Why the lib-dems are shit

[butchersapron]

Tbh, i didn't see newsnight, i was going from Paul Mason's blog. According to the Guardian(3.14):

Johnson is also likely to ask about Bob Diamond's revelation, when he gave evidence to the Commons Treasury committee this morning, that, despite all the rhetoric we've heard from ministers about bonuses, Diamond has not been asked by the government to cut his own bonus.

Was he questioned over this then? Sounds like it from what you say.

 

[Santino]

It definitely came up but I don't know exactly what he said. I can't find a transcript of it online.

 

[butchersapron]

I'll have a look on iplayer later.

 

[Streathamite]

It's like watching a train crash in very slow motion.

indeed!

 

[butchersapron]

Oldham by-election contest is 'really close' says Clegg

Nick Clegg has insisted that the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election remains a "really close contest" as campaigning enters its final stages.

Will the lies never stop?

 

[Pickman's model]

Oldham by-election contest is 'really close' says Clegg



Will the lies never stop?

it's not a lie. will derek adams beat elwyn watkins? it's going to be close.

 

[butchersapron]

Depends on if the tories pull out realising the game is up or stick by the lib-dems.

I noticed this earlier:

Mr Watkins was ridiculed on the hustings yesterday after claiming the Lib Dems were “still the only party against tuition fees”

 

[Santino]

Apparently some Tories are tactically voting Labour to shaft the Lib Dems.

 

[butchersapron]

Apparently some Tories are tactically voting Labour to shaft the Lib Dems.

 

[butchersapron]

Lib-dem (head of policy with Coventry Liberal Democrats.) caught overcharging students - fraud.

A Sky News investigation claimed students and parents who gave their bank details when booking lessons through ICUT found they were charged more than they had expected.

But McKee today denied any wrongdoing. In a rebuttal issued by his company, he said the broadcaster's investigations were conducted in a "very partial and prejudiced way".

According to Sky News, £685 was taken from the account of student Ivie Ogodan, who was planning to spend only £90, while £3,260 was removed from the account of another student's mother.

And a Sky News reporter who signed up his fictitious son for a course of two lessons worth £60 said ICUT removed £203.50 from his account on Christmas Day and £125 on Boxing Day before trying, and failing, to take a further £225 the next day, even though the lessons were cancelled two days after being booked.

 

[co-op]

Apparently some Tories are tactically voting Labour to shaft the Lib Dems.

Any evidence?

 

[nino_savatte]

It looks like he's straining to push out a hard stool.

 

[butchersapron]

Lembit is trying to get the london mayoral candidacy

 

[DotCommunist]

Lembit? Lembit of married to a fucking cheeky girl fame? Snowballs chance in hell.

 

[butchersapron]

He's the hard stool above

 

[Santino]

Any evidence?

From the Guardian:

According to PoliticsHome, one Tory told the programme that some party supporters would be voting tactically for Labour because they don't like the Lib Dems. This is what Pam Byrne, the Tory chairwoman in Uppermill, Saddleworth, had to say:

Some people have said there is no way that they want the Liberal Democrat candidate to be our MP and if they thought the Liberals might get in, they might vote tactically, they might vote Labour.

Asked who she regarded as the enemy locally, Byrne said: "The Liberals. We fight the Liberals tooth and nail."

I can't find the original source though.

 

[kyser_soze]

Lembit? Lembit of married to a fucking cheeky girl fame? Snowballs chance in hell.

London would be the only place in the world to get an asteroid shield if he were mayor tho.

 

[butchersapron]

From the Guardian:



I can't find the original source though.

Double bluffing to make the result look better.

 

[Santino]

Double bluffing to make the result look better.

I am shocked.

 

[butchersapron]

I bet that tory was a lib-dem as well.

 

[Santino]

I've found a picture of the alleged person but it's FAQ-bustingly huge.

 

[little_legs]

Tbh, i didn't see newsnight, i was going from Paul Mason's blog. According to the Guardian(3.14):



Was he questioned over this then? Sounds like it from what you say.

Yep, Diamond's questioning was part of the Today in Parliament last night. Some old man asked Diamond: "Have you been approached by the PM or the Chancellor about your bonus?" to which Diamond replied: "I've never been approached by either of them".

 

[OneStrike]

According to political pundits on twitter, today was the first time since 97 that no lib had a question during pmq's, a sign that there issue is with the leadership perhaps?

I posted the same in the other thread.

 

[ViolentPanda]

It looks like he's straining to push out a hard stool.

Or to accommodate Gideon's fist.

 

[butchersapron]

Former leader Menzies Campbell reckons that "the outlook is increasingly fair, to borrow a meteorological parallel", and tells me all is enthusiasm and good cheer in Oldham

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[butchersapron]

Genius, the lib-dems lie are now extrending into the past.

Vince Cable - "Keynes would be on our side"

Cable argues in this week's New Statesman that the famous economist would back the coalition's economic policy.

Despite 50 years of arguing the exact opposite in word and deed.

Bit of choice red-baiting from the most popular politician in the land as well - not new territory for this one. No giggling girls to upset him this time mind.

 

[butchersapron]

Excellent - Clegg might not even have won the Lib-dem leadership contest.

EASTLEIGH MP Chris Huhne has said he stands by the result of the Lib Dem leadership election despite reports uncounted votes would have made him winner.

Mr Huhne, pictured above, lost the race to Nick Clegg by just 511 votes cast by more than 41,000 party members in one of the closest contests in political history.

It was claimed yesterday that he would have won had about 1,300 postal votes not got caught up in the Christmas post and missed the deadline.

 

[frogwoman]

Excellent - Clegg might not even have won the Lib-dem leadership contest.

that's awesome lol.

 

[redsquirrel]

Labour win Oldham East with majority of 3558

January 13 is with the anniversary of the formation of the independent Labour Party in 1893. That's appropriate. The ILP was formed when working people decided that the Liberals could not be trusted to represent their interests.

Labour: 14,718 - 42.1%
Lib Dems: 11,160 - 31.9%
Tories: 4,481 - 12.8%

 

[nino_savatte]

Chatshow Charlie on Question Time last night said when the Libs are "in power" with Labour they don't get what they want and when they are in power with the Tories they can implement what he described as "liberal values" (sic). When were the Libs in power with Labour? The Lib-Lab pact was not a coalition but a confidence and supply arrangement. In my mind, they have never shared power with Labour. Is he talking dreck again?