Nick Clegg must be used to not having his voice heard by now. His irrelevant and floundering party is on target to be given one mighty squeeze. Regardless of the fact that nobody cares what he has to say, his silence over the last six days has been shameful. He and the Lib Dems were quick to slam Labour for the arrest of Damian Green, both at the time and today, yet for a man who is obsessed with "politics being broken" he has been far too quite about the irritatingly named Smear-gate. Surely the McBride/Draper scandal is case and point for his entire argument? What the hell is his problem? Even on a human level he must be outraged about this scandal, regardless of trying to play politics with it. 
The membership is apparently in uproar and a little
birdy tells TB that the
Lib Dem Voice Forums,
and more so comments on Facebook, are going crazy about this, with the "I voted for
Huhne" crowd out in force. Regardless of not wanting to give Dave any publicity all members of the political classes have had a comment to add on this. Except it seems
Clegg, or any other Lib Dem MP for that matter. Why have they been silenced?
Clegg really is useless, he seemingly can't get anything right. He either pushes things too hard or not at all. No wonder his party is set to get about twenty
MPs at the next election.
The man is a disaster and an embarrassment to an already ridiculous party.
UPDATE: 17.48: Seemed to have somehow missed Cleggs two liner in The Independent today. Makes a change from the "no comment" this weekend. The point still stands though - with the Green affair Clegg and Huhne hit the airwaves hard, yet this time they have been meek and timid and the cat clearly got their tongue until today. As for the LDV forums, well there are certainly some pissed off people out there and every lib dem TB has spoken to has been pretty grumpy about the whole state of affairs.
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Why do LibDems posing for photos always look like something from Hammer Horror?
it's a true golden kodak moment...
TB
Nick Clegg did a good job yesterday - Cleaning windows in Bristol!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/civil-service-chief-blocks-mcbride-inquiry-1669287.html
You were saying? And claiming that the LDV forums have 'exploded' over this is a remarkable interpretation of a well-mannered two page thread.
"we're human too!" - Is that meant to be a joke? Just look at that long-haired monster!
"we're human too!" - Is that meant to be a joke? Just look at that long-haired monster!
Ouch, looks like you’ve got a really duff source if that’s what they are telling you Tory Bear.
Mind you, had you looked at Stephen Tall’s post on Lib Dem Voice and the balance of the comments on that, you might have suspected that your source was playing you for a patsy :-)
Oh well done, a two liner at the bottom of a story 5 days late.
he should have been on the telly on saturday like he and huhne were when green was arrested. he was forced into that comment today rather than taking a proactive lead.
as for the LDV stuff, well i went with what was sent to me. it seemed pretty lairy to me.
TB
@Anonymous,
Yeah, because men shouldn't have long hair. That's just weird and I don't like it, mummy, make it go away, it doesn't fit with my preconceived notion of traditionalist top-down authoritarian social hierarchies, and so I hurl limp insults at it. Waaah!
(Conservative Future TM)
I mean, for goodness sake, Obnoxio and TB were funny. That is the key here, Anon.
Now they are scary...
Bear,
Nick shouldn't need to comment on the childish behaviours of Draper and Crew and Iain Dale and Crew.
It was a spat between twats from both political parties that got out of hand. Why should Nick comment on the rubbish that goes on it politics.
The next poll will also show that the rest of the Country don't give a damn also about the whole email smearing.
We'll see about that Ifran. You know there are other blogs aside from Political Betting on which to base your opinions.
; )
TB
Bear,
Thanks for presumably lumping me in with a crowd i'm not a part of (I wasnt in the Lib Dems to vote for either Clegg or Huhne at the time).
On a more serious note I think that prospect of this being the tip of a iceberg is by far the most interesting aspect of this story.....especially for bloggers....
Bear,
We will let the next poll show who is right Me or You! Until then keep entertaining me, love the Lib Dem Rapper.
Oh, I think it will tell pretty heavily against Labour as part of a narrative.
I should certainly have liked a positive Lib Dem image of some sort presented this weekend, as an antidote - would've been ideally placed, if they could have pulled it off. But I'm not sure how useful commenting specifically on the Tory v Labour mess would have been - I'm rather glad Clegg stayed aloof till today. Do you know if he offered a comment, or whether he was asked for one?
Clegg is being so quiet because he is one negative fucker. He can hardly talk.
Given his own fondness for smears, he doesn't want to say anything which might come back to haunt him.
Just think, whenever you see him on the telly, he's always whining and whingeing, and angry. When was the last time you saw him sounding chipper?
Typical Clegg comment would be:
"I'm disgusted. It is an outrage in the 21st century that we have politicians engaging in smearing and negativity. Heads should roll. How dare they do this?"
Oh, the irony.
No wonder his party is set to get about twenty MPs at the next election.What? THAT many?!