That way you see, they can’t have any real
political policies of their own right now. Nothing important they can stand up
for. Just a bit of political tinkering here and there because if they come out
with anything important that favours one side or another they could find
themselves on the loser’s side and have no political power. A bit like the
student tuition fees fiasco which they had to drop in order to get into bed
with the Tories last time round! So while they’re playing for time it doesn’t
do them any good to stand for anything important! It’s as plain as the nose on
your face. This gang of eager to please political rascals are slimy opportunists
whose only trumpeted claim is that they’ll steer any side they support back to
the middle ground where nothing important ever gets done. Yes, yes, they want
to stand for people everywhere, joke-joke, only the reality of their short time
in office has been quite different. During their spell of being tucked up with
Cameron they’ve totally ditched everything they once claimed to believe. Remember
how it was before the last General Election? How they’d wanted to clean up the
banks and rotten practices of the financial services industry? Vince Cable
going on about it all the time to make them look honest, decent and radical.
Something they knew would please the general public. So what actually happened
to any of that? These days, banking practices and the bonus culture are just as
slimy as they were then, never mind all the Liberal Democrat chatter.
Talk about making a difference? Talk about
steering the Tories into the Centre Ground? It’s all lies and they know it, but
let’s get one thing clear. These people are not simply political whores. Their
up for it opportunism is so horribly evident and so in your face that whatever
political street corner they’re standing on you know they’re up for the game.
Trouble is, most people have had a fair taste of them now and because they look
older the make-up of lies has to get thicker. Hence the need to please everyone
and the media opportunity to do it is through their annual Conference. This
time round however they’ve had to work a lot harder to sell themselves. Be
something that everyone wants, like some worn out old tart who’s been sussed.
Indeed, with their beloved leader’s
popularity rating running close to that of Robert Mugabe and the Party itself
close to free-fall, they’ve been desperately trying to come up with ways of
rejuvenating their image and if Botox or Viagra won’t do, it might have to be
just about anything! Anyone up for a session in bed with the Liberal Democrats?
Poor dears, they’re working so hard to sell themselves. Promises of free school
meals for your kids… Promises of cheap housing for all… Upping the Minimum
Wage… Promises of political cleanliness and decency… Only it comes with an unsaid political
warning. Back in power with ANYONE out it all goes with the knickers.
Remember their righteous attack on MP’s
expenses? How they’d reform the whole system? Nothing done since they came into
Government. Remember their zealous pre-election indignation about energy
prices? Well since Ed Davey took over the energy portfolio, prices have never
stopped rising and executives from the big five energy companies are now
‘helping out’ sic, in his Department, doing
exactly what you may ask? Remember all the talk about reforming the electoral
system and making it fairer? Well their Tory Coalition partners just wouldn’t
have it and told them in no uncertain terms where to get off! Furthermore, what
have the Liberal Democrats done to curb all the Tory excesses of welfare
benefit cuts? In a word, nothing.
They’ve gone along with the whole attack on the Welfare State and the poor,
almost like the whole party climbed into the pocket of the Daily Mail. No
wonder some of their young Members of Parliament are leaving. Said that they
want nothing to do with them anymore!
As Boris Johnson has pointed out, the colour
of the Liberal Democrats is yellow. But then the Party is yellow in every
sense. Too opportunistic to have any real political values and with no chance
of governing the country anyway, they’ve come out at Conference as standing for
a bit of everything! Bits of green stuck in here and there to please the Environmentalists
and bits of pink to ingratiate themselves with what’s left of Labour. Well
actually there’s nothing ‘left’ at all about Miliband’s Labour. They’ve also
ditched any values they had because they want to be in the ‘Centre Ground’, but
then it’s not too hard to understand. No MP’s in either Party have done a day’s
work down a mine or worked out at sea on a trawler. Both Party leaders went to
elite schools and their Cabinet or Shadow Cabinet members have spent most of
their lives earning serious money keeping chairs warm. Part of what they call a
day’s work involves swilling coffee, and occasionally enjoying a bit of chit
chat with their constituents. Apart from that they’re all on the gravy train
and the Chardonnay Circuit and what they’ve really been doing is figuring out
ways to resolve the financial crisis caused by the wealthy, the greedy and the deceitful
in the financial services industry by making those who work to bring food,
light and warmth to your home like the fishermen, the oil workers and the
miners pay for it!
So what kind of cheer do the Liberal Democrats
bring to your home then? Oh sorry, I forgot. They’ll all be working hard to
clear up the financial crisis! Oh goody gumdrops! Well actually I don’t see any
hand ever coming out of their pockets unless it’s to pick up a cheque for
expenses, but never mind, they’re still working hard for us all they assure us!
Well honestly, does Nick Clegg and his slimy gang of political rascals really
think anyone believes all that stuff anymore. British people well know that THE
PROOF OF THE PUDDING IS IN THE EATING. Firstly they made important promises
before the election then dropped them to
get into Government. Secondly they did little to nothing to challenge their
Tory partners about anything really important when it counted. Looking back on
the whole Liberal Democrat pre-election political standpoint it was all smoke
and mirrors. One leader followed another down the drain in quick succession
over women and booze and no-one really knew
what any of them stood for. They were a kind of manufactured media image. A
kind of left leaning composite that could be brought out whenever it suited the
newspaper bosses. In truth they never actually ever stood for anything solid.
There was no organic connection either with working people or industrial
capitalists. Neither on one side or the other but something Christ knows what
in between. All smoke and mirrors… All smiles and chit chat… And there’s the
wonder of it all! With that kind of shit going for them they wound up in
Government. Well how did that happen you might ask?
Well it did, because they clearly played
you for mugs. They made promises, dropped them flat at the first opportunity and
went for the money. And now they want you to trust them again!
Don’t
you see, we’ve only been there a short time and we need you to help us stop any
mad Tory or Labour excesses so please trust us all over again…
It’s my view that there are only two ways
of understanding Liberal Democrats in Government. Either they are political
opportunists of the worst possible kind, political whores if you like… or they
are genuinely deluded. Believing that by their actions they can actually make
things better, in which case we really have what may best be described as a
‘medical’ condition. A group of people who are so disturbed that they need
medical treatment. Maybe some kind of psychological counseling. For people who
are so deluded, so far out of touch with reality, the best kind of remedy is often
hospital treatment. The important
question however is this, who are the really sick people here? Is it the
Liberal Democrats, or is it the people who’ll vote for them at the next General
Election?
And if you want to pursue this kind of
theme then it goes something like this. What kind of people is it these days
who are willing to put their trust in known political liars? In other words,
who is it who’s living in a political madhouse? Is it them or is it us? Are the
Liberal Democrats on the outside, living in a world of slimy reality looking in
on us poor deluded souls living in some kind of political asylum, or are we
living in the real world looking in on them? So you see, it’s all very simple.
Either the Liberal Democrats are genuine rascals of the very worst kind or
they’re all living in some dark nightmare world where they think they’re
terribly important. It can only be one of the two… or can it? Maybe it’s us who
are living in the dark nightmare world with the Liberal Democrat goblins
whispering into our ears that all will be well if we love them… And once we do
and give them the power they crave they’ll stick a spike up our arse!
Just like something out of Hieronymus
Bosch!
It’s your choice then. Do you want Nick Clegg
to take you by the hand and lead you up a rat’s arse, or do you want to sit in
a crocus and cuddle with a monkey who looks remarkably like Ed Miliband? Or maybe
float across a pond of urine on the back of scarecrow with George Osborne for
company?
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