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

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Whatever, it is not seriously going to damage their aspirations of earning more money in the future. If anything it might increase them.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 14:54 (fifteen years ago)

i'd quite like to have a 2 grand pay rise

― HOOS' THE BOSS (ken c), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 15:09 (fifteen years ago)

^aspirational

― meta the devil you know (onimo), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 15:25 (fifteen years ago)

yeah me too ken! i'm sure it's on the horizon, any day now

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 15:31 (fifteen years ago)

;_; for media people

― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 15:33 (fifteen years ago)

seriously - after this news i might have to sell my child's diamond encrusted dummy

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 15:43 (fifteen years ago)

don't let's get hasty now

― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 15:47 (fifteen years ago)

rhinestones are tastier anyway

― conrad, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 15:47 (fifteen years ago)

pretty interesting little calculator - http://www.ifs.org.uk/wheredoyoufitin/

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 15:51 (fifteen years ago)

The first decile group contains the poorest 10% of the population, the second decile group contains the next poorest 10% and so on. As you can see, you are in the 2nd decile group.

i can look down on someone then

― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 15:59 (fifteen years ago)

you seem to be doing a pretty good job looking down on the other deciles too DG!

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 16:00 (fifteen years ago)

DG is committed to equal opportunities

― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 16:01 (fifteen years ago)

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 16:02 (fifteen years ago)

it would seem that i spit in the face of 45 million people

― HOOS' THE BOSS (ken c), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 16:09 (fifteen years ago)

say it don't spray it

― conrad, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 16:13 (fifteen years ago)

That "where do you fit in" thing is really interesting - guess it's always useful to be told 'you don't have children -> you are massively well-off almost by default'

― Gravel Puzzleworth, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 16:21 (fifteen years ago)

Party of the Family 'n' shit

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 16:25 (fifteen years ago)

Gravel - they only need about a grand and a half payrise to make up for that lost child benefit though. It's not that big a deal.

Oh right - had no idea it was so little!

― Gravel Puzzleworth, Tuesday, October 5, 2010 2:50 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

No, they'd need more like two grand because of tax.

― are you robot? (suzy)

With two kids you'd need a £3k rise. Or so says the Daily Mail.

― on the cusp of eligibility (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 16:54 (fifteen years ago)

there must be some people who are borderline and would benefit from taking a pay cut

― ~/hatcat.JPG (luis guzman baking a pie), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 16:57 (fifteen years ago)

yes

― conrad, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 16:58 (fifteen years ago)

quite a small number of people

― laughing out loud lol (history mayne), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 17:01 (fifteen years ago)

ROUGH JUSTICE

― conrad, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 17:02 (fifteen years ago)

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/10/3/1286117708951/David-Cameron-listens-to--006.jpg
Hahaha - FUCK YOU!

― on the cusp of eligibility (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 20:32 (fifteen years ago)

That's what he's saying by the way, not me, I'm ever so polite.

― on the cusp of eligibility (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 20:33 (fifteen years ago)

When two chins go to war...

― are you robot? (suzy), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 20:34 (fifteen years ago)

I read phttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPGted as "phatcatted" until I saw what else had been going down today.

― Already WSed last summer (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 20:40 (fifteen years ago)

why is theresa may dressed as a sontaran on newsnight?

― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:15 (fifteen years ago)

damn, baroness warsi is a bit of a dim bulb. just heard her say over and over it 'wouldn't be appropriate to say' whether the CB cut was discussed in cabinet. derp.

kind of surprised what a clusterfuck this is for the right. kind of feel like 'you fucks were campaigning for *exactly this sort of thing*, yeah?'

― laughing out loud lol (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:31 (fifteen years ago)

They were campaigning for exactly this sort of thing for scroungers and layabouts not hard-working families dude. Jane Moore getting enraged in the Sun today was hilarious.

Has Ed Miliband said anything at all about this, btw?

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:35 (fifteen years ago)

"lol" iirc

― meta the devil you know (onimo), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:43 (fifteen years ago)

Tories proposing to waste parliamentary time on pursuing a policy that changes nothing.

― calumerio, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:45 (fifteen years ago)

only prominent labour person I've seen on this is yvette cooper saying not great mostly along the lines of the individual vs. household earnings bit maybe ed keeping schtum on his nonkneejerk opposition tip while andy burnham giving it big licks on nhs stuff as per

― conrad, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:48 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmOvGT-b2ac

― conrad, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:50 (fifteen years ago)

I think they might wind up walking this one back.

― are you robot? (suzy), Monday, October 4, 2010 9:41 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― are you robot? (suzy), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:12 (fifteen years ago)

Naah. Admit they were wrong? A bit GordBrown innit?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:24 (fifteen years ago)

be more like they'll bring in some face-saving counter-measure that ends up halving the savings the cut was meant to make and still pissing off a vocal minority, blah blah

― rmde @ the romo dumplings (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:25 (fifteen years ago)

There was a poll that stated that something like 80% of people support this cut btw. Presumably the rest are the vocal minority who didn't expect the Tories to do this, probably because they are idiots.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:27 (fifteen years ago)

Well, they're doing away with CTF, too, don't forget - why hammer all parents twice?

― are you robot? (suzy), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:28 (fifteen years ago)

young tories on the beeb

feel like these didn't exist in the 90s

effing millennials

― rmde @ the romo dumplings (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:32 (fifteen years ago)

xx playing during cameron build up

― conrad, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:41 (fifteen years ago)

effing millennials

― rmde @ the romo dumplings (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:42 (fifteen years ago)

offsetting with overdone parrot sketch ref downing street thatcher 85th birthday party and 96-year-old lifelong old tory man

― conrad, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:51 (fifteen years ago)

It's a hipster schmindie-off with Ed 'Vampire Weekend' Miliband.

Actually, Cameron could never get away with picking Vampire Weekend.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:53 (fifteen years ago)

maybe michael howard

― conrad, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:53 (fifteen years ago)

Cameron could never get away with picking Michael Howard.

― meta the devil you know (onimo), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:55 (fifteen years ago)

cut to more effing millenials who need some clearasil

― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:55 (fifteen years ago)

lame fawlty towers ref

― conrad, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 14:03 (fifteen years ago)

two john cleese-related jokes so far

― rmde @ the romo dumplings (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 14:04 (fifteen years ago)

"Look what we've done in five months; imagine what we'll do in five years."

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 14:05 (fifteen years ago)

only a matter of time before cameron got into the xx

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 14:05 (fifteen years ago)

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