UK politics, Lib Dem leadership contest

[Ace42X]

First up, the heir apparanent, Meninges Campbell himself.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,1685312,00.html

[franscar]

The Lib Dems never fail to surprise me. Stand on a platform of tolerance and liberalism, and then hound out the only well-liked leader of a major party in the country because he likes a drink.

[Ace42X]

I was quite disgusted by it myself. I think it was a case of the front-benchers getting a taste of power (thanks to Kennedy) and then tripping over themselves in a race to grab it.

I think we were seeing people shedding their principles to help get a lead. Quite frankly I think the party is going to suffer from this. Most people are turned off by this sort of childishness, and it has destroyed all the credibility the party got in the last two elections.

Not only that, but it also calls into question what they stand for. By allowing the right side of the party dominate, they are just going to come off as a poor-man's Labour.

At the moment I am uncertain how they can get out of this mess, and as much as I like some of Menzes Campbell's policies, I also find him a bit too corporate.

I'd quite like to see Lembit Opik have a more prominent role.

Eitherway, my local Lib Dem MP is excellent, and I will continue to support him.

[ChrisLove]

I can see myself being a Minger

[franscar]

I think we were seeing people shedding their principles to help get a lead. Quite frankly I think the party is going to suffer from this. Most people are turned off by this sort of childishness, and it has destroyed all the credibility the party got in the last two elections.

Eitherway, my local Lib Dem MP is excellent, and I will continue to support him.

Yep. Cameron and his waffle is going to turn the heads of a lot of people who voted Lib Dem just because they didn't like the other two, despite Cameron not actually saying anything remotely constructive so far.

And my Lib Dem did a hell of a lot of work before the election on the council and he's done a good job, so hopefully he won't lose his seat.

[Ace42X]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4627798.stm
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1692336,00.html?gusrc=rss
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/story_pages/news/news2.shtml

[franscar]

Say goodbye to the blossoming three party state.

What gets me the most about this smug fuck is just how prominent he was in the hounding out of Chuckie K. when the contents of his closet was far more damaging than the ginger ones.

[Ace42X]

Say goodbye to the blossoming three party state.

My sentiments exactly.

[ms.peachy]

What gets me the most about this smug fuck is just how prominent he was in the hounding out of Chuckie K. when the contents of his closet was far more damaging than the ginger ones.
Someone needs to slap that guy and yell "WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING, YOU IDIOT?" (although I gather perhaps his wife already has).

Christ, it's quite one thing to screw around with a rent boy behind your wife's back - I'm not in favour of that, but OK, it happens in all segments of the population - but where in hell do you get the idea that you can then put yourself up as one of your country's leaders, base your whole political image on being this squeaky clean family man, and think NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW?

What a dumb ass.

[Ace42X]

base your whole political image on being this squeaky clean family man,

Maybe he is a squeaky-clean family man. It is quite possible that the act "too digusting to mention" in the News of the World involved a soapy enema...

[franscar]

Christ, it's quite one thing to screw around with a rent boy behind your wife's back - I'm not in favour of that, but OK, it happens in all segments of the population - but where in hell do you get the idea that you can then put yourself up as one of your country's leaders, base your whole political image on being this squeaky clean family man, and think NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW?

What a dumb ass.

There was a snippet of an interview he did for the radio just after Kennedy resigned on this afternoon, and Jeremy Vine asked him if he had any secret vices and he said chocolate, before they both guffawed about how much of a fuck up Charlie boy had been.

Yeah, chocolate smothered over the genitals of a 23 year old with a fondness for dressing in zebra print.

A sex act to revolting for the News of the World to mention. Christ, the mind truly boggles.

[Ace42X]

More homosexuality:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4649266.stm

[ChrisLove]

So it turns out Libs are all gay after all

Who knew :rolleyes:

[Ace42X]

the act "too digusting to mention" in the News of the World...

... Was apparently coprophillia, according to this month's Private Eye

[Ali]

Fuck the LibDems and fuck Labour even fucking more.

Labour have fucked this country up and Lib Dems are 'kin hopeless.

I am seriously going to vote for the Tories next time round. At least they know how to run a country and when they get into bed with the US, we won't be as outraged as when Labour do it. Hell, Labour have made the Tories look like 'kin Green parties.

If Screaming Lord Sutch were still alive I'd vote for him.

I feel sick whenever I see Blairs smug face or hear his breathless oral extrusions, I want to see his face when his party loses the next election. I don't care who does it, as long as Labour get the Boot.

[franscar]

... Was apparently coprophillia, according to this month's Private Eye

At least the Lib Dems are still appealing to minority interests then.

[Ace42X]

At least the Lib Dems are still appealing to minority interests then.

Shame Oaten isn't here in person, as that deserves a rimshot.

[Ace42X]

Anyone see Question Time tonight? The Lib Dem leadership special? I missed most of it, caught just the highlights. I am cooling on Menzies rapidly. I think I am generally most fond of Hughes, despite the media villifying him about not being more open and celebratory about his homosexual past. Personally I think it is ridiculous that the media have expectations about how he should feel about his sexuality, as if it is any of their business. Not sure about "that other one" - As far as I can tell, he is just a guy that has got roped in to make up the numbers, as the media didn't see Oaten getting dropped so quickly and were all geared up for three horse coverage.

[Ali]

Ha! (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,,1706901,00.html) Right in GB's back yard, too!!