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

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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.

I can't believe I have just read this article. After 13 years of living in hell I feel I have gone to heaven. Common sense prevails at long last, the lunatics are no longer running the asylum. Keep up the good work.

- LUCINDA, CAMBRIDGE, 13/5/2010 18:45

If only Labour had realised how fucking easy it is to satisfy DM readers this could have had a whole other outcome.

No, she lives in an actual asylum.

yeah. that was a big news story round here.

And that was a comment on the 'stabbing' news item?

No, she lives in an actual asylum.

How do you know all DM readers don't?

Whether or not this whole 55%/FTP thing is right or wrong, I just don't like the idea of a government messing around with the unwritten constitution at a whim for their own political benefit (I'm ignoring this whole "national interest" bs). If they want to do shit like that it should have a supermajority in the Commons to pass (like 66%) and/or have a referendum for the everyone to decide.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/election/article-1276721/Gordon-Brown-resigns-Pound-plunges-dollar-markets-express-horror-Lib-Lab-coalition-talks.html

It started the day around $1.483, soared above $1.5 as the prospect of a deal with David Cameron grew - but plunged back below $1.5. Tonight, it was trading around $1.4850.
Harry Adams, a senior currency trader from the foreign exchange firm Schneider, said: 'The fall confirms that the market is looking for a Conservative government - and anything else won't do.

― mierda defensa ... no impedir ... espectador (onimo), Monday, 10 May 2010 22:06 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

£1 now = $1.4758 --- seems the market has changed its mind. Expect Daily Mail "POUND PLUNGES!" story any minute...

― this skit is ba-na-nas (onimo), Thursday, 13 May 2010 13:30

$1.4582 - the market is really taking to this new-found stability

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7127382.ece

Election 1974 re-run right now on BBC Parliament. Alastair Burnet anchoring for the BBC. It's pretty great. Jim Reid (Communist candidate for Dumbartonshire Central) just made a bitter concession speech. Might watch this instead of the Cup Final. It'll be closer.

ha i just saw a bit. uncannily familiar.

Argh the comments section of that times piece.

the only newspaper comments section I can bring myself to read is the Guardian's; and even that's starting to get invaded by tory trolls these days.

lol good spot: http://waugh.standard.co.uk/2010/05/clegg-says-cams-a-con-man.html

Philippa Stroud, co-founder of the Centre for Social Justice – along with Duncan-Smith – has been made a special adviser in DWP after missing out on winning a seat in parliament.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/16/coalition-expertise-centre-left-hutton-field

Demonic exorcism as part of Incapacity Benefit?

The YouGov poll of 2.076 people found that, when asked about the alternative vote system, 49% supported it

ah but what was their SECOND CHOICE LOL AMIRITE

1.04 ppl can't be wrong

Lord Ashdown said he had indirectly contacted David Miliband to ask him to come out and back a Lib-Lab deal. He added: "I think there was a failure of action by those who could have staked out very clearly this where they wanted to go. By this, I mean David Miliband.

"There was a point, and I will say to you that not directly but indirectly I know that this point was made to him: that he ought to come out clearly and say if he was leader of the Labour Party he would back this.

"But I fear greatly that he decided that for reasons of a leadership election, he wouldn't. I think that's true of others, too."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/lord-ashdown-says-liblab-deal-frustrated-by-david-miliband-1974686.html

Politician screws over the entire country rather than risk damaging his career, film at 11...