Sir Ed Davey - Lib. Dem Leader
Discussion
hstewie said:
MC Bodge said:
I think the basis of the point is that you are desperate to discredit Ed Davey and the Lib Dems when the Tories have been so absolutely appalling over the last few years.
I don't need to achieve anything. Salford Quays was quite happily Lib Dem. The self immolation is all on him as a politician. I have no axe to grind with Ed, that's why I started the thread.I've just had a lib/dem come to my house canvassing. It's for the locals.
I told him that I was impressed by how the few who had broken the tory stranglehold had performed, and listed a few of their achievements. He seemed a pleasant chap: young and athletic. He thanked us for taking an interest and then mentioned the GE. He said the constituency was an outlier, right at the extreme of possible for them to turnover, but that it was rather exciting. I've had a few from all the political parties to our various doors over the years and the lib/dems have always been the ones to show genuine pleasure at being in politics.
I told him that I was impressed by how the few who had broken the tory stranglehold had performed, and listed a few of their achievements. He seemed a pleasant chap: young and athletic. He thanked us for taking an interest and then mentioned the GE. He said the constituency was an outlier, right at the extreme of possible for them to turnover, but that it was rather exciting. I've had a few from all the political parties to our various doors over the years and the lib/dems have always been the ones to show genuine pleasure at being in politics.
Derek Smith said:
I've just had a lib/dem come to my house canvassing. It's for the locals.
I told him that I was impressed by how the few who had broken the tory stranglehold had performed, and listed a few of their achievements. He seemed a pleasant chap: young and athletic. He thanked us for taking an interest and then mentioned the GE. He said the constituency was an outlier, right at the extreme of possible for them to turnover, but that it was rather exciting. I've had a few from all the political parties to our various doors over the years and the lib/dems have always been the ones to show genuine pleasure at being in politics.
I would have told them to clear off! I told him that I was impressed by how the few who had broken the tory stranglehold had performed, and listed a few of their achievements. He seemed a pleasant chap: young and athletic. He thanked us for taking an interest and then mentioned the GE. He said the constituency was an outlier, right at the extreme of possible for them to turnover, but that it was rather exciting. I've had a few from all the political parties to our various doors over the years and the lib/dems have always been the ones to show genuine pleasure at being in politics.
julian987R said:
Derek Smith said:
I've just had a lib/dem come to my house canvassing. It's for the locals.
I told him that I was impressed by how the few who had broken the tory stranglehold had performed, and listed a few of their achievements. He seemed a pleasant chap: young and athletic. He thanked us for taking an interest and then mentioned the GE. He said the constituency was an outlier, right at the extreme of possible for them to turnover, but that it was rather exciting. I've had a few from all the political parties to our various doors over the years and the lib/dems have always been the ones to show genuine pleasure at being in politics.
I would have told them to clear off! I told him that I was impressed by how the few who had broken the tory stranglehold had performed, and listed a few of their achievements. He seemed a pleasant chap: young and athletic. He thanked us for taking an interest and then mentioned the GE. He said the constituency was an outlier, right at the extreme of possible for them to turnover, but that it was rather exciting. I've had a few from all the political parties to our various doors over the years and the lib/dems have always been the ones to show genuine pleasure at being in politics.
MC Bodge said:
julian987R said:
Derek Smith said:
I've just had a lib/dem come to my house canvassing. It's for the locals.
I told him that I was impressed by how the few who had broken the tory stranglehold had performed, and listed a few of their achievements. He seemed a pleasant chap: young and athletic. He thanked us for taking an interest and then mentioned the GE. He said the constituency was an outlier, right at the extreme of possible for them to turnover, but that it was rather exciting. I've had a few from all the political parties to our various doors over the years and the lib/dems have always been the ones to show genuine pleasure at being in politics.
