The L/Dems are a side show. The real assault must be on "New" Labour,which looks more and more like OLD Labour.Tax and spend has reached new levels of waste and incompetence coupled with the destruction of final salary pensions. Who cares if Brown is straight or gay,the guy is a lunatic and must use Van Hoogsstraten and Mugabe as role models on fiscal policy. Forget about Ming and the mingers,take out Blair and Brown before its too late
Not a side show in Kingston perhaps,could this be due to the many thousands of impressionable students who live in the area. It is possible some may exercise their right to vote and if so would have been drawn to the leftist views and "no hope" of ruling appeal the Lib Dems excell at.
Nationally,thank goodness,they are a side show and increasingly so at that.
So we won't mention the ICM poll on Sat/Sunday(?) that put the Lib Dems on 18% nor the one today or yesterday that put them on 17%, which is hardly a huge loss of support . . .
Btw Alice Hamilton-Drax, don't be so patronising to students - one day I assume you'll expect some of them to be Tories - and as to being a 'national side show' - I think you'll find Scotland is a nation, and they're in Government there, have a similar number of MSPs to the Cons and lots and lots more MPs. Let's look at the south west too, and then consider the strength of the Lib Dems in Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool - they're hardly a side-show there either.
A 5% drop in support since the General Election is pretty large. If you want to see what effect it has on Lib Dem parliamentary seats (including this one) then go to www.electoralcalculus.co.uk.
Yes, but that's on a uniform swing (which swings very rarely are) and this dip tends to happen to the LDs just after a general election - same thing happened in 2001 . . .
Opinion Cartoon - Daily Telegraph - 24th January 2006
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The L/Dems are a side show.
The real assault must be on "New" Labour,which looks more and more like OLD Labour.Tax and spend has reached new levels of waste and incompetence coupled with the destruction of final salary pensions.
Who cares if Brown is straight or gay,the guy is a lunatic and must use Van Hoogsstraten and Mugabe as role models on fiscal policy.
Forget about Ming and the mingers,take out Blair and Brown before its too late
The LDs hold 30 out of 48 seats in Kingston, so I'm not really sure how that makes them a sideshow, not for Kevin anyway...
Lib Dems appear quite quiet on the leadership web election front. There is a blog runing at:
http://runnersandriders.blogspot.com/
Actually this is also quite good:
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk/libdemleader06.htm
Not a side show in Kingston perhaps,could this be due to the many thousands of impressionable students who live in the area.
It is possible some may exercise their right to vote and if so would have been drawn to the leftist views and "no hope" of ruling appeal the Lib Dems excell at.
Nationally,thank goodness,they are a side show and increasingly so at that.
So we won't mention the ICM poll on Sat/Sunday(?) that put the Lib Dems on 18% nor the one today or yesterday that put them on 17%, which is hardly a huge loss of support . . .
Btw Alice Hamilton-Drax, don't be so patronising to students - one day I assume you'll expect some of them to be Tories - and as to being a 'national side show' - I think you'll find Scotland is a nation, and they're in Government there, have a similar number of MSPs to the Cons and lots and lots more MPs.
Let's look at the south west too, and then consider the strength of the Lib Dems in Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool - they're hardly a side-show there either.
A 5% drop in support since the General Election is pretty large. If you want to see what effect it has on Lib Dem parliamentary seats (including this one) then go to www.electoralcalculus.co.uk.
Yes, but that's on a uniform swing (which swings very rarely are) and this dip tends to happen to the LDs just after a general election - same thing happened in 2001 . . .
Yes but neither have the Lib Dems locally had to cope with growing popularity for the Conservatives.
All elections have unknowns and for Kingston we are entering a new era.
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