fuck these guys. guy fawkes attempted to blow dudes up for less.
― I accidentally sonned your dome (stevie), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 14:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
"But Frederic Michel, head of public affairs at News Corp, has said his references to "JH" in emails were actually shorthand for Mr Hunt's special adviser, Mr Smith,......"
I keep reading that and going "haha no seriously... they didn't try... surely someone... I mean come on... but it's..." to myself then despairing at how this shit is allowed to go on.
There's no chance of Culture Secretary "AS" resigning now he has the full backing of Prime Minister "GO".
― we are not bemused (onimo), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 18:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
The "JH' email thing is unbelievable, but Hunt's permanent smug expression is what makes the whole thing too much for me.
― mmmm, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 18:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
if only there were an opposition to make something of all this
― I accidentally sonned your dome (stevie), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 18:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just when you think it can't get any sillier
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/iainmartin1/100153447/the-night-i-saw-jeremy-hunt-hide-behind-a-tree-before-dinner-with-james-murdoch/
― Moon Fuxx (Jill), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 19:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
amazing
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
if only there were an opposition to make something of all this― I accidentally sonned your dome (stevie), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 18:45 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― I accidentally sonned your dome (stevie), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 18:45 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I thought EdMil was fairly scabrous in the Commons. DCam countered with a lame "you're just trying to make political copital, int yer?"
― Mark G, Thursday, 26 April 2012 09:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
thank fuck nobody in the PLP has got any dodgy ties to Newscorp waiting to come out
― seapunk run. run punk run! (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 April 2012 09:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
that's true, Mark. and he was pretty good on today prog this morning. i just don't have much faith in their ability to make it stick.
― Bad Company's Drummer's Daughter (stevie), Thursday, 26 April 2012 09:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
his point re: hunt as firewall is pretty sharp
― Bad Company's Drummer's Daughter (stevie), Thursday, 26 April 2012 09:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
This drubbing might be the best pretext the Libs have for escaping the coalition, if they're brave enough.
― stet, Friday, 4 May 2012 07:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
first election night i can remember where i cdn't even be fucked to stay up and watch results
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 May 2012 07:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
So the Tories get a massive kicking and attribute it to being "not right-wing enough"... uh huh
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Friday, 4 May 2012 09:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Might help them shore up their core support. Internal dissent is probably going off the scale at the moment.
It'll be interesting to see how they square that with Boris' inevitable victory in London though.
― Just like you, except hot (ShariVari), Friday, 4 May 2012 09:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
so basically they're saying "we need to be more racist"
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Friday, 4 May 2012 09:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cameron's only tolerated by the Tory rump because he's popular and successful. If he stops being popular and successful, and starts losing safe Conservative seats, he has to throw a few bones to the crazy old people who actually make up the bulk of the party. It's going to make them more unpopular with everyone else, which is a good thing.
At the same time, while Cameron's driving to the right, Boris will hold on to a major prize by being a centrist, dividing the traditionalists and reformers even more. It's a recipe for complete disarray.
― Just like you, except hot (ShariVari), Friday, 4 May 2012 10:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Tories are *eating* David Cameron...
― Mark G, Friday, 4 May 2012 10:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
I presume at LibDem HQ they're having a whip-round to buy a Waterstone's voucher for their one remaining voter
― DG, Friday, 4 May 2012 11:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
1231: In one Edinburgh ward a Lib Dem candidate has failed to pick up more first preference votes than Professor Pongoo, an independent candidate who dresses in a six-foot penguin costume. And with nine of 58 seats declared in the city, it is clear the Lib Dem vote is down overall.
― sktsh, Friday, 4 May 2012 11:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
i <3 penguins and might well vote for one over any candidate
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Friday, 4 May 2012 11:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yes but you hate comedy and some sub-Raving Loony guy in a bird suit surely qualifies as "comedy".
― Keith pissed on my chips (onimo), Friday, 4 May 2012 11:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh no i didn't mean him, i meant if an actual real penguin was a candidate
it is really tough to be better than a penguin
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Friday, 4 May 2012 12:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Keith pissed on my chips (onimo), Friday, 4 May 2012 12:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
but then that penguin venturing out into nowhere in 'Encounters at the End of the World' is a pretty good Lib Dems analogy.
― danny houellebecq (Merdeyeux), Friday, 4 May 2012 12:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
is professor pongoo a real professor though?
