View Full Version : Lib Dem cash plan for women & ethnic minorities MPs
Nicholas
19-09-2006, 09:52 AM
Cash incentives are being offered to local Liberal Democrat parties who recruit women and people from ethnic minorities to stand for election.
A first tranche of £200,000 is available now. Senior Lib Dems deny the plans amount to a bribe.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5354548.stm
blacktory
19-09-2006, 10:07 AM
Hi Nicholas very grateful your post on the Lib Dems squabbling over candidiate selection in terms of ethnicity and gender. However shouldnt a candidate be chosen because they are the best and not because the are from a certain race or gender. On the other hand i will support the notion that if the candidate so happens to be a black talented patriot then the rules of metocracy should apply.
Nicholas
19-09-2006, 10:14 AM
. However shouldnt a candidate be chosen because they are the best and not because the are from a certain race or gender.
Exactly!!! This is another politically correct decision taken by the Lib Dems who I can see slowly fading into obscurity. I don't think I have ever met anyone who actually owns up to voting for them.
kieronantony
19-09-2006, 05:42 PM
Alot of people say that the Lib-dems are a mainstream party, how can that be justified seeing as they haven't been in power for around 90 years?
TellMeMore
19-09-2006, 07:21 PM
have never been in power, you're confusing them with the liberals, an altogether different animal.
kieronantony
19-09-2006, 07:23 PM
Oh, ok then, I take it that it was the Liberals who were the ones that were in power just before or during WW1 then.
von-Scharnhorst
19-09-2006, 07:29 PM
I take it that it was the Liberals who were the ones that were in power just before or during WW1 then.
Aye, under Lloyd George. Hmm. When did the Whigs start being called "Liberals"?
Aha Super Google 1859 they became Liberal. So Kier Anthony is correct.