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Why the lib-dems are shit

there'd just need to be a campaign of assassination of tory candidates. after the first six deaths i think you'd find a sudden reluctance on the part of the remainder to stand.

I don't like that idea. What about all the people who would like to assasinate a tory candidate and wouldn't get the chance? It should be all 600 plus on the same day. Let us all have a go.
 
In a generous and brave attempt to stop Nick Clegg looking the biggest twat in Sheffield (if not the country), council leader Paul Scriven has kindly put himself forward for the position, with his appearance for a promo video for the hotel hosting the Liberal Scum conference next year.

(Please ensure there is something soft between your chin and the floor before watching, as I wouldn't want anything to get broken)



Apparently Paul Scriven was treated to a rendition of 'Perfect Day' from the public gallery and Labour members at this weeks full council meeting. :)
 
Here's some good news from the lib-dems on the civil liberties front:

The government is to tighten up the rules that allow councils to seize empty homes, claiming the current system, introduced under Labour, infringes civil liberties

Local authorities will have to wait two years before attempting to take charge of an empty property, instead of the present six months, and they will only be able to seize buildings that are run-down "vandal magnets".

...

A Guardian investigation established there are as many as 450,000 long-term empty homes in Britain, prompting calls for more to be used to ease waiting lists.

Hurrah for liberty!
 
Yeah, Pickles thinks councils have been far too heavy handed - by seizing a grand total of 44 houses in four years.

The twat
 
Look at this weaseling from Clegg (1pm/8.47):

Nick Clegg has said dismissed suggestions that the Lib Dems face a wipeout in the May local elections. "The idea that we are giving up is an absolute nonsense. We've got a lot of good things to say come May," he said in an interview on the Today programme. (See 8.47am.)

You weren't asked if you are 'giving up' you devious freak. It was put to you that you're heading for an electoral wipeout - not that you're 'giving up'.
 
Oh dear, Clegg caught out lying for the 2nd time in day (albeit on the same program - concentrated lying), this time even more shockingly. He'd do well not to take on Faisel Islam:

<snip the bit where he's caught red-handed>

So, in his attempt to appeal to our alarm clock instincts, the DPM either mis-spoke, or he told the truth, in which case he appears to have substantially widened the deficit.
 
Lib-dem manifesto:

Ensure that the bonus system can never again encourage banks to behave in a way that puts the financial system at risk or offers rewards for failure.

Doesn’t it make you angry that the banks have been allowed to ride roughshod over our economy, and are still handing out bonuses by the bucket load?

Tonight:

Banks given go-ahead to pay unlimited bonuses

Britain's banks were given the go-ahead tonight to pay unlimited bonuses, drawing to a close a two-year political battle to rein in the City.

After months in which a series of government ministers of all parties have threatened a toughening in the stance over City bonuses, Downing Street said the government did not intend to intervene in the pay of the UK's top bankers.
 
Two lies, one u-turn and a breaking of the rules in one day (and the last fuck up was a lie as well, see Pickles making it even harder for councils to take back empty properties).

What a shambles.
 
Another lib-dem u-turn - (from The Times so behind paywall):

For the Lib Dems, it is becoming increasingly clear that the perceived lack of independence is turning into a disaster. And slowly but surely, Mr Clegg is shifting strategy. To begin with, the Deputy Prime Minister emphasised that his party would "own" everything that the coalition did ... Now a subtle but important change is under way. Senior Liberal Democrats have started to emphasise with more and more vigour their areas of disagreement with Conservative colleagues. On bank bonuses, control orders, electoral reform and the House of Lords, Mr Clegg has begun to emphasise his own distinct agenda.
 
they're all over the shop. cracks have to start appearing in the coalition - not just itsy-bitsy lines, but whopping great, government-rocking, revolt-fuelling cracks
 
Much underpublicised** recent polls for Thursday's upcoming Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election

**Not least by much of the Guardia's own 'far too close to call' :rolleyes: 'coverage' of it so far :hmm:

If those polls are even half way accurate, the Lib Dems are going to get fuckin steamrollered :) :cool:

(Was going to post on the Woollas/by-election-specific thread, but that seems to have sunk a long long way down ... :confused: )

The trouble with the article that this links to is that it gives a free reign to Milliband to make out that this is somehow a referendum on the coalition without him actually saying what Labour would have done differently. this is the same Milliband who has urged for strikes not to take place against the cuts.

The smart money is on lab/Lib dems/Tories in that order
 
Another lib-dem lie? Lord Oakeshott, the Libdem Treasury spokesman claimed on newsnight yesterday that Cable had personally asked Bob Diamond to forgo his bonus. Bob Diamond in his testimony to the Treasury select committee yesterday said that no one at all from the govt has asked him to do so. One of them is lying.
 
Another lib-dem lie? Lord Oakeshott, the Libdem Treasury spokesman claimed on newsnight yesterday that Cable had personally asked Bob Diamond to forgo his bonus. Bob Diamond in his testimony to the Treasury select committee yesterday said that no one at all from the govt has asked him to do so. One of them is lying.

Oakeshoot seemed to think that Diamond was specifically referring to Cameron and Osborne, and maybe Clegg.
 
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