Charge of the Fright Brigade: That LibDem Rebellion in Full
Sarah Teather is leading the devastating charge for the LibDem rebels in this afternoon’s welfare debate. So far five LibDems are understood to be rebelling or abstaining in this evening’s vote:
Just met with #Whips and let them know I will not be voting for the Benefit Cap tonight. Hope to speak in debate, too.—
John Leech (@johnleechmcr) January 08, 2013
I will not vote for Benefits Uprating Bill tonight – I'm proud we put up benefits 5.2% last year, in line w inflation. 1% is too little #fb—
Julian Huppert (@julianhuppert) January 08, 2013
To be clear,I'll abstain tonight,but vote against at 3rd reading if I can't support an amendment at committee stage—
Adrian Sanders (@adriansandersmp) January 08, 2013
Andrew George is also reportedly likely to abstain. Whips will be quaking…
UPDATE: David Ward has now indicated he will rebel.
Lambs to the slaughter.
Good looking bunch, aren’t they?
Just shows what a crap hand Nick Clegg has to play. I could almost feel sorry for him.
Charge of what??? The sandal jesus-creepers wearers brigade?
give me strength lord, I think I now need it.
These are the hard squad of the Lib Dems.
The Raffia
The Sopranos. IE they have no balls.
last time I met a Lib Dem, he was trying to sell me charity tickets, for save the whale, or some crap like that.
I will not be voting. If left to me, I would vote against, but the whips are against it and have told me that if I vote against, they will stop my visits to eastern Europe. Sex is far more important than politics. Boaz.
Inflation was 5.2% last year?
I presume this lot do know the details? Sadly, I doubt it.
Like the queue in a Brighton dole office
Benefits should rise faster than the wages of those who are extorted from…
Why are the LibDums supported by a >0% of the electorate?
Going Galt has never been more tempting….
Way ahead of you. Now into my 14 year of not working for others pleasure.
TIM FARRON VOTING FOR THIS BILL WILL LOSE MY VOTE WITHIN THE PARTY…DISGRACE.
Silly people, silly games. All will be gone in 2015.
Why can’t they just play together nicely?
Does anyone, anywhere care what Sarah Teather thinks?
T h e P a r a g n o s t i c
(Last time I saw him he had lost his white stick… but don’t tell him I saw him.)
Does Sarah Teather think ??
Nice tits though
I think you may be 20/200
Or bilaterally enucleated
puppet tits on a string
I shall not reveal your identity if you pay me the £5 promised in the adverts.
The cuts in NHS ophthalmology continue to take their toll
Surely someone with a Cambridge PhD like Huppert must realise that you can’t keep increasing benefits faster than wages. The 5.4% uprating last year was a TERRIBLE blunder – it would have been much better to spend the money on R&D.
You speak like a Cambridge PhD is worth something! Other than creating a sense of entitlement it is not.
It’s worth a helluva lot more than an PPE from the Oxford Politicians Kindergarten
Well that takes out 75% of BOTH front benches….
The problem is, that for many it is 5.4% of bugger all, while others may have 3% of hundreds of thousands. Talking percentages is smoke and mirrors. I don’t see the powers that be talking percentages when it comes to the increase in power and fuel that those on benefits have to fork out.
“White Heat of Technology” mean anything to you?
Spend it on lowering the punishment for employing people.
A Cambridge Phd? No wonder he’s a twat. I have never in my entire career found anyone from Cambridge who was any good as a colleague. They were either bullshitters who turned out to be far thicker than you would expect given the sence of entitlement or they were cut off from reality and totally unable to get on with people.
No wonder so many end up as MP’s
Julian Huppert = complete idiot. Does he honestly think that people should go out to work and get a small if at all pay rise and then have to pay for lazy scroungers who can’t be bothered to work hard and get a decent job. These people are just lazy – if Poles and Czechs can travel hundreds of miles to get work some of these lazy fools can be made to get off their behinds. Particularly those who have irresponsibly decided to have children they can’t take care off. Disgraceful. Welfare is not a safety net, its a way of life.
“Does he honestly think that people should go out to work and get a small if at all pay rise and then have to pay for lazy scroungers who can’t be bothered to work hard and get a decent job.”
Er, yes. We all do.
Of course he does,….now keep working and stop complaining it is YOUR civic duty to work and pay your taxes to support “Scroungers” in the style to which they are accustomed…..Strewth you’ll be saying you expect them to actually find a job next……
Aha, named and shamed!
These MPs want to take my money and give it to people to do nothing. Enough’s enough.
Don’t you think that that runs rather like the Asbos did to their client m@rket?
The thinking is so warped that they regard it as a badge of honour…
One egg or two?
Remember benefits are not just for Christmas they are for life
And Camoron has the temerity to call UKIP supporters odd!
I’m proud we put up benefits 5.2% last year, in line w inflation
Arsehole, prices may have gone up 5.2% but wages of people who, you know, work have not. Why should the feckless get a boost in their ‘income’?
The sooner the Government has a catastrophic drop in expenditure forced on it, the better.
In that case, why should they have to pay the scandalous price increases.
And what did you have for breakfast this morning
Can of Stella mate
The Liberal Democrats, spending your money so you don’t have to.
Low-down commies, the lot of them
The first one appears only to have half a neck.
