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

So Sebastian James is going to oversee the gov's review of the school building programme. I'm sure there's a photo of him somewhere...

Oh yes, there he is, No.6...

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/02_1/CameronEton2_468x420.jpg

He's all grown up now though.
http://www.dsgiplc.com/Images/articles/%7B74f81a8c-f0b5-4b0a-a623-ddd5e0418e1f%7D/SebastianJamesforweb.jpg

If he can get the schools running with a fraction of the awesome customer care skills and after sales service that Currys has got, I'm sold!

Feel burning hatred for these priviledged motherfuckers. Wish they could all be rocketed into the centre of the sun.

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/02_1/CameronEton2_468x420.jpg

why Lab didn't run w this in the general election I don't know. who could look at it and not go DIE DIE DIE DIE.

(the fact that I signed on today nothing to do w this increased ire of course)

(also, woman @ dole office told me that up till gen elec this year, they had been dealing w a declining number of ppl, since the election, numbers are rising, wut wtf, thats just the north isn't it they're used to it)

Feel burning hatred for these priviledged motherfuckers. Wish they could all be rocketed into the centre of the sun.

― dead flower :( (Pashmina), Monday, 5 July 2010 16:51 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

firing privileged motherfuckers into the centre of the sun now requires a vote of 66 per cent of all mps, sorry.

(the fact that I signed on today nothing to do w this increased ire of course)

sorry to hear that pash - hope things look up soon...

Changes could now be made to allotment legislation that might have saved the life of a Lincoln cockerel.

The bird's former owner Fred Hyde is urging everyone who maintains an allotment in Lincolnshire to lobby the new coalition Government to make amendments to allotment law.

In March of this year, the Echo reported how council enforcement of the Allotment Act of 1950 meant that Spike the cockerel had to be moved from his home in Lincoln's Boultham Park.

Members of the public are now being given the chance to nominate unpopular laws they want scrapped in the Your Freedom initiative, launched by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg this week.

Compared to most of the shitstorm that is Your Freedom he's being v. reasonable.

damn pash that sucks

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why Lab didn't run w this in the general election I don't know

think i asked this a few months back pash, apparently it's a tory owns the copyright or somesuch.

woman @ dole office told me that up till gen elec this year, they had been dealing w a declining number of ppl,

that seems so unlikely, though? the recession hadn't hit/was over in the north until a few weeks ago?

why Lab didn't run w this in the general election I don't know

Also going "hey look at these toffs" proved a disaster in by-elections.

I got the impression (purely unscientific based on relatives/colleagues experiences in retail/charity sector/education, etc) that everyone was kind of holding their breath waiting to see what happened before they spent any money. But then I don't know anyone in the motor trade - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10519629.stm.

Love to see Cameron getting behind our brave boys announcing an inquiry into torture just so Hague can give lots of interviews about how it's not the Tories' fault we're in Iraq,

They should totally accept full responsibility for Tony Blair's private war?

they should have opposed it when it was announced?

Oh come on, get some perspective, if there's anything that deserves an enquiry its the torture allegations, which aren't even Iraq related per se.

That said I think part of this is the desire to take some of the shine off David Miliband, but to be fair they could do that more cheaply with a a load of banana photos.

Perhaps opposed it having not spent the preceding months calling for tougher action on Iraq

If it's the right thing to do (and it is) then fuck a govt's (any govt) reasons.

Of course, and Cameron got all the credit for the Bloody Sunday inquiry, so he might as well get it for this too

Blair got all the credit for the Northern Ireland peace process so it evens out.

^ yep

Also Blair's apology for Bloody Sunday wouldn't have touched Cameron's, I imagine.

Blair had rather more to do with the Northern Ireland peace process than just standing up in the Commons and saying "Sorry"

Not as much as John Major did to drive it, back when that really was a huge step. Maybe not even as much as Thatcher tbh.

Uh, but John Major does get a lot of credit. Explain to me exactly what Thatcher did?

And coincidentally announcing it just at the exact same time that the former Armed Forces Minister starts giving evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry.

Given that to my knowledge Blair never even offered a full apology FOR THE SLAVE TRADE clearly just standing up in the Commons and saying "sorry" isn't something politicians find very easy.

Other than allowing 10 guys to starve themselves to death etc? (xp)

xp Anglo Irish Agreement was huge.

Lol fuck a hunger striker

Oh wait, he did it 2007, my bad.

(xposts)

If you were alive in 1981, then you 'allowed' a dude to starve himself too. I'm not sure that makes you guilty of anything when it happens.

LOL Southern Irishman

i don't even own a knitted sweater, for shame

I think the legacy of Cameron's party wrt Northern Ireland is one reason why it was harder for him to apologise in the Commons than it would have been for Blair. Obviously would have been a piece of piss for Brown.

Can always rely on Maggie:

'In 1998 Thatcher said she regretted signing the Agreement and said of Enoch Powell's opposition to the Agreement: "I now believe that his assessment was right"'

^ agree. The apology meant more from a Tory PM. We don't really have beef with Labour, tbh. Except on an individual level in my case, probably

(xp)

regretting something after doing it works both ways, thatcher might regret the AIA and tony can 'regret' illegally invading Iraq for no good reason.

But the Anglo Irish Agreement was a tad better than invading Iraq illegally

'works both ways'

mind you who was in govt when we were invaded illegally?

I blame Thatcher

Clearly a Blair policy tbh

BBC, Wednesday, 19 March, 2003

There was relief for the government after fears that many more of Labour's backbenchers would oppose Tony Blair's line on Iraq.

But the revolt among Labour MPs was still up on the last vote with 139 backbenchers opposing Mr Blair compared to 122 at the last vote.

Fifteen Tories defied their leadership by voting against the government.

Way to go Tories!

Tory natural tendency is to invade brown countries. 15 voting against is a bigger deal than ten times that on the Labour side doing, y'know, what a Labour Govt MP ought to be doing.

Straws *clutch* *clutch*