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

Wonder if MPs can claim flags on expenses. If not, they ought to be allowed to.

*waves*

http://imgur.com/vOZb8.jpg

She thinks he's Mark, I'm guessing.

Also she thinks she's Jean Simmons, and we're still on the ration.

Somebody needs to table a question about how much the security to protect her grave is gonna cost the public purse.

And Cameron thinks we can't see he's holding in his gut.

Somebody john mcdonnell needs to table a question about how much the security to protect her grave is gonna cost the public purse.

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McDonnell too busy souping up his DeLorean iirc

It's a toss up as to whether McDonnell or Thatcher will hit 88 first...

apparently some attempt to kill cameron in afghanistan? flight diverted, unhurt. some john mcdonnell figure from the future, presumably.

I'm getting the impression that new-lab's economic fuck up/s is/are being totally blown out of proportion by this shower to push through a bunch of ideological shit incl part-privatisation of the civil service. not very good.

Nah I think it's bad, Pash, really bad, but the idea that they have to cut savagely this minute now is bollocks. I think the public will wise up to this pretty quickly, maybe not quickly enough though.

Tory minster admits spending cuts will shaft the poor

But yeah, they are totally using the deficit as a smokescreen to push through a load of ideologically-motivated shit they wouldn't be able to get away with otherwise.

You can tell by the barely-concealed "wow look at that axeman GO!" glee in the right-wing press.

I'm getting the impression that new-lab's economic fuck up/s is/are being totally blown out of proportion by this shower to push through a bunch of ideological shit incl part-privatisation of the civil service

Cameron: "We are not doing this because we want to. We are not driven by some theory or some ideology. We are doing this as a government because we have to..."

... pants on fire

I've noticed recently, I am violently suspicious of everyone who claims not to have an ideology.

I don't claim to have one, what about that?

<_<

~*suspicion*~

>_>

I'm just suspicious of Thatcherbabies; it's easier.

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campbellclaret
I know Nick Clegg speaks hundreds of languages but could he start saying 'going to' rather than .'gunna'. And stop being a Tory
about 1 hour ago via txt

pretty lame tbh

agree who does clegg think he is etc

He thinks he's important

Today sees the launch of the Marine Management Organisation NDPB, which will oversea the UK's fishing industry (based in the South West). The new body's HQ will be in, err, Newcastle.

The brave new quango-less age of austerity, everybody.

Tbf I think they might fish a bit in Scotland and the NE of England.

Just as one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, so one man's quango is another man's, errrrrrrr, well I don't know what really... what is the non-pejorative term for quangos? Other than the fact that the GBP don't (or think they) don't like quangoes, what is the Coalition's objection to them? Surely they're right up their street?

the tories basically invented them!

but yeah i have had need to find a non-pejorative way of describing them. not easy.

Thatcher was the Quango Queen. Still, history is (re)written by the victors.

A non-departmental public body is the polite term for a quango, folks.

catchy.

Basically the Tories, sorry the Coalition, want rid of quangoes and want non-departmental public bodies instead

Basically the Tories, sorry the Coalition, want rid of quangoes elected officials and want non-departmental public bodies instead

oops...

Basically the Tories, sorry the Coalition, want rid of quangoes elected officials and want non-departmental public bodies instead

qua = Quasi-

The rest remains.

oh yeah,"governmental" replaced by "public"

i.e. exactly the same.

Let's have Autonomous Non Government Institutions = ANGIes
Each of which needs a Departmental Executive Notary, or a DEN

I think the public will wise up to this pretty quickly, maybe not quickly enough though

Wonder if they give a shit though? Cuts looking pretty popular to people who think they won't be affected. And who do those who are most affected vote for anyway? The LDs will get shafted (as as been said many times I know), but not sure those poor deluded souls who voted for them will be very keen on nu-nu-labour. Thatcher did very well with high unemployment, blah blah blah...I think Cameron's onto a winner here.

V different circumstances when Thatcher did it as there was a bash the unions dimension.

If a 2nd long lasting recession is provoked by the cuts and the private sector don't manage to fill the gaps...

Thatcher rode the back of a successful war then had a second term wherein the opposition was in the equivalent of a saloon bar punch-up for the duration. The popularity vote probably stacked up about the same as this go round.

popular vote, sorry.

Thatcher also had falling oil prices and falling interest rates.

I don't see any opposition at the moment.

The cuts haven't been pushed through to any degree where a sizeable number of people are feeling it as yet.

I had to do an interview with a Very Famous Woman yesterday - she told me she voted for Lib Dems because she thought they couldn't possibly coalesce with the Tories. I *did* say something along the lines of LOL U MAD but I suspect the Lib Dems she was thinking of when making this decision have no Orange book of their own (she very much does, LOL). She also told me that a top banker friend of hers is saying that the frenzy over the EU economy is overstated because the countries in trouble are only 11 per cent of the Eurozone GDP, whereas Germany is 26 per cent on its own - so goalposts are being moved purely to alter the social contract between the masses and leaders/employers *much* more in favour of the latter (so if you like being a scared serf or you're rich enough to be insulated, you'll be fine).

I don't see any opposition at the moment.

thatcher didn't really have falling interest rates tbh. never went lower than like 7%.