Why the lib-dems are shit

[strung out]

This is true. I can't find the page now, but a while ago on UK Polling Report there was a poll where they asked people every month who they voted for in the 2010 general election. The number of people saying Lib Dem was dropping month on month. So either people are increasingly reluctant to admit to voting LD, or people have managed to convince themselves that they didn't. I think the same will hold true for this Facebook group.

only three people big enough to admit their mistake so far. all off here i think. either i don't have any friends who voted lib dem, they're all too ashamed to admit it, or they still support them!

 

[ViolentPanda]

Rise in capital gains tax...

Which Labour had already pencilled in.

....reducing the tax burden on the poorest...

Which the Tories were already contemplating back in 2009.

...and £7bn for poor kids to help them through education...

Conceded by the Tories as a sop to the Lib-Dems for selling their arseholes over tuition fees.

and a vote on AV...

When you could have had a vote on full PR if Tory Nick hadn't gone for class allegiance over party wishes.

scrapping the Housing Revenue Account.

Big fucking deal, doing this as the economy stumbles. It's economically meaningless, especially without local authorities being able to borrow under the pre-Thatcher formula.

You would have none of this if people hadn't voted Lib Dem.

Trans: You wouldn't be being offered a shit sandwich if people hadn't voted Lib-Dem.

Scheiße doppelschnitte? Nein danke!

 

[ViolentPanda]

2 min knock-up...

Excellent. Looks like the Lib-Dem bird is licking the sweaty green scrotum of Torydom.

 

[frogwoman]

i thought the lib dem bird was falling out of the tree dead

 

[butchersapron]

...whilst licking the sweaty green scrotum of Torydom

 

[frogwoman]

it's almost true to life - oh wait! it is!

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

That's fucking brilliant.

 

[Streathamite]

nice work stephj

 

[moochedit]

oh go on then http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-voted-Lib-Dem-and-I-wish-I-hadnt/152131894828948

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=120995644590737&ref=ts

http://www.facebook.com/search/?ini...vote-for-Lib-Dem-again/125148604168145?v=wall

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=100832939963708&ref=mf

http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-did...m-to-take-the-Tories-to-power/101481826565106

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Good-bye-Britain/112796942095509

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brad-...on-Nick-Clegg-Dick/120931271261925?ref=search

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nick-...to-Its-Complicated/115418088495462?ref=search

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sorry...-took-all-my-money/125869490758366?ref=search


http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118563014844563&ref=mf

http://www.facebook.com/pages/RAGE-AGAINST-THE-CLEGGARON/125233910836186?ref=mf

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board; saving £200,000 and removing protection from 154,000 workers.

Louis MacNeice

 

[ViolentPanda]

Abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board; saving £200,000 and removing protection from 154,000 workers.

Louis MacNeice

A fairly transparent sop to the shire vote.

 

[cynet]

Lib Dem's are a second rate party and have betrayed all there loyal member's, that is a fact, all there principle's and beliefs have gone out the window.

Dave boy Cameron is pulling the strings to puppet Clegg and boy it show's, i will never vote for them again.

 

[trevhagl]

Lib Dem's are a second rate party and have betrayed all there loyal member's, that is a fact, all there principle's and beliefs have gone out the window.

Dave boy Cameron is pulling the strings to puppet Clegg and boy it show's, i will never vote for them again.

i can sort of see the Lib Dem top brass merging into the Tory party because they must know they will be wiped out if they continue to be 2 parties

 

[shagnasty]

Some pricks on some forum tend to lump tory and libdem poll ratings together but many libdems would never vote tory at any cost.Trev can you tell the diference between a lib dem in the government and a tory

 

[Santino]

Trev can you tell the diference between a lib dem in the government and a tory

Beats me.

 

[stethoscope]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-11586389

Spending Review: Sheffield protest targets Nick Clegg

A poster declaring 'Cleggzilla: bringing havoc to a city near you' was paraded in Sheffield

Demonstrators in Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg's home city have dubbed the Liberal Democrat leader Cleggzilla in a protest over spending cuts.

The event featured a poster depicting Mr Clegg as a Godzilla-style figure stamping over the Sheffield skyline.

The protest outside the town hall attracted about 100 people.

A spokesman for the trade union Unison, which staged the event, said the poster highlighted "what the savage cuts will mean for Sheffield and beyond".

However, Paul Scriven, the Liberal Democrat leader of Sheffield City Council, said: "Of course there are going to be some reductions and there are going to be some service changes, but it's not going to be... a disaster.

"It's going to be difficult and we're going to have to work together, but we've planned for this to ensure that things can continue and the reductions and service changes are as minimal as possible and the most vulnerable in the city are looked after.

"People's bins will still be emptied, people will still be able to get around the city and council services will still be provided."

