I like Ed Davey

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Does anybody feel really cheered up by Ed Davey, the leader of the Lib Dems?

I hadn't heard of him before last week, but I love the photos and I really feel so grateful to him for the interview he did on ITV:

https://www.itv.com/news/2024-06-03/sir-ed-davey-opens-up-on-juggling-lib-dem-leadership-and-caring-for-teenage-son

I start to think that he and Keir Starmer would be an absolute knock-out combination if they had a coalition.

I would also love a majority Labour Government. Both good.

He is my local MP, and I find him smug and pretty ineffectual on the whole.

I think of him as Hugh Bonneville's younger, less good looking brother.

He thinks trans women are women, so no.

I don’t think much of his morals, given he’s happy to put women and children at risk.

He's completely different when the camera is not on him.

That is quite a moving interview.

Anyone who is a carer will identify with what he say about worrying about what will happen to his son in the future.

He is the leader of a dreadful party and is using his child’s disability as a way to get votes. I am certain his son would prefer for people not to know his dad has to change his nappy, if he was able to advocate for himself.
The LibDems are self-serving and will agree to anything to be in power. They are architects of the austerity policy which was directly responsible for killing 150,000 people in the UK. If your local library closed thank Ed Davey. He’s not popular with the sub-postmasters either. That’s another story.

He is the leader of a dreadful party and is using his child’s disability as a way to get votes

I agree the Lib Dems behaved appallingly in propping up the first Cameron government but that does not mean everything they do or say is wrong.

Accusing Davey of using his son to win votes is pretty nasty. Unpaid carers get very little recognition and I think he is doing a good thing using his platform to highlight how hard it can be.

I like him too. The LibDem campaign is really excellent.

I’m a carer. I think it’s appalling to use his son in order to garner votes. It says everything I need to know about him before even thinking about his dreadful track record as a politician.

I am also a carer and as I said, I think it's good he is using his platform to talk about the work we all do.

You're probably right about mentioning the nappy, but that is the reality of his situation.

I do see where people are coming from re privacy but sadly, politicians families do not enjoy a lot of privacy. His wife also has MS. I do think that it does give you a lot of empathy for people engaging with the NHS and other agencies (and carers). I won't be voting LD but I don't think he is exploiting his family. I think that there are some politicians who want to make life better for as many as possible even if I don't agree with them on how to do that. I think he's one of them.

He hates women and his party accepts massive funding from pharmaceutical companies which make and sell puberty blockers . So I imagine that the Cass report will be forgotten if he gets a sniff of power. Also like Kier he thinks some women have penises, so it's a no from me.

He’s no more exploiting his family for political gain than Cameron did in 2010.

Absolutely. Cameron shouldn’t have done it and neither should Davey.

I like Ed Davey's campaign. He's making less blunders than Rishi and he's getting a lot of good attention. He has been a bit 'action man' in recent weeks which gets the headlines, but fair play! He's getting his party in the news, fighting against two much more powerful parties who can dominate the airwaves

Honestly, his arsing about has not done him any favours. What is he trying to achieve exactly? It's like a Boris lite. Not good.

That’s a huge dilemma for me as well, if I don’t vote Lib Dem or Labour because of their parties views on women, then that only leaves the Tory candidate!

and I was a member of the Lib Dems. Went out canvassing had a poster in my window full on support with time and money. Now I'm voting conservative, because women's rights are under threat from all the other parties

I had a LD at my door. I raised the issue of whether sex matters. He said it wasn't important, and no-one else was bothered. Thanks for that.

No. He and his party support the sterilisation and mutilation of autistic and vulnerable children. I am not voting for that.

That’s the dilemma many of us face.

I’m angry that our democracy is so broken that this is the situation. Only one of the main parties - and only a right of centre party - actually giving a shit about the rights and safety of women and children. It makes my blood boil and I don’t understand why so many are accepting of it.

Blimey, I actually didn't expect anybody to respond. Now I know a lot more about the lib dems. :-)

Ed Davey refused to meet Alan Bates when he raised concerns about the prosecutions of the sub post masters by the post office when he was in charge of providing oversight for it as there was nothing in it for him. A clear example of a self serving politician with no morals or integrity. The public petition to remove his knighthood garnered 26000 signatures and he still maintains he did nothing wrong. There is a lady who is so incensed by his brazenness in his role regarding the sub post masters scandal that she is standing against him as an independent in the constituency. HTH

He reminds me of my not so ''D'Bil, very drippy.
Wouldn't trust the LDs an inch of rights of women and children. Nor most of the parties. The Tories haven't done anything about males in females spaces, apart from talking about it.