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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Roses on August 27, 2020, 11:54:06 AM

Title: Ed Davey is the new leader of the Lib Dems
Post by: Roses on August 27, 2020, 11:54:06 AM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53933470
Title: Re: Ed Davey is the new leader of the Lib Dems
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 27, 2020, 12:37:40 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53933470
'How can they tell?'
Title: Re: Ed Davey is the new leader of the Lib Dems
Post by: Steve H on August 27, 2020, 01:16:21 PM
Eh?

Pity - I was rooting for Ms Moran, since Davey was a member of the ConDem cabinet.
Title: Re: Ed Davey is the new leader of the Lib Dems
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 27, 2020, 01:23:38 PM
Eh?

Pity - I was rooting for Ms Moran, since Davey was a member of the ConDem cabinet.

What Dorothy Parker supposedly said when told that Calvin Coolidge was dead.


They both think transwomen are women so they can both fuck off for me.
Title: Re: Ed Davey is the new leader of the Lib Dems
Post by: jeremyp on August 27, 2020, 02:41:50 PM
Eh?

Pity - I was rooting for Ms Moran, since Davey was a member of the ConDem cabinet.

From the standpoint of history, I think you can cut the Lib Dem part of the coalition some slack, now that we have ten years of experience of what it is like without their moderating influence.
Title: Re: Ed Davey is the new leader of the Lib Dems
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on August 27, 2020, 02:56:03 PM
From the standpoint of history, I think you can cut the Lib Dem part of the coalition some slack, now that we have ten years of experience of what it is like without their moderating influence.
Not going into coalition with the Tories could have been far more moderating and discarded or defeated Lib Dem policies would have had more of a chance.

The next five Tory years are brought to us courtesy of The former MP for Auchanotherbollock Ms Jo Swinson.
Title: Re: Ed Davey is the new leader of the Lib Dems
Post by: Robbie on August 27, 2020, 05:02:31 PM
I wasn't familiar with Ed Davey but, from reading about him, he seems like an interesting man.
Title: Re: Ed Davey is the new leader of the Lib Dems
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 27, 2020, 05:15:09 PM
I wasn't familiar with Ed Davey but, from reading about him, he seems like an interesting man.
In what way?
Title: Re: Ed Davey is the new leader of the Lib Dems
Post by: Gordon on August 27, 2020, 05:24:42 PM
John Crace seems less than whelmed.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/aug/27/ed-davey-entirely-inconsequential-victory-speech-quintessential-lib-dem-event
Title: Re: Ed Davey is the new leader of the Lib Dems
Post by: jeremyp on August 27, 2020, 06:11:03 PM
Not going into coalition with the Tories could have been far more moderating
Nope.

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and discarded or defeated Lib Dem policies would have had more of a chance.
Nope. They would have stood no chance.

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The next five Tory years are brought to us courtesy of The former MP for Auchanotherbollock Ms Jo Swinson.
Nope. We are where we are mainly because Corbyn was so utterly useless.
Title: Re: Ed Davey is the new leader of the Lib Dems
Post by: Roses on August 27, 2020, 06:25:57 PM
At one time the Lib Dems were on good form, but under Ed Milliband they disappeared down the drain!
Title: Re: Ed Davey is the new leader of the Lib Dems
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 27, 2020, 06:27:31 PM
At one time the Lib Dems were on good form, but under Ed Milliband they disappeared down the drain!

Do you know what you are talking about?  Ed Milliband? Ex Labour leader!!!
Title: Re: Ed Davey is the new leader of the Lib Dems
Post by: Roses on August 27, 2020, 06:34:49 PM
Do you know what you are talking about?  Ed Milliband? Ex Labour leader!!!

Whoops, sorry about that of course you are right, I must be more senile than I thought! :-[
Title: Re: Ed Davey is the new leader of the Lib Dems
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 27, 2020, 06:47:15 PM
Whoops, sorry about that of course you are right, I must be more senile than I thought! :-[
or just make the normal mind blanks we all do.

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As to the Lib Dems, did you mean someone else?
Title: Re: Ed Davey is the new leader of the Lib Dems
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on August 27, 2020, 07:05:14 PM
Do you know what you are talking about?  Ed Milliband? Ex Labour leader!!!
It wasn’t Miliband’s fault it was Corbyn’s, that and Cancer in Cigarettes, The Black Death, extinction of the dinosaurs and Britain’s 23 year failure in Eurovision.
Title: Re: Ed Davey is the new leader of the Lib Dems
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 27, 2020, 07:09:15 PM
It wasn’t Miliband’s fault it was Corbyn’s, that and Cancer in Cigarettes, The Black Death, extinction of the dinosaurs and Britain’s 23 year failure in Eurovision.
LR was confused, and has confused you.
Title: Re: Ed Davey is the new leader of the Lib Dems
Post by: Outrider on August 28, 2020, 08:12:34 AM
I think the most pertinent comment I've seen was on one of the Facebook parody accounts:

"So, what do you make of Ed Davey becoming leader of the Liberal Democrats?"
"Who?"
"Ed Davey..."
"No, I got that bit, leader of who?"

O.