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

YES MY ARGUMENT IS OBVIOUSLY YES, WE SHOULD CUT EFFICIENT AND USEFUL THINGS WHILE KEEPING WASTEFUL ONES WELL DONE

This is live on an international message board. Dignity. Dignity.

That's actually never going to get old.

clegg is a westminster boy.

terrible, terrible people

jokes bruv

ken clarke is justice minister. oof.

i keep forgetting the home office is split now. theresa may just in charge of keeping immigrants out then?

I for one am utterly shocked that the Liberals turned out to be Liberals to the core.

Liam Fox defence, Theresa May home sec. Awful, awful, awful. It's not going to go away. It's like 2004 when I thought everyone would see that we'd been conned and the Bush victory was illegitimate. You can't get rid of these bastards.

She's an idiot, based on not being able to win an argument with *me* at a youth in politics function - and if she's the only woman in Cabinet it will tell you all you need to know about her (Tory women suffer from Queen Bee syndrome ie. 'I'm the only bitch in this room, the rest just make the coffee').

Primary and secondary education should be more of a sacred cow than the NHS imo. And they would be if more voters didn't pay for private schools than private hospitals.

theresa fucking may

Let's 'shop today's Telegraph headline, shall we?

http://www.thedrum.co.uk/pub/files/photos/news/13785/master.telegraph1.jpg

theresa fucking may

Oh don't worry, Dave says they have a commitment to decentralising power and protecting civil liberties, though secretly I fear that this will mean no CCTV on our slop buckets rather than no more Ian Tomlinsons.

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01042/Cam6280_1042165a.jpg

Yes he Cam ... our celebration image

Nice double-chinny pic there, Sun.

Primary and secondary education should be more of a sacred cow than the NHS imo. And they would be if more voters didn't pay for private schools than private hospitals.

― snakebite and a passable pinot noir (Upt0eleven), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 11:55 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

they have pledged to preserve funding for schools. you're out of luck if you're studying at an fe college or university though.

http://www.daleklinks.co.uk/media/66500/ironside-poster.jpg

lib dems will contest thirsk and malton against the tories, should make for an awkward campaign.

This is Northern. Could Labour win it through the motivating factor of RAGE?

you're out of luck if you're studying working at an fe college or university though

Apparently Mrs V overheard our kids plotting emigration this morning, no lie. Might as well given imminent decimation of employment

Not that kind of North. This is basically Vale of York and Ryedale in a new constituency - 20-25pt Con majs.

xp

(xposts) In '05 Tories had over 50% to Lab at 20% and Lib at 18%, so unlikely, but some RAGE would be nice.

(Do Lib Dems like Tories more or less in very Tory constituencies? Perhaps I should know this since I voted Lib Dem in one in '05.)

Big Tory vote from the baboons at Flamingoland.

Apparently Mrs V overheard our kids plotting emigration this morning, no lie. Might as well given imminent decimation of employment

Oh no, and I only just got a job about 10 mins from Bondi...

here's a consolation: at least james delingpole is unhappy.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100039479/10-reasons-to-be-cheerful-about-daves-new-coalition-of-the-unwilling/

I bet the flamingoes aren't too keen on all those baboons coming in and taking their jobs. xps

Coldest May night since 1966 last night - -6C in Scottish Highlands, -4C in rural Wales, 0C in London. Day after the 1987 election (mid-summer), the sky was leaden all morning, like a meteor had hit and the debris had blotted out the sun. Mother Nature is not a Tory.

Coldest May night since 1966 last night

got the World Cup on lock now

Coldest May night since 1966 last night - -6C in Scottish Highlands, -4C in rural Wales, 0C in London. Day after the 1987 election (mid-summer), the sky was leaden all morning, like a meteor had hit and the debris had blotted out the sun. Mother Nature is not a Tory.

there have been several unseasonably cold days lately, it's felt quite apt

on the plus side I've just bought Kebab flavoured Pringles so maybe this is the dawn of a brilliant new era

What, in a "hell freezes over" kind of way?

Can I just say that now everyone I know in the UK realizes what it was like to be a lefty American in 2004?

lefty American = Lib Dem iirc

http://labservative.com/

^^^ kinda would have thought LD's new media time would have taken this down by now.

Um, no NV: you have to consider that half of the Dems in the US are to the left of Obama and hate 'blue dogs'; my own Dem congressman and senator would be more like Old Labour types.

I wonder how the "we got RATM to #1, let's get the Lib Dems into government" Facebook krew are doing?

"Killing (Foxes) In The Name Of"

So I'm guessing that Environment, Scotland and being Dave's deputy are the jobs that none of the Conservatives wanted. Fantastic bargaining by the LDs.

i wz half-joking suzy but come on I don't think American lefties have got anything to teach about misery to us Brits who are over 20 and anywhere to the left of Ken Clarke

It is such an endlessly recycled media meme that I am generally poised to cry bullshit whenever I see it, as with any generalizations about America produced by Brits on a press junket.

Ahaha apparently Alan Rusbridger phoned Clegg telling him he had a duty to not form a government with the Tories because it'd make the Graun look like twats for endorsing the LDs at the last minute.

The comments on the Graun's "maybe this isn't so bad after all, right guys?" editorial weren't pretty.

Coldest May night since 1966 last night - -6C in Scottish Highlands, -4C in rural Wales, 0C in London. Day after the 1987 election (mid-summer), the sky was leaden all morning, like a meteor had hit and the debris had blotted out the sun. Mother Nature is not a Tory.

There was a pretty rainbow above Westminster while Dave was on the way to the Queen, but I assume the BBC superimposed it on the footage at Dimbleby's request.

"Every one of the Lib Dem negotiators gave an individual report back of their meeting with Harriet Harman, Lord Mandelson, Ed Miliband, Ed Balls and Lord Adonis, and they each reached the same conclusion: that the Labour team were uninterested, with no movement on ID cards, the third runway at Heathrow, or increasing the proportion of renewable energy from 15% to 40%."

this would maybe have been acceptable if they forced the libdems into confidence & supply but now it's created this fucking abortion it looks kinda unforgiveable that they didn't even ~try~

― nakhchivan, Wednesday, May 12, 2010 1:02 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

there's going to be a lot of claim and counter-claim on those negotiations. some lab people claim clegg only got into it to make the tories (whom he instinctually wanted to go with) jealous. i don't believe that the tories could in good faith agree to that green pledge.

There was a pretty rainbow above Westminster while Dave was on the way to the Queen, but I assume the BBC superimposed it on the footage at Dimbleby's request.

Rather like the way they deftly remixed the location sound on the collage clips later in the day, to obscure the booing and shouts of "Tory scum" on Whitehall.

Yes, Clegg is on the right of the LDs, but I don't think his instinctive affinity had much to do with who he ended up forming a coalition with as much as the maths and the (lack of) labour concessions meaning that coalition was pretty much unworkable.

But yeah, I'm sure there'll be some interesting stuff in the papers about what really happened over the next couple of weeks.

That was just all kinds of WRONG. xpost

But not surprising: a couple of weeks ago there was a piece on Churchill going to look at bombed tenements post-Blitz and the meme of 'East End cheers on plucky Churchill/Royals' was shown to be a bit of a concoction. Basically, my best friend's dad was a surgeon in the war and his account of jeering not cheering was one I'd known since I was a student.

http://labservative.com/

^^^ kinda would have thought LD's new media time would have taken this down by now.

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oh look unmoderated comments box :D

http://www.labservative.com/comment-page-1/#comment-708

:( never noticed

"Your comment is awaiting moderation."

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