Lib Dems: desperate much?
Posted on 04. Jan, 2010 by OHC in United Kingdom
In Cameron’s stellar NHS manifesto launch today, Nick Robinson was ripped apart. After falling for the Labour line on education cuts hook, line, and sinker, was told that perhaps he needed to go back to school to be re-educated after Labour’s lies. Spontaneous applause followed.
Afterwards, the Lib Dems, seeing nothing wrong with Tory health policy… continued to parrot Labour’s line with the old IHT trick:
“If Osborne and Cameron can’t get these simple sums right how can they possibly be trusted to run the economy,” said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor.
Commenting on David Cameron’s decision to stick with his proposed inheritance tax cut and his assertion that it will be paid for by taxing non-doms, Vince Cable said: “It’s unbelievable that the Tories are still planning to cut taxes for a handful of millionaires when the majority of people across the country are feeling the squeeze.”
Wait, back up a minute. Raising the threshold to take non-millionaires out of inheritance tax, affects millionaires… how?
Vince Cable might think that the Conservatives’ sums don’t add up. But if he doesn’t understand that only people with a million pounds are millionaires, how the hell is he supposed to sort out a deficit 180,000 times that? Methinks Cable needs to go back to school with Nick Robinson.
DEFECTION!?
Posted on 05. Dec, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom
Make of this what you will. Prominent Liberal Democrat blogger/tweeter and Liberal Vision grandee Sara Scarlett has been spotted at the Conservative Future Christmas Party.
Over to you, Mr. Bear…
Good Charlotte Gore
Posted on 01. Dec, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
So it looks like the Lib Dems’ socialism has finally got to poor Charlotte Gore. She, alas, is one of the last few good Lib Dems left. It was always going to be an uphill struggle to persuade a left-wing grassroots to accept free markets, but they made a decent stab at it.
Along with Mark Littlewood stepping away from party politics to head up the IEA, it looks like the Lib Dems are liberty-less. Hopefully, we can move on together to form a truly freedom-based movement around a Conservative government, and let the Lib Dems rot into an appendage to Labour.
You know, Sara, if you’re feeling lonely tonight in the Lib Dems… there’s always the Conservative Party.
There’s mainstream… and then there are Lib Dems
Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
As this editor is about to pop out for lunch, he’s going to pass the Times offices. He likes the Times. But today he’s gonna wave his fist at them for sloppy Guardian-style journalism in writing this:
Mr Dowgielewicz represents the mainstream centre-right government, rather than the right-wing Law and Justice Party, which is an ally of Mr Cameron’s in the European Parliament.
We’ve already put to bed the accusation that they’re anti-semitic, homophobic, racists, misogynists, Nazis, or whatever the Guardian says they are. But, please, let’s also get rid of this absurd suggestion that Law and Justice are somehow not mainstream. Here’s a diagram to help explain the situation in the Sejm: the lower house of the Polish parliament (Ed: you used Paint? You’re such a GIMP):
And here’s a diagram of the upper house of the Parliament, the Senate:
None, nada, zip. So, please tell me before you utter that word again: which party is allied to the mainstream party and which is allied to the extremists?
Liberal Youth member opposed to homosexuals, is also ageist! (Not necessarily true)
Posted on 21. Sep, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom
Alright, alright it’s not as extreme as you first think, but this tweet did make me chuckle.
Liberal Youth General Executive Member Martin Shapland has claimed he’s being hit on at Conference by some ‘drunk gay pensioners’. What’s worse is he thinks he should be immune as he works for an MP? I don’t quite understand it all but it’s safe to say his hashtag, #shouldhappentompsstaff isn’t trending!
Nice one, Shappers.
Selling the family silver
Posted on 21. Sep, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
Not content with backing university top-up fees, Nick Clegg’s assault on liberalism, Baggers’ rant against capitalism, the Lib Dems continue to attack everything they supposedly stood for (Ed: they’ve given up lying?). Now, they’re changing their tune on another policy: council tax!
But it’s worse than that. Instead of council tax being partly set by local government, and partly funding it, they want the proceeds to go to central government. How about that?! Lib Dems support council tax and even greater centralisation of power in this country.