Unison regional convenor Wendy Nichols said: "Nick Clegg and his party actively opposed massive public sector cuts during the election campaign.

"Now they're championing massive cuts and we want to show the hypocrisy of Nick Clegg's embracing of the hard-line Tory agenda."

City councillor Ben Curran, who left the Lib Dems last month to join Labour, said he approved of the Cleggzilla poster.

"I think it highlights the point quite well.

"Nick Clegg's up there, deputy prime minister, and he's trampling on the rest of us.

"Doesn't matter to him if people lose a bit of this benefit or that benefit, because he doesn't need the money."

Meanwhile, about 100 people staged another demonstration outside Barnsley town hall.

Immediately after the chancellor's spending review speech, Barnsley council leader Steve Houghton said: "I think overall it's exactly what we expected - bad news.

"It means job losses, services being cut and no department will be left untouched.

"It will be the end of November or the beginning of December when we get the actual details for each council.

"At that time we'll be able to nail down just what it means."

 

[ericjarvis]

Trev can you tell the diference between a lib dem in the government and a tory

I know this one. It's that when they find them naked and auto asphyxiated the Dim Leb used a feather and the Tory used the whole chicken.

 

[butchersapron]

Even the yanks can see how tactically inept Clegg is:

Cameron and Osborne playing Clegg like a fiddle ahead of 2015 election

Beyond all the bonhomie, warm texts and cosiness of coalition life, the Tory leadership is quietly carving out a position for 2015. They want to be able to say they stuck to their word but that their good friend of recent years, Nick Clegg, regrettably doesn’t seem to have been so diligent. Smart thinking by Cameron and Osborne designed to hoover up votes at Clegg’s expense.

Just pointing it out

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Sort of in the same vein: you'd have thought that they'd realize, that putting the blame for much of the cutting at the doors of councils, wouldn't do their much vaunted local authority base a great deal of good.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[butchersapron]

Yep, they seem to be attacking every single support they've relied on to get where they are today whilst making eyes at the tories and asking is that ok?

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Sort of in the same vein: you'd have thought that they'd realize, that putting the blame for much of the cutting at the doors of councils, wouldn't do their much vaunted local authority base a great deal of good.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

Very true, in the North East Libdem Newcastle is going to take a hammering, while Labour run Sunderland is probably on course to avoid serious redundancies.

 

[butchersapron]

You can see this in the local election results in urban areas - Swansea, Oxford, St Helens - seats lost and lib-dem voting collapse.

 

[butchersapron]

The lib-dems are happily lying to themselves as well as us - this si from their shit internet hang out - it's a look at Glover's oleaginous defence of them last week:

4) No-one now asks if the Coalition will last… This, for Nick Clegg, is I suspect one of the biggest prizes of all. Back in May, people were speculating about the Coalition breaking up in a matter of weeks or perhaps months, the idea of it lasting a full Parliament was dismissed as a pipe-dream.

Mental. Do they know that they're lying? Or have they passed into the stage where the lie has been defended for so long that the liar comes to believe it to be true, to be the actual case?

 

[Streathamite]

it's bizarre. it's like they're gleefully throwing away 40 years of brilliant, painstaking roots-up building, community politics an' all....

 

[trevhagl]

Some pricks on some forum tend to lump tory and libdem poll ratings together but many libdems would never vote tory at any cost.Trev can you tell the diference between a lib dem in the government and a tory

no. care to help?

 

[ViolentPanda]

it's bizarre. it's like they're gleefully throwing away 40 years of brilliant, painstaking roots-up building, community politics an' all....

Which is why the constituency parties appear to be experiencing a lot of discomfort, especially in local authorities with a substantial Lib-Dem presence on the council. There are worries about the kind of percentage membership fall-off that "New" Labour experienced between 2002 and 2007. For the Lib-Dems a 40-50%+ drop could be fatal to the party.

 

[Streathamite]

Which is why the constituency parties appear to be experiencing a lot of discomfort, especially in local authorities with a substantial Lib-Dem presence on the council. There are worries about the kind of percentage membership fall-off that "New" Labour experienced between 2002 and 2007. For the Lib-Dems a 40-50%+ drop could be fatal to the party.

This is certainly all true, even an understatement - in fact, in the inner city LD constituency parties (i.e. the ones where all the remaining lefty libs live), and the scots ones, I am reliably informed they are going absolutely MENTAL over what is going on!

 

[Fruitloop]

This is an excellent thread. I've read it all the way through and agree that the Lib-Dems are, indubitably, shit.

 

[Santino]

This is an excellent thread. I've read it all the way through and agree that the Lib-Dems are, indubitably, shit.

What was the best bit? Was it me calling Clegg a cunt or something?

 

[butchersapron]

John Hemming. lib-dem MP. Wife has to break into house to save cat from the unfaithful MP. These people are filth.