LibDem Foreign Affairs Spokesman Ed Davey was ordered out of the Commons Chamber after the Deputy Speaker ruled that a LibDem Amendment to the Lisbon Treaty Ratification Bill would not be called. It sought a referendum on EU membership. Davey reacted with anger and after he repeatedly argued with the Deputy Speaker's ruling he was ordered out of the chamber. Several LibDem MPs upped sticks and followed him. Truly a pathetic sight. I could never understand why Nick Clegg didn't junk this ridiculous policy when he had the chance to, and instead commit his party to sticking by its manifesto pledge of a referendum on the EU Treaty itself. Anyway, see if you can come up with a suitable caption for what Nick Clegg is thinking in the above photo. Photo credit: BBC.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Caption Competition: What is Nick Clegg Thinking?
LibDem Foreign Affairs Spokesman Ed Davey was ordered out of the Commons Chamber after the Deputy Speaker ruled that a LibDem Amendment to the Lisbon Treaty Ratification Bill would not be called. It sought a referendum on EU membership. Davey reacted with anger and after he repeatedly argued with the Deputy Speaker's ruling he was ordered out of the chamber. Several LibDem MPs upped sticks and followed him. Truly a pathetic sight. I could never understand why Nick Clegg didn't junk this ridiculous policy when he had the chance to, and instead commit his party to sticking by its manifesto pledge of a referendum on the EU Treaty itself. Anyway, see if you can come up with a suitable caption for what Nick Clegg is thinking in the above photo. Photo credit: BBC.
yet again: Lib Dems 'outraged'
ReplyDeletepaths not brushed: Lib Dems OUTRAGE
Old woman crosses the road: Lib Dems OUTRAGED
A day has 24 hours: Lib Dems OUTRAGED
Lib Dems back-track on manifest commitment - the real outrage!
Electoral system broken and bankrupt - Lib Dems outraged
ReplyDeleteParliamentary system broken and bankrupt - Lib Dems outraged
Public denied a referendum on Europe - Lib Dems outraged.
Thank God one of political parties cares.
People of England outraged by lack of referendum on anything.
ReplyDeleteNews media ignore one of largest protests in parliament for some years and does not explain what the lib dems are getting angry about.
Blog fails to explain procedural anger of lib dems.
I have to agree with the view that the Lib Dems appear to be showing a spine absent from the other parties.
ReplyDeleteWell the tories and lib dems voted against holding a referendum on the treaty/constitution, last week in the EU!
ReplyDeleteYes the tories, their leader Chichester giles or something.
So this ploy today by the Libdems was obviously a try on to extricate the Lib Dems from their disgraceful decision not to seek a referendum on the treaty/constitution.
Clegg looks as if he is saying. 'as HE got a drink problem, he is red around the gills?
Ed, you really need to curb your good lunches!
ReplyDeleteWhy is anyone suprised?
ReplyDeleteNick Clegg is proving the LibDems always get the wrong man:-)
and the LibDems are proving they have less common sense than the Labour Party (whom they support).
Storm in a teacup carried out by political midgets.
I am not a Lib Dem supporter. But their policy makes more sense. A vote on the Lisbon Treaty would no doubt be subject to the usual EU shenanigans whereby a 'no' magically becomes a 'yes'. Either that, or this zombie Treaty would rise from the dead again after being 'abandoned'.
ReplyDeleteNo what we want is a vote on our membership in principle of the EU. That would have a degree of finality about it. And we could make a clean break from it, and get back to running our own country for ourselves.
Strange because no doubt the Lib Dems would campaign to stay in. But then no politician in their party or elsewhere is packing the balls to lead this country outside the EU.
Nick is happily destroying the credibility of a future rival, and doing the EU's bidding at the same time.
ReplyDeleteClever stuff this manufactured outrage.
"And the Oscar for best supporting Actor goes to ... Ed Davey for 'Accidential death of a policy'"
ReplyDelete"...when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous...."
ReplyDelete(Goebbels/Clog)
Clegg:
ReplyDelete"Oh for heaven's sake come on, do you realise I've got £200 riding on this one?"
Clegg: "I bet Iain Dale manages to manufacture some false outrage about this in a whiny blog post about the Lib Dems"
ReplyDelete"I hope I can get a good job at Total Politics if it all goes totally wrong"
ReplyDeletewins
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Martin keeps his job as long as he does what Brown wants and to hell with anything else ?
ReplyDeleteI thought only muslims got "outraged" or is that just outraged about nothing ?
"Tit"
ReplyDeleteDo I win a prize?
Clegg:
ReplyDelete"Don't make him angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry."
Clegg - I said we'd share a W I N E over the EU.
ReplyDeleteI quite liked the Deputy Speaker, he was quite firm at the beginning, a good potential Speaker of the House.
ReplyDelete"Oh no - that hand's gone as fuzzy as our thinking".
ReplyDeleteIs he thinking:
ReplyDelete'How many years am I going to be sitting here watching clowns like this, I wonder. I wish I could control my competitive instincts. Here I am, lauded by the press as a good leader and I've got absolutely no chance of being in charge of anything other than this lot. I'll never even be in charge of a 3rd rate ministry, let alone attend an international leader's summit.
What's the point? What the feck is the point?'
Or something like that?
Cleggers is thinking (for a Libbie, that's something!):- 'leadership material'.
ReplyDeleteYes his bum does look big in that.
ReplyDeleteClegg to self "I wonder what he looks like naked?"
ReplyDeleteEd Davey says he got the idea from Simon Ashley our glorious leader in Manchester Town Hall ... a man who has lost two defectors, in two different directions, already this year.
ReplyDeleteNow there's a thought ...
"I could never understand why Nick Clegg didn't junk this ridiculous policy"
ReplyDeleteCan't you Iain. I can. He knows we would vote no.
He thinks they would win an election on leaving. I hope he is wrong on that but that he won't realise he is wrong & junk that promise too.
"I could never understand why Nick Clegg didn't junk this ridiculous policy"
ReplyDeleteCan't you Iain. I can. He knows we would vote no.
He thinks they would win an election on leaving. I hope he is wrong on that but that he won't realise he is wrong & junk that promise too.
Truly a pathetic sight. ~ Iain Dale
ReplyDeleteReally?
I don't think so. Nice to see a party that actually cares about issues.
Clegg is thinking:
ReplyDelete"Why is my colleague so out of focus? Maybe he's not all there!"
NC thinks 'Can't the idiot see the 'Dim Demo' headline?'....
ReplyDeleteAre you the same Iain Dale who wrote an article in the newspapers saying he thought the Lib Dem proposal for an in-out referendum was a great wheeze the Tories should copy?
ReplyDeleteWhy I ought to...........