Could a Lib Dem Govt. be good for the country?

[F i F]

They are unelectable and if their canvasser calls whilst I am at my UK place, European travel chaos permitting, I will relish making him / her cry.... again.

Did I say they were unelectable?

[grumbledoak]

They'd be a disaster. Worse than either of the other two, in different ways.

Sadly I have to vote for them to keep Labour out here. Mercifully my MP is Simon Hughes who, as a lone MP, is a decent bloke.

[pilchardthecat]

In the same way that a Labour government, or a LibLab pact would be good, yes.

ie; they would all end in a bond market disaster, and the IMF coming in to annihilate the welfare state.

This election is a false choice - we can either slaughter the public sector voluntarily and sort out the debt, or keep going, and have it forced upon us.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Why would they be a disaster, you can promise what the hell you like but when you are in things change, I remember labour promising me a referendum.

Maybe if NC got in he would find we have so many contracts with america we couldn't scrap trident etc

[WhoseGeneration]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Maybe if NC got in he would find we have so many contracts with america we couldn't scrap trident etc

A very pertinent observation, in that no Labour or "NewLabour" Government has ever decided to withdraw from having Nuclear weapons, despite what their espoused views in Opposition had been, or the membership of CND, from youth, of those who have risen to power in that Party.
So, how can we believe anything that they say?

[EDLT]

This thread made me have a quick look at the LibDem website, and tacked on the end of their transport policy is the desire to put more loser cruisers on the roads then solve a congestion and pollution problem of their own making by removing (they didn't explain how this bit would work) some trucks. Maybe they are going to stick 40-tons of goods on the top deck then put a bus-stop outside every Tesco.

Edited by EDLT on Saturday 17th April 00:21

[mybrainhurts]

raf_gti said:

Could a Lib Dem Govt. be good for the country?

Are you mad...?

(1) They don't like cars

(2) ------------>

(3) They don't like cars

(4) Only the Greens are greener

(5) They don't like cars

THE END...

[WhoseGeneration]

mybrainhurts said:

raf_gti said:

Could a Lib Dem Govt. be good for the country?

Are you mad...?

(1) They don't like cars

(2) ------------>

(3) They don't like cars

(4) Only the Greens are greener

(5) They don't like cars

THE END...

Yeah but, tell me, where is the "We like cars" Party?
I don't see one.

[mybrainhurts]

WhoseGeneration said:

Yeah but, tell me, where is the "We like cars" Party?
I don't see one.

Only the Greens dislike cars more than Dem Libs....

Dem Libs are not your friends. Think £1000 VEL for starters.

[AJS-]

Yes, in the sense that it would show the lefties that their ideas don't work in any colour.

[ZeeTacoe]

AJS- said:

Yes, in the sense that it would show the lefties that their ideas don't work in any colour.

as nice as proving them wrong I personally couldn't take 5 years of libdem hell.

[AJS-]

ZeeTacoe said:

AJS- said:

Yes, in the sense that it would show the lefties that their ideas don't work in any colour.

as nice as proving them wrong I personally couldn't take 5 years of libdem hell.

Much quicker and less damaging than 5 years of Cameron hades, followed by anohter 5 years of Labour hell, and so on and so on, until we're properly fked.

[anonymous-user]

AJS- said:

ZeeTacoe said:

AJS- said:

Yes, in the sense that it would show the lefties that their ideas don't work in any colour.

as nice as proving them wrong I personally couldn't take 5 years of libdem hell.

Much quicker and less damaging than 5 years of Cameron hades, followed by anohter 5 years of Labour hell, and so on and so on, until we're properly fked.

Vote for this lot then..http://lpuk.org/pages/about-us.php ..the least worst imho. In fact, their manifesto is what I'd expect from a proper Tory party.

Edited by excel789 on Saturday 17th April 14:31

[MX7]

excel789 said:

Vote for this lot then..http://lpuk.org/pages/about-us.php

What happens if you don't live on Devizes or Sutton and Cheam?

[Halb]

MX7 said:

excel789 said:

Vote for this lot then..http://lpuk.org/pages/about-us.php

What happens if you don't live on Devizes or Sutton and Cheam?

90% here...and in some other quiz tother day it said I should vote for the Greens!

[Morningside]

The Lib Dem motoring ideas:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1529116/Lib...
http://garywareing.blogspot.com/

Maybe old news but you get the idea.

Anyone driving a 'gas guzzler' is on the same par as a child murderer.

[diesel head]

At the moment the choice doesn't seem to be which party's polices I agree with but who has the least that I disagree with. At the moment that seems to be the LibDems, yes they hate cars, but frankly which party doesn't and I agree with and like quite a few of their other ideas.

At the moment they actually seem like quite a good option.

[Wadeski]

Clegg probably WOULD be the Tory party leader if the Tories weren't so bonkers Eurosceptic.

[mybrainhurts]

Wadeski said:

Clegg probably WOULD be the Tory party leader if the Tories weren't so bonkers Eurosceptic.

What's wrong with being Eurosceptic?

We get nothing from the Union of European Socialist Republics, while said corrupt and uncontrollable organisation bleeds us dry and stifles us with thousands of pointless laws.

We need to leave....

[Wadeski]

well, i disagree, and everytime the Tories bring out the "immigrants and Europe" line they get trounced. Hence the stony silence on Europe from them now.