Interesting Links for 02-09-2015

[andrewducker]

• Scotland's only Lib-Dem MP is going on trial - on TV!
  • Originally posted as "Scotland's only Lib-Dem is going to trial". Which would be close, but not entirely accurate
  • (tags: politics law Scotland tv )
• I found the person who created the pyramid joke I went viral with! (Or rather, they found me)
  • (tags: viral Twitter )

Comments

[gonzo21]

Lovely, that's exactly what the LDs need to rebuild their reputation. Choice snippets of that interrogation will be aired on national television, and the LDs will still be paying for it at the next GE.

Politically, he should have been expelled from the party when the story broke.

[andrewducker]

Yup.

[gonzo21]

You know it just occurred to me that I don't even know who the new leader of the party is, they've been invisible on the news since the election.

[skington]

It's Tim Farron, but it was always going to have been Tim Farron, so maybe that's why he wasn't on the news? Same as why there presumably wasn't much about Kezia Dugdale becoming Labour leader in Scotland.

[gonzo21]

Right, yes, that seemed like the only candidate left who was even remotely viable.

I guess he will have a hell of a task getting any media coverage time, given they're now such a tiny party. Difficult to get any sort of message out there.

Well, apart from this scandal, plenty of messages will get out there on this one when they put the Orkney MP on the stand.

[cmcmck]

Doesn't stop the media giving bloody Farage with all of one MP and he a jumped ship Tory the constant oxygen of publicity though does it?

[gonzo21]

Aye, right enough. I'm certain now that the billionaires who own our media have decided out of the EU is the way to go.

Which surprises me, I did think there was more money to be made inside the EU. But maybe they figure the EU is finished now anyway.

[ext_2864067]

I do wonder whether it's genuinely about the media barons agreeing with him. Farage gets quite a beating in the popular press, for the most part, after all.

Perhaps it's more because of the Toxoplasma of Rage phenomenon: he's divisive, he makes people noisily angry on either side of the debate, and that's what drives site traffic.

[gonzo21]

Perhaps, though I was deeply horrified that 2 million people voted for him and his freakshow parade of a party.

I'm hopeful those were protest votes mostly, and that if Corbyn wins, he might start picking up a lot of the votes of people who are just sick and tired of Westminster politics.