The Party That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Guido exceeded the age limit for the guest list for the launch of Liberal Youth last night on Brick Lane. The Liberal Jugend Führer, Mark Gettleson, wanted to rename LDYS because he wanted "a name that sounds like a youth movement rather than a sexually transmitted disease". Which is as good a reason as any...The logo and website have a Top of the Pops circa-1974 feel. Which is either knowingly kitsch or perhaps just like the Liberal Party of yore, outdated and retro. Groovy kids!
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Good grief, I have visions of Pans People frolicking to the sounds of a yellow "Birdy Song".
Mark knows everything about stds...
Oh how groovy, LSD, sex, other drugs and loads of booze with some good vibes thrown in.
I gotta join.
Talking of the 1970's a Mr Pooter has written:
• Will Hutton
• The Observer,
• Sunday March 23 2008
It was a turning point in my life. The ex-grammar school boy trying to make his fortune in the City had just lost a chunk of his life savings because he had put himself on the wrong side of what is now called a 'trash and cash' operation or what in the 1970s we called a bear raid. I remember travelling home amazed at my lack of judgment, but reading in the evening paper that, whatever my haplessness, the company's employees were now losing their jobs. It was an incredible way to run a financial system or a company, a conviction that has never left me.
I'd only had a walk-on part in the demise of Birmingham Small Arms (maker of BSA motorcycles). All morning, the shares had been beset by rumours of the company's imminent collapse and I had been buying them for the 'bounce' - the 20 or 30 minutes when they temporarily recovered before falling again. But dashing out of the office for a sandwich, I had been ambushed - the shares were suspended while I was in the queue before I could sell them again. I was an unwilling holder of now valueless pieces of paper.
The 59th Street Bridge Song was written by Paul Simon as recently as 1965.
Zimmer frames at the ready: Lookin' for fun and feelin' groovy.
'Groovy'?! The patterns just make me feel even more sick than I already am... :(
Reminds me of Chris Huhne
I bet this is just so Mr Gettlebum can try his luck with as many idealist youths as he can get his hands on...
Word ver - duurex lol
I should think Mark Oaten is lucky he didn't catch anything nasty, from what I hear...
they look a fun lot
Wasn't Groovy the eigth dwarf who was kicked out by the other seven before they hit the big time with Snow White.
my god. that fukin minger baroness kennedy on the politics show. what a total cunt.
politics realy is showbiz for ugly people
How to get rid of the LibDems for ever: elect Mark to parliament. Just look at the ginger ming:
http://www.ldys.org.uk/portal_memberdata/mark_gettleson/fun/variant/profile
That's not the logo, this is: http://www.ldys.org.uk/500x256.png
Slightly O/T
If you look at how the Soviet Union was managed in terms of economics and welfare provision, you see a few things:
First, there is to be full employment which will work toward the benefit of the state, second, provision of welfare is a right extended only to those in work and third, an internal market was allowed to exist. In practice, this meant central government settled on an economic plan, semi-private enterprise (they had some autonomy) achieved the target and welfare was then provided to citizens (in the form of health, holidays, flats etc.) What was key in this system was not public ownership, but the emphasis on the supremacy of the state over the individual.
Looking at the economic policies under labour, there does seem to be an increasing shift toward integrating state with society, from higher taxes and credits to neighborhood policing, its all a little sinister.. throw in our great 'campaigns' against speeding, smoking, fox hunting, obesity, unemployment, global warming, terrorism etc. its very hard to work out what's going on.
Most worrying is proposed constitutional changes, ie. new bill of rights/changes to treason law. Stalin was 'comrade card index' or 'the grey blur' before the 1936 constitution, something else afterward entirely.
Yeah, right: "launch of Liberal Youth last night on Brick Lane."
Rat hole of overpriced 'designer' clothes shops nestling amongst rip off merchants selling dodgy imports, fake brand names & knocked off bikes. LibDems to a fault
Totally O/T, but my authority on the area told me the 2 beigle shops (yes beigle not bagel - we're Cockneys not f*****g Noo Yawkers) are run by members of the same family who haven't spoken for donkey's. Is that just myth?
Great salt beef though.
This has got to be a joke right?
That website is absolutely atrocious.
Circa 1974? - more like cira 1968.
I just signed up to it, and the first 4 letters of my password were INIT......
Just had a look at that website (shudder). Have they got somebody from the old OZ mag designing it? All that colour on black & the pink fill.
Be a 'Schoolkids Issue' next, or is that just a Labour thing.
Yuk. That website is eye-piercing pink, the kind of thing 12-year-old girls from Hull knock up on their chat sites.
These comments would be quite accurate if the website did actually look like that.
"Good grief, I have visions of Pans People frolicking to the sounds of a yellow "Birdy Song"."
So do I now
Looks down
"Poing!!!"
Retro, what is point?
what is point? Retro
What is point?
Blast from the past typeface.
And, so typical of the Liberal Democrats, they launch the site - with absolutely NO content whatsoever!
Looks like an LP cover to jefferson airplane or some such.
Check out the picture on their website - I hope Guido has copied it for tomorrow's caption contest.
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