Ready to move house
Continued to burn, dump and pack household stuff ready for the move next Friday. Rubbish TV in the evening. Liberal Party Conference season. Can't claim total credit for the following but.......
In the past the party has had a reputation for avoiding spin, and many delegates had felt uncomfortable about continually pretending they were ever going to form a government.
In the bars around the conference, there was a sense of relief and liberation that delegates could finally say out loud what they had all been thinking for years.
At a ‘Liberals for the Environment’ fringe meeting the mood was the same; ‘Having taken the decision to carbon off-set the conference, we thought ‘Wouldn’t it be more carbon-neutral just not to have a conference at all?’ Wouldn’t it save more trees, and paper and everything just to stay at home and muck around on ebay?’
Other delegates were looking forward to doing evening classes or learning to play the piano. ‘I have spent every weekend for years stuffing leaflets through letter boxes and ringing on doorbells’ said one activist. ‘I might just have a lie-in on Saturday and then go shopping.’
However one small group of die-hard Liberals have announced their determination to carry on. The breakaway splinter group calling themselves ‘the Continuity / Provisional Liberal Party’ held a press conference to announce their intention to break the mould of traditional three party politics. ‘For too long Labour, Tory and the old Liberal Democrats ran a convenient little cartel that was short-changing the British voters’ they declared to groans from journalists. ‘We will shatter that cosy conspiracy and form the next government of Britain! Actually we won’t, will we? Let’s go to the pub instead.’
The Liberal Democrats have shocked political observers with a, for once, honest assessment of their electoral chances. It left them voting to ‘go home and not bother any more.’
In the past the party has had a reputation for avoiding spin, and many delegates had felt uncomfortable about continually pretending they were ever going to form a government.
‘We’re all wasting our time. We know it, you know it, everyone knows it’ said leader Menzies Campbell to applause from the conference floor.
In the bars around the conference, there was a sense of relief and liberation that delegates could finally say out loud what they had all been thinking for years.
‘We tried to look convincing when we said we would ‘shatter the smug consensus of the big two parties and win!’ said one West Country councillor. ‘But if we were trying to be honest we should have said ‘we were going to take a few votes off the others and then come a poor third. I mean it’s not much of a cause to devote your entire life to is it?’
At a ‘Liberals for the Environment’ fringe meeting the mood was the same; ‘Having taken the decision to carbon off-set the conference, we thought ‘Wouldn’t it be more carbon-neutral just not to have a conference at all?’ Wouldn’t it save more trees, and paper and everything just to stay at home and muck around on ebay?’
Other delegates were looking forward to doing evening classes or learning to play the piano. ‘I have spent every weekend for years stuffing leaflets through letter boxes and ringing on doorbells’ said one activist. ‘I might just have a lie-in on Saturday and then go shopping.’
However one small group of die-hard Liberals have announced their determination to carry on. The breakaway splinter group calling themselves ‘the Continuity / Provisional Liberal Party’ held a press conference to announce their intention to break the mould of traditional three party politics. ‘For too long Labour, Tory and the old Liberal Democrats ran a convenient little cartel that was short-changing the British voters’ they declared to groans from journalists. ‘We will shatter that cosy conspiracy and form the next government of Britain! Actually we won’t, will we? Let’s go to the pub instead.’
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