DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived post-Murdoch era

Ernie - the fastest milkman in the west?

Do you guys really think these choices were done by committee?

Sack the committee then

Uppermost in Miliband's mind will have been to pick artists who aren't likely to turn round and say 'fuck off, cunt, I forbid you to like my stuff'.

cogent point tbf

lucky for him robesons dead then

Cameron just went in with a Desert Island Discs zing - he used to think EMil was a follower of Marx, but now he's happy to recognise that he follows Engels instead.

grudging 6/10

Worthy of Tim Vine.

well i'm sure he outsourced it

Has ILX's NickB started writing material for him?

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The Killers
All These Things That I’ve Done
Performer: The Killers
Others who chose this artist

Get writing, joke people

Has ILX's NickB started writing material for him?

oi!

What, it's a good pun!

yeah, if it had been a terrible one you'd have blamed CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT

suggesting i'd do anything for d.cams other than empty a slop bucket on his head, that's a bit much that

That would make me laugh, though.

Guys.

I have a proper IT'S A GOOD STORY for you.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BaEWYN9IQAAnyFB.jpg:large

^^^ Issues that matter.

tempted to question how much work the word "extra" is doing in that headline

those are some big biscuits, no wonder they were dear

i mean fuck me when you're onto custard creams the size of an iPad maybe you need to take a look at yourself

ft readers DRAGGING cameron in the comments is a sight to behold http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/add36222-56be-11e3-ab12-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2lqkEGuuw

francobollo | November 27 12:36pm | Permalink
EU immigration into the UK is uncomfortable for David Cameron because it highlights government's neglect (particularly in education, training and other fields) of existing deprived communities. The populist response of attacking the immigration clearly does not solve the neglect problem.

Would be nice to see a politician who isn't Diane Abbott make this point on occasion.

- New migrants not being able to claim housing benefit immediately
- Deportation of those caught begging or sleeping rough, with no return within a year

Dunno why they aren't just putting up a massive electrified barbed wire fence round the coast, less paperwork involved

rising energy costs dude

btw surely everybody who gets deported is not allowed to return (within some time frame maybe), not sure that a new policy makes that any more enforceable

Not surprised to see the FT comments box going ham on him though, real free market types surely understand it goes hand in hand with the free movement of peoples across geographical borders. The Economist keeps hammering Cameron on immigration policy as well.

Think Lynton Crosby is more influential on DC these days than the Economist

"The unilateral rhetoric is not really helpful, because it risks presenting the UK as a nasty country in the European Union. We don't want that," he said.

thinks he can throw mud around just cos there are no stereotypes about Hungary

Nah, Hungary's OK, it's full of right wing racist arseholes too

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/27/boris-johnson-thatcher-greed-good

FUCK OFF BORIS

Was just about to post that.

In highly provocative remarks, Johnson also said that more should be done to help the 2% of the population who have an IQ above 130 than the 16% "of our species" with an IQ below 85

Warning that the accession of Romania to the EU means that London can do nothing to stop the "entire population of Transylvania" from pitching their tents in Marble Arch.

Imagining Tim Curry as Frank'n'Furter 'pitching a tent' in Marble Arch....

lol what a ledge

is this the moment boris fatally overestimates the ability of his "charm" to sell his vileness? i'm guessing not, but i'm hoping so.

That depends on who you think he's trying to sell to. This isn't a pitch to the voting public - for the time being he doesn't have an election he has to worry about outside what will be presumably the safest available Tory seat in the country. It's a sales pitch aimed directly at the Conservative right and they will be wagging their filthy little tails at it.

Basically, it's him telling rich people in public all the things he's been telling them in private.

Whatever you may think of the value of IQ tests it is surely relevant to a conversation about equality that as many as 16% of our species have an IQ below 85 while about 2% …"

wouldn't such percentages (assuming it's correct) be the same for any species, given how IQ is defined?

haven't read he piece yet but i'm assuming that what he's basically saying is he wants to reduce taxes for those most able to get high-paid jobs while at the same time he wants to cut benefits for those who are possibly not be able to progress much beyond low-paid work?

It'll provide the impetus for the low-paid worker to become a captain of industry.

Using "species" in this context is Nazi talk.

Can't we get him to smoke crack and thereby get his hands tied by City Hall as per Rob Ford?

am pretty sure he's done the posh person's version of crack

Boris is only articulating the underpinning assumptions of his Party, don't know why people get excited when one of them says it out loud.

it's the usual tory rhetoric but reframed as quasi-eugenics

i keep hoping that when it's said aloud, the cold light of day will reveal it to be fascist claptrap. i still have some modicum of faith in the general public, i don't know why, and its almost doubtlessly misplaced.

it's just - it's about publics, but it's also about a parliamentary system that puts power into a limited group of hands, and frames all debates as football matches. it's about the fact that many people distrust theoretical talk and prefer to follow their gut interests, it's about the way "enlightened" self-interest is equated with common sense, it's about people's fantasy of their own lives

it's about the sense that everybody's in it for themselves except me

The Margaret Thatcher International Airport

would bomb