March 12th, 2013

Tories Slam LibDems Over Spare Room Subsidy Claims
“This Goes to Show LDs Are Not a Party of Government”

The LibDems are claiming they have forced the Tories into a climbdown over the spare room subsidy, in spite of IDS’ denials when doorstepped earlier. LibDem HQ says the protection of armed forces, foster families and the disabled came “following pressure from the Liberal Democrats”. The Tories are not exactly entirely in agreement with this version of events. A somewhat surprised – putting it politely – Tory spokesperson tells Guido:

“This is complete fiction from the LibDems, who consistently face both ways on many issues. Ultimately this just goes to show the LibDems are not a party of government.”

Coalicious…

UPDATE: A LibDem spokesperson hits back, insisting to Guido:

“We are a party of government. We have ministers and everything.”

Video via ITV.

91 Comments

  1. 1
    Spartacus says:

    How about a coallition ?

    • 82
      or well donkey benjamine says:

      gotta love/laugh at IDS code name WMD
      but
      if you move people around like slaves and cattle
      considering only the cost of their pen
      if mass education is a system of sacrifice and genocide
      and
      when you know perfectly well that a level of unemployment is necessary to suppress wages that causes the very inability to escape indentured slavery
      and when the landlords are raking it in due to limited building through many factors
      then dont be surprised if you breed lefties
      and or rioting feral tearaways
      especially in a consumer warrior culture

      the social cost of this policy will be counter productive
      the cheeky ones will get round it
      and the entitled and deserving will be crushed
      their children will be upset

      the solutions are not simple
      but left and right war aint it
      nor moving people around and smashing the big society community
      step back
      stop looking at the pragmatic now only
      look at the anthropology
      what humans are
      it is more than money food and shelter
      BEWARE

      • 83
        you must be 'avin a laugh says:

        if you a rich man you only need one bank account
        its not fair on the poor rich men that the rich rich men have accounts on islands etc
        we should have a foreign bank account tax

        or stop pitting the poor upon the poorer

  2. 2
    Gweeeeeedo says:

    I’m not a CCHQ mouth_piece

    As if.

    Perish the thought.

    • 14
      An honest Tory says:

      Regardless of the LD dimension what this fiasco actually shows is that Deadman Stiff is not a man of government. If he was he would have sorted out these issues at outset.

    • 60
      It's a bit strange says:

      “LibDems are not a party of government.” OK sunbeam call a general election and then you will be free of the LibDems, and probably free of power, not my words my lovely but but Lord Ashcroft’s mouth piece ( mind you, he could have been kidding ) get Dave the wonder boy to call a GE

    • 62
      Blind Pew says:

      Lib Dems are notorious for their fiction. A famous example is today sewing mailbags in Wandsworth and avoiding the showers. The mad, bad and sad.

  3. 3
    Jimmy says:

    Is this something to do with the bedroom ta?

    • 13
      Sandra in Accounts says:

      No, its to do with hard working women like me paying too much tax for the lazy & feckless to sit on their arses all day belching Stella & watching 42 inch plasma tellys & living in houses that are to obig for them & they cannot afford without being subsidised.

      If you knew how annoying the Bedroom Ta_ spin is to real taxpayers then you, the BBC & the Labour Party might just accept that the proposals are perfectly reasonable you utter dickheads.

      I am sick of funding McMentals nationwide induced welfare addiction through soul sapping high taxes.

    • 22
      Ta-ra says:

      What’s a bedroom ta? :-D

  4. 4
    Vince Cable says:

    I have consulted my personal records and can confirm I don’t know anything about this.
    Must run.

    • 18
      Cuntstituent says:

      Do you remember your name?

      • 61
        It's a bit strange says:

        He’s got young Jimmy Murdoch’s memory problem Vince is quite a old man but young Jimmy is very young to have very bad memory problems

    • 90
      Handycock on the sick says:

      Nor have I been shagging in Europe with the Council for Europe on expenses while pretending to be on the sick. Boaz.

  5. 5
    Chavette says:

    No body’s takin me counsiwhouse off me. I’ve just got it and me spare rooms are for me felleas like innit!

    • 40
      Newly arrived but loading up says:

      We are letting out all our council rooms, we have many fellah’s wanting bed, we get many fellah’s each room. Letting rooms give many helpping to our bennifits.

  6. 6
    S.B.S. says:

    Video not working.

