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

what is the point of toby young? http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/apr/04/pro-cuts-rally-against-debt

I can't imagine that even people who agree with him like the smug little bastard.

his entire schtick is "who haven't i pissed off yet?", right

He insisted that higher life expectancy meant people should – and usually want – to work for longer before taking their pension.

this is actually true (well idk about "want")

Going to balaclava up and head down to the protest to reasonably set fire to a waxwork of Laurie Penny and stuff banknotes into the letterbox of a former polytechnic.

occupy a lidl, vandalise it

stuff mocking banknotes into the letterboxes of anti-cuts protesters LIKE ME

Reactionary little shit. You know all this activism is the result of not being able to buy a house in Notting Hill, because he was priced out by bankers and furriners, right?

Annabelle Fuller, a former adviser to the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, is a leading organiser.

He insisted that higher life expectancy meant people should – and usually want – to work for longer before taking their pension

There's a practical ceiling to this though - in most jobs you can't really go on working much past 65 even if you live for another 35 years. Getting up and working a full-time job when you're nearing your 70s can't really be conducive to increasing your life expectancy. And I can't think of many employers who'd employ someone in their late 60s.

Boris Johnson said: "I cannot conceive of a more fitting celebration of Her Majesty's 60 years on the throne than a majestic flotilla of vessels, large and small, winding their way along the iconic River Thames and showcasing our proud maritime history."

I cannot conceive of a more fitting celebration of Her Majesty's 60 years on the throne than a magnificent floater.

A floater curling out over a four day bank holiday weekend, no less.

Sounds like adult fun - don't forget to drop the kids off at the pool first!

"We're all in in together" they say, and with the price of wheat at an-all time high in austerity Britain, nothing really could sum up 2011 like the Queen of England pinching a loaf.

gah IT, in IT together

"I'm riding down on my Boris bike. Go faster, Petronella!"

ha http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12955239

and indeed ha ha...
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says he wants to stop people getting on in life purely because of "who they know".

What, like he knew that David Cameron?

bonus idiocy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-12968538

bouncing back - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12967521

The motion was supported and the council will now write to the Prime Minister indicating support for a Bill going through Parliament calling for the Government to research the possibility of switching our clocks.

However, some Cornwall councillors said it would have a negative impact on farmers.

Councillor Pat Lambshead, who seconded the motion, disputed the claims, saying animals did not "wear watches" so would not know what time it was and would not be affected by changes to clocks.

Mike Eddowes responded by saying: "There are farmers who will completely disagree with what Councillor Lambshead has said. The animals do know what time it is and this would disrupt them.

read "clocks" as "cocks" there for a minute

Yeah, but he's got a lambs head so.

Government minister Francis Maude has blamed his children for a rejected claim on the latest round of his parliamentary expenses.

The Conservative MP for Horsham released a statement ahead of publication of the next batch of allowances tomorrow that explains why a claim for £3.95 was turned down.

Mr Maude, a father of five, said it covered the cost of watching blockbuster film Sherlock Holmes, starring Jude Law, which his daughters had purchased without his knowledge.

The Cabinet Office minister added that his children had promised to let him know if they watched pay-per-view films again so he did not "unwittingly" put through claims for the cost.

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) said only connection to basic free-toair television and broadband packages can be claimed for. Officials confirmed that when MPs submit expenses forms they are responsible for the claims made, which should only be for costs incurred as part of their job.

Mr Maude said: "On Thursday, Ipsa will be publishing the latest round of MPs' expense claims.

"The details will show that on 28 October 2010. I submitted a claim for the combined TV and internet package that is in place at my London home. This related to costs incurred during the month of September.

"A quick investigation showed that unbeknownst to me, my daughters had purchased an on-demand film - Sherlock Holmes. Ipsa was right to reject £3.95 for the film and I should have taken a closer look at the bill."

Mr Maude was criticised at the height of the expenses scandal for claiming for a London home he has a mortgage on while owning a family home elsewhere in the city. At the time he criticised "highly slanted personal attacks" on him in relation to the claims, insisting he had moved to the new flat for "family reasons" and that gain made on it during that period would eventually be returned to the taxpayer.

Clegg's made himself look a right tit over the last couple of days. More than usual, I mean.

FrancMaud is putting in some "lol" entries in his expenses claim, to see if they get picked up.