By contrast, the others have far too much.
They look like local government employees or polytechnic lecturers. Low grade.
I’m proud we put up benefits by 5% please vote for me.
Just shows what a cess pit British politics have become. They know they are voting for the irresponsible and they are hoping that they do not win. They are simply after a sound bite for election time.
Miliband is desperately, desperately hoping the bill passes by about 10 votes.
Then he won’t have to take the decision to do it in 2015can pretend all the time he was against it.
A bit like Blair and the mines. “it was terrible the Thatcher/Major governments closed our coal mines…If only I had found some time between 1997 and 2007 to reopen some..or at least to stop closing them..but..you know..there was a lot of other stuff to do..like war..”
Bunch of low lifes – are they planning for life on the dole from 2015 when they loose their seats ??
Their gold plated pensions will sort them out
I’m not sure what to think, what with working in the private sector and not having had a pay rise for the last 4 years.
Let’s face it, in work benefits are not going to be their most pressing concern come 2015.
Typical fucking politico, more interested in spin than substance. Fucking Hoon
LibDems. Liberal with your money.
I would give them +0%
Teather, I have heard of, but the others are complete non-entities. What a waste of a life in politics.
Lib Dem as a school teacher, at an “average” school,
Are you going to withdraw the whip and chuck these stupid fuckers out Nick? Or are you a gutless wanker like Dave?
What was the second one again?
“I’m proud we put up benefits 5.2% last year”
You’re proud you took more money from people who are working and gave it to people who are not?
Utter Huhne of an idividual!
Yes, especially as the people who are working are ofen left with less money to live off than many of the scroungers we bribe for their votes.
George Smith has become my new hate figure. Repellent man.He really should be a lib dem or perhaps a conservative,even a labourite.
Does anyone care anymore? Is there a fag paper between any of the craven liars?
The level of debate is pathetic.
I have no idea who you are talking about. Is he a twat in Westminster?
What’s happened to Huhne and his Ex.? Is there a sooper dooper injunction on or what?
I am a state secret. Can I have a pay-rise?
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I’ll take that as a ‘yes’. Don’t tell anyone.
If █████ had won an application to dismiss the case, you can bet your boots that we would have heard about it by now. The court would have risen some time ago, 4:30pm at the very latest.
So, █████████████████████████████████████████████, I would expect.
It’s great being a state secret. I still get paid, you know.
So if the application has been dismissed perhaps the prohibition about informing us will be lifted.
Never had any time for people who try fancy technical arguments rather than facing a problem head on.
You would have heard by now if it had.
Egotism does not shy away like a shrinking violet…
Tax the poor. Give us your fucking money.
What planet do these arse wipes live on?
The planet “Give us your fucking money you plebs. We want to buy some votes off poor people who are better off than you”
we come from mars, they come fon venus searching penis, but lib dems, GAWD KNOWS!
mmm, Sarah. Shacked up with Andrew from Wham these days, just outside Wadebridge, just inside the Corwall border, in a fine farm, I have heard. She used to work in the beeb in that Shepherd’s Bush when young – and says she has some stories to tell.
A real fine filly – always liked here, she has certainly got female balls.
oops Keren even – who the hell did i confuse her with? Ah yes, her…
Are you SURE those are the photos of the LibDem “insurgents,” or is it possible that those people are the Sixties rockers Spanky & Our Gang?
http://www.spankyandourgang.net/spanky-our-gang.jpg
Cant we just all get along?
The inconvenient truth ?
Why not work out a fair and affordable method of re-rating benefits every year, so we don’t have all this angst and posturing?
Why not remove the incentive for MPs to bribe voters by making recipients of welfare payments ineligible to vote?
We want them de-rated not re-rated every year. Minus 10% per annum would do just nicely
Just get rid of tax credits and get rid of tax for workers under the average
David Miliband having a good day in the Commons.
What do you mean, has he showed up.
Next we’ll find Gordon Brown has appeared.
Could DM replace Balls?
Saw him more as a replacement cun*t myself
Why not just cut taxes to encourage more jobs and better paid ones, minimum wage is pointless if it has to be subsidised by tax credits – At the moment their Taxing successful companies to the hilt then use the money to subsidise the likes of Starbucks workers, which then returns pay zilch to the Chancy Liar.
You sound far too sensible. I shall put my fingers in my ears. La la la la la la.
Outrageous display of bias from comrade emily mattis on the labour broadcasting company just now berating a Lib dem live for voting for a cap on benefits. Communist Hag.
She’s yet another shampain socialist 100mm x 50mm
There’s nothing liberal about making people pay more tax or burdening them with more debt in order to pay people to sit on their backsides.
There is nothing liberal about the Liberal Democrats.
We will remember them.
Hey SPADDY — Don’t forget to write the name of this week’s dead soldier in capitals on my P.M.Q. briefing notes — I’ve got to remember to do the thoughts and prayers friends and families never forget him insincerity bollux as usual.
So can we have boundary reform in place of the benefit cuts?
WE know you are tarts. The only question is the price
Sara Teatger is a fat useless cnut who will lose her seat at the next election to a Labour trougher a friend of Abbots whos name I forget.
Lib Dems like Labour know how to waste your hard in cash.
Nest of vipers