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Anyone want the new Lib Dem t-shirt for Christmas?

61 replies

LiteralDemocrat · 24/11/2018 14:25

Recommended by Jo Swinson this morning to celebrate amazing Lib Dem women in the Party over the last 100 years. Top left is a particularly, erm, interesting choice.

www.libdemimage.co.uk/product.php?product=HQ%200014

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CountFosco · 24/11/2018 18:06

Oh. I thought it was the one married to Gordon Brown. Oops.

Me too. Then I tooked at the tiny picture and thought 'but that's someone with XY chromosomes'. It's kind of incredible how good we are are recognising what sex someone is isn't it. I have always voted Liberal, I'm never doing it again unless they self combust and turn into a Phoenix.

Doobigetta · 24/11/2018 17:57

Feeling significantly vindicated in my decision to stop giving them £6 a month over this kind of thing recently. They deserve to wither away into nothing, they really do. I feel very sad that the party of David Steel, whose wisdom is fucking awe-inspiring, has sunk to this.

Serfisafleur · 24/11/2018 17:42

Fgs Sarah Brown is "first" in the way you read the list of women.

This person is an abusive misogynist, bedfellows with the Chanellors and swings around cries of "terf" and threats of all sorts on a regular basis.

Piss off Lib Dems.

welshbookworm · 24/11/2018 17:12

I got the email this morning and my first response was unprintable. Not only including Sarah Brown instead of one of the many excellent and long-serving women councillors, but putting her in poll position in the top left-hand corner! My membership is hanging by a thread at the moment and the only thing stopping me cancelling it is the hope that I can oppose this Gadarene rush in some small way.

LizzieSiddal · 24/11/2018 16:55

Thank you fir the list Joan.

I do wonder why any political party would want to publicise their association with such a person.

MrsWinkly · 24/11/2018 16:42

Procrastinator1
I think she firmly takes the party line of TWAW.
We've always got Hamble and Big Ted to keep the memories alive.

Procrastinator1 · 24/11/2018 16:34

Is Floella Benjamin gender critical? It would ruin my memories of play school if she isn't. Just read through a list of female liberal MPs since 1922 there are hardly any.

MrsWinkly · 24/11/2018 16:33

Chewy
Grin a bloke with a bad haircut

Nice to see them touting their woke credentials and not giving a shit about real women. Although, maybe Labour have some Lily t-shirts in the pipeline for us?

TallulahWaitingInTheRain · 24/11/2018 16:28

they felt the party was in too deep, but that they couldn’t see a way out

Easiest thing in the world. All they have to do is issue a statement of support for trans people containing the words 'complex' and 'balance competing rights'

MrsWinkly · 24/11/2018 16:27

Aspie
Excellent point! Surely they cant be telling us there are only 2 sexes to chose from when buying their t-shirts??
And seriously, beyond their family and friends, who would buy it?

Might stick my curmudgeonly face on a t-shirt and see how I get on with flogging it on ebay.

ChewyLouie · 24/11/2018 16:25

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Heratnumber7 · 24/11/2018 16:25

It's a "white ladies' t-shirt" apparently.
The Lib Dem's can piss right off in their gender neutral toilets.

AnyOtherPerson · 24/11/2018 16:21

So what if it's difficult to extricate themselves from Brown and Brown's clique?

I take it as a sign of great weakness that they are either blind to SB’s nature OR that they are aware, but too cowardly to act.

AspieAndProud · 24/11/2018 16:19

It’s a ‘ladies’ t-shirt.

That’s very binary of them.

JoanSummers · 24/11/2018 16:06

The Liberal Democrats continuing their relationship with Sarah Brown is really significant in showing their attitude towards women.

So what if it's difficult to extricate themselves from Brown and Brown's clique? Not doing so makes them unsafe for women to support.

And taking on Aimee Challenor as well - it's pure contempt for women on display.

Any woman or man who is a LibDem rep or member and who is at all concerned about women's rights and safety should stand up and publicly condemn the LDs behaviour on this issue. Who is protecting Brown? That should be exposed. Why is the media not pressing the LibDems on this? People have been forced out of politics for far less.

AngryAttackKittens · 24/11/2018 15:30

But yes, associating your political party with the words "suck my formaldehyde pickled balls" is perhaps not the wisest choice if you're trying to attract women voters.

AngryAttackKittens · 24/11/2018 15:29

Actually 4 people would have been better from a graphic design perspective.

OlennasWimple · 24/11/2018 15:23

Blimey

So many things wrong with that

BurpAndRustle · 24/11/2018 15:21

Oh. I thought it was the one married to Gordon Brown. Oops.

JoanSummers · 24/11/2018 15:18

Sarah Brown is a white male who has, among other things:

  • publicly via twitter told a lesbian to suck Brown's dick
  • declared that vaginas are offputting, again on twitter
  • tried to have a well known feminist lesbian's name retooled as a descriptive term for the internal smegma produced by trans males who have had penis inversion surgery.
  • as a Councillor, deliberately misled their local authority in order to take away basic rights from women, to the extent women lost those rights for a couple of years and a female Councillor had to resign in order to have the Council take the issue seriously and change their policy back to be within the law. Brown subsequently slandered that female Councillor for the sacrifice they made in order to properly represent women.

The libdems have ignored enormous evidence of Sarah Brown's misogyny, homophobia, maliciousness, manipulativeness and dishonesty.
This is who the LibDems choose to give prominence when they celebrate women.

If I had a formaldehyde pickled dick, I'd be tempted to tell the libdems exactly what they can do with it. But I wouldn't give in to that temptation, because I'm not a raging misogynist.

I will never vote libdem again, and I'm making damn sure that everyone I know hears about Sarah Brown and how the LibDems condone all of Brown's actions against women.

BettyDuMonde · 24/11/2018 15:16

They could’be just had the 4 woman mps - although maybe highlighting that they only have 4 is bad PR? 😂

BurpAndRustle · 24/11/2018 15:14

I just couldn’t pop Floella Benjamin on my chest as a political icon. I just couldn’t.

AnyOtherPerson · 24/11/2018 15:12

I suspect they, like many other groups just now feel unable to celebrate women without thrusting someone trans in there. Eventually they might work out that putting off a huge percentage of the population when you’re a political party is suicide, but there will be a massive party rift. Someone quite senior in the Lib Dem’s admitted to me that they felt the party was in too deep, but that they couldn’t see a way out. Until the majority realise the implications, this will continue, and when they (finally) do, it’ll me messy. Imagine the fuss SB et al will make if challenged.

BesmirchingMotherhood · 24/11/2018 15:10

All other points notwithstanding, it’s the fugliest tee shirt ever.

BlackLambAndGreyFalcon · 24/11/2018 15:07

All their female mps (All 4 of them) are on the t-shirt.

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