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

Had the Today programme on this morning and heard Financial Secretary to the Treasury Mark Hoban describe specific cases where the poorer were worse off under the coalition budget, with particular regard to housing benefit, as 'details'.

Surely you've realised by now that people who claim housing benefit do not count to Tories

The Deserving Poor are all who matter - actually true of all the political parties

By Gad tho, normally they at least gesture with lies towards a vaguely philanthropic sop to those who think maybe that equality should not be based purely on financial worth.

xpost - take it from the medium poor, to give to the government poor etc etc.

Paloma Billie Pasty Cameron. Poor child.

saw david miliband in person today. one of his questioners asked about how he can defend being foreign secretary at a time when uk citizens were being tortured by his own side. it got VERY much under his skin..

David Cameron's new-born daughter is to be named Florence Rose Endellion, Downing Street has revealed.

The baby was born by caesarean section, weighing 6lb 1oz, on Tuesday while the prime minister and wife Samantha were on holiday in Cornwall.

St Endellion is a village in the north of the county.

St Endellion is a village in the north of the county.

just as well for the kid they were in cornwall rather than visiting auschwitz

what's the difference amirite etc

poland is full of polish plumbers

Bagsy a seat on Eric Pickles' table.

point counterpoint:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/88da38b0-b090-11df-8c04-00144feabdc0.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/23/social-mobility-playing-fields-fallacy

short version: clegg is a fucking idiot/cock/______

don't think collini's piece is as well-put as it could be (the meaning of 'puts his milburn where his mouth is' is pretty obscure) but it is otm

It will take some time before everybody feels the benefits of the substantial reform we want to see.

Seem to remember Clegg liked quoting Institute for Fiscal Studies stats all through the debates.

Hooray, the Tories are back in!

More here - http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n07/stefan-collini/blahspeak

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Some people like to think of these dudes as cuddly but impotent centre-rightists but its important to remember that TORIES ARE FUCKING NAZI SCUM AND LIB DEMS ARE THE BROKEN TOYS OF NAZI SCUM AND IF YOU VOTE TORY YOU = NAZI SCUM AND I HOPE U DIE SOON

yeh

That shd ring true to 2 thirds of Britishes ILX and the other third pretend to be not Tory or American, either way. THANKS FOR THE DEATH OF THE ECONOMY, NOB-BAGS.

Some people like to think of these dudes as cuddly but impotent centre-rightists but its important to remember that TORIES ARE FUCKING NAZI SCUM AND LIB DEMS ARE THE BROKEN TOYS OF NAZI SCUM AND IF YOU VOTE TORY YOU = NAZI SCUM AND I HOPE U DIE SOON

― Widow of Opportunity (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 August 2010 02:38 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i wrote abt this in the drunken assholes thread, but a few weeks back, outside a pub in tooting, my friends and i were accosted by a drunken tory failed-council-candidate for tooting who was obnoxious and offensive and pathetic and annoying, and when one of my friends pointed out that the tories had been THRASHED in tooting by asheq khan, he responded by slurring "oh yeah, that fucking n*****", and then spent the rest of the night begging/threatening us to not tell anyone he'd said this. he was pretty pathetic, tbh, and the evening ended up with him trying to throttle my friend mikey, who's built like a brick shithouse, and punched this dude to the ground, handed him back his broken glasses, and told him to fuck off and leave us alone (which he did).

just another night in the naked city, i guess. but tories are what they are: xenophobic pathetic fucks. i hate them more every day.

Obv I was a drunken asshole myself last night, but aside from the kind of erroneous Tory = Nazi equation I stand by my general belief that you shd fucking die soon and in pain if you vote for these fucks.

I don't think it's that erroneous an equation, myself. Class war on the bottom half of the population by a bunch of entitled fucks who DIN'T ACTUALLY WIN THE ELECTION. Nothing like the nazis then. Fuckers.

Also, do you think it would be too much for the government to stand up for OUR NATIONAL BROADCASTER against some fucking bunch of twats who've done nothing but make the population of this country stupider over the last 40 years? Obviously that is too much to expect.

I seem to feel RAGE for at least part of each day of late.

Obv I was a drunken asshole myself last night, but aside from the kind of erroneous Tory = Nazi equation I stand by my general belief that you shd fucking die soon and in pain if you vote for these fucks.

Well, in the coming dismantling of the NHS, we're all going to be dying soon and in pain. Hoorah!

Some people like to think of these dudes as cuddly but impotent centre-rightists but its important to remember that TORIES ARE FUCKING NAZI SCUM AND LIB DEMS ARE THE BROKEN TOYS OF NAZI SCUM AND IF YOU VOTE TORY YOU = NAZI SCUM AND I HOPE U DIE SOON

― Widow of Opportunity (Noodle Vague), Saturday, August 28, 2010 2:38 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark

^^^^

wish someone would fire iain dale into the sun

Ahhh...
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/48904000/jpg/_48904035_010054418-1.jpg

then he bites its face off

That's three chins on Cam.

This story appears at the top of the Daily Telegraph's front page: 'Cabinet Minister may act over false claims of gay affair'. It's not hard to realise who the cabinet minister in this case is, as there has been only one minister who's had year old photographs of him and his aide appear in the papers in the last week. But it is a strange piece which appears to have been placed after high level chats between newspaper executives and the cabinet minister in question.

The Foreign Secretary appointed Chris Myers, 25, as his third Whitehall adviser, on a salary of £30,000, it has emerged.

its 2010, crazy that a politician would still remain in the closet

progress is very much 2 steps forward 1.9999999 steps back

(obv that isn't the point of this story but still)

its 2010, crazy that a politician would still remain in the closet

― Chaki doesn't have beef with unicorn (stevie), Sunday, August 29, 2010 4:48 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

for a new politician, yeah probably, but not so much for a veteran

poor ffffffion...

"I just have to pick up some distressed denim at Firetrap. Won't be a mo."

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http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01701/hat_1701211c.jpg

Some wag on a blog I read made the comment that if you added the goatee to Hague in this picture, he becomes Gary Glitter.

What are Chris Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys and Sean Penn doing on this thread?

http://politicalscrapbook.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/cameron_clegg_baby_photo.jpg

^^^Ned, nobody told me they were remaking How To Get Ahead In Advertising...

Disappointing: No results found for "miliband slams balls".

Check again tomorrow!

Hague should hire Sean Penn straight back if he's the one who wrote this statement.

No mention of Guido's FOI request in the statement? I presume that now becomes null and void?

Having said that I am quite enjoying the slagging of off the aforementioned Guido by his up till now loyal fans - "you've gone too far this time" etc.

my impression is that Guido would not be a pleasant companion in real life

I was sure I called Hague's CONTROVERSIAL MODERATOR EDIT on this thread months ago but apparently not. It's allegedly been an open secret in Tory circles and probably in other parties for years.

If you were trying to cover up your homosexual affair, while travelling around the country and checking into hotels with your gay partner, wouldn't it be a bit stupid to book into the same hotel room? If you were trying to avoid arousing suspicion you'd book two separate single rooms.

indeed
the only interesting part of this is, who within the tories is trying to do this? who is feeding that anal wart guido fawkes?

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