Cable’s attack on the Tories does nothing for the Lib Dem's credibility

Slim Jim

Precisely. I'm getting sick fed up with Labour and the Liberals spouting shite about what the Tories will do. It's amazing how their 'cuts' will somehow not affect front-line services or jobs, yet the Tories will slash and burn and eat children too! Their attacks are childish and predictable. As for the Libs, who gives a fig what they would do? They're never going to get their sandals on the levers of power, are they?

Paul Hughes

Yes, I listened to it whilst at work. It was a wooden, bumbling, childish effort of a speech. There was no excerpt which would resonate on the news. Nada! He'll have to do far better than demonise bankers and tories. The lib-dems are toast in the south.

James Murphy

The man's an economic rabbit, as anyone who saw him twitch in the gentle headlights of Andrew Neil's interview will have seen. Like all Keynsians, he hasn't really got a clue about the real cause of the current crisis, which is grotesquely low interest rates run by the Fed and BOE in order to fund deficit spending by successive governments of whichever hue. Cable resembles one of those faintly absurd, self-important 19th century men of the cloth who, being top dog in their feeble little village (the Lib Dems) vaingloriously imagine that their opinion counts in the wider world! - In their - and Vince's - dreams!

Nicholas

I have never understood why the Lib Dems insist on attacking the Tories instead of New Labour. It is quite repulsive behaviour. They should be seeking to poach Labour votes. They really are thick.

David Ossitt

He is a bit of a shit really; but that is par for the Lib-Dems.

Aidan

Passing power down to local government will inevitably lead to different outcomes in different places. The Press will caricature this as a "postcode lottery". It can only work if councils are made really accountable to their communities through annual elections, possibly elected by a single transferable vote to break the power of the Labour machine in rotten boroughs like Haringey.

drakes drum

Aiden, does have a point. The Tories should look back at the time when people had a pride in their local towns etc. That was before District Councils and before County Councils. They were Borough Councils. Every Borough had their own police force and town hall, schools, hospital etc. Halcyon days maybe, but people did have a far greater local identity, local politicians would work for the local people and democracy was better served!.

Cable is a liar. Look at how Lib Dems (Cornwall especially) denied the local people a proper referendum on either District councils or County Councils. With the support of a Government they brought in a Unitary County Council doing away with District Councils, thus removing people further from the democratic process. The Lib Dems love of the Regional Governments and the EU and we have a party that is OPPOSED to proper local democracy.

Bring back the Boroughs and we can truly have a democratic revolution.

Jock

Nicholas. The LibDems are seeking to poach Labour votes. Two reasons why they do this by attacking the Tories rather than Labour. First, not much point in wasting ammunition on a corpse. Second, under the skin, Labour and the Lib Dems are political birds of a feather so Cable et al present themselves as the natural home for Labour deserters.

johnny come lately

If Cable's boring speech can be classed as an 'attack' then I am pleased he is not an officer in the armed services! AND they talk about this clown as a leader!!!!

IH

Pathetic performance - he really has to do better than bashing the Tories.
Expect to see their standing in the polls to plummet still further IMO

JONNY

A desperate attempt to cosy up to Labour voters to try and bail out threatened Lib-Dem seats in the South and West?

Mrs B

Here's the pic that say's it all.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/files/2009/09/politics-libdems-443x288.jpg

The Cat in the Hat

There once was a liberal called Nick
Who tried to be ever so slick
He was jealous of Dave
And he constantly craved
To be able to play the same tricks.

Nick had a good mate called Vince
Who everyone thought was a prince
He was incredibly wise
And has been fiercely despised
By his great leader, Nick ever since.

Nick always looked slightly confused
And often looked very bemused
He went wild about cuts
Vince thought he was nuts
His mate Charles returned back to the booze

Nick was desperate to get into power
And grew angrier hour by hour
He had no clue what to do
He was red, then turned blue
Oh! what a poor tender flower!

Irene

The Cat in The Hat:

That made me laugh out loud!

Any Colour but Brown

The LibDem's only hope of ever forming a Govt is as a coalition with ZaNu Labour. That's why they're banging on at the Tories, they know they've no hope of eve forming a Govt with them.

Nicholas

Vince Cable always reminds me of Yoda in Star Wars.

Flemingcrag

In case people have forgotten the Lib-Dems including their financial Guru Vince Cable, voted for Labour's idea of taking fiscal control off The BoE and giving it to an inexperienced Quango, now known as the FSA (Financial Services Authority).

At the final voting stage as Peter Lilley argued most eloquently and passionately against this move, more or less forecasting what was later to befall, the only support that rallied to the Conservative arguement were the votes of the DUP, all other parties voted for Labour's decision to fix something that was not broken. The rest is history as they say.

Ian

He really is vile.

Hysteria

loved the picture - brilliant - thanks !!!

Tim

Friends,

I'm not one for watching 'Mock the Week' however I caught the tale of the last episode and noted the joke about the inability of the Lib Dumbs (and I resolutely refuse to recognise them as a credible electoral force) to form the next government.

I think we, as Conservatives, have to up the ante on this matter and take the weak cow by it's powerless horn and say that the Conservatives will NOT enter into a coalition with the Lib Dumbs.

Their ideas are not worthy of attention and therefore we will not pay them any credence other than to say that we will seek to enter government only in our own right. That is also to say that a vote for the Lib Dumbs is a vote for Labour as the gormless and ineffectual Clegg will inevitably support Brown, either through tacit consent or actual pact.

This should see a few Lib marginals fall into our hands and, ultimately I hope, a Conservative Majority at the next election.

We need to be aggressive and we need less of the Social Democratic Conservative nonsense to which we are seemingly becoming accustomed.

Regards

Tim

Stephen Grant

Here we go again.When will the people of this country give up on the political "party" system?As a nation we vote in fewer numbers than ever before so any election is hardly representative and for years we have heard the same old boring statements from the same old boring politicians who never tell the truth.Wake up UK!We have moved on,we need competent elected non politicalleaders with no hidden agendas who can make this country prosperous again and will hand on the batton after 4 years to those who will continue that same vision.We dont need do nothing Liberals,toxic Labour state control or shifty Conservatives because they all have minority views and its clear by voting habits no one party can summon up enough votes to say the "majority"agrees with them.

Ian C

And this from a supposedly respected politician. No wonder, if the likes of Cable are held aloft as the sort of politician we should have, that we hold our politicians in such contempt if the heights to which he can aspire is to throw partisan silly darts and inkballs around just because its conference season.

The Lib Dems are using the same tools as were used in the 1997 election by the Labour party in the hope it will do them some good in 2010. That is very unlikley to inspire hope that they can replace Labour as the party of the left.

Occasional Ostrich

@James Murphy
September 21st, 2009 4:46pm

I concur with you on interest rates. It seems to me that there's a perception that shoving interest rates through the roof in the early 1990s "didn't work". That is to say, it didn't work quickly enough for those whose facile solutions have been foisted on us since 1997. So what do they do? The exact opposite. And they do it withoud any consideration as to whether the present circumstances bear any relationship (in terms of origins or exacerbating factors) to those that existed in the 1992. DoH!

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