Worst leader of the Lib Dems

clegg in a landslide

for the first and last time

Ashdown, Clegg and Farron all hideous tbh.

Only goodies here are Ming and Kennedy (although they were not great leadership material for certain reasons).

The other three are a rogues gallery.

Has to be Clegg.

clegg the only one who demonstrably made the country a worse place

Clegg, obs. Feel a bit sorry for Tim, all in all. Charles Kennedy easily the best.

Charlie was against the coalition, Ming wasn't.

good guy was charlie

is it ok to say that the way you pronounce menzies ticks me off a bit

Charlie Menzies.

i used to work at pacific quay in glasgow, on the side of the river across from the finnieston crane and thus a vista that is conducive to politicians looking for a glasgow photo-op.

before the 2010 election clegg -mid the Cleggmania that the media insisted we were feeling after his performance in a TV debate - was there for a photo opp in front of a van with his promise to not hike VAT if elected. i could have spat out the window and hit him.

it was increased by 2.5%.

should have bloody spat on him.

john menzies

jean charlies de menziesez

Severely tempted to vote Ashdown, who has not redeeming qualities I can think of.

is it ok to say that the way you pronounce menzies ticks me off a bit

naw btw

mark s feast your eyes on this

Ben Chonzie – a mountain in Perthshire
Bunzion – pronounced bunion, Lower and Upper Bunzion are farms in the Parish of Cults, Fife
Cadzow – the former name of the town of Hamilton, South Lanarkshire; the word Cadzow continues in modern use in many street names and other names, e.g. Cadzow Castle, Kilncadzow
Cockenzie – a town in East Lothian
Colzium Estate – a historic estate and mansion house near Kilsyth
Corriemulzie – a river in Sutherland that lends its name to the Corriemulzie Estate[11]
Culzean – pronounced culain (IPA /kʌˈleɪn/), a historic castle in Ayrshire run by the National trust for Scotland;
Dalmunzie – now pronounced as written, a historic castle in Perthshire now repurposed as a hotel;
Drumelzier – pronounced drumellier (IPA /drʌˈmɛljɛr/), a village in the Tweed Valley;
Edzell – now pronounced as written, a village in Angus
Finzean – pronounced fingen (IPA /ˈfɪŋən/), an area in rural Aberdeenshire
Funzie Girt – pronounced funyie girt (IPA /ˈfɪnjiɡɪrt/), a historic dividing wall on Fetlar
Glenzier – pronounced glinger (IPA /ˈɡlɪŋər/), a village in Dumfries & Galloway
Kailzie Gardens – a historic walled garden near Kirkburn, Scottish Borders
Kilchenzie – a small settlement on the Kintyre peninsula
Kirkgunzeon – pronounced kirkgunion, a village in Dumfries & Galloway
Lenzie – now pronounced as written (IPA /ˈlɛnzɪ/), but previously lenyie (IPA /ˈlɛnjɪ/), a village near Glasgow
Menzion – a village in the Borders
Menzieshill – an area of Dundee
Monzie – pronounced money, from the Gaelic Moighidh, "a level tract", a parish in Perthshire near Crieff which lends its name to Loch Monzievaird and the Falls of Monzie;
Queenzieburn – pronounced queenieburn (IPA /kwiːnibɜːrrn/), a location in North Lanarkshire;
Ruchazie – now pronounced as written (IPA /rʌxˈheɪzɪ/), a district of Glasgow;
Zell – archaic spelling of the Isle of Yell;
Zetland – the name for Shetland until the 1970s – Shetland postcodes begin with the letters ZE.

those are all good, i like those

except the one now pronounced as written, fuck that noise

my mind is blown that shetland was called zetland til the 70s. also that ruchazie was originally pronounced as Ruchayie?

wait waht

that last QT appearance by Charles when he was pissed seems quite sad in retrospect, and Hislop's sneery responses quite fucking cold considering the poor bugger obv had a very serious drink problem. I know pissed-up politician is probably fair game, but there was something really off about that.

Voted Clegg for his piece-de-resistance - the ConDem T4 program.

Menzies Colquhoun would be a good name for a Lib Dem leader of the future.

fae culross

Milngavie surely?

summer home in kirkcudbright

pied-a-terre in Strathaven.

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clegg in a landslide

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Vince Cable is going to be the new leader, let's see how badly he does.

(Dalziel left off list of wtf spellings above btw)

liked it when vince cable made a total arse of himself talking to undercover telegraph journos saying he could topple the coalition gov, clearly only saying such bluster because they were young women and he was trying to look cool

Irony is that this would probably be the right time for someone like Cable to be leading the LibDems if he hadn't fatally undermined virtually all his previous economic arguments during the coalition.

How he positions himself wrt Corbyn will be interesting.

it's tricky because there is something in clegg's politics which I really object to (& seem to fit with his U turns/broken promises) but the way he has been scapegoated and generally treated like shit is a good illustration of how awful & negative british political culture is with that all-too-stable mixture of spite & disenfranchisement

hate the "hold my beer" meme but...

“Gender isn’t an issue any more, rightly so,” he adds. “Thanks to Obama, race isn’t really an issue any more – at least, we hope not. And age shouldn’t be, either. It should be who you are and what you have to say.”

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2017/07/vince-cable-theresa-may-s-tory-conference-speech-could-have-been-taken-out-mein

shocked that a Lib Dem doesn't see colour prejudice