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[JimmyJeffers]

 

[DanEFC92]

 

[Blues Harp]

Prime example of the "Peter principle" as are his cabinet colleagues. Incompetence personified.

 

[summerisle]

British chimneys for British children.

 

[Goat]

 

[tsubaki]

an early entry in Twitter thread of the year stakes:

 

[Blue 1]

Prime example of the "Peter principle" as are his cabinet colleagues. Incompetence personified.

It's the "Patel Principle", that people in the cabinet are promoted way beyond their "level of incompetence".

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I really hope the Lib Dem’s cease to exist soon.

Surely the US shows the dangers of having a duopoly, especially when those two parties effectively prevent any alternatives from ever emerging?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Yes, that's the same Steve Baker who voted against the removal of tax on sanitary products 5 years ago

These are the MPs who voted to keep the tampon tax

Only three Conservative MPs rebelled against the whips - and they were all men

www.independent.co.uk

 

[tsubaki]

Surely the US shows the dangers of having a duopoly, especially when those two parties effectively prevent any alternatives from ever emerging?

Absolutely, but I’d argue the LDs do more to preserve the duopoly (and specifically one party of it) that we do have than challenge it - they’ve been around for nearly 35 years now in their current form, a hundred in their previous guise and have not at any point broken through. Does anyone here expect they ever will?

I know this isn’t a fair contrast to make in many ways, but the contrast with the SNP, who actually have developed into a major (albeit regional) force over that timeframe is massive. Yes, devolution benefitted them but similar changes have happened in the UK, including the LDs actually being in coalition government, and none of those chances were taken.

Now all that’s left is a twitching corpse of a party, probably kept alive just to split the anti-Tory vote. It would be better for us all if they either seriously changed their ways or just vanished, I think.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Absolutely, but I’d argue the LDs do more to preserve the duopoly (and specifically one party of it) that we do have than challenge it - they’ve been around for nearly 35 years now in their current form, a hundred in their previous guise and have not at any point broken through. Does anyone here expect they ever will?

I know this isn’t a fair contrast to make in many ways, but the contrast with the SNP, who actually have developed into a major (albeit regional) force over that timeframe is massive. Yes, devolution benefitted them but similar changes have happened in the UK, including the LDs actually being in coalition government, and none of those chances were taken.

Now all that’s left is a twitching corpse of a party, probably kept alive just to split the anti-Tory vote. It would be better for us all if they either seriously changed their ways or just vanished, I think.

To be honest, I worry that if Scotland and Northern Ireland do leave the UK in the coming years that we will have a firmly entrenched monopoly. The Tories have never had much of a hold outside of England, and historically Labour have relied on, certainly Wales and Scotland, to gain power.

 

[Prevenger17]

British chimneys for British children.

Lol. I'm relieved to hear that the return of child chimney sweeps will be more of a gradual transition

 

[peteblue]

To be honest, I worry that if Scotland and Northern Ireland do leave the UK in the coming years that we will have a firmly entrenched monopoly. The Tories have never had much of a hold outside of England, and historically Labour have relied on, certainly Wales and Scotland, to gain power.

I wondered when the left would twig this.....

 

[Blues Harp]

Absolutely, but I’d argue the LDs do more to preserve the duopoly (and specifically one party of it) that we do have than challenge it - they’ve been around for nearly 35 years now in their current form, a hundred in their previous guise and have not at any point broken through. Does anyone here expect they ever will?

I know this isn’t a fair contrast to make in many ways, but the contrast with the SNP, who actually have developed into a major (albeit regional) force over that timeframe is massive. Yes, devolution benefitted them but similar changes have happened in the UK, including the LDs actually being in coalition government, and none of those chances were taken.

Now all that’s left is a twitching corpse of a party, probably kept alive just to split the anti-Tory vote. It would be better for us all if they either seriously changed their ways or just vanished, I think.

 

[Blue 1]

'Pot Noodle mums' tweet lands Conservative chairman in hot water

The Clwyd South Conservative Association chairman has resigned over his New Year's Eve tweets.

www.bbc.co.uk

A Tory chairman has resigned after calling A&E patients "fat mums in pot noodle-stained leggings/pjs" on social media.
Clwyd South Conservative Association chairman Gareth Baines posted on New Year's Eve that parents were "taking their kids for a day out at A&E".
He continued they wanted to "harvest Facebook likes because their darling little snot-covered Asbo fell over".