I probably won’t be doing much writing over the weekend. In fact I won’t be doing much of anything except dancing frenetically in weirdly-lit hellish cellars because I am about to enter into a ninety-six hour gigtastic bender. As we young(ish) people say. So as a favour to the rest of the Lib Dem blogosphere I will be turning my blog into a toilet for the duration.
Are YOU prone to bleating, whining, wetting yourself, throwing all your toys out of the pram and beating your little fists against your keyboard? Do YOU regularly call for the contest to concentrate on policy issues while writing yet another post that doesn’t?
Do YOU find yourself regularly using words like ”smear” and “spin”, and have you at any point over the last five weeks shaken your head gravely and with barely concealed glee muttered “Well, his supporters aren’t doing him any favours at all, that’s all I’m saying.”
Can’t watch a clip of Nick Clegg, a polylingual Cambridge graduate, without making mean-spirited, shirty remarks about lack of substance? Can’t listen to Chris Huhne give a less than glowing opinion of his opponent without concluding that he is the antichrist? Can’t read a post by a supporter of the opposite camp without running off to write your own about how meeeeean all the opposite supporters are?
This toilet blog post is for YOU and your pointless brainwaste! Get it all out of your system in a safe environment! Get your arse off Lib Dem Voice so that the rest of us can have a conversation, and use this blog instead! Do us and the candidates a favour!
Here comes the comments section. The filters are off, and there ain’t no troll policy. You know who you are and you know what to do…
November 15, 2007 at 8:15 pm
Right then. Negative crap about the candidates. Um, ok then.
Clegg annoys me because he reminds me too much of Cameron and Blair and I think the electorate want someone with substance.
On the other hand, while Huhne definitely has substance, there is a definite tang of negativity, and I dislike the way he’s ruling out things completely that might actually be good ideas (like Swedish style vouchers and school co-ops run by teachers).
Clegg is too smug and insubstantial, Huhne is too smarmy and boring.
Or alternatively there’s a big pile of pointless negativity going around and both will make damn fine leaders—which is why I’m tempted to go for the ten-years-older guy so the younger one can have a go next time…
November 15, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Since Mat forgot to finish his post…
, and both of them are complete turn-offs for anyone who isn’t a party member already…
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November 16, 2007 at 12:21 am
No, I thought tonight’s Question Time showed Nick Clegg just doesn’t know how to be nasty, so he’s completely useless – just like that genteel but boring old fart, Ming. Go for the goolies. Go for Chris, the Lib Dem’s own attack dog.
November 16, 2007 at 1:46 am
Rabble Rabble Rabble!!!
November 16, 2007 at 10:46 am
Both candidates are boring. Both are too middle ground too. Soon all three parties will look the same.. it´s the politics of being afraid to upset anyone, of bowing to mori (etc) poll results every five minutes. I´m sick of these dull middle aged male manager politicians. They only inspire me to move country.
Oops, I did.
I will blog on actual policies, next time
November 18, 2007 at 3:47 am
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November 22, 2007 at 11:40 pm
I am just sick of Clegg acting all cow eyed and wounded and innocent. Won’t do him much good if he wins and has the joy of PMQs. And he isn’t exactly an innocent little convent school kid. Let’s stop playing silly buggers and start acting like grown up politicians – if he thinks Calamity Clegg is bad he should just stop and think of what the red tops would do to him. If you can’t stand the heat….
…yeah I am voting for Chris H, at least the man has some cojones.