The vote on the Lisbon Treaty referendum was lost, but the moral victory won. The duplicitous Labour party will deservedly lose the next general election and the devious Lib Dems will be consigned to the electoral oblivion they merit. Both parties broke the pledges they made to the electorate in their manifestos and will rightly be punished. Indeed, Nick Clegg's leadership of his party is already in tatters, with three of his front benchers resigning.
William Hague’s speech was excellent, funny and poignant. His contempt for the Lib Dems is illustrated in the following extract from his speech (mentally accentuate the word “shrill” as you read it):
Mr. Hague: Let me finish my point about the Liberal Democrats before I take a further intervention.
The leader of the Liberal Democrats should be true to his original conviction. When he wrote in The Guardian on 15 October 2003, as a Member of the European Parliament, he attacked the Government for
“dismissing all calls for a referendum”
and
“playing straight into the hands of the Eurosceptics.”
He said:
“Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that we do not have the ‘cojones’ to carry our argument to the people.”
An explanation of why the Liberal Democrat leadership’s protests in the debates have become ever more shrill is that, at some point in recent months, they have become separated from their cojones. Those unfortunate objects are now to be found impaled on a distant fence.
William Hague’s speech was excellent, funny and poignant. His contempt for the Lib Dems is illustrated in the following extract from his speech (mentally accentuate the word “shrill” as you read it):
Mr. Hague: Let me finish my point about the Liberal Democrats before I take a further intervention.
The leader of the Liberal Democrats should be true to his original conviction. When he wrote in The Guardian on 15 October 2003, as a Member of the European Parliament, he attacked the Government for
“dismissing all calls for a referendum”
and
“playing straight into the hands of the Eurosceptics.”
He said:
“Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that we do not have the ‘cojones’ to carry our argument to the people.”
An explanation of why the Liberal Democrat leadership’s protests in the debates have become ever more shrill is that, at some point in recent months, they have become separated from their cojones. Those unfortunate objects are now to be found impaled on a distant fence.
Incomparable.
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It's too little too late for us mere mortals.
You did your best David.- Thank you.
Another Day - Another Fight.
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