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

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

Britain could face massive political and social unrest on a scale similar to Greece if the next government cannot rally the public behind plans to cut the £178bn deficit, Nick Clegg will warn today.

Man, the government shd do something about that.

:D

Cable getting slaughtered on Newsnight

what a pitiful lying cunt

sorry for the swear but fuck em all, really

Wow, these two historians on Newsnight REALLY hate one another.

cool who are they?

rightly so, starkey is being unbelievable

and fuck willets with a telegraph pole

sarah churchwell (nailing it when she gets a word in), tristram hunt, starkey

lol okay Starkey say no more

starkey said something "controversial" like, oh, uea (churchwell's employer) isn't in the same league as cambridge

does he even teach?

anyway, he also said we hadn't seen riots like this since 1848 AND that "no-one cares"

which, well, you can figure it out

willetts said there hadn't been a cut in state funding -- the state pays upfront, and then the individual pays it back!!!!

honestly i'd be happy if someone killed him

Willetts was spouting a similar line on the radio earlier, the entire policy is Win-Win and contains no "regrettable" aspect whatsoever seems to be his message.

Churchwell basically got shouted down whenever she opened her mouth and was unable to finish a point. She looked incredibly fucked off and was tutting "unbelievable" to herself. Starkey is an arse obv.

Regrettable, maybe not - the word we are looking for is SHAMEFUL.

Churchwell caught in testosterone whirlwind on Newsnight, quelle surprise.

Don't think testosterone is Starkey's usual steez

it was just antediluvian snobbery and pissy interruptions really

yeah that's about right. sad thing is I enjoy some of his legit historical work.

it was just antediluvian snobbery and pissy interruptions really

You need testosterone to do 'manbags at dawn'...

Flip on to QT, people...

Never watch QT, doctor's orders.

QT over, let's see what Andrew fucking Neil has to say...

Best thing on the news this week was some Sky reporter stalking Sarah Teather from outside her front door and down her street as she did her best "Oh go away, I'm just popping to M&S" voice as if she was trying to get out of talking to a chugger and shoved her iPod on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOGbPbprWFc

David Dimbleby is joined in London by Liam Fox MP, Norman Lamb MP, Sadiq Khan MP, Aaron Porter and Janet Daley.

aw hell no

might be funny to see aaron porter getting owned, but no-one will. none of the three political parties can do anything but lie about this issue.

Aaron Porter was good when they got to WikiLeaks, but he's useless at being head of NUS.

Not sure how accurate Twitter is, but there's a bunch of people posting photos and whatnot of protestors being held on Westminster Bridge at 1AM.

A-ha ha ha. If Littlejohn wrote for the Independent he'd be bashing away on his "you couldn't make it up" keyboard shortcut macro:

Government must no longer "shy away" from acting to keep families together in a bid to stop children ending up in poverty, in prison or jobless, the Prime Minister will say today.

Anyone think of one good way to keep children with their families from the age of 18 through 21?

Not to mention 16-18. Did anyone read Gordon Brown bigging up EMA at the weekend?

Kids won't need EMA as they will be legally required to be in education until 18, so if they can't afford to go to college they can be fined or maybe, um, jailed. Always thinking.

Least surprising new story of the year.

new news.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/dec/13/social-survey-thatcherite-britain?CMP=twt_iph

So Thatcherbabies do exist...

does my society look big in this

h8 u britain

So Thatcherbabies do exist...

And they all get their comments in first on Guardian articles.

Buried in the body of an article about Ed Miliband's response to EMA demos today:

Mr Cameron faced angry claims by Tory MPs that they are being treated more harshly than Liberal Democrats in the coalition.

Senior Conservative David Davis said there was "hostility" towards the Prime Minister and Nick Clegg among backbench MPs over the vote to treble university fees.

One backbencher claimed that some Tory MPs considering rebelling were told that if they did they would not get help in finding a new seat when the number of MPs is cut by 50 following boundary changes. Government sources denied this threat had been made.

for ref, that article - http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23906448-sixth-formers-should-be-free-to-join-protests-says-ed-miliband.do

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/12/14/article-0-0C785063000005DC-829_306x499.jpg

unacceptable

One backbencher claimed that some Tory MPs considering rebelling were told that if they did they would not get help in finding a new seat when the number of MPs is cut by 50 following boundary changes. Government sources denied this threat had been made.

government sources are lying so-and-sos. the whole point of the boundary changes is to increase beyond its already absurd level the power of the payroll vote. it's not the sort of thing anyone demonstrates over and it sure as hell isn't something labour would oppose.

won't these boundary changes negatively affect labours chances in the next election?