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

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.

Mike-Hancock-harden-relationship-night-kissed-cuddled-teenage-girls.html

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?

Also Hove.

crusties and gays and London commuters contain fair percentage of Tories iirc

especially crusties

People commuting from Brighton to London are quite likely to be Tories, I would have thought. There are quite rough bits of Brighton.

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There's a hardcore of geriatric Tory mentalists in places like Rottingdean and Patcham too.

Also Julie Burchill...

That's what he said, there's a hardcore of geriatric Tory mentalists

Imagine the odds on the Tories dumping the Limp Dems and calling a general election before the current term is up have shortened dramatically

did they not pass that 55 shit yet

Think they might decide they can't be arsed with that. LibDems are going to get a lot more vocal in their disgruntlement though.

They'd be stupid to do it, but Tories usually unable to see beyond the end of their noses

The South-East is predominantly Tory, and we have a large number of richy richingtons here, so it's not surprising that they have some traction. However, unlike the surrounding towns, we also have a bunch of hippies, haha.

Imagine the odds on the Tories dumping the Limp Dems and calling a general election before the current term is up have shortened dramatically

You'd just get another hung parliament, with a greater chance of nationalist parties holding the balance of power, right? Hung Parliament in which the LibDems have been shafted by the Tories and still in a position to be kingmakers would be kinda lol but would also kill the idea of coalition government in this country for generations.

Lib Dems starting to wonder if their mother was right about that nasty wife-beating brute they've shacked up with

did they not pass that 55 shit yet?

Anyone know the answer to this?

I thought it was one of the first things they did? I don't know.

Thought they had to get it through the Lords?

i don't think it's been passed, it was maybe tacked onto the gerrymandering that the Labour lords tried to talk out?

ya i think it's still somewhere in george osborne's office under an empty jeroboam of veuve and a black and white minstrels dvd

top signifier bombing.

right now I feel britain is a terrible place, a shitstain on the globe.

70%-30% in favour of No at the moment. Frankly that bothers me less than the Tory vote holding up.

can't see how lib dems can stop their support evaporating now they have no clout to put the brakes on, the next election could be a dire two party affair. I suppose the best shot at constitutional reform is still through europe.

god i don't think i can face a general election with just the one Tory party