I would have told them to clear off! I told him that I was impressed by how the few who had broken the tory stranglehold had performed, and listed a few of their achievements. He seemed a pleasant chap: young and athletic. He thanked us for taking an interest and then mentioned the GE. He said the constituency was an outlier, right at the extreme of possible for them to turnover, but that it was rather exciting. I've had a few from all the political parties to our various doors over the years and the lib/dems have always been the ones to show genuine pleasure at being in politics.
Davey's muppets should be knocking on Ed's door, not mine or anyone else's right now.
Simon Heffer writes in the Telegraph:
"Sir Ed Davey is a toxic liability even to the feckless Lib Dems.
His behaviour over the Post Office scandal has been idiotic and arrogant"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/14/ed-dav...
Carl_VivaEspana said:
Simon Heffer writes in the Telegraph:
"Sir Ed Davey is a toxic liability even to the feckless Lib Dems.
His behaviour over the Post Office scandal has been idiotic and arrogant"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/14/ed-dav...
Just so long as they don't widen the witch hunt to people like Jo it's ok. "Sir Ed Davey is a toxic liability even to the feckless Lib Dems.
His behaviour over the Post Office scandal has been idiotic and arrogant"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/14/ed-dav...
Carl_VivaEspana said:
Simon Heffer writes in the Telegraph:
"Sir Ed Davey is a toxic liability even to the feckless Lib Dems.
His behaviour over the Post Office scandal has been idiotic and arrogant"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/14/ed-dav...
Simon Heffer is normally such a reasonable, fluffy, character too. "Sir Ed Davey is a toxic liability even to the feckless Lib Dems.
His behaviour over the Post Office scandal has been idiotic and arrogant"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/14/ed-dav...
Who next? "I always thought he was a wrong 'un" says Rees-Mogg?
I am amazed his was that popular in the first place!
‘Sir’ Ed Davey’s Lib Dems are the real nasty party
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/sir-ed-daveys-...
Davey seems intensely relaxed about his own incompetence, appearing to believe that the world owes him a lush living; as the bankrupted sub-postmaster Jo Hamilton said to the Times:
‘Of course Davey should have been asking more questions. What did he think – we were just moaning? They’re called public servants but they do anything but serve the public.’
It’s interesting the people who Davey considers talking to and not talking to; at the 2009 Lib-Dem conference he called for a dialogue with the actual Taliban – or, as he put it, ‘time for tea with the Taliban’. What a shame he had no time for tea with suicidal sub-postmasters.
‘Sir’ Ed Davey’s Lib Dems are the real nasty party
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/sir-ed-daveys-...
Davey seems intensely relaxed about his own incompetence, appearing to believe that the world owes him a lush living; as the bankrupted sub-postmaster Jo Hamilton said to the Times:
‘Of course Davey should have been asking more questions. What did he think – we were just moaning? They’re called public servants but they do anything but serve the public.’
It’s interesting the people who Davey considers talking to and not talking to; at the 2009 Lib-Dem conference he called for a dialogue with the actual Taliban – or, as he put it, ‘time for tea with the Taliban’. What a shame he had no time for tea with suicidal sub-postmasters.
MC Bodge said:
...But you are presumably the local nutter with a faded UKIP poster in the window, a Union flag on a flagpole in the garden and a Rover 75.
Coming from someone with an EU flag as a bedroom curtain, a faded rainbow save our NHS poster in the window and an extension lead across the front garden and the pavement to a Nissan leaf parked 3 doors away on the road. Vanden Saab said:
MC Bodge said:
...But you are presumably the local nutter with a faded UKIP poster in the window, a Union flag on a flagpole in the garden and a Rover 75.
Coming from someone with an EU flag as a bedroom curtain, a faded rainbow save our NHS poster in the window and an extension lead across the front garden and the pavement to a Nissan leaf parked 3 doors away on the road. 
Lib Dems’ Sir Ed Davey's eight word response over Post Office scandal apology
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1870566/ed...
still sounding disingenuous
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1870566/ed...
still sounding disingenuous
MC Bodge said:
julian987R said:
Derek Smith said:
I've just had a lib/dem come to my house canvassing. It's for the locals.
