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

Party of the Family 'n' shit

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.

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

yes

quite a small number of people

ROUGH JUSTICE

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

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

When two chins go to war...

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

why is theresa may dressed as a sontaran on newsnight?

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?'

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?

"lol" iirc

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

young tories on the beeb

feel like these didn't exist in the 90s

effing millennials

xx playing during cameron build up

effing millennials

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

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

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

maybe michael howard

Cameron could never get away with picking Michael Howard.

cut to more effing millenials who need some clearasil

lame fawlty towers ref

two john cleese-related jokes so far

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

only a matter of time before cameron got into the xx

"it matters what you think and you feel and you do"

FUCK OFF

long list of labour fuck-ups kinda fair tho

love this part of the speech....show some activist spirit, then we won't have to be a govt.

"The PM talks about the "torture" of watching England lose 4-1 to Germany in the World Cup this summer beside German chancellor Angela Merkel."

Lololol.

'george osborne enjoying a joke'

not a football fan

weird...labour just called to my door about mayoral elections, obv strategically disrupting cameron's speech......and my fish finger sandwich.

seriously patronising now...

wtf was that thing on my screen just now

fucking batboy or something

BBC deputy political editor James Landale says: So, before a single word about cuts, Mr Cameron is yet again making an argument for his Big Society. His theme: citizenship is a relationship, not a transaction. His slogan: Your country needs you. The Daily Mail front page tomorrow will show a mock-up of Mr Cameron in Kitchener's famous wartime poster.

Oh FFS please no.

radical idea, never been done before

so much unstomachable shit

"that thing you can't measure, but you know it when you see it, which is a sense that our great country is moving forward once again"

you can "see" a sense now. that an entire landmass/political area is "moving forward". but you can't measure that sense, that you can see, of course.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45238000/gif/_45238167_alist_darl_466x310.gif

we're deffo getting trident

fun for lib dem activists