A mole informs Recess Monkey that the LibDemWatch website seems to have shut down operations. In the past, the LibDemWatch has been an institution, always highlighting amusing hypocrisies and inconsistencies and generally deflating the white, middle-class, provincial, privileged, holier-than-thou bubble that LibDems have a tendency to cultivate.
Recess Monkey today asked a LibDem staffer what they thought of the demise of LibDemwatch and the unexpected response was, “What’s there to watch? Have you seen any mention of the LibDems in the broadsheets since conference? I think we’ll need a new Leader before anyone starts paying attention to us again”.
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I think my favourite ever story on Lib Dem Watch was the one they ran on the South Staffs delayed election, namely that we should be ashamed of the fact that our candidate, who was seriously ill, had alcohol in her bloodstream at the time she died.
Holier than thou indeed.
dynamite said this on October 25th, 2005 at 4:41 pm
Given the number of bizarre references to the goings-on in local politics, Im not sure that LibDem Watch has ever used the broadsheet press as it’s guide…
anyway, that’s beside the point.
LibDem Watch RIP.
PBS2 said this on October 25th, 2005 at 4:47 pm
They’ve hardly been busy lately - which is a great shame. Some of us do try and keep an eye on the wilder goings-on of our LibDem brethren…
I’d start a formal ‘Hemmingwatch’ site, but I suspect his career may be over before I can register the name.
PoliticalHackUK said this on October 25th, 2005 at 10:18 pm
Speaking as the party’s in-house satirist, I miss Lib Dem Watch very much.
Jonathan Calder said this on October 28th, 2005 at 9:41 pm
Let’s face it, they may have been there first, but they couldn’t compete when Labour Watch starting playing and beating them at their own game.
Inamicus said this on October 31st, 2005 at 10:36 am