Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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?

OP posts:
IWonderWhereThatDishDidGo · 31/05/2023 20:27

Yabu

I see no reason at all to vote Lib Dem and have no plans to ever

ohmustyou · 31/05/2023 20:29

Because we weren't asleep in 2010?

FloweryName · 31/05/2023 20:30

I mostly agree with you and would vote Lib Dem if it weren’t for the fact that they’re stupid enough to think you can change sex just by choosing to

Makegoodchoices · 31/05/2023 20:31

Next time I vote it’ll be the first time I don’t vote Lib Dem. Again, because of the penis comments. I just can’t vote for someone that goes along with that nonsense.

Before I felt they’d had a bad deal in the press - as soon as the coalition ended we saw how much effect they had actually had on stopping the Tories. Everything got so much worse, so fast as soon as they had ‘free rein’.

Iamclearlyamug · 31/05/2023 20:32

IMustDoMoreExercise · 31/05/2023 20:19

Because they don't know what a woman is.

Another vote for this

Simianwalk · 31/05/2023 20:33

Anyone that sleeps with the Tories will never ever get my vote. They got fuckhead Cameron in, and as a result we got Brexit.

Zwicky · 31/05/2023 20:33

Because they are misogynistic shites
Because they are homophobic
Because Aimee Channelor
Because they take money from pharma and promote removing fertility and sexual function in minors in exchange
Because we wouldn’t be in this state in NC hadn’t screwed then dumped us

AuntMarysPinny · 31/05/2023 20:34

I voted Lib Dem for the first time in 2010 and as a result helped the Tories get into power. Never again!

DontSetYourselfOnFireToKeepOthersWarm · 31/05/2023 20:34

What’s the point? They are all shit and nothing will ever properly change regardless of which party is elected. Our system is designed to protect the status quo for the benefit of the 1%

tennesseewhiskey1 · 31/05/2023 20:35

Because the idiots think a woman can have a penis. 🤷🏻‍♀️

stepstepstep · 31/05/2023 20:35

Simianwalk · 31/05/2023 20:33

Anyone that sleeps with the Tories will never ever get my vote. They got fuckhead Cameron in, and as a result we got Brexit.

Agree, they are literally the reason we got Brexit.

Kpo58 · 31/05/2023 20:36

Because no one trusts them after implementing university fees after saying that they would never charge fees for uni.

AndTheSurveySays · 31/05/2023 20:37

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

^ This

Saucery · 31/05/2023 20:39

They lied, threw in their lot with the Tories and are too firmly entrenched in denial of biology.

Fiftyisthenewsixty · 31/05/2023 20:41

My mum has voted for and campaigned for the Lib Dems (in some form) all her life. She was told by a young, male canvasser that she was a bigot for disagreeing with him that women can have a penis. I can't vote now but if I could I wouldn't vote Lib Dem as I have seen firsthand the contempt they have for women. No thanks.

Comfortablechairs · 31/05/2023 20:42

We have a Lib Dem Council. They think they are a bit special and wonderful and they make a point of being very very nice to posh roads. Roads with social housing are treated very differently. Our borough ( South West London) promotes a two tier system with a great deal lot of autonomy for richer areas to choose how their roads are organised. It is not so pleasant if you live in a poorer road. They have also made poor decisions about the running of schools locally.
I will go the Labour route but I know Lib Dems ( new Tories) will romp home.

Hogsmeadpiglet · 31/05/2023 20:43

tennesseewhiskey1 · 31/05/2023 20:35

Because the idiots think a woman can have a penis. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I would never ever vote Lib Dem for this reason.

DisquietintheRanks · 31/05/2023 20:44

IMustDoMoreExercise · 31/05/2023 20:19

Because they don't know what a woman is.

This. As it turns out, this is my red line. Strange but there you go.

Dramaandthellama · 31/05/2023 20:44

This.

RedToothBrush · 31/05/2023 20:45

Three reasons.

  1. I'm pro eu but the lib Dems eventually became utterly militant and tone deaf on the subject to the point that a better deal which we could have had was blocked because they were determined to 'win'. It was utterly arrogant and ideologically driven. Instead everyone has ultimately lost.

  2. The rampant sexism within the party which goes beyond way beyond lady penises. It's duplicitous.

  3. The extent of brain dead nimbyism they push. There's no pragmatism and careful consideration about problems. It's just block everything.

Generally speaking I'm a centrist but I find them thick as mince, tone deaf and stuck in their own echo chamber. And that's not how you run a country.

PicnicBunny · 31/05/2023 20:45

Liberals are a shady bunch. Literally anything goes. Minor Attracted people, (MAP) what used to be known as paedophiles to be accepted into society being pushed hard by the European Union.

They don’t know what a woman is.

Massive censorship.

I’m second generation immigrant, and even I believe that people should not be allowed to just come over on boats (from France !) to claim asylum. If you have to throw your neighbour under a bus for a stranger on a boat, what makes that more ‘virtuous’ ?

MrsTerryPratchett · 31/05/2023 20:46

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

ALLLLLLLLLL of this.

Well said that woman.

HRTQueen · 31/05/2023 20:46

Because they wouldn’t be honk twice about jumping into bed with the Tories again if it meant they have the chance to be in power

KohlaParasaurus · 31/05/2023 20:47

Because I haven't forgotten Nick Clegg and the coalition.
Or Cyril Smith.
Or Chris Huhne.
And I won't be casting a vote that might put some ranting pop-eyed bloke who tells us that a woman can have a penis because he says so into a position of actual power.

RedToothBrush · 31/05/2023 20:47

Yep the authoritarianism that they have whilst simultaneously claiming they are liberal and democratic.

Swipe left for the next trending thread