Going from Lib Dem to Tory is tactical voting to keep Lab out.
It now seems like those lost Lib Dem votes were only ever protest votes.
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Going from Lib Dem to Tory is tactical voting to keep Lab out.
It now seems like those lost Lib Dem votes were only ever protest votes.
C C Csiders
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Even Simon Hughes lost his seat. The electorate turning against the Libetal Metropolitan Effete.
Surely Simon Hughes would be the straight choice, not the liberal metropolitan effete choice?
OldBlueLady
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Felt quite sorry for Cleggy in his farewell speech, decent man who was sadly out of his depth.
Tangled up in Blue
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Bet Peter Tatchell feels vindicated.:winking:
C C Csiders
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No. Vin Dicated chucked him years ago.
yogi bear up the cagire
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Think it's worthwhile repeating a bit more of what Nick Clegg said in his resignation speech.
"We will never know how many lives we changed for the better because we had the courage to step up at a time of crisis. But we have done something that cannot be undone because there can be no doubt that we leave government with Britain a far stronger, fairer, greener, and more liberal country than it was five years ago.However unforgiving the judgement has been at the ballot box, I believe the history books will judge our party kindly…
Liberalism, here as well as across Europe, is not faring well against the politics of fear. Years of remorseless economic and social hardship … and the grinding insecurities of globalisation have led people to reach for new certainties: the politics of identity, of nationalism, of us vs them is now on the rise… The cruellest irony of all is that it is exactly at this time that British liberalism, that fine, noble tradition that believes we are stronger together and weaker apart, is needed now more than ever before.
Fear and grievance have won, liberalism has lost. But it is more precious than ever and we must keep fighting for it."
Funny how after 26 years living outside the UK it still means a lot to me. I stayed up all night Thursday, expecting nail- biting excitement. I ended up trudging off to bed at about 5am feeling defeated and demoralised, fearing the Britain (England?) that is going to emerge over the next five years................amazed it hurt that much. I've been extremely uneasy over the last parliament lending support to a party I fought bitterly against for many years of my life, yet I gritted by teeth and beared it in the belief that we were creating stability and doing something (even if it was little) to stem the excesses of Tory doctrines. Now that is all gone and many in the UK are going to face even more hardship over the coming years. "One nation, one United Kingdom" (?)......fine words but it's not the words that worry me .............it's the deeds that are likely to follow.
Whilst for the Liberal Democrats, in football terms, it's rather like finding overnight that, from being a little team playing in the Premiership, you now find yourself playing in the Conference.
"We will never know how many lives we changed for the better because we had the courage to step up at a time of crisis. But we have done something that cannot be undone because there can be no doubt that we leave government with Britain a far stronger, fairer, greener, and more liberal country than it was five years ago.However unforgiving the judgement has been at the ballot box, I believe the history books will judge our party kindly…
Liberalism, here as well as across Europe, is not faring well against the politics of fear. Years of remorseless economic and social hardship … and the grinding insecurities of globalisation have led people to reach for new certainties: the politics of identity, of nationalism, of us vs them is now on the rise… The cruellest irony of all is that it is exactly at this time that British liberalism, that fine, noble tradition that believes we are stronger together and weaker apart, is needed now more than ever before.
Fear and grievance have won, liberalism has lost. But it is more precious than ever and we must keep fighting for it."
Funny how after 26 years living outside the UK it still means a lot to me. I stayed up all night Thursday, expecting nail- biting excitement. I ended up trudging off to bed at about 5am feeling defeated and demoralised, fearing the Britain (England?) that is going to emerge over the next five years................amazed it hurt that much. I've been extremely uneasy over the last parliament lending support to a party I fought bitterly against for many years of my life, yet I gritted by teeth and beared it in the belief that we were creating stability and doing something (even if it was little) to stem the excesses of Tory doctrines. Now that is all gone and many in the UK are going to face even more hardship over the coming years. "One nation, one United Kingdom" (?)......fine words but it's not the words that worry me .............it's the deeds that are likely to follow.
Whilst for the Liberal Democrats, in football terms, it's rather like finding overnight that, from being a little team playing in the Premiership, you now find yourself playing in the Conference.
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