Lib Dems: Prior Planning and Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance
Prior Planning and Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
That about sums up the Lib Dem Conference. The words Piss, up, organise couldn’t and brewery also come to mind.
When Nick Clegg said he was ready to be Prime Minister, I just laughed, If they can’t even get their policies set-up for their conference how we can take them seriously to have any ability to either govern or even share in the governance of a nation.
As John Harris in the Guardian put it
And so it all ends, with the familiar smell of damaged hopes. One of my Guardian colleagues just suggested that somewhere in the Lib Dem soul is a terror of success that leads them to serially lose the plot, which rather brought to mind – and if this is a bit Pseuds Corner, forgive me – the Dutch football team of the 1970s. Fittingly, the best explanation of their terror of winning is in Brilliant Orange, an unputdownable book about the “neurotic genius” of Dutch football by the sports writer David Winner – though Cruyff, Neesksens et al at least bottled it in the context of inspred thinking and silky skills, which have been rather lacking down here: Lib Dem-wise, it’s neurosis and not much genius, as far as I can tell.