CALAMITY CLEGG AND THE LIB-DEMS!
I finally got to see the on-air clash between Nick Clegg and Chris Huhne, prospective candidates for the leadership of the Liberal-Democrat Party! Handbags at dawn, or what?
It reinforces my view that the Liberal-Democrats ARE the most hateful, the most spiteful, of ALL the Parties. They pretend to be one thing to your face but are actually something entirely different. Hence Chris Huhne's campaign team issues a a dossier entitled "Calamity Clegg" with a background briefing with quotations from Mr Clegg on public services reform and proportional representation, and Huhne then denies all knowledge of it and then claims that it carried the wrong title!
I have a simple rule with Lib-Dem's - I despise them all. The nicer they seem, the worse they are.
David Vance
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Good wasn't it?? I think they've lost themselves some voters if the comments coming in to the show have anything to do with it.
Handbags at dawn!! You are bad ;-)
ps So here is the guy who didn't know anything about the document but proceeds to argue the points in it??? Didn't know what comes out of his own office. I think it came as a bigger surprise to Huhne than it did to clegg.
Remember someone called the then leader of the conservative party a foetus? Everytime I looked at Hague after that I thought he does look like a foetus. Now everytime I see Clegg I'll think 'calamity'.
pps sorry about this, but did anyone see the video floating about re the breakup of the George Galloway Respect Party over threats? Galloway has now left that party, and there is now another NEW party with him in it - forget the name of it perhaps Respect 2.
There is also footage of Galloway in a leotard prancing about the big brother house. He really is a prat.
The Lib Dems are the nastiest of the main parties, on that we agree. Their hierarchy contains the authors of some of the most overtly anti-semitic statements made in the last twenty years by British politicians, and as I know from experience even their own Councillors don't really understand what their own Party stands for. They successfully positioned themselves as a 'centre party' for those who wanted to think of themselves that way, but are finding it impossible to move beyond that point - they also are the biggest beneficiaries of tactical voting which artificially increases their national percentages.
they also are the biggest beneficiaries of tactical voting which artificially increases their national percentages.
LOL! You mean they are the biggest victims of the first past the post voting system. In 2005 they got 9.5% of MPs on 22% of the vote.
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk/uktable.htm
That was quite funny and I'm sure there are a few people spitting feathers as LibDem HQ. I don't think that the LibDems are necessarily the worst of the worst. I admit most of my contact with them is in relation to the OTR legislation,which they were sound on.
Peter is right to an extent about the FPTP system althought I don't tale the % of vote to % of MPs to be that relevant. We don't know how many people ae voting for the individual and how many for the party.
However I suspect that if we had Single Transferable Voting, that the LibDems would do much better. I suspect that that is why many of those who suppot that system do so and not because it is more democratic.
Aileen,
No, they really, really wouldn't. Under STV in a General Election their vote would plummet, as would that of all the main parties. Their support is *hugely* inflated by tactical voting - mainly anti-Tory but often anti-Labour in seats where the Tories really do have no hope whatsoever.
How about a poll where we ask our ATW readers who they would vote for under an STV system?
Under STV in a General Election their vote would plummet, as would that of all the main parties.
LOL!
And the winners would be UKIP and the BNP, right?
It's the only way they can be interesting David.