9576

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Their new 'battle bus' is branded 'Jo Swinson's Liberal Democrats' with a big picture of her.

 

[JimW]

Their new 'battle bus' is branded 'Jo Swinson's Liberal Democrats' with a big picture of her.

All the mentions of Stalin got them thinking about a cult of personality. If only she had one.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Can't believe the dems think austerity swinson is some sort of electoral asset. Shes like some sort horrible science experiment where donald trumps dna is combined with the entire back catalouge of guardian opinion pieces. Sanctimonious, delusional, narcissistic and thick as shit.

 

[butchersapron]

Caught at it in putney now - pretending that the duff vote lib-dem flavible stuff - that even the guardian have realised they can't use without further losing credibility - is from yougov.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Caught at it in putney now - pretending that the duff vote lib-dem flavible stuff - that even the guardian have realised they can't use without further losing credibility - is from yougov.

And, the real result in 2017...

 

[killer b]

also the bus. Jo Swinson's Liberal Democrats

 

[Ptolemy]

Didn't May try this presidential nonsense back in 2017 and when her personality proved to be lacking, the campaign went down in flames?

I predict the same will happen to Swinson.

 

[Teaboy]

After months and months of (rightly) pointing out that you can't trust a single word Johnson says the lib dems come out with this bunch of obvious lies. The mind boggles.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Worth a read for a laugh:

Three times Jo Swinson’s LibDems have already tried to mislead voters

 

[ruffneck23]

Swinson fails to declare family company was given 3.5m euro by the European Union - Nye Bevan News

not sure if we have had this yet

 

[Pickman's model]

Swinson fails to declare family company was given 3.5m euro by the European Union - Nye Bevan News

not sure of we have had this yet

there may be trouble ahead

 

[belboid]

Swinson fails to declare family company was given 3.5m euro by the European Union - Nye Bevan News

not sure of we have had this yet

It's on the front page of the BBC! Mainly for not really being entirely true - How a misleading story about Lib Dem leader went viral

 

[ruffneck23]

I dont read the bbc website, sorry.

but happy to be corrected for spreading fake news

ETA , you cant believe anything on the internet anymore

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[cupid_stunt]

It's on the front page of the BBC! Mainly for not really being entirely true - How a misleading story about Lib Dem leader went viral

Bollocks.

 

[belboid]

Sorry

 

[JimW]

BBC straight in to correct that, how many lies about Stalin Corbyn have they left to run or pushed themselves?

 

[elbows]

Have they claimed that Russia hacked their bar charts yet?

How did the yellow lose their grip? Putins pie charts made them sick!

 

[killer b]

It's on the front page of the BBC! Mainly for not really being entirely true - How a misleading story about Lib Dem leader went viral

It's cute that they take the opportunity to look with forensic detail at an anti Lib Dem and an anti-tory one, but have neglected to include an anti-labour story in their analysis.

 

[Pickman's model]

Sorry

tbh no one was more surprised to find out that this wasn't the case than jo swinson, who had based her brexit policy on the belief that the firm would lose out on such eu largesse in the future.

 

[elbows]

Some details on the previously mentioned "Remain Alliance', from the BBCs election coverage feed page.

The Liberal Democrats will be standing down their candidate in Beaconsfield to boost the chances of Dominic Grieve returning to Parliament.

Mr Grieve - a leading Remainer in the Commons - was a Conservative but was booted out of the party by Boris Johnson when he voted to block a no-deal Brexit.

He has decided to stand as an independent MP in the next election and his pro-Remain stance is likely to play a major part.

Now the BBC has found out that the Lib Dems will not stand in his way.

We also learned the party would stand down on the Isle of Wight to allow the Green Party a clearer shot at the seat - which is currently held by the Tories.

Jo Swinson's Gliberal Alliance.

 

[belboid]

Flavible - the polling company the LibDems make use of - say the LibDems are a bunch of liars - Flavible Politics - Statement on misuse of data

 

[butchersapron]

Their past excuse for such blatant consistent nationwide dishonesty was that this was a result of their openness and impulse to decentralise and their inherent democratic nature. It, in fact, makes them better than anyone else.

 

[Proper Tidy]

I think they should just be honest and admit that it happens because it is inherent in their politics that they know best and therefore it's fine to lie to ordinary thickos. Victory to the liberal intelligentsia