Lib Dems just showed their true colours

the comments…! Some of these are quite extreme. Shame when the original contribution from Willie was trying to take the heat out of the situation.

I saw the Lib-Dems as a party who didn’t really know what they stood for. A party with no absolute values, which could only be defined in relation to the Tories and Labour. A party who shifted left and right depending on where there was a gap. A party who dithered about in the middle of the road until they got run over.

Those comments!😱

Good god, the comments on that liberal [ahahahaha!] voice blog 😱

You can feel the almost religious fervour coming through the screen. So busy being self righteous they don't realise how wrong they are. I don't just mean wrong about the issue itself, but wrong about what we actually believe (as is usually the case).

I suppose it's easier to dehumanised people who believe some completely made up awful things than people who believe perfectly reasonable, WORAIDS, sane and true things.

I would not want to meet those posters down a dark alley. And I certainly won't vote for them, so I guess they'll be quite happy with that.

Yes, saw the Glinner update earlier - Ed Davey should be ashamed of himself.

Wow, how bloody disappointing :(

EpicChaos · 18/03/2023 21:43

Nb's and various other things, such as paedophilia and coprophilia...

Was it not - even worse - coprophagia?

That reminds meof this twitter exchange from 2018, when it was rumoured that Ian Huntley identified as trans

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Alisdair Calder McGregor Jun 6 V

Hi. I am a member of the LibDems Federal Policy Committee, & the liaison between FPC and LGBTbLD

LibDem Policy, which was explicitly stated in the most recent Manifesto, is that prisoners should be held in facilities which reflecting Gender Identity, not birth Gender assignment.

Zetetic Elench. 20h V

Hi Alisdair, do you think people referring to lan Huntley (the child murderer) by the name and sex recorded on his birth certificate, should be banned from Twitter?

Alisdair Calder McGregor . 20h V

No. I'm a Liberal, I'm very rarely in favour of banning things. If you want to make yourself an obvious transphobic arse by deadnaming a transperson - whoever they are & whatever they've done - then that's your moral failure in public.

Comments also 100% moderated.

I assumed so. So authoritarian and censorious, yet still apparently "Liberals". FFS!

That article is just mental, not to mention the comments - one accuses GC women of wanting to enforce gender roles! Beyond fixing.

The house journal of the Lib Dems says it's time to kick out GC women.

Comments 100% in favour. First comment from transwoman Sarah Brown, well known harasser of women.

They definitely don't want your vote.

Thanks for posting that.

I always vote Libdem until the coalition and Nick Clegg screwed up the voting reform referendum which I imagine he negotiate in exchange for taking responsibility for increasing tuition fees.

Anyway there is no way I could vote for them now, listening to them heckle a woman pointing out that meeting female representation quotas wth non binary males and
transwomen is not equality is chilling. There is no shame about the misogyny which is rife in the party or any will to address it.

See it in action:

twitter.com/treesey/status/1637426420883357699?s=61&t=vrfh73NvYySozkuIkLckQw

They got in bed with the Tories 13 years ago.

Thanks, Winterborne - I'd missed that article about Swinson. What an idiot.

I know it’s a cliche, but it’s so weird seeing a 21st Century Witch Hunt in real time. Maddening that the WEP is such a lost cause. Greens, LibDems, actively saying they don’t want my vote. Labour mostly tolerant of outright misogyny while gingerly hoiking one buttock onto the fence.

I evidently wrongly used to have the impression that the LibDems were a party of ideas. Wonder what Charles Kennedy would have made of it all.

And whenever I think of the LibDems on this subject I think of this mind blowing line from Jo Swinson’s book ostensibly on how to achieve “Equal Power”:

Writing in Equal Power about her time working at Viking FM in the 2000s and how male-dominated radio is, she says: “In fact the gender balance was slightly better than we knew at the time, as our anchor breakfast presenter was Stephanie Hirst, at the time known as Simon.” She does not appear to be joking.

unherd.com/2019/12/jo-swinsons-feminist-credentials-are-a-joke/

All 3?!

It reminds me of where the rest of the country was about four or five years back.

If they are then they got me too. I have seen worse written in all seriousness by the Libdems. As you say it's so hard to tell these days.