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

Since then the Tories have done a very good, and dishonest, job of twisting the facts to fit their narrative

I think I said this upthread but it's true, insidious how many times during the course of a day, in the media or IRL, you hear about the necessity of making cuts and how we've all got to accept it, "We're All In This Together"

Man, when some cunt on 100 million a year and me both have to take a 5 percent hit to the groin, we're all in this together

hollow lol

it's gonna get hollower and hollower and the lulz from proving to my old man that these fuckers can be worse than NU LABÖR have worn off already.

Man, when some cunt on 100 million a year and me both have to take a 5 percent hit to the groin, we're all in this together

Of course, but the level of unquestioning acceptance of the argument is a bit depressing

are you familiar with human beings at all Tom?

I know not their ways

i dunno if people do accept it!

they don't have much choice but to keep going

give the cunt a break he's looking at missing out on five million pounds I don't think you realise how much money that is

fair point

Welfare spending to be cut by £4bn, says George Osborne

Mr Osborne told BBC political editor Nick Robinson that those making a "lifestyle choice to just sit on out-of-work benefits" would be affected.

Uh, how do you tell who these people are and make sure they're the only ones who will have their benefits cut?

Also, I note that the hideous phrase "out-of-work benefits" seems to have arrived from somewhere or other, Osborne used it constantly in his interview.

i was half asleep for the interview on today but it finished with someone saying "what about the £100 billion lost due to tax evasion, why isn't that a priority?", and then BZZT SORRY NO TIME FOR THAT.

They've been dropping "sitting at home watching television" all the time as well so presumably if you avoid work to read 19th century Russian novels they're cool with that.

There are a million points to raise but here's one: what do these twats seriously think wd happen to these awful television watchers if the state suddenly decided they get nothing? Comedy Dickensian starving in the streets/collecting dog turds in a bucket for the tanning industry?

So either this is total fucking front or a warm-up routine for chain-gangs of doleites doing all the jobs that sacked council employees used to do.

Also, and I'm sure I've said this before, Full Employment = Spiralling Wage Costs = Poor Businessmen Not Earning Quite As Much Money. So LIKE FUCK is any Tory gov seriously interested in having everybody in work.

Also heard one of those charming right wing thinktank fellows on the telly the other day, describe public sector jobs as "non-jobs", which I suppose they will be soon enough

Also this idea that the Public Sector "squeezes" the Private Sector was rolled out as if were gospel, does it though?

Every Tory minister interviewed now has to mention "the mess they've been left with" every third sentence. Kudos to the on-messageness.

I know I shdn't be surprised but they are gonna pull off a really staggeringly right wing reshape of the country and 95 percent of the populace - including the people paid to report about it - aren't even gonna blink?

Thanks once again, Liberal Democrat voters wherever you are

Don't worry tho, I'm sure Nu Nu Old Labour will get on the job once they've got a leader in place. October 2011, isn't it?

xpost hey, they weren't to know, were they?

Royal Mail to be privatised or sold, government says

Here's hoping nobody in the Hebrides needs any letters delivered in future.

The ones who voted SNP and Labour are fucked, some compromise can no doubt be found to deliver Liberal Democrat voters' mail. No-one voted Tory.

Privatisation of Royal Mail has been on the cards for, what, three or four years now? Does anyone actually want to buy it?

It would be nice if Osborne waited until there were actually some jobs in this country before pretending that millions of people are on the dole for shits and giggles. He seems utterly unapologetic about the fact that he's only doing it for the sake of saving money, the justifications seem increasingly half arsed. At some point he'll just ask Cameron if he's allowed to stop bothering with them.

A few LibDems MPs have finally started going "hang on, this isn't what we signed up for". Surprised we haven't had a defection yet.

I'm told one or two might be in the offing (from what you might call left-ish LD sources) but they might just be saying that. You know, like all that stuff they said before the election. One or two is not enough though is it?

No, and even half a dozen simultaneous defectors would probably just be roundly disparaged as traitors/trots/milquetoasts by the filth press

The narrative of delicately-poised but sensible Tory/Lib Stockholm syndrome partnership has been established and short of another recessive spiral will probably survive for some time

Yeah, I can't see it happening myself (ok, maybe Charles Kennedy) this is their one best shot at having any kind of power. I guess if I was an MP and I saw local by-elections going against me I might be tempted though. Hello Simon Wright of Norwich South...

Trying to wonder what the slurs against Labour MP Charles Kennedy will centre around.

guess if I was an MP and I saw local by-elections going against me I might be tempted though. Hello Simon Wright of Norwich South...

For that you'll have to wait to part II of the now feature length Cleggeron extravaganza

Who is "businessman richard hooper" and why does he get a say in one of the country's national resources getting sold off? Shit like this makes my blood boil.

Richard Hooper = former Chairman of OFCOM and he was working for the Labour government on Royal Mail as well fwiw.

Better get on and post the letter to NI sitting on my kitchen table before BT postcodes have a £5 surcharge

Well done to Brendan Barber for coining the "demolition government" pun. Only took four months.

http://www.gearbits.com/images/thumbs-up.gif

That's about the only notable thing he's done in his entire career

Shit like this makes my blood boil, reminds me why I hated so many of the last government's Home Secretaries.

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Mehdi Hasan
Did the Israeli army sexually abuse Palestinian children?

ah, good old new statesman

I cannot find any reference to this story, or any follow-ups on the allegations, on any mainstream, news websites, perhaps because the claims are "uncorroborated" - or, perhaps, because of the pro-Israeli bias of much of the western media.

better get lorax on the case

"Moslem"

the model on their 'france turns right' cover is looking to their left, nice work guys

and yeah lol at 'pro-Israeli bias'

the model on their 'france turns right' cover is looking to their left, nice work guys

LOL, couldn't-make-it-up etc

We're all in this together

You've lost your job, now buy the t-shirt

limited shelf life surely

Reverse says "Blame him, he voted Lib Dem"

With the arrow, obv.

Getting sick of the Tories hijacking a perfectly pleasant High School Musical song.

Nu Old Nu Labour need to hit back, maybe something from Hairspray? "The Nicest Kids in Town" sounds like a winning slogan.