X-Factor politics has arrived as Nick Clegg “nearly as popular as Winston Churchill”
The Leaders’ Debate on the telly has prompted huge support for the Lib Dems. Not only does a YouGov survey for the Sunday Times suggest that Nick Clegg is now the most popular party leader since Winston Churchill, but a BPIX poll for The Mail on Sunday puts the Lib Dems in first place: a point ahead of the Tories.
it is the first-ever opinion survey that has shown the Liberal Democrats, or their predecessors the Liberals, in first place.
The short-lived SDP-Lib Dem Alliance was briefly ahead in the Eighties. But you have to go back to 1906, before opinion polls or television existed, for the last time the Liberals had the most popular support.
I didn’t watch the debate myself, what with not having telly, so could someone please enlighten me as to the appeal of Nick Clegg? It can’t be the Lib Dems’ policies because they are even worse than Labour’s of the past thirteen years.
Old Rightie reminds us on Subrosa’s blog just how awful the Lib Dems’ ideas are.
Just check out the facts of their manifesto, scary!!
We will not waste taxpayer subsidies on nuclear power and we will block any plans for dirty coal power stations.
A zero-carbon Britain – We are the first party to aim for a carbon neutral Britain so we don’t contribute at all to global warming – making the British economy carbon neutral overall by 2050, reducing carbon emissions in the UK by over 40% of 1990 levels by 2020 as a step on the way.
Share the security burden through more defence co-operation with allies – European countries need to work together more effectively on defence and security. There are huge savings to be made by buying in bulk and sharing military assets. With the defence budget under terrible strain, it would be irresponsible not to do this.
The Euro – Liberal Democrats believe that it is in Britain’s long-term interest to be part of the Euro.
What this translates to is utter contempt for the British people and an astounding ignorance of history and economics. The Libs want neither nuclear nor fossil fuel power stations. This should certainly help to make the country “carbon neutral” as we’ll be spending our winters sitting in the dark, shivering, because there is not enough electricity being generated. What’s left of our industry will suffer further too, but that’s part of the master plan of the globalists: to move production to Third World countries.
They want a Europe-wide police force and army. Just as the Nazis did. They didn’t get their way because other countries were independent, but this won’t be the case if Clegg gets to be the EU’s puppet leader of the UK.
And what does he mean when he says of defence and security, there are huge savings to be made by buying in bulk and sharing military assets?
No, there are huge benefits to the Government buying British-made equipment – and keeping it for ourselves in case we need it in a hurry and can’t get it because the Bulgarian Navy are using it on manoeuvres in the Black Sea. Of course, if we share equipment and buy in bulk from China, then we can reduce our carbon emissions and look really cool as well as feeling really cold.
And to complete the destruction of our country, the Lib Dems want to join the Euro.
But none of this clearly matters, because Nick Clegg looked good on the telly. Was it his smile? Did he appear to occupy the moral high ground against Brown and Cameron (not a difficult task)? Are the workings of the nation’s brains clogged up with volcanic ash?
Someone, please help me understand.
It just goes to show how dangerous ‘democracy’ can be, if voters are convinced to vote for a party, without knowing what most of its policies are, simply because the leader looks good. Non-tax payers, criminals, benefit claimants and immigrants and their off-spring should not be allowed to vote.
I was a benefit claimant, so I can’t agree with that one. Actually, I used to vote Labour, so you might have a point!
I’m watching the debate now on ITV Player. Managed 24 mins so far. Nick Clegg’s the best so far. Brown seems slightly less robotic than usual, but still forgets he’s been in Gov’t for 13 years and will now make everything hunky dory. Cameron is a waste of space so far. I heard he did better towards the end. Don’t know if I’ll make it that far, but I’ll try.
What Clegg is cashing in on is the people’s need for ’something different’. As you say they no idea what the ‘difference’ would be. We’ve become a nation of superficiality.
Stewart,
The reason that benefit claimants should not be allowed to vote is that they will vote for the party which promises them the most money for the least effort. This is a recipe for disaster, a ridiculous policy which has resulted in unemployed people getting £20,000 per year for doing precisely nowt. http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/media/2009/11/daily-mail-benefits-britain-labours-reign-puts-300000-families-on-handouts-worth-20000-a-year.html
Only those persons making a contribution to society should be permitted to decide its future course.
Subrosa,
I think they do want something different, but want to be told who it is they should be voting for. Comparing policies would be too much trouble. A nation of superficiality and laziness – courtesy of the media and state ‘education’.
English,
You have a point. The ghastly thing is that many of the people I know who are out of work cannot get benefits, even though they are the ones who have paid most into the pot.
Stewart,
As I said, only those who have made a contribution to society should be permitted to decide its future course; your friends would obviously be entitled to benefits, on the grounds that they had already made significant contributions to the state.
It is most certainly a crime to deny assistance to needy persons which have paid their dues. It is an equal crime to give assistance to those which have not.