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Original poster

Brexit was a disaster. So why don't people vote Lib Dem?

179 replies

worldstillturns · 31/05/2023 20:18

Now that the people who voted Brexit are realising they were lied to, what is the point of them swinging back to Labour - a party which consistently evaded taking a coherent stance on Brexit for fear of losing certain voters? How are they any better than the Tories on this issue? The Lib Dems were and still are the only party with an anti-Brexit policy. AIBU to think Labour have shown themselves to be just as disingenuous and full of 'career politicians' as the Tories? At least the Lib Dems were honest and straightforward on this issue?

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IMustDoMoreExercise · 31/05/2023 20:19

Because they don't know what a woman is.

FasterthanBolt · 31/05/2023 20:20

Cos I have never forgiven Nick Clegg for going back on practically every Lib Dem promise when he went into a coalition with the Torys

IMustDoMoreExercise · 31/05/2023 20:20

Their leader said last week on LBC that a woman can have a penis.

FasterthanBolt · 31/05/2023 20:21

IMustDoMoreExercise · 31/05/2023 20:19

Because they don't know what a woman is.

That as well.

sleepsforwimps1 · 31/05/2023 20:21

Because if you vote Lib Dem you get tories.... that's where this started in 2010

Sarahconnor1 · 31/05/2023 20:21

Lib dems, honest and straightforward don't make me laugh. And, yeah, 'Of course a women can have a penis'. any leader of a party who says that is lying or stupid, either way i would never vote for them.

DisforDarkChocolate · 31/05/2023 20:21

Nick Clegg, sold all his principles for power.

The female penis, just bloody ridiculous.

Gtsr443 · 31/05/2023 20:22

Because Clegg was Cameron's enabler which led to this current shitshow.

DollyTrolly · 31/05/2023 20:22

IMustDoMoreExercise · 31/05/2023 20:19

Because they don't know what a woman is.

Exactly this.....

SophiaElise · 31/05/2023 20:23

I'm voting lib dem - voted for them in the last election. Where I live the tories and lib dems tend to be neck and neck with labour a distant 3rd.

wagnbobble · 31/05/2023 20:23

Their leader doesn’t understand what a woman is

MaggieBsBoat · 31/05/2023 20:23

Because women are lots of things, but they aren’t men.

SwedishDeathClearance · 31/05/2023 20:23

As my local Lib Dem councillor said
If you feel like a woman- you are a woman

(she did also tell me that I should call the police if I saw a man with a penis in the woman's loos- so I think her grasp of what Trans is was limited)

stepstepstep · 31/05/2023 20:24

sleepsforwimps1 · 31/05/2023 20:21

Because if you vote Lib Dem you get tories.... that's where this started in 2010

This

RubaiyatOfAnyone · 31/05/2023 20:24

I ask this from a position of total ignorance - do labour or conservative acknowledge a factual definition of a woman ? Or any of the fringe parties?

ThreeFeetTall · 31/05/2023 20:24

sleepsforwimps1 · 31/05/2023 20:21

Because if you vote Lib Dem you get tories.... that's where this started in 2010

This.

Original poster
worldstillturns · 31/05/2023 20:25

"Their leader said last week on LBC that a woman can have a penis."

Is this not also the general view of the Labour Party?

Anyway, everyone knows full well what a woman is, so I tend to take no notice of that.

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Sarahconnor1 · 31/05/2023 20:25

wagnbobble · 31/05/2023 20:23

Their leader doesn’t understand what a woman is

Leyla Moran could tell him, she can see into people's souls

IMustDoMoreExercise · 31/05/2023 20:25

RubaiyatOfAnyone · 31/05/2023 20:24

I ask this from a position of total ignorance - do labour or conservative acknowledge a factual definition of a woman ? Or any of the fringe parties?

The Tories do although there will be one or two who don't.

Most of labour don't although Sir Kier sets on the fences usual

SunnyEgg · 31/05/2023 20:26

MaggieBsBoat · 31/05/2023 20:23

Because women are lots of things, but they aren’t men.

Yep

Gingernaut · 31/05/2023 20:26

Because the venal fuckers got into bed with the Tories, pissed all over their own manifesto, facilitated Brexit, are still home to some of the most easily manipulated naïfs in politics and are spearheading the transwomen are women/NO DEBATE/Deadnaming is literal violence shit

crazyaboutcats · 31/05/2023 20:26

They have a memory
Don't want to prop up the Cons
Are not interested in protest voting
Want a return to New Labour wages and services

bellac11 · 31/05/2023 20:27

I am very keen to vote for policies which are left wing, semi socialist and pro europe and as a Labour voter all my life I was let down by them with regard to brexit and the referendum, they clamoured for it and clamoured for the outcome to be progressed

But I cant vote lib dem either because of their tory enabling past and their stance on gender.

Politically homeless

Original poster
worldstillturns · 31/05/2023 20:27

Also, Clegg is long gone.

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