    • 17
      Suchi and Suchi says:

      Is that a sequel to Labour’s Not Working?

    • 20
      Anonymous says:

      It’s not that the video isn’t working. The problem is that Deadman Stiff is so comatose that no movement is apparent.

      • 49
        filipinomonkey says:

        Sitting at a desk here with a monitor that has on it the simple words, “Cable not connected” and am thinking, isn’t that the truth…

  7. 7
    Kun Tea Bollox says:

    I love Nick Cleggs face – both of them

  8. 8
    GnosticBrian says:

    Why post a video that folks can’t watch?

  9. 9
    No Future in Edinburgh. Moving On. says:

    The Gaybo garbage flats are over priced. Pay a fortune for rubbish!

  10. 10
    Casual Observer says:

    That embedded video seems to be private.

  11. 11
    Chris Huhne says:

    I tried to tell my cellmate about windfarms.

    He broke my jaw and made me wipe his arse.

  12. 16

    “Ultimately this just goes to show the LibDems are not a party of government.”

    Alas, neither are the Conservatives, as the BEDROOM TAX proves.

    And if you don’t like the term BEDROOM TAX, then tough. Calling something “doggy doo-doo” doesn’t make it any less a turd.

  13. 19
    Nick Clegg says:

    Flexibility in government is a virtue.

    The key to flexibility is indecision, and I am proud that I have that in abundance.

  14. 21
    Pervy Justice says:

    “Ultimately this just goes to show the LibDems are not a party of government.” It’s a bit late in the day for that bombshell! I just wish someone told us earlier.And to think i had such high hopes.

  15. 24
    Silent Vince says:

    • 46
      Rat's arse says:

      Silent Vince – you are not a patch on Silent Bob. Now he is an insightful & intelligent blogger.

  16. 28
    quelle surprise says:

    Small error in libdem response? Shouldn’t it have said “We are a party of government. We have convicted ex-ministers and plots to replace our leader and everything.”

    In other news, LibDem former MP manages to scam taxpayer funded accomodation for him and his ex-wife for eight months – in separate places!

    • 66
      It's a bit strange says:

      And the Cons have a certain Lord who has done porridge don’t get too sanctimonious.

  17. 36
    Jack says:

    O/T I do love this

    http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1184165/woman-banked-billions-money-laundering-case

    An illiterate Chinese woman living in Hong Kong council housing launders billions…

    Competition for the banks in London methinks…

    • 85
      It'll all come out in The Wash says:

      “I didn’t ask. I don’t know. I can’t remember, …”
      No, it couldn’t be ….. could it ?
      Vince Cable’s mum ?

  18. 38
    When the night wind howls in the chimney cowls says:

    “We are a party of government. We have ministers and everything.”
    I mis-read that as “We have prisoners and everything”.

  19. 44
    Gordon the Medicated says:

    Stupid Cardinals. All debating the new Pope.
    Take a leaf out of my book. Threaten to bash the face in of anyone who doesn’t anoint you uncrowned.

    White smoke..white smoke my arse.

    Do you remember when I campaigned against myself? I was the only candidate, yet I still campaigned up and down the country to crowds of 10s, talking about nothing. Bet that put a few worries into the Labour faithful. Like a king suddenly taking of his trousers at a banquet.

    The first signs of the unfolding lunacy. The Madness of King Jock.

    “I say Tristam..do you think Gordy has got all his marbles?”
    “Do you know Tabbitha, I don’t think he has.”

    • 57
      the savant 10.4 highway patrol says:

      does white egress from your arse now McMental ?

      how times have changed . when you were in harness it was hot air coming out of your mouth ..

  20. 47
    Ed Moribund says:

    Sorry about all the wops and dagos and Polaks.

    • 48
      A flat tyre making a noise says:

      wop wop wop

      • 58
        the savant 10.4 highway patrol says:

        what’ s the eyetie acronym for a Youth Opportunities Programme ?

        A ……… W.O.P

        the old ones are the best

  21. 50
    Atlas Crushed says:

    I wonder if we could trace the exact point that this blog stopped being a “libertarian blog” and became a “conservative blog”?

    • 68
      It's a bit strange says:

      It always has been a Conservative blog, right wing etc., libertarian not really unless you agree with head honchos, it is now a Murdoch blog, you will have to get used to it, still you can see how the tory boys and Farage boys think and talk, language worse han the thick of it.

