LibDem Conference - Clegg's speech

Clegg's speech proves that he's the political equivalent of that hated guy in every office who takes credit for everything and responsbility for nothing.

Horrible man utterly without scruples who has broken nearly every pre-election promise and all the agreements he made in exchange for the coalition because of his love for power. I hope he gets wiped out at the election, Clarkson should definitely stand against him.
 
The only thing I heard from his speech was how the Lib Dems would now whore themselves out to whoever looked the most likely to win so they can cling on to the shred of power they have had.

Well, that's just shafted my choices for the next election :(
 
Well I've no idea who to vote for now. Miliband is a wet fish and I don't trust Labour with the economy. Cameron gives me the creeps and this Conservative lot are useless. The lib dems never keep their promises. Maybe UKIP? Although I'm undecided on just how far they will move to the right... perhaps too far for my liking. Greens? Too ineffectual and too left wing.

Can't see the point in voting nowadays even though I really feel everyone should.
 
Freakbro said:
The only thing I heard from his speech was how the Lib Dems would now whore themselves out to whoever looked the most likely to win so they can cling on to the shred of power they have had.

Well, that's just shafted my choices for the next election :(
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That's not fair, we have two big parties in this country who have realistic chances of forming a government - what should the LibDems, as the only party who they could realistically form a coalition with in the event of a hung parliament do? Say we'll only form a coalition with the either Labour or the Conservatives - what does that do for democracy if the other party is the biggest party in parliament?

Yeah the system sucks but thanks to the LibDems we had the chance to make it suck slightly less, as a country we decided to stick with the sucky system. A country ends up with the government it deserves...
 
coalition partners ? All I have seen is David C be bullish and decide what tory policies get driven through. If these were blocked by the Lib Dems then ok but people want to visually see Clegg raising his game with Cameron. To be honest whether we see it as a 2 or 3 party situation it doesnt matter - far too many MP's do not live in the real world and yet they are making the important decisions. they should live within "normal" local communities on Estates to get a grasp of what needs to be done.
 
I do agree the Lib Dems have tempered the Conservatives somewhat, and have been expounding those virtues throughout this entire term.

I'm not against a coalition, in fact I am all in favour of coalitions, maybe it was just the way Clegg put it across, but that's how it sounded to me.
 
Lib Dems alienated a huge ammount of their voters after flopping on every promise they made.

We are back to a 2 party race now.
 
Ill be voting lib dem again. I don't care if they flop out on what they say because EVERYONE does.

I suspect a Huge conservative win though and hopefully not too many gains for the racist/nationalistic parties.

It really doesn't matter who is steering the fail boat. As long as its not Thugs or Farage
 
kindai said:
Lib Dems alienated a huge ammount of their voters after flopping on every promise they made.

We are back to a 2 party race now.
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Again, I do think it's unfair to blame them for breaking their promises when they weren't in a position to keep them. Remember that they didn't win the general election, they're very much a junior partner in the coalition so they have to try and get as much of their manifesto into government policy as possible but naturally you'd expect the vast majority of government policy to be Conservative policy.

The tuition fees saga was a disgrace though, and Nick Clegg rightly took a lot of criticism for it, but it was a Conservative policy to do this and they are by far the larger party in the coalition. I think a lot of the problem with the LibDems is that they, and the rest of the country, are only just finding out how coalitions work.
 
I am not sure how well this tactic will work, given that many of those measures have popular support across the voting public.

The list does also show the strangr nature of the lib dems, being essentially a coalition party between economically left and right wing social liberals. For me personally, I approve of the actions they have taken from a social liberal standpoint, but not the parts where the left of the party has blocked some of the economic reforms that make a lot of sense in a truely liberal society for which I desire. (Note this does not include fire at will).

I must say though, that this coalition, generally, has been better than a majority conservative government and many, many times better than the labour government.
 
Well the childcare ratios were stopped by the nursery practitioners not Clegg. He is claiming credit for something he contributed nothing towards.
 
King Damager said:
11. ‘Go home’ poster vans - Waste of money, not going to happen
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where the hell have you been, this already did happen and got reversed. There were vans rolling the streets.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/home-office-face-probe-over-2103437
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Xordium said:
Well the childcare ratios were stopped by the nursery practitioners not Clegg. He is claiming credit for something he contributed nothing towards.
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I am disappointed that they gave into the vested interests on that one, all they have achieved is to keep childcare among the most expensive in europe, where ratios are more in line with the proposed changes.
 
Dolph said:
I am disappointed that they gave into the vested interests on that one, all they have achieved is to keep childcare among the most expensive in europe, where ratios are more in line with the proposed changes.
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Vested interests don't normally oppose policy that would hurt them financially - just saying ...
 
So, they don't care who they go with, as long as they get in. I think the libdems will get totally wiped out at the election, and I suspect they know it too, but they still want to be in government. Marvellous.
 
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Uther said:
So, they don't care who they go with, as long as they get in.
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Can you tell me what's wrong with that? Would you prefer it if they said they only wanted to be in opposition, or if they favoured Labour over the Conservatives or vice versa?
 
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