If you think the £1m amount is too high to truly matter (Ed: wasn’t it a matter of principle before?), consider the sums involved. They think they can raise £1.1bn out of the 250,000 homes they claim are worth more than £1m (Ed: where does the other £16bn they claim to be raising come from?). Almost all of these are homes of families or the retired. At £2m in value, a family can expect to have their council tax trebled. At £4m in value, they will have to pay nine times what they’d currently pay for a Band H.
As for the super-rich? Well, they’ll just leave Britain, Clegg, you absolute idiot, saddling the rest with even higher bills. And all to close less than 1% of the budget deficit! The Lib Dems can scrap as many Northern Ireland Offices as they want, but the people of Great Britain will suffer if they adopt these ridiculous policies.
Lib Dems: how can we stand a party that doesn’t stand for anything?
Bearing the brunt…
Posted on 21. Sep, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom
It’s been a while since TB graced us with a video, but suffice to say that someone’s been hard at work with some new Adobe Suite features. The following ‘attack ad’ on the Lib Dems is certain to be the beginning of a resurgence in the classical Liberal-Conservative movement. This morning, we’ve seen Vince et al show their true socialist colours, talking tax tax tax and effectively attempting to muscle in on Labour’s lost ground. It won’t work.
The electorate is moving toward the centre-right as a result of fail Labour policies. It’ll do only further harm to the Lib Dems to try and coalesce with the Labour Party- oh well, nuts to them all. It’s time for change, don’t cha know?
Lie-beral Youth (Ed: *groan*)
Posted on 27. Aug, 2009 by keeprightonline in United Kingdom
Sorry about the poor pun folks, but what better way to sum up this story, led on by the great Owen Meredith of former Conservative Future NME fame. What’s Owen up to lately? Catching Lib Dems out, it would seem.
When Conference Season was reaching fever pitch in 2008 and as the economy ground to a halt; the Lib Demagogues had to swiftly renege on many of their previously popular *giggle* manifesto pledges. The one that is striking here is the promise of free tuition for university students. Excerpt from a Grauniad interview, July 2009:
Nick Clegg, the party leader, signalled he would downgrade some of the party’s proposals – likely to include plans for higher pensions, free university tuition, free personal care for the elderly, extra winter fuel payments for the disabled and subsidies for rural post offices – to aspirations rather than commitments.
So what, you say? Well it would seem Lie-beral Youth (Ed: Stop that, right now) are pushing the old policy in order to brainwash recruit freshers into their party. Are you beginning to get a whiff of that Liberal Deception?
Meredith has also highlighted their inability to spell, "www" (bottom)
Tut Tut, young Ms. Bagshaw- what would your hero Mr. Clegg say if he found out you were lying to students to get them to join the Lib Dems? Well, maybe something like this?
This material has been going out in freshers packs and featured heavily on the Liberal Youth website. It’s quite funny what happens when you try to access the site this evening. It seems that Firefox knows what they’re like…
Atheists and oranges
Posted on 21. Aug, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
Nick Clegg has long admitted that he’s an atheist. Not that there’s anything wrong with that – we at KeepRightOnline are known for our healthy scepticism, and would rather see religion play as little role in politics as possible. People of every denomination can be politically constructive, as long as they leave their religion at the door.
As such, we don’t issue shout-outs to other people’s faith (Ed: considering we don’t play requests, it’s nice to see you’re taking some interest). Not so Cleggover. He has sent Muslims his best wishes for Ramadan. Perhaps fair enough – although we think he should have left that to those that practise religion. But he also said:
I have learned from working with Muslim communities across the UK – and indeed from the many Lib Dem councillors and candidates who are practising Muslims – that the fasting and Qur’an reading during Ramadan provide spiritual renewal and enlightenment.
So that’s an atheist saying that he’s learned that religious practice leads to enlightenment? Interesting.
Or perhaps it’s just explicable by the fact that Labour have increasingly alienated British Muslim communities, who are now looking for a new political home. And the way he supposedly wins them over is by pretending that he doesn’t think their beliefs are nonsense. He doesn’t believe it, but he’s saying it, anyway.
He is a Lib Dem, after all.