  22. 51
    Busted flush says:

    “We are a party of government. We have ministers and everything.”

    Like…
    thieves
    prisoners
    alleged sexual harassment practitioners

    you’re welcome to add to the list

    • 59
      the savant 10.4 highway patrol says:

      ” we also have a Leader. but as he moonlights as Deputy Prine Minister he is not allowed to speak — other than twice a year at Conference where he usually spends his time saying sorry”

      • 69
        It's a bit strange says:

        Ahh my friend in the first 6 months Cleggie did more covering for Dave, dave seemed to be away a great deal

        • 88
          2112 says:

          …and yet now he seems to have plenty of time to keep rebutting other people’s posts on this blog while hiding behind a pseudonym- isn’t that right Nick?

  23. 52
    Pentangelis says:

    Its high time somebody reminded these infantile LibDem MPs that they are the JUNIOR partners in this venture and they started to behave as such.
    Equally, it is high time the Conservatives put them firmly in their place and stopped pandering to LibDem political needs instead of those of the nation. After all, the LibDems know damn well that if they left the coalition and forced an election, their MP count would all but vanish, leaving them with nothing, whilst at the same time relieving the rest of us of the bad taste in our mouths!

    • 70
      It's a bit strange says:

      OK call a general election the libdems know they they will be deminished but the Cons will be routed

      • 74
        Pentangelis says:

        Not so sure of that! Conservatives everywhere as well as their supporters are fully aware of the dragging down of sensible conservative policies by these poor excuses for politicians.
        Without them we surely would have made a great deal more progress by now.

  24. 53
    Blind Pugh says:

    I just wish Smith would stop mincing his words .

    If he means by “complete fiction” that a Liberal has lied I would rather he just said so, identify the lie and point at the mouth which uttered the lie.

    If he could do this he would have my respect .

  25. 55
    Fox & Werritty Consultants says:

    Do you think that an IDS inspired header is going to get to 50 posts?

  26. 56
    Rinka Scott says:

    So the Liberals have Ministers do they ?

    Well they also have an ex Minister who is in prison for lying and cheating, another ex Minister who resigned over a problem with his expenses and yet another who made a complete tool of himself trying to impress a female young enough to be his daughter .

    I am beginning to understand why so little progress has been made in the last three years.

  27. 71
    Anonymous says:

    Why do the armed forces and foster carers get special treatment?

    If the policy isn’t good enough for them, it isn’t good enough for anybody.

  28. 75
    Man from the Midlands says:

    Just another exams if the Tories giving in to the Lb Dems. Shame. Bring on the under occupancy penalty, let the lefties have a moan about it and let life continue as normal.

  29. 77
    Jess The Dog says:

    Neither the Tories or the Lib Dems will be a party of government for much longer. Idiots, both.

    • 79
      yvemaria says:

      It’s going to happen sooner rather than later that cameron and Osbourne will be resigning.
      Take a look at the Government Petition [Ask David Cameron and George Osbourne to Resign] Petition Ends on 27th April at 09.41.

      Up to 9am this Morning there were 17.739 signitures,You could Help by going onto House of Commons Petitions.

  30. 78
    Gollum says:

    kjhkj ;oh ; lkloj l;kjkkl’k’

    My cat walking over the keyboard makes more sense than IDS

  31. 87
    Iain Duncan Smith. The True Leader. says:

    Kill the poor and give the savings to the rich.

  32. 91
    Anonymous says:

    No, NOT “Tory spokesperson tells Guido …..” You mean “Tory SPOKESMAN”, the grammatically correct generic term. “Spokesperson” is politically correct baloney. Guido Fawkes should be a PC-free zone.


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Tom Harris bemoans the public’s attitude to politicians…

“Mr Oborne echoes the lazy, anti-politics whine we hear so often these days, all based on the absurd notion that politicians were once loved and only fell out of public favour during the expenses scandal. He should take a walk to the Strangers’ Bar. But not to sup with the patrons he seems to despise so much, dearie me, no; he should instead look at the paintings on the corridor outside the bar, which depict the devastating fire which consumed most of the Palace in 1834. And he should reflect on the fact that on that dramatic night, as the Commons went up in flames, a crowd gathered on the South Bank to clap and cheer.”



Focus group time. says:

The thing that Dave needs to work out is which group is more likely to vote Conservative. Mad swivel-eyed loons or mad homosexuals wishing to get married.


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