| Liberal Democrat hypocrisy? 10:50 - Sep 12 with 1631 views | DJR |
From the same article in today's Guardian.
[Darsi] details how the NHS experienced three shocks during the 2010s: austerity funding under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government; Andrew Lansley’s “disastrous” reorganisation; and the arrival of Covid – the first two of which were “choices made in Westminster”.
Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, said: “This report shows the NHS is on its knees after years of the Conservatives driving local health services into the ground.” Fixing the health service “is this country’s greatest challenge”, he added. [Post edited 12 Sep 2024 10:51]
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| Liberal Democrat hypocrisy? on 11:07 - Sep 12 with 1539 views | MattinLondon |
The Lib Dems aren’t the first party to be guilty of hypocrisy and they won’t be the last. Many choose to completely ignore Tory corruption or their chronic mismanagement of the country. And many Labour supporters forget about their past misdeeds.
But both sets both magically remember when the Lib Dems were in the wrong and they get much more of a bad press than the Tories in terms of the coalition. |  | | |
| Liberal Democrat hypocrisy? on 11:56 - Sep 12 with 1456 views | DJR |
| Liberal Democrat hypocrisy? on 11:07 - Sep 12 by MattinLondon |
The Lib Dems aren’t the first party to be guilty of hypocrisy and they won’t be the last. Many choose to completely ignore Tory corruption or their chronic mismanagement of the country. And many Labour supporters forget about their past misdeeds.
But both sets both magically remember when the Lib Dems were in the wrong and they get much more of a bad press than the Tories in terms of the coalition. |
And Teflon "Call Me Dave" gets virtually no criticism at all. [Post edited 12 Sep 2024 11:59]
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| Liberal Democrat hypocrisy? on 11:56 - Sep 12 with 1453 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Liberal Democrat hypocrisy? on 11:07 - Sep 12 by MattinLondon |
The Lib Dems aren’t the first party to be guilty of hypocrisy and they won’t be the last. Many choose to completely ignore Tory corruption or their chronic mismanagement of the country. And many Labour supporters forget about their past misdeeds.
But both sets both magically remember when the Lib Dems were in the wrong and they get much more of a bad press than the Tories in terms of the coalition. |
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| Liberal Democrat hypocrisy? on 12:36 - Sep 12 with 1344 views | lowhouseblue |
| Liberal Democrat hypocrisy? on 11:07 - Sep 12 by MattinLondon |
The Lib Dems aren’t the first party to be guilty of hypocrisy and they won’t be the last. Many choose to completely ignore Tory corruption or their chronic mismanagement of the country. And many Labour supporters forget about their past misdeeds.
But both sets both magically remember when the Lib Dems were in the wrong and they get much more of a bad press than the Tories in terms of the coalition. |
the thing about the lib dems, and their previous incarnations, is that they have spent decades in holier than thou banging on. the one time in all those years they actually got to do anything they screwed it up. so yes, people will remember it. [Post edited 12 Sep 2024 12:37]
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| And so as the loose-bowelled pigeon of time swoops low over the unsuspecting tourist of destiny, and the flatulent skunk of fate wanders into the air-conditioning system of eternity, I notice it's the end of the show |
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| Liberal Democrat hypocrisy? on 12:40 - Sep 12 with 1315 views | MattinLondon |
| Liberal Democrat hypocrisy? on 11:56 - Sep 12 by GlasgowBlue |
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Considering you’re the Grand Master for whatabouty then I’m flattered by your comment. My forthcoming comments will now be based on GlasgowBlue’s style and contain a lot of disingenuousness and wrapped in a massive ego. | | | |
| Liberal Democrat hypocrisy? on 14:59 - Sep 12 with 1103 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Liberal Democrat hypocrisy? on 12:40 - Sep 12 by MattinLondon |
Considering you’re the Grand Master for whatabouty then I’m flattered by your comment. My forthcoming comments will now be based on GlasgowBlue’s style and contain a lot of disingenuousness and wrapped in a massive ego. |
Don't get upset and take it too personally mate. It's only the internet. | |
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| Liberal Democrat hypocrisy? on 18:32 - Sep 12 with 965 views | Swansea_Blue |
I’m not sure how much influence they would/could have had over Osborne’s austerity ideology. Clegg certainly signed them up to it though. A slight brownie point for Clegg is I think it was their manifesto commitment to lift the lower tax threshold to over £10k, so they weren’t all bad (just mostly!). |  |
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| Liberal Democrat hypocrisy? on 18:40 - Sep 12 with 953 views | Freddies_Ears |
| Liberal Democrat hypocrisy? on 18:32 - Sep 12 by Swansea_Blue |
I’m not sure how much influence they would/could have had over Osborne’s austerity ideology. Clegg certainly signed them up to it though. A slight brownie point for Clegg is I think it was their manifesto commitment to lift the lower tax threshold to over £10k, so they weren’t all bad (just mostly!). |
They were the minor partner in a coalition, so were never going to get their own way on every, or even most, of their policies. Their tax threshold priority made a massive difference to many people. Once the Tories won their majority, they managed to unwind the tax threshold improvement by pegging the amount despite very high inflation. |  | | |
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| Liberal Democrat hypocrisy? on 21:37 - Sep 12 with 836 views | DJR |
The Orange Book liberals (Clegg, Laws, Cable, Huhne, Davey, Webb) were just as keen on austerity as the Tories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orange_Book
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12310041
Don't forget the love-in between Clegg and Cameron at the joint conference in the garden of No.10 where Clegg was heard to remark at the end that there was nothing they disagreed on. [Post edited 12 Sep 2024 21:44]
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