tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post3427080186994819527..comments2024-03-29T13:29:10.299+00:00Comments on SCOT goes POP!: Who will weep for the Liberal Democrats this week?James Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-56722455421646245892014-05-21T00:54:52.721+01:002014-05-21T00:54:52.721+01:00I'm afraid I simply cannot fathom how anyone c...I'm afraid I simply cannot fathom how anyone could remain a lib dem and profess any kind of concern for the poor and vulnerable after what this tory lib dem coalition in Westminster have done. It is shockingly hypocritical of them to do so. You would have thought any lib dems with an ounce of decency would have left long ago in protest at the incredible things Clegg and his ostrich faction have agreed to just for a nice ministerial car and a chance to feel important.<br /><br />You have to wonder how those repulsive toadies spinning for Clegg sleep at night because James only touches on the extraordinary harm the Clegg leadership has done when given a sniff of power. Not just the causes they once paid lip service to, but to their own party.<br /><br /><br />Clegg posturing on Europe is clearly doing massive harm to that cause. You would think there might be one lib dem left with enough common sense to tell Clegg to shut the F*** up about Europe and stop damaging a cause the lib dems used to believe in. Every time he appears in an interview banging on about Europe tory Eurosceptics and kippers must be absolutely overjoyed. He is a complete liability to his own party and any cause unfortunate enough to have him speak on it.<br /><br />Even more damning is the fact that Clegg didn't put the EU front and centre because he believed in it, he put it front and centre because he thought it would help in his own doomed detoxification strategy. The Cleggites wanted Farage as a contrast because they thought someone as blatantly right-wing and controversial as Farage would make Clegg seem more palatable to the public in contrast. <b>WRONG!</b><br /><br />Clegg is toxic. Simple as that. <br /><br />Since then Clegg has been all over the media still attempting to detoxify himself and adamant he will not quit no matter how badly the lib dems do.<br /><br />It's been the pattern all the way through the coalition too. Clegg ensured loyalty by buying off lib dem MPs with ministerial and junior ministerial positions. Clegg lost no time at all in briefing against the likes of Cable, Farron and anyone else who started to look too popular as he became ever more toxic. <br /><br />Clegg not paying the slightest attention to small matters like the creeping privatisation of the NHS. He didn't even bother to read Lansley's comically inept NHS reforms but when the lib dem membership began to wonder what the hell they were signed up for Clegg drafted in an aging Shirley Williams to put a gloss on it. Clegg all too willing to go along with Syria thus destroying the credibility the lib dems used to have on foreign misadventures after Iraq. Clegg agreeing to hard-line immigration legislation to pacify tory rebels. Clegg pointedly ignoring the lib dem conference on those and other matters. Same with Lords Reform. Incompetently handled by Clegg from the start. Same with AV, same with home rule, same with Europe, same with civil liberties, same with welfare reform. It's <i>quite</i> a list.<br /><br />Does Cameron seem unhappy at getting his own way time and time again while having an idiot like Clegg torpedoing the lib dem's own causes? Nope. He couldn't have planned it better if he tried.<br /><br />Everything Clegg does is to keep himself Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the lib dems. <i>Everything</i> else is secondary. Clegg's ostrich faction have such a blinkered view of reality that they will justify that as being the best thing for their party since Clegg is the party leader. However, the lib dem's laughable polling along with the year on year hammering of their base tells the real story. They are being destroyed and reduced to a fringe and their reputation will not recover for a long, <b>long,</b> time. If ever. Deservedly so. <br /><br />Clegg and his ostrich faction are no better than yellow tories.Mick Porknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-13315420086084874352014-05-20T22:56:06.870+01:002014-05-20T22:56:06.870+01:00I voted for them once in a REAL election -2005. La...I voted for them once in a REAL election -2005. Largely tactically it must be said, to keep the Tories out and in utter disgust at the complete moral decrepitude of the Labour Party. The LibDem candidate won, and I would have voted for them again in 2010 if I hadn't already left the country. Like many others I was lulled into a false sense of radicalism, that they were actually further left of centre than Labour, but no one is going to fall for that again.FraserPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-54993644171041724872014-05-20T21:07:51.260+01:002014-05-20T21:07:51.260+01:00I did once vote for the Liberal Democrats in a sch...<i> I did once vote for the Liberal Democrats in a school mock election. </i><br /><br />Spooky - me too.commentorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10321173541321374705noreply@blogger.com