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Leaving Lab for LDs 'like quitting Beatles for Bananarama tribute act'; Deputy leader casts scorn on Tim Farron’s suggestions.
Topic Started: Sep 21 2015, 11:00 AM (251 Views)
skwirked
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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/21/leaving-labour-for-lib-dems-like-quitting-beatles-for-bananarama-tribute-act-watson

Love this bit.

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The Lib Dem leader said it was not his job to be a “home wrecker” for Labour MPs, but to “provide a home for liberals and social democrats wherever they may currently be”. He refused to go into more detail about the conversations he had had, saying it would be “indecent”.

Farron first hinted he’d had conversations with Labour MPs thinking of defecting in an interview with the Evening Standard last week, saying he was being called on to play the role of agony aunt. Speaking to the BBC’s Andrew Marr show on Sunday, Farron confirmed that more than two MPs had been in contact.

Despite Farron’s comments, peer and former Lib Dem MP Lady Tonge told the Sunday Times that she was considering defecting to Labour because Corbyn’s honest politics were “a breath of fresh air”, claiming that lots of Lib Dems were thinking of doing the same.

Tonge, a former MP for Richmond Park, is still a Lib Dem party member but left the parliamentary group in 2012 after refusing to apologise for saying Israel “is not going to be there for ever”.


!jk! Business as usual for the lib dumbs; a total own goal.
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Rich
Sep 22 2015, 12:10 AM
You may well be right, but it seems to me that the Corbynites will go the same way as Tsipras, at the end of the day you cannot spend what you do not have and to borrow on behalf of the next generation to fulfil todays aspirations is just not on.
But you have not checked out what policies they tend to implement have you? Nobody has yet because most of what is out there has been spoonfed to you and is designed to yank your chain. Try not to be a DM drone.

Corbynites have to be stopped now because once they start talking sense the cat will well and truly be out of the bag. That is to say they'll stop subsidizing privatised railways and banks and underpinning inflated property prices with taxpayers money, ending abusive tax practices and start using the states resources for the benefit of the state and not to prop up various con men.

I'd like to know when we became so brainwashed that we thought a bunch of crooks in suits were actually a national asset? We need to look at what other nations have managed to do instead of cowering behind the sofa............
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