made me think.

Ed Balls response to Michael Gove’s announcement that the Building Schools for the Future programme is to be a victim of the coalition’s latest round of cuts. It will save £1bn.

You do not have to be a rocket scientist to realise Gove is putting a halt to improving buildings and standards in the state system so he can throw money at his multi tiered, unfair free schools idea. This lays the foundations on the rhetoric and is the most blatant ideological move in this debate so far…

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Lib Dems panic

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“This survey tries to desperately conclude that Lib Dem members are all aboard the merry ship coalition. Why would a party try and show all is well I wonder? Perhaps because it isn’t.

It should be said straight away that these questions were asked in a ‘members only forum’, so would you expect any other outcome? That asserts that this was taken from a sample of partisan Lib Dems, who had already decided to nail their colours to the proverbial mast long before or after the election. Therefore it is a pointless survey, and all it proves is that hardcore party supporters are still ‘on board’, not surprising considering that the coalition is only two months old.

The real conclusion of this survey is that Lib Dem members are, as we would expect desperate to cling on to the coat tails of government. In reality this proves their members share the same lack of moral fibre as their elected colleagues, whilst similarly being devoid of principles.

People often flirt with the Lib Dems, to keep one of the other parties out. A lot of constituencies have the passive voter who only chooses the Lib Dems to keep the Tories out.

If you take 350 members of any party, you are most likely going to find people who ‘tow the party line’. If they wanted a true picture of attitudes toward the Lib Dems they should have opened up the survey to reflect a wider range of ‘supporters’, including tactical voters. I would suggest you would have seen very different results.

This survey is a poor attempt to hide or mask the true dilemma within the varying levels that the Lib Dems draw their ‘support’ from. Between the lines it reads like an uncomfortable grin, one that would turn to a frown as soon as our back is turned. It was not opened up to a wider Lib Dem field because,  for instance,  including the tactical voters, it would make for uncomfortable viewing. You have to question why this was published in the first place, it was obviously felt they had to disprove the conclusion that I have since drawn. This survey suggests all is well, do not be fooled.

tries to desperately conclude that Lib Dem members are all aboard the merry ship coalition. Why would a party try and show all is well I wonder? Perhaps because it isn’t.

Funny that @cllrjwarmisham hasn’t popped up on Twitter to applaud the Government for continuing with Salford’s BSF programme.

Cllr Lindley why should cllr Warmisham applaud you and your followers hatchet job? Perhaps the contracts were signed and your guys were to late. Perhaps you would like to comment to the  children and staff who will sit in sub standard buildings compliments of your party.Quick question will you and the Liberal Democrats be voting for the Cuts in council?

I found this on the Mail web site

 And this is our bloody kids,where were the old bill?

never mind a group of OAPs did the job for them. What with the Police Cuts under the Lib/cons i think we will see more vigilante activities.

Hosepipe ban will hit millions this week as UK basks in its driest spell for almost 71 years

Well four days of sun and we have hose pipe bans? perhaps if they fixed the bloody leaks quicker we would not have the bloody problem

Millions of motorists face £300 bill to install digital radios as ministers press ahead with FM switch-off

I cant believe this what next? i have only just got rid of my 8track.

And people are supposed to take Clegg seriously?

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Nick Clegg, horses and marriage

David Ottewell
6th July, 2010

Can it be true? Word reaches me that Pat Karney, Labour’s Manchester city-centre spokesman and political-agitator-in-chief, has circulated an email to members of the Lib Dem opposition on the council.

Titled ‘Did you know, did you agree?’ it lists a range of coalition ‘achievements’.

These include ‘cuts now up to 40 per cent’, ‘Building Schools for the Future frozen’, ‘35,000 police posts to go’ and ‘Cameron to campaign against AV’.

Bizarrely, it then adds: “Permission to marry a horse in Clegg’s new laws proposals”.

A Lib Dem source says: “Obviously he wasn’t expecting the coalition to protect all BSF schemes in Manchester.

“And Cameron is not going to ‘campaign’ against AV.

“As for the horse…”

Nick Clegg being slaughtered by media & his own party. The Lib Dems have committed political suicide

A comment from a good friend Cllr Warmisham and he is totally right,the Liberal Democrats have committed political suicide. I ask people to sit back for a moment and realise what they have done.

Their decision to prop up this Tory Government as put the Liberal Party in a position  that it will never return from. If you are to old to remember Thatcher devastated this country she attacked the working class with a venom, the same way her clone is doing today .

Many people feared what the Tories would do to this country, many where like sheep taken in with a set of ridiculous debates. I find these people sad, i find Brown a man who lacked any form of presence inept in his judgement to put his career on the line to allow two sharp suited salesman the chance to fool the electorate. I ask people to watch how thing pan out,look how in the future these decisions effect you and your families,if you are unlucky to have to live on benefits how they are effected,if you suffer crime can you get a policeman, will your children go hungry because of there view free school meals are to much for them to pay for,or the goods you need are out of reach due to the high Vat.This is just the start. And remember it was the Liberal Democrats who gave Cameron his chance,

Strange..

I seem to be getting a lot of hits on the site, i have even got my old liberal Democrat stalker back on. Please don’t bother writing unless you wish to discuss something of a serious nature. Strange this time how you have no defence for your party,your letters just go into the spam tray so please go away and bother someone else.

Interesting little story passed to me from David Henry the Secretary of the Salford Green Party.

One-third of Norwich councillors thrown out of office by High Court judgement

06 JULY 2010

A Green Party spokesperson said:

“Norfolk County Council, controlled by the Conservatives, initiated this judicial review. The review has overturned the previous Labour government’s legislation for a unitary council for Norwich. This is a terrible decision for the people of Norwich and for democracy.

“It causes great difficulty for the councillors and the council, but Green councillors in Norwich are ready to step up to the plate. We hope that elections can be held ‘as soon as is reasonably practical.’ It is outrageous that so many voters have had their electoral choices overturned.

“On the other hand, the Greens are now joint first place on the council. It shows again that Norwich remains the place where the Green Party stands its best chance of taking control of a local authority for the first time.”

 

I think in realty the Green party is the only real alternative for ex  Liberal Democrats. It must be hard for many hard core libs to see what their leaders have done. The party seems to be like a ship running a ground. Locally and nationally the leadership is falling apart and as lost any of the credibility he ever had.