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

Mr Osborne says: "The public sector needs to change to support the aspirations and expectations of today's population, rather than [that of] the 1950s."

Cunt.

What is that code for?

Universal benefits, "cradle to grave", etc.

enjoying the sarcastic reaction shot direction from bbc parliament here

backstage sound for anyone else streaming this?

listening to it on the world service, out of solidarity

did anyone else get audio of presenters warming up on bbc online feed for a few minutes there?

ha xp

poor bbc

fucking public sector

oh no you didn't @ osborne on the regulation of the banks

you cunts campaigned for even less

aw George didn't answer the "what about tax cheats?" question.

still amazes me that people actually shout "hear hear"

xp - fun to see it written down back in 2007:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1560100/Tories-plan-14bn-cuts-to-red-tape.html

woo looking to ramp up the already absurdly discriminatory towards young people housing benefit rules.

disappointed that "prioritise work on the treatment of dementia" didn't get a skinner zing

Well, the most famous dementia sufferer in the country is getting worked on as we write! So, they ARE!

Oh, what a day for deadlines...

Hope Sir Philip Green's accountants are having a laugh watching this.

xp

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'That extra money will be used to increase the state pension,' said Osborne. 'Never again will people who have worked there whole life be insulted by an increase in the state pension of 75p.'

"i can tell the house..." like he's nick robinson/mihir bose

"Not saddling our children with the interest on the interest on the interest of the debt we were not prepared to pay" - does that include higher educational debt? This fucking guy.

alan johnson's tie is pimpin

I can't hear what he just said but Johnson was nodding and smiling in a "just dropped the best zing ever" way, and Miliband was gesticulating wildly from behind him.

miliband seems to be carrying on some sort of extended argument w/someone opposite him?

johnson vg so far!

Twitter seems to be 3/4 in favour of Johnson and 1/4 against. Apparently he is "bringing it".

johnson had clearly read that freedland piece. he started weak but it got better and then the radio cut away to the news

I was delighted to have to miss the rest of Johnson's speech so that I could hear the woman from You & Yours asking voters in Stafford for their garbled instant reactions. He may not convince as someone who knows the numbers back to front but he's king of the zing and he made all the right arguments (ie Freedland's) in the first five minutes.

King of the Zing is fine at the moment when everyone is reeling at the scale of the cuts but there wasn't much proactive to offer. In the longer term I think he'll be easy for Osborne to pick off.

We'll see. He's a much better performer than Osborne and if he's sufficiently well-briefed I think he'll do fine in HoC exchanges. But I can't see him driving Labour's economic policy behind the scenes.

Which I think is the point, Milliband doesn't want an economic 'ite tying him to the past.

Have a horrible feeling that a lot of today's butchery will tie him to the future tho.

so since I'm an asshole who only cares about things that affect me, what exactly does this:

increasing the age threshold for the Shared Room Rate in Housing Benefit from 25
to 35. This will ensure that Housing Benefit rules reflect the housing expectations of
people of a similar age not on benefits

mean?

It means nobody in their 20s can reasonably expect to live in their own place I think.

think it means you get fuck all in rent supplement until you're 35.

Doesn't bother me, I'm a middle-aged man with another 50 years of work to look forward to.

xp property crash over here removed that worry, at least. cmon over here, i'll get you a 3 bed semi-d for yourself if you want.

We've almost kinda semi got the use of a biggish place in Donegal if we wanted it but y'know probably will have to have a job at some point.

Just waiting for the balance to tip a little further until it looks the better option tbh

think it means you get fuck all in rent supplement until you're 35.

― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 13:44 (1 minute ago)

well ya that much I got. Ah well time to move back in with mummy.

Donegal is the worst of the worst when it comes to prospects I think. They've always had unemployment rates much higher than everywhere else.

Damn near worth it to live in Donegal imo.

how does cost of living in dublin compare to the uk, big man?

who me?

you know more than me re: this, so yeah

never lived in Dublin tbh, but it's hellish expensive all things taken into account.

though i'd say property rental has probably dropped to something like a reasonable level now.

yay crossrail tbf

really? don't get why they have demolish a bunch of soho

i'd do that just for fun tbqh

Because Tottenham Court Road station was and is a total shithole, regardless of Paolozzi mosaics?

also a whole block at the top of dean st