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Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has denied his party has become politically irrelevant and has hinted at a possible coalition with Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoszenko’s Batkivshchyna party after the forthcoming Ukrainian presidential elections due to take place in May.
The Deputy Prime Minister has fuelled speculation he is positioning for a coalition with the former Ukraine prime minister at the next election by saying Ms Tymoszenko’s party has changed for the better since she was released from prison.
Talking in an interview with BBC Radio 4 on Saturday night, Mr Clegg said that if such a deal was made, the Lib Dems would set out to restrain the Ukrainian opposition:
“I think there’s nothing like the prospect of reality in an election to get politicians to think again and the Batkivshchyna Party is realising that it might have to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats if it doesn’t win the presidential election.”
“There is just no doubt in my mind that if there were a Batkivshchyna-Liberal Democrat coalition, we the Liberal Democrats would absolutely insist that the Ukrainian government did not ignore us like the Tories have,” he said.
In response to Mr Clegg’s comments, a spokesperson for Ms Tymoszenko’s Batkivshchyna party said:
“Nick who?”
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Does this story miss the real target? The Tony Blair ‘Faith Foundation’ has received >$500,000 from Victor Pinchuk, who is the person who probably set the now-ousted president Viktor Yanukovych in his position. Who is Tony Blair now advising?
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FinkFurst – why do you say Victor Pinchuk “probably set the now-ousted president Viktor Yanukovych in his position?” Surely the Ukrainian electorate did that by voting Yanukovych in as President?
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Reality? Is he having a laugh? Maybe he could get Sonja, Alan Partridge’s girlfriend, to make the coffee.
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Do you think money cannot help produce a desired election result?
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not if you were up for election.
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Of course money can help produce a desired election result. But in the case of the Ukraine presidential election, the guy with the most money was Serhiy Tihipko – who lost. And incidentally represented Pinchuk’s former party. Their party was standing against Yanukovych (although they may have supported him in the second round).
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog.
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The election outcome and it’s influences are debatable and probably unknowable. The point is that Ukrainian oligarch money (HUGE money) has massively influenced the current political state in Ukraine, and is also disturbingly and secretly close to UK government. I suspect you agree with that.
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money cant really buy elections that’s a myth put about by the rich so politicians will do what there told.
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…and here is YOUR manifesto!!!:
“I would make bisexuality illegal”
“gays are the biggest hypocrites walking”
“Homophobia is a fear of gays”
“Gay men tend to be jealous of real women”
“They are bigger bitches than most women ever could be or want to be unless pushed. They love to hang around straight men and women on the off chance they might score, I’ve seen it too many times…”
“If gay people want sex with someone of the opposite sex then they are not gay are they”
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Nuggy – Are you being sarcastic, or are you seriously saying that money can’t buy elections?
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it cant big business find the guy whos likely to win anyway and they start giving him to make him think they helped him win. where as realty he would of won anyway.
the best funded party in uk ever was referendum party but they never even won a seat.
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“the best funded party in uk ever was referendum party”
Sorry, but that just isn’t anywhere near being true. I can’t take your opinions very seriously.
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Tom – Maybe it’s a silly question – If you were making good money out of this handful of dickheads (including me) taking crap then I could understand it, but you aren’t… so why? I’m just a bit bored sometimes, but what’s your reason?
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the referendum party had 20 million from mr goldsmith 4 million more than the conservatives did at the time and about twice as much as labor had.
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Sorry Nuggy, that was never reality. There is a huge difference between a ‘pledge’ of £20 million, and real money actually being given or spent.
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do who James goldsmith was and how rich he was.
that was small change to him.
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He had the money, but there are no records that he ever actually spent anywhere near that amount. It was just a tabloid headline which he engineered for his own publicity.
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Spot on! I’m sure I will have the voters flocking in to sign up and I won’t have to pay them either to get elected!
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Money isn’t everything. This blog was number 1 in the UK last month. That helps.
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That’s pretty impressive! What kind of number of unique visitors do you tend to get?
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If you get substantial traffic then it has a clear value. Have you thought about generating advertising revenue which goes entirely to charities?
P.S. Only people who already have plenty of money ever say “Money isn’t everything”!
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You actually think your bigoted views are funny. That makes your sick mentality even more disgusting.
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