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What Are The Lib Non Dems Celebrating?

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ToraToraTora | 08:13 Fri 22nd Sep 2023 | News
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https://news.sky.com/story/lib-dems-gear-up-for-celebratory-conference-but-can-they-keep-up-the-momentum-12964909

Apparently their conference is "celebratory"! Ok they won a few by-elections but they are nearly always lost at the following GE.

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"Delusions of grandeur."Precisely. The Lib-nonDems have always suffered delusions of grandeur. It started in 1981 when the diminutive David Steel (now Baron Steel of Aikwood), the former leader of the then Liberal Party, roused the troops at the end of his conference speech, telling them to loud applause that they should “...go back to their...
10:38 Fri 22nd Sep 2023

Is his physical appearance relevant here?

Yes. I responded to "delusions of grandeur." Small men often have big ideas - usually above their station.

 

If only the Lib-Dems got rid of their wishy-washy,neither one thing or another image they might make a difference in UK politics.They get my vote anyway.A wasted vote i know,but....

How tall are you NJ? 

6 feet 8 inches.

Great. That lets you off the hook of having delusions of grandeur then.

I don't think David Steel is particularly diminutive.

That belief in people's minds came from the fact that Spitting Image always showed him as being in David Owen's pocket.

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