Why the lib-dems are shit

[danny la rouge]

How's that electoral strategy of running as Jo Swinson's Liberal Democrats working out then?

Oh.

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Wonder if her name will be coming off all the leaflets then?

 

[YouSir]

Wonder if her name will be coming off all the leaflets then?

Willing to bet Chuka's already got a garage full of 'Chuka Umunna's Liberal Democrats' fliers ready to go if she needs them.

 

[YouSir]

Willing to bet Chuka's already got a garage full of 'Chuka Umunna's Liberal Democrats' fliers ready to go if she needs them.

May have to wade through the mouldy boxes of 'Chuka Umunna's Labour' t-shirts and 'Chuka Umunna's CUK' hats that are in front of them mind.

 

[killer b]

She has also felt compelled for some reason to deny a widely shared and very enjoyable satirical story which claims she kill squirrels with a catapult. Shortly after this Labour did a press release on their anti-animal cruelty policies.

 

[killer b]

this one:

 

[YouSir]

this one:

Best bit of British politics these days - people conjuring up these stories on Twitter and 'real' journalists getting sucked in, or acting ultra-offended at it all. Hats off to the Trevor Bastard Extended Universe & Co for that.

 

[butchersapron]

Mark e Smith rip off

 

[killer b]

Best bit of British politics these days - people conjuring up these stories on Twitter and 'real' journalists getting sucked in, or acting ultra-offended at it all. Hats off to the Trevor Bastard Extended Universe & Co for that.

I wonder if we need a separate thread for election shitposting, cause there's some absolute beauts right now. Michael Crick was suckered gloriously this morning:

 

[SpackleFrog]

Best bit of British politics these days - people conjuring up these stories on Twitter and 'real' journalists getting sucked in, or acting ultra-offended at it all. Hats off to the Trevor Bastard Extended Universe & Co for that.

Now we can all be Chris Morris.

 

[danny la rouge]

She has also felt compelled for some reason to deny a widely shared and very enjoyable satirical story which claims she kill squirrels with a catapult. Shortly after this Labour did a press release on their anti-animal cruelty policies.

I hadn’t heard the rumours until now. I believe them. Her saying “pleb bunnies” rings true.

 

[D'wards]

The Lib Dems Have Suspended A Candidate Who Repeatedly Made Antisemitic Remarks

 

[Proper Tidy]

The Lib Dems Have Suspended A Candidate Who Repeatedly Made Antisemitic Remarks

I like the bit where he posts on facebook to call for a boycott of whatsapp because it's a zionist conspiracy because it's owned by facebook, gold

 

[D'wards]

This isn't a comment about Gaza or anything like that but well heavy anti semitism including posting a hook nose caricature.

The man is a prick of the highest order

 

[treelover]

Just read on CIF that at LD's conference, they voted to keep UC, but completely abolish sanctions, bit suprised there.

then again, no conf decisions ever seems binding.

 

[teqniq]

Yet another reason why they are scum then. I have had dealings in my job with supporting people through applying for UC and I can confidently say it is delibately designed to disavantage people that are most likey to need benefits.

 

[maomao]

then again, no conf decisions ever seems binding.

Especially when you've got fuck all chance of ever forming a government.

 

[magneze]

Jo Swinson dubbed "the queen of austerity" on Channel 4 news. Wonder if that might stick...

 

[chilango]

Ed Davey already saying that they'd back the Tories in return for a 2nd Ref.

 

[butchersapron]

How's that electoral strategy of running as Jo Swinson's Liberal Democrats working out then?

Oh.

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Right at front of their election catalogue:

 

[killer b]

Ed Davey already saying that they'd back the Tories in return for a 2nd Ref.

His interview here is great - got to be worth a fat 5 points for Labour.

 

[butchersapron]

This from the spectator i think may well be right on the swinson shit, the second para esp - all the below married to professional campaigners being told to work on that basis:

One of the main problems might be that the party has miscalculated what its strongest selling points are. The campaign is heavily focused on two things: Swinson and the stop Brexit pledge. It is hard to move for massive pictures of the Lib Dem leader, whether on the battle bus or in party documents and today’s manifesto was branded ‘Jo Swinson’s plan for Britain’s future’. Party political broadcasts have similarly heavily focused on Swinson. Yet it’s not just the polls that suggest this may have been a mistake. I was recently surprised by conversations I had with a group of pro-Remain, and generally sympathetic to the Lib Dem voters in key target seats including Putney and Twickenham who named Swinson herself as a problem. A couple went so far as to call her an ‘extremist’ because of her pledge to revoke Article 50, a description that is at odds with the party’s efforts to depict her as the only reasonable person in British politics.

It is perhaps difficult for those working on the party’s campaign to fully appreciate this. Many of them have quite an emotional connection to Swinson, having effectively watched her grow up in the party. There is footage of a very young and earnest-looking Swinson speaking at Lib Dem conferences that activists and party campaigners remember well. The Lib Dems bear the greatest resemblance to a family or perhaps a local church out of all the parties, and you simply do not find this fondness in the other parties, regardless of the ongoing slavish admiration from some Labour activists for Jeremy Corbyn, or the excitement that Boris Johnson generates in his party conference hall. Many of the staffers on this election campaign – with the exception of workers such as deputy director of campaigns Denise Baron, who has worked in the US for the Democrats – are old hands in the party, which certainly helps them understand its bizarre structures, but also means they may not have the perspective of the kind of voters they actually need to attract.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Right at front of their election catalogue:

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She looks like she wants to release equity from my home

 

[brogdale]

She looks like she wants to release equity from my home

 

[andysays]

She looks like she wants to release equity from my home

I was going to say she looks like a career as a catalogue model beckons after the GE

 

[chilango]

Jo from HR.

 

[butchersapron]

Not a word from the LBC are great remain nutters on this.

 

[Idris2002]

Shit:

 

[Santino]

Shit:

"Will jew let me finish"

 

[MickiQ]

Her personal popularity seems to be fading somewhat faster than the LibDem's as a whole. I suspect that Ed Davey must be wondering if he should brush off his leadership speech after all.
I can see the LD's getting more seats but Death of Squirrels losing her own

 

[butchersapron]

"Will jew let me finish"

Yep, they def did that there. Arseholes.