“Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” asked John Lydon on his last night with the Sex Pistols in January 1978.
That’s very much how all you Liberal Democrat voters should be feeling this very morning. For if one thing has been proved in the 2010 election is that the Liberal Democrat party is a spent force and actually derails the democratic process. I would have rather had the Conservative party won by a fair majority than have it eaten into by this wishy-washy party who will climb into bed with the party with the most votes rather than act on their principals, instead of submitting to their lust for getting their hand on the greasy rudder of Parliamentary power. So as I was saying to myself yesterday, a vote for the Liberal Democrats was a vote for the Conservative party.
I bet all you good-natured, middle-of-the-road, undecided, uncommitted, flip-flopping, Liberal Democrats are feeling a bit silly this morning, aren’t you? Where did your swing of votes go? The result proves that a three party political system doesn’t work and for democracy to be properly served a return to two-party politics is needed.
Forget proportional representation, for PR is only mooted by the Liberal Democrats because it serves only them – the also-ran, because the Labour voter will vote Lib-Dem as their second choice and the Conservative will also do the same – because neither will vote for the opposition as their second choice. So the Liberal Democrats need to go.
The Liberal Democrats is a party born out of those who sell out their principals to the highest bidder – I cite David Steel as a prime example of that – it is a party that threw out the ideology of the old Liberal Party, instead infecting them with the M.O.R. middle class Social Democratic Party ethos (which basically formed from those refugees from the political weasels who burnt their bridges with both Labour and Conservative Party). It is a political stain that blows in the wind, that represents nothing, that stands for no-one. If you voted Liberal Democrat, you are probably the same kind of person who when asked if they would like a tea or coffee usually replies: “I’ll have what you’re having? I don’t want to put you to any trouble.”
Now obviously, I am a Labour voter. I admit that. But despite this, I would have preferred a stable Conservative win that this uncertainty these Liberal Democrats have thrust upon us. Without that party, there would have been a decisive victory for the Conservatives and so our political system is preserved.
So what now? At this moment, Clegg wants to desperately unzip the fly of Cameron and drop to his knees, but it doesn’t look as if that kind of coalition will happen. If that’s the case, then my respect for Cameron increases, the same can be said if El Gordo holds fast and doesn’t waver.
At this moment, it would be better if the two main parties worked together until a second election is called, especially for those votes who were denied their chance to exercise their electoral right due to potential mismanagement at the voting stations around the country. I’d never in my life seen people been turned away from a vote – it was almost as if we were living in a third world country. A true disgrace.
But in a way, I got what I wanted: I awoke to a Labour Government again! I’m secretly hoping that El Gordo claims squatter’s rights and they have a fight to remove him from Number 10. But at least we all know that Nick Clegg will sell you out at the first opportunity.
So you class traitors who switched your vote to the Liberal Democrats and effectively wasted it: “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”
Lib-Dem Con?
I understand why people do it, but it proves that the Lib-Dems cannot be trusted. I’ve heard that on a lot of political discussion forums and blogs that Lib-Dem voters are livid with a possible Tory pact. Though Clegg is talking to Cameron and possibly Brown tonight.