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

That second report is two years old but is directly referenced by the interviewer for the first and it's in the context of that that the word "feminine" seems to have been first used, by the interviewer.

SCOTLAND's biggest food bank has run out of food

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/atos-crisis-fit-to-work-checks-shelved-3180876

people should go to prison for this shambles, and for the pain its caused the country's most vulnerable.

It'll be interesting to see which company (if any) takes on the assessments moving forward. The potential for bad publicity is so great it might have to get reabsorbed into the state if they can't find a business thick-skinned enough.

free government money for shoddy unpopular work? they'll be queueing up

ATOS have already renamed themselves, haven't they?

Yes, the brand is so contaminated they're going to be called OH Assist in the UK from now on.

"Atos have announced that they want to end their £500million contract with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) a year early, blaming death threats."

surely if you're fit enough to kill someone, you'd be fit enough to work

The FT is reporting today that, even by official Treasure models, there's a £20bn hole in Osborne's finances, which is kind of hilarious until you remember his solution is inevitably going to be "great, more austerity!"

official Treasure models luvin it brah

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-26480506

Bus Pass Elvis Party beats Lib Dems in election.

Don't Be Cruel

'Baby Let's Play House (of Commons)'

RIP Bob Crow http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26527325

anyone know how he died?

heart attack.

RIP Bob. Deserved his own thread.

Only 22 MPs voted against the annual welfare cap. If the Labour Party wasn't dead before it is now.

Only 13 of them Labour: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/03/labour-welfare-cap-rebels-full-list

Tom Watson's a lovely guy but if he's the Left Wing of the party now then i haven't got enough time to type out all the "ha"s

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-cameron-claims-jesus-invented-the-big-society--he-is-just-continuing-gods-work-9250449.html

can't believe a politician is interpreting Christian doctrine to suit their own agenda

can't believe a politician is interpreting Christian doctrine to suit their own agenda

Of course but in 2014 it just seems even more vulgar. Have to concede that at least he's not using it justify killing people (directly)

Is it worse when they actually believe it or when it's like this, whatever this is

I take whatever solace I can find in the fact that we can never truly know the difference.

i'm not calling any ilxer on this so much as goggling that enough cretins voted for a cunt who's pulling rhetorical gestures with a 2000 year plus heritage

Pensioners could get life expectancy guidance

The kid who plays Joffrey in Game of Thrones - I'm sure he's basing himself partly on Cameron.

Pols finding God is a worry, especially when it's not linked to getting their kids into better schools but wtf @ this

the prime minister's constituency office called the police when one of the country's most senior bishops visited last week to deliver a letter about food poverty

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/uk-row-over-christian-values-food-poverty-104252415.html#9ZKayZt

David Cameron's eldest daughter is nearly 10, so God has presumably been bothered to butter up the governors of Grey Coat Hospital.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27208966

UKIP just might win a seat after all (briefly)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27202753

Mr Henwood, who is on the council candidates' list in Enfield, told the BBC: "I think if black people come to this country and don't like mixing with white people why are they here? If he (Henry) wants a lot of blacks around go and live in a black country."

UKIP still weeding out these troublesome racists who aren't representative of the party.

United Kingdom, 5/1/14, 1Part 1 & Part 2.

Still, fastest growing economy in the known universe, innit.

Bugger it... Part 1 and Part 2

Oh buggeration! 1/5/14!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-20773800

Another week, another UKIP arsehole.

Shocking and wrong, etc. - but isn't that story from 2012?

Gah fuckin facebook shares when will I learn?

Ok we'll settle for this arsehole instead

On Wednesday, UKIP financier and Greek shipping tycoon, Demetri Marchessini said he didn't believe rape could take place in a marriage because when "a woman accepts, she accepts." He also said gay people couldn't be in a loving relationship, as they are sexual predators incapable of fidelity.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/04/ukip-asian-labour-voters

"Yes, immigration is a big issue for me here," she tells him, adding she will now consider voting for Ukip. "When our family came here in the 70s they got no help. We had to work for everything. It is all different now."

"It was ok for my family to come here but not yours!"

ah yes, the 70s, that Dickensian era of no benefits or social services

Indeed. UKIP: Attracting thickoes not matter their race, creed or colour.

'no matter' of course. Also. no mention of there being near full employment and vast numbers of cheap council housing in the 70s I see.

it does make it difficult to challenge a party's claims/manifesto commitments when they're woven out of fairy dust.

UKIP is just the latest example of how voting is an essentially emotional experience with little appeal to so-called rationality. but then, by positioning yourself as a rationalist you are forced to make claims to objective truth which are open to challenge as questions of opinion, i.e. really the problem is just pushed back a further layer.

because in the end there isn't an objective truth about how states shd be governed - there's just you, and your enemies, and how to deal with that conflict

i.e. debating right wingers achieves nothing, worse than that it legitimizes their game. the secret of political power is either to sidestep, paralyze or crush the enemy.

Farage is reasonably astute here: he's creating a narrative wherein no matter what dishonest, stupid or evil think his candidates say, it can be subsumed into the "persecuted by smartarse metropolitan snobs who don't know what REAL LIFE for WORKING PEOPLE is like"

what campaign material have ilxors received? who are we voting for? who isn't voting?