Lib Dem MPs in bid to oust Nick Clegg after disastrous election results
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| Protest against leader Nick Clegg, could see Vince Cable take over. |
An almost unbelievable
prospect.
Clegg, an unprincipled
hypocrite and opportunistic politician, who betrayed not only his
party in the country, but also every principle that the Liberal Party
ever stood for. In his grubby quest for a place at the cabinet table,
he has demonstrated on numerous occasions over the last four years,
an unswerving loyalty to a (predominately) Conservative government
who have created divisions in society, unseen for almost 100 years.
The consequence of the
past four years of his duplicity and in part, that of the LibDem
parliamentary party, has resulted in the rejection of the Coalition
junior partner at the ballot box. The LibDems now, it seems, are
beginning to engineer the removal of Nick Clegg as their leader.
It is really quite
incredible that the name coming to the top of the candidates on the
list of potential LibDem leaders is that of Vince Cable.
The Secretary of State for
Business, Innovation and Skills, has recently presided over the
disastrous privatisation of Royal Mail where city banks, speculative
investors and hedge funds have made £millions at the expense of the
British tax payers due to the floatation price being set too low in
spite of all the evidence to the contrary and presented to Cable at
the time.
In addition to his inept
handling of the Royal Mail privatisation fiasco, Vince Cable has a
chequered past in his career in the Commons and more recently as a
senior member of the coalition cabinet. Criticism of his being more
convincingly Tory than most of the Tory frontbench with his
enthusiastic support for spending cuts, has been voiced both within
the LibDem party and in the pages of the national press. He has also
drawn criticism for being inconsistent in his statements on many
policy issues leading to the conclusion that he lacks conviction or
understanding of the issue or both. The curious case of the
journalists posing as constituents, suggest to some that Cable's view
of his own of self importance, leads to a degree of gullibility,
which is not a virtue for a party leader.
Should Clegg in fact be
removed within the next few months, then a leadership contest will
take place. If Cable is the only option that the LibDems can produce,
then they are in a sadder state than is already evident.
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