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

Groove

:)

btw can one of you spell out to me the layman what exactly on a point-by-point, dumbed-down level this government will do to make Britain a worse place to live in, or indeed a more malicious player on the world stage? I already have quite some idea and you'll be telling me a lot of what I already know, but I'd like to see it all in one place

1. Cutting public spending rapidly on virtually everything leading to rising unemployment and declining public services.

2. Pretending they are doing so because of the deficit when actually they are using the deficit as an excuse to cut heavily for ideological reasons.

that's ok though, my ma's got a friend on Harley Street, treat him to a round of golf and he'll do the bunions for free

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3. cutting benefits to all the people out of a job because of the cuts

4. "A country where people ask not 'what am I owed?' but 'what can I give'?" which is Tory speak for "we're not going to give you any more money, get up and do it for yourself".

maybe you should have asked what they'd do that a re-elected labour wouldn't have done, and bugger 'ideological reasons' as being an important difference

that's ok though, I'll just get Pa to double my pocket-money xps

that's ok though, my ma's got a friend on Harley Street, treat him to a round of golf and he'll do the bunions for free

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― coalition to me (acoleuthic), Friday, May 14, 2010 4:25 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

i have no idea if this is a joke or not

and bugger 'ideological reasons' as being an important difference

Uh, but it is an important difference

no, no it's not if the actions are exactly the same

maybe you should have asked what they'd do that a re-elected labour wouldn't have done, and bugger 'ideological reasons' as being an important difference

Umm, it is an important difference. Labour would have decimated the public sector as well but they wouldn't have done what the Tories will do with enough time, ie use this as an opportunity to dismantle or sell off big chunks of the welfare state.

5. Pandering to the far right by pretending they can close Britain's borders after x number of immigrants have gone through per year.

can we have number 5 please, the Alsatians need walkies

aha

oh, we've got an immigrant! she's awfully quiet but she does her thing around the house. forget her name.

actions not exactly the same tho. labour want to balance the books, which i think mutatis mutandis is fair play, though i'd like to hear more arguments about means. but the tories/LDs want to go a lot further than that.

6. They'll not let the Alsatians back in.

by all means continue, gentlemen

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7: Death boards

8: They'll steal ur bike

9: No menaingful regulation of The City

10. Don't actually give a fuck about workers

11. Will invade Iraq

11. Will invade Iraq China

Considering we've got, what, 0.1% growth at the moment it won't take much to tip the country back into recession, which grim as it might be will be a major lol politically.

Osbourne actually has some sensible things to say about the need to rebalance the UK economy, particularly becoming less reliant on the City and boosting manufacturing. But a) he isn't so great on how intends to achieve that and b) it's his party that presided over their destruction in the first place.

what is there to manufacture? there is too much stuff in the world as it is. i think i shall live on a farm.

manufacturing?

oh dear lols

silicon valley farm

The bits about a banking levy in the coalition agreement aren't bad either, although I'm not sure what that will actually entail and whether it'll be a token gesture.

Or if it happens at all

when our workforce can manufacture a perfect wrought-iron stove and serve me up a good old venison casserole, then i'll start paying attention to their wants

q: haven't heard about ur banking levy- is it a levy on the banks, or a levy on taxpayers for the banks?

you can guess which type we got.

Yes, like abolishing LABOUR'S JOB TAX for employers but keeping LABOUR'S JOB TAX for employees

It pretty much says "both parties agree on the need for a banking levy" without any more detail.

re manufacturing, all 3 parties have been making noise about focusing on a nascent green economy

green economy of tomorrow = organic farming of yesterday

12. An end to New Labour's war on the motorist - ie the railways are fucked.

... as are poor kids with asthma

ok in all seriousness fuck that shit

there's nothing more entertaining than having a crack at a passing freight-train with your two-bore

No no no, don't take my high speed rail - is the number one piece of high expenditure I was hoping might survive

New Labour's famous war on the motorist like endlessly deferring rises in fuel duty.

I'm beginning to regret my crack that they might try and kill the opposition.
Labour MP Stephen Timms stabbed 'by woman' as he held constituency surgery

she obviously misunderstood the surgery aspect

jeezus these "don't take away my YSI" whiners are relentless aren't they?

jeez he's a strange looking man tho

dude he's just been stabbed 15 times in the face that's cold

12. An end to New Labour's war on the motorist - ie the railways are fucked.

Saw this in the Mail to-day (WTF am I still reading it?), such shit. Blames Labour for cowboy clampers. No mention of petrol going up when they raise VAT either.