Lib Dem Support down to 12%....

halight

I think that if both partys can hold on to 2015. then they should both recover. Things are bad now but with some luck and hard work on the part of everyone things in 2015 will be better. We should by then be back on the up (well i hope so anyway)

mel12

Usually vote green, but voted for the lib dems to keep the tories out :eek:. So :mad: at them.

FATBALLZ

tomterm8 wrote: »

In the long game, they will rebuild over the next decade or two, and have a decent chance of breaking through in 15 years time.

I thought they were playing the long game, but now that theyve !!!!ed off graduates for decades to come I think they're playing the "I can't be arsed I didn't expect to have to make any decisions game, !!!! it" game.

Degenerate

FATBALLZ wrote: »

I thought they were playing the long game, but now that theyve !!!!ed off graduates for decades to come I think they're playing the "I can't be arsed I didn't expect to have to make any decisions game, !!!! it" game.

Let's face it, when you join the Lib Dems your expectation of power is making decisions on where to put parking restrictions or cycle lanes. They're proving themselves unworthy to play with the big boys.

lemonjelly

Lib dem councillors resigning in protest at their leadership both locally & nationally.

It's getting worse.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-11839636

Wheezy_2

Eric Pickles urged the councillors to get on with protecting front line services

:rotfl::rotfl:

Anyway...

I've said it somewhere in another thread: The libdems know they will be toast if they go to the next election with Clegg & Co running the show. There is no way the current leadership can make future election promises or come up with a manifesto as it will be laughed away and rightly so.
I fully expect Clegg and the more right-leaning lib-demmers to jump ship and join the Cons before the next polls. The remainder of the party - the Simon Hughes clan - can then go to the electorate as 'new-dems' and wash their hands on all the U-turns of late.

Thrugelmir

lemonjelly wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-black-country-11798056

I know it is only a council election, but the national front beat them to third place.:eek:

It is getting worse for them.

More likely a reflection of the state of UK politics

on a 21.4% turnout of the electorate.

Thrugelmir

Wheezy wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:

Anyway...

I've said it somewhere in another thread: The libdems know they will be toast if they go to the next election with Clegg & Co running the show. There is no way the current leadership can make future election promises or come up with a manifesto as it will be laughed away and rightly so.
I fully expect Clegg and the more right-leaning lib-demmers to jump ship and join the Cons before the next polls. The remainder of the party - the Simon Hughes clan - can then go to the electorate as 'new-dems' and wash their hands on all the U-turns of late.

Read New Labours 1997 manifesto pledges. Child poverty in the UK being a good example of their grand plans. Did Labour introduce policies to improve the situation? No, the figures actually got worse during the years of economic boom.

Like everything else the current situation will blow over. Once the next crisis hits.......

RJP33

StevieJ wrote: »

I would rather they didn't lie to the electorate, especially students in university cities.

Coalition governments always involve painful compromise, obviously it's not realistic to keep the current status quo on fees.

Better they actually do something for the good of the country by forming the only possible stable government rather than being self serving.

Completely correct call from Clegg and he should be commended for it, the right thing to do isn't generally the most popular.

Wheezy_2

RJP33 wrote: »

Coalition governments always involve painful compromise, obviously it's not realistic to keep the current status quo on fees.

Pledging abolition of fees before the election...and tripling them 6 months later is not 'compromise'. It's a sell-out.