The Liberal Democrat party of Richmond deserve a cunting. They recently held a referendum over whether or not to bring in a 20mph speed limit for the entire borough. The result was 51% to 49% against the proposal. There you go, democracy in action. EXCEPT, the local Lib Dems, who currently have overall control of the Borough of Richmond have decided that because it was, in their minds, too close too call, they’re going to ignore the democratic will of Richmonders and bring in the lower speed limit anyway.
They’ve given several, ridiculous, reasons for their blatant act of democracy denial. One of which, worded differently, was that old people had voted the voted the way wanted to vote. Another reason…wait…what? Old people used their right to vote against a stupid, leftie proposal, because they wanted to vote against it? How very fucking dare the senile old cunts. How dare they use democracy to vote against the Lib Dems? Why don’t they just stop voting and leave all that sort of thing to young, brainwashed, SJW snowflakes, who can be guaranteed to vote the way their told to vote? Better yet, why don’t the old fuckers just die? That would remove the irritating problem of oldies using their free will to vote in any way they choose.
Called me old me old fashioned, but I always thought that democracy meant an individual having the right to vote in the way that the individual chooses. Apparently, though, I’m wrong. According the Lib Dems, democracy means voting in the way that THEY want an individual vote. Doesn’t seem very democratic to me. Joking aside, this issue in Richmond is a shiny mirror into the very of the national Liberal Democrat party. Since the day after the referendum, the Lib Dems have been the most vociferous in their attempts to go against the will of the majority of British voters. In fact, if the last three years have shown anything, apart from the fact that our political should all be thrown into the Thames and drowned, it’s that the time is now overdue for the Liberal Democrat party to change its name. They have shown, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that they are NOT liberal, and they most certainly are NOT democrats. Why did Richmond council bother with a referendum in the first place? Why expend taxpayers money, waste taxpayers time and use resources that would have been better used elsewhere, just to ignore the result because it wasn’t what they expected?
Incidentally, back in 2016 Brighton and Hove council brought in 20mph zones in 13 areas in the borough. A report one year later showed that deaths and injuries suffered in road accidents had increased in SEVEN of those areas.
Nominated by Quick Draw McGraw





