The Liberal Democrats are engaged in another one of their half-baked attempts to threaten the Tory right-wingers. It will end in tears for them again. The Tories are laughing at them. So is everyone else.
This two-pronged threatening strategy involves getting The Guardian to report that unnamed senior LDs are considering drastic action and then, two days later, getting a minor LD like Lord Rennard to reassure the Tories that they don't really mean it. They want to rock the boat without actually rocking any boats.
It
is almost impossible to believe that Clegg was serious when he penned
his proposals for Lords reform. A chamber containing 80% elected individuals, serving for 15 years. That is three normal parliaments. But
furthermore elected by PR. For God's sake, the British people have already rejected the AV system. How could they accept the even more divisive PR system? No Clegg wishes to
condemn the British voters to the balance of power residing with the
most unpopular of the three main parties. The man is an anti democracy
idiot. Do these mindless idiots seriously think that having, what do
they call it "stable government", is more important to us all than the NHS, Education, Police, Defence, Justice, jobs, decent benefits,
pensions, pay,children, the old, the sick and disabled, and so on? Give
us unstable government, and bring it on, if it means keeping all those
things we value so very much that have been created and developed
through the dedication of entire life spans, commitment and a sense of
loyalty and fairness to all the British and not just the elite who
appear to consider themselves the only real British, and would gladly
love to see universal suffrage repealed. Lords reform is not that important to your average voter. Protecting
the NHS, tuition fees, taxing the richest for their fair share,
tackling labours surveilance state, getting the rapacious financial
industry in check, protecting the welfare state against private monopoly
vultures and making sure the poor and vulnerable are taken care of are though,
and the Lib Dems have failed miserably on each and every one of these
points. In fact their actions in government have been pretty much an
attack on all of these things.Not only that they out and out lied
to their voting support to do it. The word "Clegg" is now synonymous
with the phrase "lying, two faced betrayer with no backbone". Someone
used the term "Judas Goat" above to describe the lib dems and it is a
very fitting description, come the next election their will be nothing
left of them
So here's my suggestion to all those who want to vote it in and also to make Lords reform possible and popular. Everybody loves the Olympics rights? How about then we have a Lords Olympics, a series of events determining whether people can sit the house of Lords. Broadcast live 24/7 on BBC ParliamentSport. With events like the Constitutional Slalom where competitors Debate Federalism while negotiating a white water rafting course. Or the 400metre buck pass. Where competitors pass responsibility of important matters like transport on a running track. Or double trap pleb shooting where two people on benefits are fired into the air and you have to shoot them down. It will reinvigorate British politics and will clear out the Oldies who won't be able to complete the 200m butterfly through a river of shit.
Peace & Love :-)