― Rosie 47 (ken c), Friday, 4 May 2012 15:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
also has anybody stood for Lemon Party yet?
― Rosie 47 (ken c), Friday, 4 May 2012 15:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
"More on the news that UKIP's candidate for Mayor of London, Lawrence Webb, was mistakenly listed on the ballot paper as Fresh Choice for London. It should have read "UKIP: A Fresh Choice for London". A "furious" Nigel Farage has admitted that the fault was at UKIP's end - they forgot to put their party name on the nomination paper."
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Friday, 4 May 2012 15:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
might get more voters without the UKIP name?
― Rosie 47 (ken c), Friday, 4 May 2012 15:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Disappointed they didn't accidentally put "A French Choice For London". That'd really have wound them up.
― Just like you, except hot (ShariVari), Friday, 4 May 2012 15:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
All the literature I'd had through the door had Fresh Choice For London on it, not UKIP, I even laughed that it was a stupid idea because their voters wouldn't be able to find who to vote for, so it's not like the dozy twats didn't have time to notice it before now.
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Friday, 4 May 2012 16:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
:-) xp
― Pacific Trash Vortex (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 4 May 2012 16:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ed Millibong
― Keith pissed on my chips (onimo), Monday, 7 May 2012 16:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
VG
― jed_, Monday, 7 May 2012 16:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-17982027
― Bad Company's Drummer's Daughter (stevie), Monday, 7 May 2012 17:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
The "previous comment" she made was even worse ("if you don't like it go back to where you came from") to someone with an Asian name.
― Alba, Monday, 7 May 2012 18:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
i saw that comment alluded to but not actually quoted in the news story - disgusting.
― Bad Company's Drummer's Daughter (stevie), Monday, 7 May 2012 19:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
ah c'mon kids some of ilx's most hardcore socialist's are repping for these oh hang on
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 May 2012 22:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
btw i'm not sure i've been sarcastic enough i hope you cunts die cheers
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 May 2012 22:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
cant believe some poujadist fuckheid from bournemouth expressed reactionary views on twitter
― nakhchivan, Monday, 7 May 2012 22:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/may/25/michael-gove-jewish-exam-question
yes because to explain is to understand is to sympathise is to approve of. fuck this ignoramus, this intellectual maggot.
sorry. old story. been away.
― the fey monster (ledge), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 10:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
question cd probly be worded less o_Oly
― korea opportunities (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 10:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
i'm sure it's pretty clear in the context of the syllabus. i find the kneejerk reaction of horror against "understanding" any kind of transgression, of any suggestion of an alternative to blind condemnation and punishment even more o_O tbh.
― the fey monster (ledge), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 10:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
not defending the responses but i know from my own experience of things that our Joel tells me that the RE syllabus is often worded quite tendentiously. at GCSE level accounting for a prejudice is not really the same as dissecting it
― korea opportunities (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 10:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
like yes don't pretend anti-semitism doesn't exist but "list the greatest hits of anti-semitism" is a bit weird as a question in that context
― korea opportunities (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 10:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
The question “plants suggestions and implies ideas that shouldn’t be instilled into students”.
honestly i just despair at this garden-of-eden knowledge is sinful bullshit.
― the fey monster (ledge), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 11:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
that was a rabbi not gove btw.
― the fey monster (ledge), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 11:02 (11 months ago) Permalink
Front page of the BBC site today = u-turn on charity tax, Jeremy Hunt at Leveson, Coulson charged with perjury = such a pleasing structure of interconnected disasters.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Thursday, 31 May 2012 12:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
With all the other hateful stuff they're doing, the government's approach to immigration hasn't really been scrutinised enough recently. Along with demolishing the student visa sector, this has to go down as one of the most stupidly spiteful things on their agenda:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/08/immigration-rules-couples-stark-choice?CMP=twt_gu
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Saturday, 9 June 2012 13:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jun/11/david-cameron-daughter-behind-pub?newsfeed=true
hopefully the government will introduce compulsory parenting classes for these sort of dysfunctional wastrels
― 'Last Moments Robot' Comforts You To Death (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 June 2012 11:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
Didn't see that immigration thing before, that is absolutely hateful. Presumably it would fall afoul o the same "right to family life" clause of the human rights act that the Tories are trying to dismantle so they can deport foreign lag once they have done their time.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 11 June 2012 13:11 (11 months ago) Permalink