The Liberal Democrats "unsettling ambition" | Andrew Marr | The New Statesman
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- Ed Davey believes he could be the leader of the opposition, suggests Andrew Marr.
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The Liberal Democrat conference took place this week. The New Statesman's Rachel Cunliffe was there, and sat down with Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey sat down with the New Statesman's Rachel Cunliffe to set out his party's ambitions to become the party of opposition.
"It's about being a better opposition than the Conservatives" - Ed Davey
Hannah Barnes is joined in the studio by Andrew Marr, New Statesman political editor, and Rachel Cunliffe, associate political editor.
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Always thought Marr would be a good Lib Dem leader. Even his collar is centre left.😂
Andrew Marr has found his home at the New Statesman. He’s becoming more a national treasure and less one of the many BBC journalists from the Blair/Brown/Cameron era. It’s a joy to watch him.
I'm glad to hear his opinion again. Great to hear his takes rather than interviewing and being neutral
Easy to have his opinion when he’s as rich as he is
Andrew Marr is right about the influence and future of the Lib Dems. They have huge potential to either harry Labour or give the Conservatives an existential threat but not both. They also must struggle to become more than a party centred around a few key issues and rise above the stigma attached to them by their past failures particularly as part of the coalition government. These next few years will be interesting to see how much they flourish as the second party of opposition yet it's doubtful they'll achieve much.
You'd assume taking on the Conservatives makes more sense. One of the strongest criticisms of the LibDems is the coalition period, and taking on the Conservatives would clearly show they aren't going there again
What Lib Dem policy would put them centre? Most things they are left of Labour
Who gets to be in opposition is actually really important because it sets the tone of who is the real centre of British politics. The opposition gets to ask the questions and decide where to pick holes in the government.
The Tories don’t really get to be an effective opposition right now because we’re not even 6 months in it’s hard to argue anything about the state of the country wasn’t something they did themselves over the last 14 years. On top of that, Sunak is just an interim leader who can’t make the argument that he really represents the conservative voters given that he’s stepping down soon anyway.
I would have much rather had Lib Dem’s be the opposition because they could make some much more salient points about the country’s future direction rather than just be an insistence that we go backwards into the past.
LibDems plan to focus on the Tories (as high risk as it is), so assuming that’s the direction of travel: their bottom-up style of campaigning is very effective and if the Conservative-Reform vote split continues, it will benefit them. However, LibDem appeal in the affluent areas they can win is unsustainable simply because they are on the liberal centre-left. These areas will likely continue to be small c conservative.
While they have a short term advantage because they are not the main parties, their appeal has the political resilience of a raft on stormy seas - ‘seas’ being the brutal electoral system. While the main parties are broad churches designed to appeal to various people (for better or worse), the LibDems are pretty narrow ideologically. They can maintain the young professionals’ support perhaps, but their parents?
Affluent areas are no longer small c conservative, they are small l liberal. This is now the case in social terms, and was always the case in economic terms, being confused by Thatcher's adoption of liberal economic policy. This change is the result of demographics where those without a tertiary education are the bastions of conservatism. Not in all aspect, there is as much drug taking amongst those that didn't go to university as those that did, for example. The expansion of education has resulted in the predominance of the liberal wealthy over the conservative wealthy, e.g. Rupert Murdoch's children. The ever increasing age at which people vote conservative isn't anything to do with socialism, but the advance of liberalism. The distinction isn't between young professionals and their parents, it is between young professionals and their grandparents.
Andrew please please come back to your Sunday Morning Masterclass .
"...a miasma of genteel irrelevance..." what a delightful description...
Great analysis and a great show in general. More with Andrew please. More YT shorts for more penetration. Also give responsibility to SOMEONE in the production team to ensure eg Andrew's shirt isn't hanging out of his jacket giving a Compo from Last of the Summer Wine vibe throughout this vid. ❤
Having a large number of MPs gives a lot more influence as you get a lot more places on committees (including getting Chairman places). The LibDems can hold the Government’s feet to the fire over Social Care reform in particular far better than the Tories (who did little about it when in power themselves). Labour look like they will bottle it on Social Care and need holding to account. Current Health and Social Care committee Chair- Layla Moran.
Good analysis. Very interesting.
oh please make it so... My dream is all the extreme right wing nutcases ousted into the margins, with Ed Davey as the sensible moderate voice. I have just realised that this is a pretty depressing dream, but wouldn't it be nice if the main political discourse was just calm technocrats trying their best?
No. Tone and constructive criticism is a very big change. So many people argue that politics is too confrontational and shouty. That turns so many people off of our wonderful democracy. I believe the Liberal Democrats will be a serious force for change. Wait and see
So having gone through all this, are we going to get any growth?
No.
How have they got away with that result the man who leads them was responsible for people committing suicide going to jail and ruining the lives of post office masters
The Torys got more votes and more seats and are more responsible for not clearing that mess up the past 10 years or so?
It's all very well focussing on the NHS and social care, but where are the Adam Smith-Wealth of Nations wealth creation policies? Any fool can spend taxpayers' money.
Justice Clarence Thomas’ is our new PM, time to come good
I'm sure some Gen Z marketing person has said trailers work at the beginning of videos. However, this is a 12 minute video FFS 😂 Drop it
Andrew Marr is so interesting to listen to. I have to admit to listening to the news agents with Emily Matlis n she is just not up to his standard at all.
Difficult to take them seriously if they don’t argue the case for joining the single market and customs union.
Difficult to take them seriously in general. All parties other than Tory and Lab cannot be judged seriously as they will never be a majority government
Not seen any footage of Ed Davey, his change in tone achieves nothing because he's incapable of landing the kind of punches that resonate across media and get coverage. As Andrew says, Sunak and Starmer are combative with eachother, this gets coverage. It's childish and pathetic at times, but so is society after twenty years of social media.
Hilarious isn't it?
Andrew Marr = Sound Bloke! 👍
Vote Reform!
Stopped and exited the video at 2 minutes. Why the annoying repetition?
Andrew Marr is pure pap
Sad, non entity
Give the LibDems time, they will be back to only 9 MPs again soon.
Labour's spokesman, Mr Marr, marring rather more honest opponents than either of the neo-con led major parties
The DimPlebs, wetter & weaker than diluted water...
@6:44 Lib-Dem values? What does the party stand for? What are the Lib-Dem values? What does the party stand for? How are they different from Labour's?
Idk their manifesto had some pretty clear pledges about a commitment to social care for older and disabled people