I told him that I was impressed by how the few who had broken the tory stranglehold had performed, and listed a few of their achievements. He seemed a pleasant chap: young and athletic. He thanked us for taking an interest and then mentioned the GE. He said the constituency was an outlier, right at the extreme of possible for them to turnover, but that it was rather exciting. I've had a few from all the political parties to our various doors over the years and the lib/dems have always been the ones to show genuine pleasure at being in politics.
I would have told them to clear off! I told him that I was impressed by how the few who had broken the tory stranglehold had performed, and listed a few of their achievements. He seemed a pleasant chap: young and athletic. He thanked us for taking an interest and then mentioned the GE. He said the constituency was an outlier, right at the extreme of possible for them to turnover, but that it was rather exciting. I've had a few from all the political parties to our various doors over the years and the lib/dems have always been the ones to show genuine pleasure at being in politics.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lib-dem-mp-sara...
Unsurprisingly the Lib Dems are mostly out of the news these days.
Why does a backbench MP need to pay tens of thousands a year to a consultancy firm? Seems like something that is within the rules but is a potential expenses style scandal in a few years.
For comparison:
The only MP to have claimed more for bought-in services since 2021 is the Conservative Karl McCartney (£179,892), while Labour’s Matt Rodda has the third highest (£91,285.96). There is no suggestion of impropriety on their part. Over the same period, Sir Keir Starmer has claimed £40, and there are no such recorded expenses for Rishi Sunak or Sir Ed Davey.
I'm curious about the £40 spent by Starmer, it's obviously not corruption but it's also only likely to be an hour of work, if that.
Unsurprisingly the Lib Dems are mostly out of the news these days.
Why does a backbench MP need to pay tens of thousands a year to a consultancy firm? Seems like something that is within the rules but is a potential expenses style scandal in a few years.
For comparison:
The only MP to have claimed more for bought-in services since 2021 is the Conservative Karl McCartney (£179,892), while Labour’s Matt Rodda has the third highest (£91,285.96). There is no suggestion of impropriety on their part. Over the same period, Sir Keir Starmer has claimed £40, and there are no such recorded expenses for Rishi Sunak or Sir Ed Davey.
I'm curious about the £40 spent by Starmer, it's obviously not corruption but it's also only likely to be an hour of work, if that.
Mr Penguin said:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lib-dem-mp-sara...
Unsurprisingly the Lib Dems are mostly out of the news these days.
Why does a backbench MP need to pay tens of thousands a year to a consultancy firm? Seems like something that is within the rules but is a potential expenses style scandal in a few years.
For comparison:
The only MP to have claimed more for bought-in services since 2021 is the Conservative Karl McCartney (£179,892), while Labour’s Matt Rodda has the third highest (£91,285.96). There is no suggestion of impropriety on their part. Over the same period, Sir Keir Starmer has claimed £40, and there are no such recorded expenses for Rishi Sunak or Sir Ed Davey.
I'm curious about the £40 spent by Starmer, it's obviously not corruption but it's also only likely to be an hour of work, if that.
You need to get a life man! Unsurprisingly the Lib Dems are mostly out of the news these days.
Why does a backbench MP need to pay tens of thousands a year to a consultancy firm? Seems like something that is within the rules but is a potential expenses style scandal in a few years.
For comparison:
The only MP to have claimed more for bought-in services since 2021 is the Conservative Karl McCartney (£179,892), while Labour’s Matt Rodda has the third highest (£91,285.96). There is no suggestion of impropriety on their part. Over the same period, Sir Keir Starmer has claimed £40, and there are no such recorded expenses for Rishi Sunak or Sir Ed Davey.
I'm curious about the £40 spent by Starmer, it's obviously not corruption but it's also only likely to be an hour of work, if that.
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