It’s OK Nick Clegg will soon move himself to the Tories or will become Lord Clegg, you can bet your ass he has done a deal to make his future secure.

This is just regurgitated material from the Independent. Write your own content! What’s the point of visiting this blog for cut and paste? It’s ridiculous. Lazy bu*gers!

There is a fairly constant trickle of members & councillors moving between parties, your figures demonstrate nothing unless you can show there are substantially more moving in one direction than the other. 8 out of about 4,000 isnt very significant, is it ?

8 out of about 4,000 isnt very significant, is it ?

Agreed.

If anything it’s further evidence of the overwhelming majority of the Liberals’ utter delight at the current coalition and its neo-Thatcherite direction.

See also: The forthcoming party conference/rally.

I’m with Scratch on this. The lack of anything but vague efforts at differentiation in response to the coalition deal suggests simply that the lib dems like this deal, like the agenda, and like the coalition.

Which says a lot about a party some people on here pretended was left wing not so long ago.

PS

This is a stepping stone job for Clegg so he can one day be a european commissioner. That’s his real ambition.

It’s not only Lib Dems disappointed with the coalition… http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11186771

Yawn. Yet another sort with almost zero basis in fact. I don’t know why I bother coming here anymore, all it does is copy and paste (without fact checking I might add) sorties from elsewhere.

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Lib Con has always linked to political stories elsewhere. It doesn’t only do that by why complain that it does that too? Some of us appreciate it.

@2 and @8:

I don’t quite see what your problem is. LC has always been a mixture of news and opinion. The news has always been taken from other sites, whether they are press releases or news stories from papers from the Independent.

What exactly is wrong with LC providing links to news stories that it thinks its key audience (lefties) will be interested in? If you don’t like it, don’t read the news stories on the RHS, just read the opinion on the LHS, because a lot of it is excellent.

Also – George W Potter – the headline is “Lib Dems face local resignations”, and the story is about 8 councillors resigning. So how can this story have no basis in fact, when these councillors have actually resigned? Just curious.

@10 I said little basis in fact as the paper talks about “a growing grassroots revolt” when only 8 out of 4,000 have left (which is something like 0.02%) and party membership and renewal rates have significantly increased. The figure I’ve heard is ten joining for every member leaving. Now, there’s certainly some people who are uncomfortable with the Coalition deal (myself included) but there is nothing like a grass roots revolt as something like 85% of members supported the Coalition deal in a recent internal poll.

In short, this story has, as I said, little basis in fact and, if the author had been more truthful, could have been no more than three paragraphs long, basically saying that a Lib Dem councillor has resigned, bringing the total to eight. I don’t object to LC c&p ing stories but it’d be nice if they could actually fact check the stories first and inform us when what the article is saying is not the whole story.