Why the lib-dems are shit

[butchersapron]

Clegg humilated and branded a liar over the forgemaster loan by his own Commons committee.

The Business, Innovation and Skills Committee composed of six coalition to four labour members - report in full here.

 

[where to]

http://twitter.com/LibDemFailLolz

This thread is gold. Anyone want a p/w we can post up these titbits. Will take off imo.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Because Danny Alexander is giving transport secretary Phillip Hammond the thumbs up over privatisation of the Coast Guard service.

Louis MacNeice

 

[DotCommunist]

they actually want to privatise everything. EVERYTHING. cunts

 

[butchersapron]

I wonder what Mr Richard Dawkins as someone with an admirable interest in getting the wider public involved in academic study thinks of the lib-dems today?

 

[Idris2002]

Dawkie is Lib-Dem? I thought he was New Labour.

 

[butchersapron]

Nope, celeb lib-dem now - or then at least.

 

[Idris2002]

Well, that mutation wasn't very adaptive.

 

[butchersapron]

Very good!

 

[Santino]

They do have selfish genes though.

 

[butchersapron]

Rebranding Child detention

Nick Clegg was accused of "rebranding detention" by children's groups concerned over his plans to hold the children of failed asylum seekers in supervised accommodation as an alternative to immigration detention centres.

 

[butchersapron]

Selling off 2% of bristol green (read common) land.

 

[butchersapron]

Child poverty to worsen under coalition, says IFS

But the IFS said it expected both absolute and relative poverty among children and working-age adults to rise between the 2010-11 and 2013-14 financial years.

"Among all children and working-age individuals, we forecast a rise in relative poverty of about 800,000 and a rise in absolute poverty of about 900,000 between 2010-11 and 2013-14," said Robert Joyce, author of the IFS report.

"We find that the coalition government's measures act to increase poverty among these groups slightly in 2012-13, and more clearly in 2013-14," he added.

The coalition promised after it came to power in May it would maintain the Child Poverty Act's goal of ending child poverty in Britain by 2020.

 

[Refused as fuck]

"increasing social mobility" - moon23, December 2010.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

"increasing social mobility" - moon23, December 2010.

Guess he forgot to mention it's all in one direction ... down.

 

[butchersapron]

Attempting to water down anti-banker bonus regulation.

 

[Edie]

I really don't think anyone could of been more right about anything as you were about the Lib Dems And I bloody voted for them

 

[Streathamite]

Attempting to water down anti-banker bonus regulation.

oh, what a surprise - not!

 

[strung out]

 

[Louis MacNeice]

In Sheffield the Lib Dems are so committed to consultation that they've just abandoned it; consultation procedures much trumpeted in the authority's Sheffield Compact have been ditched, so that 15% cuts to the voluntary sector can be pushed through for the coming year (these are disproportionate to the 28% overall budget cuts handed down from central government over the next three years).

Louis MacNeice

 

[audiotech]

 

[cointreauman]

Love it and sending link to all the suck arse LDs I know

C

 

[butchersapron]

This is how you cut back on public spending via cuts - unemployment goes up, tax revenue goes down, more is paid out in social security, less is spent on shops and serives, more unemployed = public borrowing higher than expected at £23.3bn - up from £17.4bn in same period last year. Of course, for these winter-fuel allowance cutting fuckwits this can only mean one thing - the cuts haven't been deep or broad enough.

 

[_angel_]

Child poverty to worsen under coalition, says IFS

Don't worry, they'll just change the definition of poverty to make it seem better.

 

[_angel_]

I really don't think anyone could of been more right about anything as you were about the Lib Dems And I bloody voted for them

My sister did too, whilst having a go at me not for voting and saying she was voting libdem because "we can't let the tories in" all round.

 

[Streathamite]

My sister did too, whilst having a go at me not for voting and saying she was voting libdem because "we can't let the tories in" all round.

She shouldn't blame herself. To a large swathe of the voters, especially those who are understandably disgusted with Labour but can't bear the thought of a Tory govt - they sounded incredibly plausible and credible. Fortunately, you can only really play that trick once.

 

[Streathamite]

This is how you cut back on public spending via cuts - unemployment goes up, tax revenue goes down, more is paid out in social security, less is spent on shops and serives, more unemployed = public borrowing higher than expected at £23.3bn - up from £17.4bn in same period last year. Of course, for these winter-fuel allowance cutting fuckwits this can only mean one thing - the cuts haven't been deep or broad enough.

a repeat of the early 1990s all over again, with the exception that Clarke was more of a keynesianite reflationist

 

[Santino]

Cutting finding to the census so that urban consituencies are under-represented and receive less funding.

 

[audiotech]

 

[butchersapron]

You are dead you book cutting freaks.