Puppets on a string...

Yesterday Nick Clegg said this in an email to members of the Liberal Democrats: 

"Today the Labour Party confirmed that they have run out of ideas and have condemned us to years of unemployment and a decade of debt. Their pick-and-mix budget of recycled announcements will do nothing to get us out of this recession and nothing that will help the poorest who are being hit hardest by it."

Fair enough. Not the greatest development with their argument, and not a patch on DC's response to the budget. However it seems that once the line was texted out that's what the Liberals were sticking to. For any youth movement to really appeal to young people, it cannot just be seen as a mouthpiece of  the party. If they are seen as blindly loyal they end up just looking like a bunch of jumped up hacks. New Labour tried to make their youth movements tow the line, but they got a short sharp shock on things like tuition fees. Conservative Future is far more libertarian than the Party leadership and are very vocal with their views, even if they don't completely fit the Cameron agenda.

The oh so "Liberal" Democrats have got their youth wing under the thumb though. Within moments of the line being announced, Chairman Elaine Bagshaw was out of the traps foghorning Cleggs words, almost verbatim to anyone who would listen:

The pathetic puppet couldn't even be bothered to think up her own words or arguments. Funny Sky News had no interest in anything Liberal Youth had to say.