If this one hadn't, next month three films, and by the time christmas came around, he'd be claiming for buying Necker Island!

opening doors
http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/nov2010/8/4/tuition-fees-protest-pic-pa-794732959.jpg

breaking barriers
http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/dec2010/3/2/image-3-for-student-fees-protest-gallery-181134398.jpg

Smashing through the glass ceiling:

http://i.imgur.com/Yq9tB.jpg

He insisted that higher life expectancy meant people should – and usually want – to work for longer before taking their pension

There's a practical ceiling to this though - in most jobs you can't really go on working much past 65 even if you live for another 35 years. Getting up and working a full-time job when you're nearing your 70s can't really be conducive to increasing your life expectancy. And I can't think of many employers who'd employ someone in their late 60s.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 8:55 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Wouldn't it better if everyone worked less though? I don't mind working until I'm (a bit) older but I don't want to do 40 hours a week.

shorter working lives reduces unemployment i think yeah but still there's the whole "population of old gits to pay for" thing

Might have to see if I can claim for a duck house and moat cleaning under Shapps' new Tenant Cashback.

Jacob Rees-Mogg told the House of Commons yesterday that when he is back in his North East Somerset constituency he wants to know that his meat really is from "God's own county".

Food is often stamped "produced in Britain" but the meat contained in products such as pork pies or ready meals could be from overseas and simply assembled in this country, a practice Mr Rees-Mogg wants stopped.

His demands also extended to protecting Yorkshire puddings, which he said the "continentals" would have "no clue" how to make.

Mr Rees-Mogg told MPs he would "not like a German sausage at all – they are much too spicy and flavoured for my taste".

He said: "We want our right to eat our sausages stuffed full of bread and things like that, because when they are, they taste nice. We do not want all this garlic and stuff that we get in foreign sausages.

"We really need to know that information, so that we can get the food that we want, like and love – ideally the food from Somerset, where the grass is of particularly high quality.

"Those who understand the digestion of cattle will realise that if the grass has the right flavour, and the water that falls is the best-quality rain, only to be found in Somerset, the meat and its marbling develops in a particular way.

"When one looks at a piece of meat in a farm shop, like the farm shop that I used to live next door to, it has a quality that makes one look forward to one's Sunday lunch with some Yorkshire pudding – I know that is not meat, but it would be most upsetting to think that one's Yorkshire pudding came from the continentals.

"I am sure that they have no clue how to make it."

dread to think what the twat has to say about Black Pudding

Is that Jay Mogg, Nancy's brother?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Jacobreesmogg.JPG/225px-Jacobreesmogg.JPG

Rees-Mogg is rated as one of the Conservatives' most rebellious MPs.[9]

Look at his eyes! Has he double-dropped or something?

Quality debate on Hansard:

Jacob Rees-Mogg: We really need to know that information, so that we can get the food that we want, like and love-ideally the food from Somerset, where the grass is of particularly high quality. Those hon. Members who understand the digestion of cattle will realise that if the grass has the right flavour, and the water that falls is the best-quality rain, only to be found in Somerset, the meat and its marbling develops in a particular way.

Mr Nuttall: I must intervene on that point. The best quality rain, if that is what I heard my hon. Friend say, must surely fall in Manchester, in particular that part of Greater Manchester which comprises my constituency, Bury North.

Jacob Rees-Mogg: There are occasions during a test match at Old Trafford when the rain falling can be the best possible rain, when it saves England from a notable defeat, but the rain that falls on the edge of the Mendips is the finest rain. That, as it happens, is why Joseph of Arimathea visited. He just wanted to see quite what high quality the rain was.

exterminate the brutes imo

Guess the Century or what?

that is amazing

"I'll see thy 'praise my locality' and I'll raise yer a "our good lord jesus christ""

Will he fold, or will he raise a "MargThatch" reference?

When we see the Union flag, we want to think, "That's a best bit of British beef." We do not want to think that it has possibly come from Kobe, where the beef used to be very good and delicious, but which we might now worry was becoming radioactive. We need to know what it is, and what is in it. If it has come from Kobe via some European country and we are not being told, that must be to the disadvantage of the British consumer when they go out to do the weekly shopping.

mmmmm you can really taste the CJD num num num

http://gb.fotolibra.com/images/thumbnails/366862-union-flag.jpeg
"That's a best bit of British beef."

sonned by a jap kid over a radioactive beef

feed me a gummer burger

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/52099000/jpg/_52099592_011695320-1.jpg

"Hi, just thought I'd give the Tory bloggers another chance to run out the 'Prime Mentalist' gags for old times' sake."

Interesting story: Clegg adviser threatens to quit over NHS shake-up