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

typical tory-led attempt at obfuscation of the real issues at hand

probably blackletter am i right?

Perhaps the content is bad enough but the venue and conjunction with EDLing is just the icing on this particular caek?

Believe that, traditionally, shouting "TWO WORLD WARS AND ONE WORLD CUP" at any German you see has been a common tactic to speak out against right-wing extremism.

Don't the EDL march somewhere every fucking week?

And caek's point, rightly I think, is that calling a right wing scumbag a secret Nazi when he obviously isn't a Nazi detracts slightly from more obvious, provable assertions like "this bloke is a right wing scumbag".

nobody actually has tho

sorry, my culture forbids me from getting into pedantic dissections of grammar during February

It's a bit like giving a speech inferring that multiculturalism means tolerance for terrorism, and all terrorists are Muslims.

xxp right, but he's being called on something that is pretty far fetched in a way that verges on delusional, rather than the things he's actually saying with his mouth. this isn't a trap/distraction for the left set by some genius troll like palin. if you want to win arguments you have to be smarter than to set your own.

i really dont think anyone is seriously suggesting anything like any of that itt

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It's a bit like giving a speech inferring that multiculturalism means tolerance for terrorism, and all terrorists are Muslims.

― James Mitchell, Saturday, February 5, 2011 2:53 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

overly reductionist and a mite one-eyed? don't forget the speech's digs at the left, and the daily mail-lite brow-beating that some of the homegrown turrrists are middle class.

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loving the hooks James Mitchell

It's a bit like giving a speech inferring that multiculturalism means tolerance for terrorism, and all terrorists are Muslims.

― James Mitchell, Saturday, February 5, 2011 2:53 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah im p sure this didn't happen, though

but he did it in MUNICH, site of the attack on the 1972 olympics, so, well, dog-whistle stuff really

lol

Whatever the subtleties of Cameron's speech the effect will surely be a boost for the EDL. They managed to march through Luton without beating anyone up, they got lots of pictures of themselves in the papers at the same time as the headlines proclaim "multiculturalism is dead". Cameron's made them look, if not mainstream, certainly not out of step with government thinking.

He's a great operator doing a brilliant job.

in honour of our toff overlords, could we plse rename "suggest ban" to "community trigger"?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12378755

yellow cards have kept the ilx peace for years now

"community tigger" plz.

local agencies will be compelled to take action if five people from five different residences in the same neighbourhood have complained and no action has been taken

http://columns.stlcomics.com/tftlof/VIII/full/vigilante40.jpg

there were pretty similar stipulations under the ASBO system tbh

don't want to be 'that guy' but that's not really vigilanteism

it's all moot really because the police are fucking useless tribalist pricks whose main job is covering their own arses

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Rodney 'Dave' Cameron.

that isn't rodney.

Trigger calls him Dave, though.

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community trigger

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12378565

Some cracking insights from the Institute of Directors into how to save the country here

I heard that repeatedly punching members of the Institute of Directors in the face would save the UK economy £8 billion a week alone

Councils defeat government over school buildings

I'm going to love Gove's spin on this.

Voila!

"We are delighted that the judge did not call into question the decision to end the wasteful and bureaucratic BSF programme."

Words fail me

Rumours going round that they've canned the forest sell-off as well. You don't fuck with Middle England when it comes to trees.

james brokenshire

If they don't backtrack on that they are idiots. It's a win-win for them surely? They can say they listened, and it won't cost them much.

Backtracking is rarely a good look for governments though, especially on the same day as the schoolbuilding defeat.

Probably wait till next week when there's some good news.

Good news?!?!?!?

You never know.

ie alan johnson resuming shadow chancellor role

Just waiting until Mubarak was ready to go obviously.

Ministers halt some forest sales after public outcry

I'm surprised at this actually, because DEFRA's website (relevant pages now taken down) seemed to say that no matter what the outcome of the public consultation on the bulk of forestry lands this first sell-off was a done deal.

Just waiting until Mubarak was ready to go obviously.

Open goal that

Just found out Hull City Council have done their bit for the deficit by eliminating all childrens and youth services. Kudos.

Ken promising to squeeze 'em till the pips squeak

Just found out Hull City Council have done their bit for the deficit by eliminating all childrens and youth services. Kudos.

― Y Kant Torres Red (Noodle Vague), Friday, February 11, 2011 5:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

bring em all to pearson park saturday 10-12 for some shared service provision

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/12/david-cameron-big-society-good

And if someone wants to help out with children, we will sweep away the criminal record checks and health and safety laws that stop them.

this one's going to end well!

shit that reads like an onion article.

'take a trip with me to a birmingham estate' is pitched entirely at people who might consider going on a fact-finding eye-opener of a daytrip to a birmingham estate, before returning home.

also 'i was into social justice before cuts got all famous'.

yeah it reads exactly like a particularly uninspired major label press release

Take a trip with me to Balsall Heath in Birmingham and I'll show you a place once depressingly known as a sink estate but now a genuinely desirable place to live. Why the transformation? Because even in a tough neighbourhood, the seeds of a stronger society were there and residents boldly decided they'd had enough and drove out the crime.

And what the fuck's that got to do with you, Dave?

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/work/article.html?in_article_id=522795&in_page_id=53928