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

"competitive labour market" being a Tory mantra and all

Of course the long game is that if you make life so shit for the British unemployed that they'll do anything, you won't need as many immigrants in the first place.

oh i'm sure they would prefer UK citizens to work for shit money with no rights but that game is probably shut down as an option now, no reasonable sized employer worth his party membership gives a fuck where his cheap labour comes from and i'm sure Cam'ron doesn't either really

Being as the man has never had a job that wasn't arranged for him, I think he probably does actually believe this crap! Remember, this is a guy who thinks he's got street cred for talking to shopkeepers and market traders in Edgy Ladbroke Grove.

For compliant, read 'easily intimidated and unaware of their rights due to being fresh off the boat', not to mention the casualization of jobs that used to come with pensions, salaries and employment rights. Yes, I really love that my block's caretaker is going to be replaced by some random sweep from Veolia - despite the fact that nobody who actually pays for our caretaker wants this to happen.

xp

cept obviously he's a PR goon so he doesn't know/care fuck all about manufacturing sector and other anachronisms

For compliant, read 'easily intimidated and unaware of their rights due to being fresh off the boat'

no absolutely suzy, wasn't implying that compliance was anything other than a consequence of circumstances

Cameron's big problem this morning was whether or not he'd wear morning dress to the Royal Wedding because he was worried about looking like a posh git.

NOW he's worried? The only way to avoid such an outcome in his case is to don a niqab.

dunno how you can get a royal wedding invite and not look a posh git unless u turn up as a pearly king/queen

or a white Fiat Uno for the lulz

lol Delingpole:

His reward? Translation to the House of Lords plus a stint as EU Trade Commissioner where he was responsible for tariff cuts. What possible benefit have they been to us? To be fair, this “big prizes for losers” system doesn’t apply only to Labour MPs. Some Conservatives too have learned to milk it very effectively, most notably Chris Patten. As a special treat for masterminding his party’s electoral defeat in 1992 he was first made governor of Hong Kong, then – like Kinnock – made an EU commissioner, then he was made a life peer and is now chancellor of Oxford University and chairman of the BBC Trust.

there should be some sort of website where we, the people, can officially vote on what we want our prime minister to wear to the royal wedding. i vote burkini.

http://fashion.mirror.co.uk/css/cameron%27s-shorts.jpg

http://www.chippingnorton.net/images/davidsteps.JPG

mis-read that as 'NO C*NTS'

or a white Fiat Uno for the lulz

― A Zed and Two Nults (Noodle Vague), Monday, 18 April 2011 14:00 (3 days ago)

It took a second for this one to sink in. Arf.

It's a good thing Dominic Raab gained the votes of over 50% of his constituents, yes?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13193685

presume he's planning some 'Misery' style kidnap action for young Wills

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/01_02/035johnloughrey_468x662.jpg

I think we've found Cameron's look for the wedding

Camping out in front of Westminster Abbey? If only there was some kind of soup kitchen set up in the area where people could get a hearty meal.

Amazing fiddling of the figures here:

New figures from the National House Building Council show that the number of new homes registered in March was the highest since November 2007.

[..]

About 2,800 of those were for accommodation in the athletes village at the 2012 Olympics in London.

Gie ye the fuckin' boak, so it wid

nadine bloody dorries

apparently her mental abstinence bill passed by 6 because no one turned up

http://educationforchoice.blogspot.com/2011/04/abstain-from-abstinence-please-dorries.html

The Taliban would be proud.

mental abstinence

slightly misread this, and it struck me as a good summary of dorries' m.o.

Taliban would also be proud of this mug:

Former mayor Ken Livingstone sparked controversy today by claiming that the killing of Osama bin Laden made President Obama look like a "mobster".

Ken is right on this one. No Trial = No Justice

can't believe obama didn't initiate extradition proceedings with pakistan

what is the world coming to?

re: dorries, the beeb says that ten minute rule bills normally pass unopposed, so the fact that 60-odd people voted against is a sign of fairly robust opposition.

yeah this is a good summation of What Actually Happened http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2011/05/bill-on-teaching-abstinence-in-sex.html

she is the devil

MPs voted 67-61 in favour of the motion, with a number of the ayes apparently coming from members of the Conservative Christian Fellowship.

Oh, I think my mental new Tory MP (who theyworkforyou.com tell me has voted in 224 Commons votes and has never voted against the govt) is one of this charming crowd. Is there a list of these 67 for voters anywhere? Can't see it on the aforementioned theyworkforyou.

Ayes are listed here: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm110504/debtext/110504-0001.htm#11050491000001

haha there are some class acts on that list

Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire) (Con): I beg to move,

* pea-brained shite removed *

In fact, in some newsagents now there are more sex magazines available than any other kind of magazine.

Chris Bryant (Rhondda) (Lab): Well, stop going to those shops then.

BOOM-TSSSSSHHHH! Thangyewladeezandgenulman I'll be here all week.

weird, I thought Redwood was some kind of Rand-ian Libertarian.

Can I say I welcome the turn that this thread is about to take re: "Randy-an"

Randy and libertarian? Redwood always struck me as having a stick up his arse - not literally, but you can't tell with these Tories, canyouladeezangenulman, what about that Mrs. Thatch then etc.

@nadine_dorries Not only do newsagents carry more porn than magazines, but yesterday I went into a fruit + veg shop and it had HUNDREDS of bananas in it.

nadine dorries ought to be taught to say no... to other women's husbands!!!

Isn't Louise Bagshawe known for her racy chick-lit? Maybe they've all seen the light?

the termination (do you see) of dorries' real twitter is a great loss to the internet i feel

http://www.louisebagshawebooks.com/

"Lisa Costello woke up next to her husband’s corpse."

doing her bit to put everyone off, then.

"Darlene Norris woke up next to someone else's husband"

BBC Scotland coverage said that it looks like the Lib Dems have lost 12 of their 13 council seats in Sheffield. GOOD WORK LADS.

surely eric pickles can't be far off the point of imploding and becoming a small sun :(

Why is the been pushing 'hung' over 'NOC'?

I've been asking the same. Maybe cos hung parliaments are a thing now?