Councillor Paul Whittle is a Lib Dem councillor and former Lib Dem opposition leader on Fareham Borough Council:
But surprisingly Whittle also regularly commutes 4,000 miles to his £180,000 full-time job as the Vice President of a further education college — in … erm … Saudi Arabia:
But don’t worry. According to Cllr Whittle, he is able to represent his constituency from half-way around the world because his constituents can contact him … “via email and phone“.
This is all particularly interesting because just today, Lib Dem leader Tim Farron demanded an end to the Saudi Arabia’s barbaric use of the death penalty:
“I utterly condemn Saudi Arabia for the execution of 47 people including the prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. Capital punishment is utterly abhorrent and the prime minister needs to turn round to our ‘ally’ and tell them capital punishment is wrong.”
And last month, Farron also had this to say about Britain’s ties to Saudi:
“It is time to shine a light onto the shady corners of our relationship with Saudi Arabia. It is time we stood up for civil liberties, human rights and not turn a blind eye because the House of Saud are our ‘allies’”.
Perhaps Farron might be better off by first shining a light on his own party’s connections to Saudi Arabia …
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Very tenuous link. Could it be that Paul Whittle is Tim Farron’s man on the spot providing him with information?
[Thank you Alan Winter – former Lib Dem group leader of Houghton Regis town council – for your unbiased view] -TOM
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Tom-Was it not the case that it was the Coalition government that did the sordid deal with Saudi Arabia for seats on the UNHRC? http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/29/uk-and-saudi-arabia-in-secret-deal-over-human-rights-council-place So the Lib Dems were in on that one-Any comment from them on this?
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Very tenuous links here.
[Thank you Jack Davies – president of New Forest Liberal Youth and former Lib Dem candidate for the New Forest District Council Pennington ward – for your unbiased view] -TOM
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A tenuous link made in the name of some good old fashioned Lib Dem bashing.
Yawn.
[Thanks Nicholas Pentney – Torbay Lib Dem activist – for your unbiased view] -TOM
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Well, that rattled some cages.
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Seriously, that’s the best can you can do?
Word to the wise: if you can’t think of
Something to blog about, don’t bother at all. It’s far preferable to resorting to
The lowest common denominator.
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I didn’t know the lib-dumbs had below the line trolls. I thought is was on CCHQ that had paid shills… wow you learn something new every day.
(Not that they are very good, mind. A true shill would have hid their political ties far better, lol.)
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*it was only CCHQ* That will teach me to post without re-reading.
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So let me see if I have this correct – a Tyrant murders people because of their beliefs – political – religious or other – and that Tyrant is “an Ally” to these UK – Lib Dems.
From what I understand the Lib Dem “Ally” has a young lad on death row purely because he attended an opposition rally.
Sounds very Liberal and Democratic does it not – Even Hitler and his stinking NAZI/ ZIONAZI system did not butcher people into pieces in public purely for democratic student opposition.
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Gov’t trolls are really beginning to pay attention to your blog. Good work!
You can tell when they all come out with the same vacuous one-liner.
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