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

Osborne is so pro-tax haven that that's obviously not going to happen any time soon. I can see the point that the corporation tax cut is intended to stimulate growth (although I think that's wrong-headed) but Labour should be hammering him on tax evasion. But oh shit they turned a blind eye to billions being squirrelled away themselves.

Labour's new attack plan: Shite Christmas

http://www2.labour.org.uk/a-coalition-christmas

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/dec/02/cameron-pimping-world-cup-bid

"Assume we'll win the bid. Cameron wouldn't deign to do anything as unseemly as publicly plead for something otherwise."

Aide Miliband own goal

what the christ is an aide to a senior pol doing having a public twitter for his/her #opinions?

fuckin country

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11909607

Have the leaked US cables said anything at all about British politics that wasn't completely obvious?

yeah i whatevered this on the wikileaks thread

the ambassador not really getting the inside knowledge

VAT going up 2.5% in a bit huh

taste the progressiveness

Message from Morrissey.

I would like to, if I may, offer support to Johnny Marr who has spoken out to the media this week against David Cameron. To those who have expressed concern over Johnny's words in view of the fact that David Cameron has pledged immense allegiance to the music of the Smiths, I would like to try to explain why I think Johnny is right not to be flattered.

It is true that music is a universal language – the ONLY universal language, and belongs to all, one way or another. However, with fitting grimness I must report that David Cameron hunts and shoots and kills stags – apparently for pleasure. It was not for such people that either "Meat is Murder" or "The Queen is Dead" were recorded; in fact, they were made as a reaction against such violence.

"But I'm cool with him being a Tory cunt"

"Also thumbs up on his immigration policy tho I would question whether it goes far enough."

I'm a fairly unrepentant meat-eater and I like 'Meat Is Murder' more than most Smiths songs I've heard

dealwithit.gif

i smell a thread opportunity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1G6osCnsbA&feature=player_embedded

they should have a contest to see who can get away with the most. 'Up next, Cuntid Cuntcuntron.'

Andrew Marr's just done it again trying to explain, as the section of Start the Week where it's come up is providentially about Freudian slips.

Mr Hunt was interviewed on the programme about his plans for universal broadband provision and how superfast broadband will be delivered in the UK.

Naughtie inadvertently used the first letter of the Culture Secretary's title to replace the 'H' in Mr Hunt's surname.

Right, where's the scrabble?

Pretty sure Andrew Marr did that deliberately.

Obvious joke, I still laughed:

http://imgur.com/cyUpw.png

LibDem ministerial aide Mike Crockart has resigned over fees.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/8190379/National-Union-of-Students-secretly-urged-Government-to-make-deep-cuts-in-student-grants.html

I don't agree with him at all, but David Willetts can't half hold his own in a debate.

in a creepy way, yes

mps back, result imminent

They'll get it thru.

Repayments starting at £21,000 p.a. = not exactly megabucks graduates being taxed on their improved earning potential eh?

better than £15k, though i guess £15k in 2002 (when i started paying) is more like... £17-18k today

majority of 21

wonder how many abstained

Nice to know that new teachers and nurses will be doing their first year for free tho.

Pro tip for school leavers: you can probably be on the management ladder at Tesco by the time you're 22, and it won't cost you 30 grand.

Majority down from 84 to 21

Pro tip for angry students: if you're fishing round for examples of the ways that society benefits from Universities, probably best leave lawyers off the list.

Diane Abbott Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP has just tweeted: “Just voted against tuition fees. Saw Nick Clegg patting a distraught Lyn Featherstone [sic] on the back as they both voted for the huge rise.”

lol

SIMON: Should I resign? I've floated that I might, when I thought I wouldn't, so it'll look convincing if I did. I mean, do you think, is it braver to just resign and say, `No, no war'?
JUDY: Yes.
SIMON: Or is it actually braver to say, `I don't agree, but I'm going to grit my teeth and get on with it?' Is the really brave thing actually doing what you don't believe?
JUDY: No.

maj 21 again

Good work getting proportional representation through any time soon.

Big shout out to the Labour Party for helping make all this possible.

Fuck British politics with a big axe really :/

This is gonna be more or less irreversible I'd imagine because by the time we get a government with even the inkling of a desire to do something about this the slice of the exchequer required to replace the tuition fees will be untenable.

Good work getting proportional representation through any time soon.

yeah, trying to dial down the 'the coalition is doomed' rhetoric after composing this unfortunate thread title, but, really, how the fuck are the lib dems going to survive? they'll have nothing to show in the credit column, and, as with today, massive losses. they won't even get AV. what will they get in return for their VERY SOULS?!??!

5 weeks on I'm a Celebrity and some home-made Cheeky Girls porn iirc

The ratio of exchequer contributions to individual contributions will have shifted further by then as well. This will happen elsewhere in the public sector from now on. I don't personally use prisons, farms or the army, can I opt out from paying for them now?

hope that particular sex tape never sees the light of day xp

would be like watching a horse mauling a child to death

http://today.yougov.co.uk/politics/voting-intention-analysis-14

Today's daily voting intention figures for the Sun show the Conservatives at 41%, Labour at 41% and the Liberal Democrats reduced to just 8%. It is the lowest level of support that YouGov have recorded in the ten years we have been polling, and the lowest level of support they have recorded in any poll from any pollster since 1990.

Only major LibDem to vote No was Ming. And nine Tories.

The coalition won't collapse now. LibDem fear of electoral oblivion will keep it together for as long as it takes before the Tories decide they can go it alone.

Wonder if a few high profile LDs will end up taking safe haven in the Paraguay that is the Conservative Party come the next election.

well i think they may have lost the student vote

topshop is under attack now

fucking fashionistas

Did they really attack Charles and Camilla? Why on earth were they being driven anywhere near the protests?

Same reason lovable city gents like to wave wads of notes at protestors.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/mar/16/uk-greece-style-unrest-nick-clegg-spending-cuts