Dear All
If you are a lib Dem voter, one of the
things that will upset you is that Nick Clegg and his party conned you to get
into power by lying.
Since 2010 the Lib Dems have certainly seen
trust in them vanish, voters have marched off, and some will feel rightly
betrayed.
So, if you are a Lib Dem voter, where do
you go now?
Well .it seems Ukip is making a play for everyone
in the 2014 Euro elections, and if their polling holds up, the Ukip could see a
real increase in their numbers at the European Parliament.
Ukip have been quite clever as the position
themselves as the anti-establishment, the party that speaks for and about the
ordinary man and woman.
Such is their threat that more or less all
the main parties feel threatened, so much so, their allies have repeatedly branded
Ukip as racist.
They aren’t a racist party; someone needs
to speak up for working class people other than just at election time.
The Labour Party dropped the ball, the
Conservatives dropped the ball and the Lib Dems also dropped the ball.
And a protest vote can be a bitter pill to
swallow.
If Ukip does do well, it could be the
springboard they need to get into Westminster; this would really be the payday
that that Nigel Farage wants.
He hopes to replace the Lib Dems as the
third party.
And the Lib Dems know this as a senior
Liberal Democrat has claimed the party has lost the anti-establishment vote to
Ukip and will not get it back.
Lord Oakeshott admitted the LibDems have
lost the "plague on both your houses" vote.
This time round, no one is ‘agreeing with
Nick’.
Lord Oakeshott is a realist, he knows that
the Lib Dems are damaged; he probably knows that the Conservatives are using
them as a human shield much like holding up a dead man to take the hits from a
machine gun.
He also acknowledged that the party would
not win back the protest vote in time for the 2015 General Election.
His solution is to call for the party to
quit the Coalition after May's elections.
Does this mean he wants Clegg out?
I doubt it, Clegg and a small group including
David Laws buried the party, they also have to go into the wilderness, in this
case a revamp is also a clear out.
Lord Oakeshott told Channel 4 News:
"We've had plenty of people who vote
for us for our policies. But there are also a lot of people who vote for us
because we are not Conservative or Labour. Now that second half, the 'p*** off'
vote if I can call it that, we have lost that and we've lost it frankly mostly
to Ukip and that is not going to come back."
In politics, you need to convince the ‘pissed
off’ vote to become the core vote, Clegg blew that big time.
Although the polls are grim, the Lib Dems
still have pockets of support, but in the wider context, they are stuffed.
As to quitting the coalition, I can’t see
how they can benefit, they climbed into bed with the Tories willingly; they
stood by while measures like the bedroom tax were pushed through. They never
stood up for the people affected most.
Any sudden remorse would be seen as fake as
the Elish ‘Labour ‘Angolini conversion as a caring sharing human being.
The coalition is plodding on regards, Lord
Oakeshott said the "spark has gone" from the coalition marriage but
it was an arranged marriage, not for love but for money, power and perks.
The ‘child’ spawned is Ukip, the anti
establishment party.
Lord Oakeshott said:
"We must give ourselves a year to get
our own messages firmly across. It's clear that we Liberal Democrats, having
done our duty for the country supporting the Government getting our reforms
through, are in grave danger ourselves."
What message is that, ‘I am innocent, it
was all David Cameron’?
Turn it up me old beauty!!!!!!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
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