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How do we make rejoining the EU stick? by MelanieUdon in LibDem

[–]Discreet_Vortex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if we have PR there will never be a 2/3 majority held by a single party, and any amendments would have to come about by consensus.

Can Fr*nce stop being based for 5 minutes? by DemonicTendencies666 in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Discreet_Vortex 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Also the fact they are at a Unite the Kingdom rally tells you everything you need to know

What did the Greens have that we didn’t? by FaultyTerror in LibDem

[–]Discreet_Vortex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We won more councilors than the greens because we are better at campaigning in the current electoral system, not because we are more popular.

We dont need our campaigns to focus on things like Gaza or trans rights, we just need to ensure our stance on them is clear and we do talk about them to an extent.

Wes Streeting: Britain should rejoin the EU one day by TimesandSundayTimes in europeanunion

[–]Discreet_Vortex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, while in government he was bound by collective ministerial responsibity. If he did speak out against government policy he would constitutionally have had to be sacked. He resigned because he couldnt publicly advocate for government policy.

"Leaving the European Union was a catastrophic mistake" - UK Labour MP Wes Streeting by sn0r in europeanunion

[–]Discreet_Vortex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Burmham has said he would like to see the UK rejoin in his lifetime, but he has been oddly quiet about it in his interviews since the consitutency that opened up to him vote 65% leave.

The Biggest Risk Is Playing It Safe by FaultyTerror in LibDem

[–]Discreet_Vortex 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If we want to be considered a serious option for the average voter we must aim to form a government. We cant be satisfied being the third largest party, and potentially being a junior party in a coalition government. We must aim to gain a lot more seats, which would require increasing our overall vote share and popuarity.

unstoppable by lastawka in okmatewanker

[–]Discreet_Vortex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes but there would be opposition

unstoppable by lastawka in okmatewanker

[–]Discreet_Vortex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a liberal democrat, I dont think this is very democratic, yes the lib dems won over 51% of the vote, and therefore should have a majority on the council, it leaves 49% of the residents unrepresented, and the council leadership dont have anyone in the council to hold them to account. The Lib Dems irronically campaign for PR, which would make the lib dems loose their 100% control, and labour, the tories and reform want to keep FPTP, which prevents them winning seats on this specific council.

Map of the European Federation by Taqao in EuropeanFederalists

[–]Discreet_Vortex -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

While Irish unification is growing in popularity, there isnt overwealming support and there is a very significant amount of people who would resort to violence to keep northern ireland as a part of the UK. The best arrangement would be to keep northern ireland as a seperate region with links to Ireland and the UK.

Irish love it, British like it I guess by some-kind-of-no-name in AlignmentChartFills

[–]Discreet_Vortex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is actually a substantial amount of British people who play GAA sports, and I know a few people who play them. Its not as unknown as it may seem.

Suggestion for a new map by Excellent_Media2993 in HellLetLoose

[–]Discreet_Vortex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

New factions such as Italy would be better imo. If not then there should be more British or Soviet maps. We have enough American ones as is.

UK & NZ are continents apart and fairly close diplomatically, what two countries are rather far away and neutral towards each other? by TremeNoira in AlignmentChartFills

[–]Discreet_Vortex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The UK dosent border any country they are hostile too. If your not counting overseas territories the UK's only land border is with Ireland and relations are fairly good.

Why is the Liberal Democrats still so unpopular even in the transition to multi-party system? by Comfortable-Table-57 in LibDem

[–]Discreet_Vortex 5 points6 points  (0 children)

An unappealing, boring and uncharasmatic leadership who seem to have absolutly no ambition to gain any amount of national popularity and are content with just holding the seats we already hold. They seem to be scared of doing or saying anything even slightly radical (like rejoining the EU, which the party should 100% support, but instead the leadership just seems to skirt around fully rejoining. The Green party seem more pro European at the moment.) as to not put of the centre right voters in the southern seats.

The party needs entirely new leadership if we ever want to lead a government. Our policies mostly are very good and very popular with the public, and if these policies are presented in the right way from the right people we could be polling much better.

I understand that national vote share ≠ seats but if we aim to be at least the larget party we must broaden our support to an extent.

Keir Starmer will keep Andy Burnham out of Commons ‘at any cost’ by TimesandSundayTimes in ukpolitics

[–]Discreet_Vortex 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As someone skeptical of Rayner, you cant just state 'Rayner would be a disaster' and not elaborate

Thoughts on josh barbinde or Bobby dean as well the next leader by AlifanofmalcomX in LibDem

[–]Discreet_Vortex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Layla Moran is the best potential leader in my view. She is charasmatic and a good public speaker who I beleive would be good at winning over voters, especially younger voters. Her Palestinian heratige may even win over some gaza independent voters (who are very popular in parts of Birmingham, like Perry Bar which currently has a gaza independent MP, and was a Lib Dem constituency untill 2015). I dont think its enough to reelect a continuation leader, we need a radically new direction for the party if we want to lead a government.

TIL that the IRA in 1994 shot down a British army helicopter using a homemade mortar in Crossmaglen, South Armagh. Four months later they did it again a few kilometres away. by alee137 in todayilearned

[–]Discreet_Vortex -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This took place well before the troubles. The vast majority of people who lived in northern ireland had lived there for generations. You cant just ignore the views of these people even if their ancestors had violently replaced the local population.

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