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

don't remember "drive them into the Tweed" as a campaign slogan tbh

man, the cricket test law is out of order

bad night to have a glass-fronted shop in Berwick

we crushed dem LD fuckers good :D

...said david cameron on waking this morning

the short-lived Cleggeron era

llllleeetttttsssss ggggggooooooo

xp

oh no, who will put a stop to worst excesses of the Tory party now?

http://freedomnewsnetwork.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Carl-Minns-Gave-His-Word-to-Ensure-Hull-Releases-its-Renewable-Potential-UK.jpg

wonder if this guy now regrets the time and effort he spent last year getting fake Facebook pages shut down when he could have been doing a job search

that work experience lad who's apparently President of the LDs said this is a mid-term beating, so let's get hype for the general election next May

http://aws.libdemvoice.org.s3-external-3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Tim-Farron.jpg

I'll have a Filet and a Cheeseburger cheers son

0820: Mr Clegg said his party had been hid hardest in parts of northern England that have "strong memories of what life was like under Thatcherism in the 1980s" and where people "somehow fear that's what we're returning to".

"Somehow"!

Clegg look awful and shattered this morning, all puffy and bloated, probably been crying again and no wonder

i really really want to see cameron in that state

we all do i'm sure but one step at a time. this was the inevitable first consequence

If we're having a wish-in, I'd like to see Cameron with a black eye after having had a fist-fight with Clegg.

Reckon "Raging Bull" Huhne will be in first, fists flying

i'm worried this might've weakened the LDs to the point where they won't be able to mount principled opposition to tuition fees

Anyone see Mike Hancock on the election coverage last night? That guy's awesome.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1359385/Mike-Hancock-paedophile-accusation-MP-admits-kissed-cuddled-teenage-girl.html

awesome

oh daily mail URLs

they save u the bother of clicking thru, to be fair

Sartorially, he's the Stephen Hunt of British politics

Mike-Hancock-sartorially-Stephen-Hunt-British-Politics-kissed-cuddled-teenage-girl.html

http://i.imgur.com/tt0ji.jpg

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1359385/Mike-Hancock-showed-his-bum.html

Just testing.

wonder what he'd been up to

xp

IT WORKS!

seriously tho i think they should publish the photos of Clegg's body just to stop the conspiracy nuts blathering on

PORTSMOUTH South MP Mike Hancock said the Lib Dems should harden their relationship with the Tories in the wake of the party’s bad night at the polls in other parts of the country.

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i bet Charles Kennedy's pissing himself

i mean i assume he does that most days

Lib Dem MP Bob Russell says it's "bizarre" that Labour has made gains when they were responsible for the UK's budget deficit. "It's like rewarding the bank robbers rather than the policemen who caught them. It's just bizarre that people have such short memories."

LOL Lib Dems

People have short memories and yet "somehow" remember 20-30 years ago

Should think the Lib Dems would want people to have short memories come the next election

Who are the 'policemen that caught them" in that scenario?

I mean, who are they?

Picture I'm getting here is that the Greens have put on a great showing in B&H.

It'd be nice for them to do well somewhere else for a change.

I'd vote green if we used av.

The LD wipeout in Manchester is v lol, but I don't have much good to say abt the Lab lot atm so I'm hardly enthused. Their Twitter squabbling this week has been low after low after low.

Labour don't have much to offer but hey politics is all about the vengefulness and spite nowadays

My constituency (NE Fife) has gone SNP, the first time as a Holyrood constituency that it hasn't been Lib Dem. It's been Lib Dem since '87 for Westminster (and only ever been conservative or liberal(dems, national or whatever), including as East Fife - i.e. since 1880s).

Aaaand a majority.

If the SNP hold a referendum on independence and most of Scotland votes in favour, but a few counties close to the border would prefer to stay in Britain, would they be allowed to form the new province of Southern Scotland and stay in the UK? I can't see there being any problems with that.

Seems to have worked OK in Ireland anyway.

Ha, yep, no problems at all. The thing is, the SNP vote is almost certainly not an indicator of desire for independence.

Brighton is all greeny. Not a surprise, but still. This place is good.

NOC in Brighton in the end but Greens got 23 seats, Tories 18 and Labour 13.

surprised se england's premier indie ghetto would return 18 tories

more elegant than the zing i had lined up

We started the day with 26 of the buggers, so it's definitely progress.

Yeah old-school Brighton, before the crusties and the gays and London commuters, is surely Tory through-and-through?