AS IF the Liberal Democrats will ever be relevant againI've been thinking for a while we probably need a Reform thread, as depressing as it may be, they're basically the opposition in a lot of people's minds these days.
In the interest of balance, I'm happy to also have a Liberal Democrats: The Ed Davey Years thread if they ever, y'know, do anything.
THAT'S NO FUN THOUGHTo be fair to the Lib Dems
They'll probably be holding Labour up in coalition in 5 or 10 years!AS IF the Liberal Democrats will ever be relevant again
She does attend parliament and has two staffers funded by JK Rowling apparentlyOn a non Lab/Tory aside, it just struck me that Rosie Duffield is STILL an MP! What an absolute grift of life to quit the party about 3 weeks into the job and then spend the next 5 years watching the salary roll in while living on the other side of the country from your constituency and doing the square root of fuck all. It'd be almost admirable if she wasn't such a massive wanker.
Does she even attend parliament regularly? When you're an independent MP what exactly are your non-negotiable responsibilities, and who has the power to censure you if you don't fulfil them?

Turns out Badenoch gave her one of the Tory seats.How the frig did an independent Duffield get a seat on the Women and Equalities Committee?
It was always fairly inevitable - it's basically their strongest area.Urgh, Andrea Jenkyns looks likely to be elected as Mayor of Lincolnshire in May.
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Labour mayoral candidate on race to stop Reform – and ‘Doge Lincolnshire’
Jason Stockwood, ex-chair of Grimsby Town FC, has plan for keeping rival Andrea Jenkyns from implementing US-style cutswww.theguardian.com
New UK Eurovision entry just dropped.

Its so odd how much airtime they are gettingThe way the BBC are paining Reform as the opposition party is terrifying. We're literally being gaslit into thinking this shower are a government in waiting. The Lib Dems have eighteen times as many seats and we hear nothing. We're been forcefed the most hideous of narratives and I have no idea what the hell we're going to do about it.
The BBC had a boner for Farage before the papers did. After they got 8 million viewers for Question Time when they had Nick Griffin on, they couldn't help themselves; Griffin was a bumbling idiot but Farage has the gift of the gab as well as having so little in his diary that he was almost always available at the last minute. And now the press and the BBC are grooming him for No. 10.Its so odd how much airtime they are getting