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

The Coalition: Our Programme For Government

2.4.1 For example, when you take Conservative plans to strengthen families and encourage social responsibility, and add to them the Liberal Democrat passion for protecting our civil liberties and stopping the relentless incursion of the state into the lives of individuals, you create a Big Society matched by big citizens.

I feel like I'm about to cry

No room for big girls' blouses.

Not only are there no concrete plans to tackle the obesity problem, they actively seem to be encouraging it

2.4.1 For example, when you take Conservative plans to strengthen families and encourage social responsibility, and add to them the Liberal Democrat passion for protecting our civil liberties and stopping the relentless incursion of the state into the lives of individuals

Throw in a handful of tarragon, and you've got a big bowl of fragrant bullshit!

The plan is, make the majority thin, lean, fit.

Then the leftover fatties can be in CHARGE!!

xpost Hey, and should the Conservatives earn a majority after the next election, they may well make aNOTHER coalition govt, it was so good last time!

Watch for Lynne Featherstone to become agitated about simple things that trigger obesity, like certain food ingredients and bovine growth hormone, for example. I don't know if they will get a bill through, but she seemed like she was planning a shot at it.

Lynne Featherweight can try all she likes but the Coalition wants Big Citizens, Big Big Big Big Big Big Big

a Big Society matched by big citizens.

this is just

Every time I read any of this "Big Society" thing I think of "Fourth Sector Pathfinder Initiative" except we've got Big People doing Big Things instead of Ordinary People doing Extraordinary Things.

Anyway, when and how do I get to take over my kids' school?

this is just

...exactly how Cameron talks ALL the time

Undermined slightly by the fact that most Britons are receiving Big Society news with an apt BFD.

Big Friendly Dave?

A warning for Benefits scroungers:

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a Big Society matched by big citizens.
a Big Society matched by big citizens.
a Big Society matched by big citizens.

not sure i'll ever get over this

RIP The Little Guy, you're not part of the Big Plan

ha!

Reminds, also, of Lynne Franks types clapping hands in the office and saying things to people half their age such as BIG RESPECT; 30 seconds later this idiotic woman has invariably done something disrespectful or slighting to our little fashion kids whose strangling hands must be itchy by now.

just some bigoted children

Conservative plans to strengthen families and encourage social responsibility, and add to them the Liberal Democrat passion for protecting our civil liberties and stopping the relentless incursion of the state into the lives of individuals

= Vigilante gangs.

Big Bigots (xp)

I think it's something to do with getting rid of HIPs - the red tape surrounding selling your house.... So basically we're back at a situation where every single buyer has to get their own searches etc done for each property, well done everybody.

Yeah, I don't really understand this. I don't know much about it, because I've never had to get one, but I thought the idea of the HIPs was that the vendor had to get the survey done on the property (and provide other information) rather than each potential buyer. Which superficially seems like a good idea - if you're selling a house and buying a house, you've still got to get a survey done, it's just on your own house rather than the one you're buying, so it's not like your costs have significantly risen. And it should mean that people don't waste money getting surveys done on places they end up not buying. So I would have thought the only people who objected to it were surveyors, because it meant less work for them.

But then I saw them talking about this on Breakfast News (or whatever it's called) the other day and they said it had been introduced to stop gazumping, but wasn't very effective. They didn't actually explain this so I'm none the wiser.

Think it was supposed to stop gazumping because there would be less time available for other buyers to make offers while the original buyers were getting searches and whatnot done.

HIPs were bad news for property developers too (hello Kirsty!) because they ate into their profits.

i have heard why the hips were A Bad Thing, but can't remember. one reason was undue and unprecedented powers of access to private property by the g-men, shocker. all to do with erosion of concept of freehold.

HIPs were bad news for property developers

Ergo a good thing

If Kirsty Allsop buys a house and turns it into five flats, she then has to pay for 5 HIPs, boo hoo.

there was s.thing about how no 1 would trust a HIP since they were paid for by the seller. and in the case of property developers, who would be awarding large contracts to HIP-providers, well, you can see how that lack of trust might arise nahmean.

you create a Big Society matched by big citizens

Tagline for Little Big Planet 37: Big Friendly Dave's Tarragon Island

(sorry for being late to the horror)

I heard something about how the Labour government (remember them?) had watered down their original proposals for HIPs, no doubt after boohooing from Kirsty + her pals, and were left with something that didn't please anyone particularly. Now a lot of people are saying the HIPs were a good idea, esp. as originally proposed.

Basically, every time someone says these things are a lousy idea, feel free to hold up or post pix of Foxton's agents just being themselves.

Article in the paper today about the thousands of people who are now in the business of creating HIPs and HIP componenets, have developed software for them etc - all of whom will now be unemployed. Trebles all around!

but if it leads to more buyer survey work and a net employment increase then something something Big Society

something something Big Society

The new name for the United Kingdom

In the Big Society we will each be individually responsible for securing our own energy supply, either via friction or focusing the sun with a magnifying glass, or some other means - this will build a feeling of ownership and responsibility

"Well, we couldn't do a worse job, hurr-hup?"

http://dwarf-hamster.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/hamster_wheel-300x300.jpg

Big Society, Big Citizens, Big Wheel

Coalition restoring stability to the FTSE I see

Aye, and the pound's now at $1.43 - iirc the Daily Mail thought we should panic when it temporarily dipped under $1.50 with Brown's attempted coalition gazump.

big wheel = big revolutions!

http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-condems-wont-repeat-uks-digital-economy-act/

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLL

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actual lols

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Not accountable to non-Mid Bedfordshire residents eh? She really is ridiculous but tbh Mr Ireland probably needs to move on as well. She's not going anywhere, Mid-Bedfordshire obviously loves her despite her hopelessness.

Monkey in blue rosette syndrome

Dude is perfectly within his rights to tweet from a meeting like that IMO.

Like taking money from a baby:

The Child Trust Fund (CTF) will be scrapped altogether, in a move expected to save £580 million year.

CTFs were introduced by the Labour Government in 2005 and have been available to every child born after September 2002. The Government gives a £250 voucher, rising to £500 in the case of low income families, to all newborn babies.

TBF the CTF was pretty ropey in conception and execution afaict

Thatcher only stole milk.