Well that's one way of winning an election...

TB is beginning to wonder when

James Harrison

will get to the stage where he regrets drawing Tory Bear's attention to himself and his ridiculous organisation. It was wee James, a wannabe try hard from Glasgow University, who has bought the full wrath of this bear down on Liberal Youth, and particularly on the candidate he so sycophantically creeps around.

Yep that's right kids, just when you thought that TB had got bored of winding up the Lib Dems, or was too busy, once again the plot takes another comical twist. When you read what has happened, at all times, keep the fact that this is a supposedly liberal bunch of kids we are dealing with in mind. Idealistic, free spirited and above all in favour of a little something called free speech. You can read up on what has been going on thus far in their elections from the various links in this post, but essentially Chairman Elaine Bagshaw is now doing everything she possibly can to get her opponent, a now former executive member, expelled from the Party so that she can be returned to her position of Queen Bee with some wet blanket apparatchiks at her side, gently fanning her with large leaves for another twelve months.

Now TB has his ways and means of getting hold of documents and emails from seemingly watertight places, however no-one has thrown quite such a hissy fit as Elaine did last week when TB was leaked an email that proved what she really thought of her electorate and the organisation she ran. It wasn't good news. TB was accused of illegally hacking the Liberal Youth Forums, where apparently the message had previously been posted, and removed, by the the then Vice-Chairman Sara Scarlett - Bagshaw's opponent in the election. TB was sent that email anonymously and wouldn't even know where to begin hacking something like that. Yet without a shred of evidence Bagshaw has put the ball in motion to see her opponent expelled from the Liberal Youth, leaving her path clear open to re-election. Scarlett, the infamous Heckler of Harrogate, somewhat of a firebrand in the organisation if those who have been briefing TB are to be believed, decided to quit her post as Vice-Chairman before she was booted out by the rest of the executive, the majority of which under the thumb of Bagshaw, everyone with a brain having seemingly left.

However that hasn't been enough for Queen Elaine, she is living up to her true New Labour authoritarian streak. Firstly she is still pushing, despite the clearly bloody obvious conflict of interest, for a vote on whether Scarlett should be thrown out of the organisation, with the obvious electoral implications that brings. Secondly, in ways that would make Brown and Wheelan blush, her campaign is getting dirtier and dirtier. A member of her campaign team is under investigation by Cowley Street for racial abuse, after he allegedly bellowed at Scarlett in front of a packed conference bar in Harrogate a couple of weekends ago. If that wasn't bad enough TB's sources have confirmed that Elaine and her little cronies spent the whole of this weekend, at the Scottish Liberal Democrat conference, badmouthing Scarlett, specifically putting round the rumour, in all seriousness, that she was mentally unstable.



You can take the girl out of New-Labour, but you can't take New Labour out of the girl. Bagshaw won't be content until she has destroyed everyone that stands in the way of her ridiculous quest for power. Never before has Tory Bear seen such an uninspiring public speaker, see above. It is unheard of for a Chairman of any organisation to lose, no less than, seventeen members of their executive through resignations and survive, and although student politics can get bitchy there is no excuse for racial abuse. How no one in Liberal Youth has yet stood up like the boy and the Emperor's new clothes and called this brash buffoon out, leaves TB lost for words. This woman is a laughing stock yet she looks set for re-election and we are set for a whole more year of laughs at Liberal Youth's expense.

If RON doesn't win this election the members of Liberal Youth should be ashamed of themselves.