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FBaggins

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1. "Not much interest" because...

Reply to T_i_B (Original post)

Thu Jul 16, 2015, 12:13 PM

Jul 2015

He's been the expected heir for a couple months and, more importantly, the Lib Dems lost almost all of their influence.

Fewer than a dozen seats out of ~650 just isn't going to get much attention until (if ever) opinion polls show a chance of them regaining many of those lost seats.

They've been double-relegated from the Premier League to League One.

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Tim Farron is new Lib Dem leader [View all] T_i_B Jul 2015 OP

"Not much interest" because... FBaggins Jul 2015 #1

In addition to their serious credibility problem.... T_i_B Jul 2015 #2

Who knows Anarcho-Socialist Jul 2015 #3

I don't think Corbyn will become Labour leader... LeftishBrit Jul 2015 #4

If Corbyn gets in.... T_i_B Jul 2015 #5

I think that the most likely result of a Corbyn victory is another SDP-like split. non sociopath skin Jul 2015 #6

Agreed Anarcho-Socialist Jul 2015 #7

Part of me wonders.... T_i_B Jul 2015 #8

Much was made of the UKIP encroaching on Labour territory in the Northern Heartlands .. non sociopath skin Jul 2015 #9

I think Labour lost votes to everybody other than the Lib Dems T_i_B Jul 2015 #10