There has been an awful lot of sympathetic blogging bout the predicament of Mark Oaten; my blogging colleague Iain Dale amongst them. On one level, the personal and family, I can understand this. However the charge sheet relating to Mark Oaten is not a good one.
- He has misled his party
- We presume he misled his family
- He deluded himself that he could become the Lib Dem Leader – it would have been interesting if he had won!
- He argued in the Orange book of the Lib Dem modernisers that the family should be upper most in the minds of the state; and then he betrays his own.
- He lets down his constituents
The Lib Dem party now has “sleaze” attached to them in a way they used to gain their political position over the Conservatives seats they now hold.
In the sort space of a few months the Lib Dems have gone from a serious threat to at least one of the two major parties to be a joke party. Nobody ever really cared what their policies were but now they are just looking dishonest and deceitful. What a fortnight they have had:
- An alcoholic leader
- Back stabbers who briefed on national TV against him and forced him out
- An alcoholic leader in the House of Lord’s (what a pair!) who now regrets his wasted years and money given up to alcohol
- A leadership campaign that has disappeared without site through its torpidity
- A potential leader now permanently to be know as Ming the Merciless
- A Home Office spokesman who wanted to be Leader who now admits to three in a bed romps with his rent boy whilst his wife and young kids were at home.
So, I feel sorry for Mark Oaten; I am sure being outed by the News of the World is not pleasant. But I can feel no sorrow for a party that made its success on the misery and problems of other parties and painted themselves as a clean, young, trustworthy and just plain “normal” party. They clearly are not and are in freefall.
Incidentally, as the news was breaking one BBC reporter gave away on live TV how he was surprised that it was “that” Lib Dem frontbencher. Apparently there are other issues widely known to the press and yet more revelations about others might well follow. There will be many worried about their closets and skeletons over the coming weeks and months!
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It wasn't a BBC reporter, it was (according to Iain Dale's blog) Martin Popplewell, Sky News presenter.
Binge drinking?
Wallet theft?
Leaking e-mails?
Back stabbing?
Buggery?
Will the Lib dems be telling their trusty 'muslim vote' that they are indeed the 'Real Alternative'?
I wonder if the minger, chris who-hne, or the Beast from Bermondsey will be whisking themselves into the next mosque in downtown Befnal Gween, telling the eager congregation that yes, we are gay, we are bent, we are dreadfuly incompetent, we do have Susan 'ooohhh look at what a crap haircut I have' Kramer, but we are the 'Real Alternative'.
I wonder what the Libs have in suprise for us next?
Watch this space folks, you never know, Britain's future government will next be telling us they are going to scrap the local income tax next.
ooooooppppsss!
"At the last election, there was much talk of the Lib Dems replacing the Tories. This is now happening, but not in the way most commentators imagined. Suddenly, it is the Lib Dems who are the nasty party: the party of vindictive factionalism and ruthless ambition and sexual escapades. Mr Cameron, meanwhile, has been quick to appeal to their ex-voters, presenting himself as a nice, eco-friendly moderate. Last year, Tony Blair told his activists: "Never underestimate the Tories; never over-estimate the Lib Dems." He was right. On both counts."
Daily Telegraph Leader 23.1.06
Oh how the self rightious sneer.
Shame about the poll today that puts the Lib Dems on 19%.
The smug arrogance of the party that is born to rule knows no bounds. Hubris is wonderful.
I look forward to the fall.
BTW - have you made your mind up yet on a serious issue that matters to people yet? I mean things like local Post Offices, speed humps, phone masts, Council tax, schools? Perhaps it is easier to sit and judge those with more complex lives.
For a supposed Christian (Catholic per chance?) you show little humilty.
Perhaps we should ask why so many men elected to high office are intent on living in a doomed underworld of unnatural sex,lies,fiscal corruption.
Clearly they must feel that to achieve power they must incorporate some or all of these vices.
Then they complain of being outed.
Seems to me that the selection process for prospective MPs must be beefed up to include penetrating questioning and police record searching.
Perhaps we should apply "rendition" techniques to the final shortlists in a big brother,lord of the flies TV program that runs for 24 hours a day.
Please note I refused to use the slovenly "24/7" expression so beloved of the Vicky Pollard school of reporting.
The Self righteous are not sneering. It is a great shame for Oaten who had a good career ahead of him. But it is the Lib Dems who were self righteous about sleaze and hypocrisy and won elections because of their supposed whiter than white behaviour. All along they were deceiving people.
And now we hear that despite last week telling people he was not gay that...guess what...Simon Hughes has had gay relationships!!
Our local election manifesto is nearly complete and is at the printers. Give me your name and I will send you a copy when it is ready.
Poppy - I do wonder how interesting a Big Brother hosue with only politicians in might be?
Kevin that is a thought too awful to contemplate.
The "cold turkey" aspect could help many kick some of the odder habits now so willingly embraced,or you could just have "wimmin" members.
They could form endless PC iniatives and cross culture religous gender for issues for later implementation.
Hang on already sounds like the commons.
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