No matter what kind of gloss you
put on it that’s what their politics actually came down to during their time in
Government! Energy prices only ever went one way and that was up! As Energy
Secretary, Liberal Democrat Ed Davy set up a cartel of the Big Six Energy
Suppliers some of whose executives worked in his offices and all that ever
happened to prices was that they went the wrong way for their customers! And
what about all their talk of reforming the electoral system? Something that
seemed such a big deal to them. Well the Tories soon put a stop to all that so
not another word said! And as for getting the bankers and banks to behave
themselves, well all you can say for Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat Business
Supremo is that people like HSBC must have been laughing their heads off at all
your promises of change when all you ever did during your time in office was
sweet f/a. And as for Danny Alexander, Lib-Dem Secretary of the Treasury and
George Osborne’s favorite lackey, what did he ever do to control the antics of
the Inland Revenue and their sweetheart tax deals with various billionaires and
multinational corporations. Answer to all of that… NOTHING!
The main plank of Nick Clegg’s
current election campaign is that he and his Lib-Dem buddies in Coalition
Government stopped the Tories from doing many bad things. That’s the main thing we hear coming out of his mouth. That it
would all have been a lot worse if he and his chums hadn’t put the brakes on
David Cameron and his ‘evil’ intentions! What is astonishing to me is that
there are people out there who actually believe it! Yes, the all powerful Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and his buddies
actually got the Tories to do as they wanted… because if they didn’t?
Right now, after seeing even a
small climb in the share of people thinking of voting Liberal Democrat I can
only stand in wonder at the political naiveté and short term memory of the
British electorate. Clearly most have forgotten the promise they made to
students in their last election manifesto, forgotten all their talk about reforming
the banks, forgotten their promises of electoral reform. So when Nick Clegg
stands up and tells people about the good things that they did, all of which
taken together don’t amount to a diddly squat compared to their support for
Tory welfare cuts for the young, the poor and the unemployed, I can only turn
round and ask myself… exactly what kind
of people still intend voting for them when they might as well just go and vote
Tory instead?
Please forgive me but I don’t understand!
Why on earth are you thinking of voting Liberal Democrat? Except for being
diehard supporters of the European Union whatever the cost, giving the same kind
of support to unlimited and unchecked immigration and of course turning a
seriously blind eye to Islamic extremism, what else do they offer? They only
have one man doing the talking these days it seems so pray tell me, whatever
happened to Vince Cable and who shoved the old Scarecrow back in his box?
Indeed the same might be asked of all the rest of the Lib-Dem gang in Coalition.
Has anybody had sight of Ed Davey or David Laws, of Danny Alexander or even the
Bath mangle-wurzel Don Foster? And yet with so many of these Coalition
front-liners invisible, there are actually people out there still thinking of
voting for them!
Something I find almost incredible.
Given this fact I for one cannot help thinking that it indicates
something strange, something even peculiar in the British national psyche. That
despite everything they know, the broken promises, the lies and the deceit of
the Liberal Democrats for over five years or more there are still millions of
people out there willing to give their support. I can only think of it as a
peculiarly British kind of masochism. In this case a political masochism. In
social terms a bit like wives loving their husbands who they know are lying on
a regular basis, cheating and even beating them once in a while! Women who’ve
seen and heard it all before yet keep on coming back for more… And so it is
with the British electorate! They just keep on coming back for another dose of
sweet smiling bullshit just like they want to be lied to! Nick saying… although you really didn’t know it at the
time I really did it all for you and if you give me another chance I’ll make it
up to you, make things all right, just for you! And here he gives you one of
his famous sheepish innocent smiles!
And so you believe his promises.
You somehow rationalize that he really cared all along and if you give him
another chance he’ll do everything he can to make you happy and Britain
prosperous again. Just one more chance so he can work to make Britain a better
place! So that he can prise that old cadaver Vince Cable out of his box in the
wall, turn the key in his back and make him talk fussy all over again.
Well you voted for them last time
in spades. So did they actually come up with the goods? Do everything you
expected and hoped for or were they only a political irrelevance all along?
People who talked the talk but when it came to it walked the walk with the
Tories. Or were they people who talked bullshit all along, a plain gang of
lying political turds who never thought you’d check up on them much because as
British people you’re not really interested in politics or what politicians do,
except when it’s on the front page of the tabloids! From this point in time a
month before the General Election it looks plain enough. All that they did in
Government was prop up the Tories who once in a while fed them with a handful
of peanuts. Well, if you’re the kind of person who thinks that’s good enough
for a Party of political principles and values well you go ahead and give them
your vote, but take a look at yourself in the mirror before doing so. On the
other hand if you think you’re a bit better than that and won’t support a gang
of opportunists second time around well just give your face a good rinse, dry
off with a towel and go and kick them into the long grass come May 7th.
This Post is about Nick Clegg and
the Liberal Democrats. Thursday’s television debate has now come and gone and
from polls taken immediately after it’s clear that his performance landed him
firmly at the bottom of the pile of the Party leaders participating, well below
even the Greens! After last night the Liberal Democrats as a national political
Party are on their way out and most of their Westminster seats will be won by
the Tories in the coming General Election. Clegg himself was put on the back
foot most of the way through for being a Tory collaborator. He himself
acknowledged the fact and apologized for some of the political decisions he and
his Party had made, justifying them for the sake of national economic interest.
For those interviewed later his excuse just didn’t wash.
The Liberal Democrat leader spent
most of the time during the debate on the back foot looking sheepish and acknowledging
guilt. In the polls he came over as the most feeble and ineffectual of all the
Party leaders and it was fascinating to see him turn angrily on David Cameron
and accuse him of conducting harsh economic policies when he’d gone along with
most of them over his five year time as Deputy Prime Minister, a fact pointed out
by the other participants. Actually even Cameron himself looked surprised at
this ‘betrayal’.
Clegg trying to distance himself from everything he’d done right at the
end, only now it was simply too late! He’d
collaborated!
That was the message that went out
to millions of viewers. But still, some five or six percent of the electorate are
willing to give him a second chance! Some in the Lib-Dem Gang must be rubbing their
eyes. They’re a political irrelevance and in their heart of hearts know it. On their
way down the tubes of political history without even making a splash and to 95%
of the British electorate good riddance.
If any future British political leader
wants to learn how they can destroy their own political party they can learn a good
lesson here. Betray the promises you made, collaborate with the enemy and pretend
you did it all for the good!
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