Showing posts with label liberal democrats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label liberal democrats. Show all posts
Wednesday, 8 May 2019

Folk memory and voting behaviour - why protest votes aren't all you might think

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My Dad lived for the last part of his life on the Isle of Sheppey, so I always take a look at elections results there. Here's the re...
Monday, 12 December 2016

Dear Liberal Democrats, please rebrand as the European Party. Please.

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It's a long while since the Liberal Democrats were in any recognisable way either liberal or democratic. This makes the idea - mooted by...
Saturday, 7 June 2014

On the need for liberalism...

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**** Jeremy Browne is a Liberal Democrat MP. He has written this in The Spectator and I agree with him: An unambiguous liberalism bes...
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Monday, 26 May 2014

Searching for a new liberal party....

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**** I'm a Tory so I guess it's none of my business but it worries me a little that there is no genuinely liberal voice in UK poli...
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Tuesday, 6 August 2013

Now the Liberal Democrats want to ban cars...

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**** I guess this is something to do with saving the planet. But quite frankly they can shut up and go away: Nick Clegg’s party has unv...
Sunday, 4 August 2013

Tim Farron wants expensive fuel to go with the expensive food....

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**** You have to admire the populism of Tim Farron , president of the Liberal Democrats: Mr Farron told The Sunday Telegraph: “I am afr...
Tuesday, 7 May 2013

I'm pretty sure this argument is a logical fallacy...

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**** ...but then Malcolm Bruce is a Liberal Democrat so we shouldn't be surprised : Nigel Lawson is a climate change denier so anti...
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Monday, 10 December 2012

Jeanette Sunderland - "liberal" democrat and nannying fussbucket

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**** I can't bring myself to do anything but place the liberal here in inverted commas. I've lost count of the times when Jeanette...
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Monday, 3 December 2012

Nannying Fussbucket of the day - another illiberal Liberal Democrat: Jenny Willott MP

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**** I do sometimes wonder whether there remains anyone in the Liberal Democrat Party who actually possesses a shred of belief in liberali...
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Monday, 1 October 2012

Today's illiberal liberal - Lynn Featherstone

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I really do despair at times at the intellectual contortions that some "Liberal Democrats" have to go through to justify their ...
Saturday, 18 August 2012

Liberal Democrats? You're kidding - nannying fussbuckets more like

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**** Not content with proposing to rob public sector pensions to build "social" housing, the Liberal Democrats have opened up a...
Wednesday, 15 August 2012

In which Liberal Democrats channel the spirit of Robert Maxwell...

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**** Robert Maxwell , former Labour MP and rapacious capitalist famously robbed the pension funds of his employees at the Daily Mirror and...
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Friday, 3 August 2012

John Leech - another socialist in liberal democrat clothing

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**** The government's Faustian pact - a deal that still remains despite the financial train crash - with the banks has cost ordinary f...
Saturday, 28 April 2012

Top Liberal Democrat MP says don't vote for the bloke who works

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**** Absolutely - Liberal Democrat MP, Bob Russell said just that : Now retired, Councillor Offen [the Lib Dem candidate] is able to d...
Sunday, 18 March 2012

Tim Farron - Communist

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Supermarkets are evil, they are driving down the prices for suppliers forcing poor farmers to go out of business. This must be stopped...
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Sunday, 27 November 2011

Hey Lib Dems, you could try truth and liberalism for a change?

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**** Nick Clegg - I'm guessing the party has a new marketing boss or something - has been told that he needs to "rebrand" th...
Wednesday, 2 November 2011

Reasons why you shouldn't support the Liberal Democrats No. 436,738

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**** Because they're just tax and spend social democrats: Proposals to impose tax on lump sums withdrawn from their pension pots by...
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Wednesday, 26 October 2011

Quote of the day....

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**** This from the Man in the Shed is definitely the case: I'm disgusted with Nick Clegg's actions to try to cripple the UK for...
Monday, 19 September 2011

The Liberal Democrats need "Nicks" not "Tims"

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**** There are, it seems to me, two sorts of Liberal Democrat. I’m going to call them “Nick” and “Tim” for the sake of explanation. For...
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Sunday, 4 September 2011

The sorry end of liberalism in the liberal democrats

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**** The papers have been filled with Clegg inspired testosterone as the might Deputy prime Minister regales his followers with all the th...
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