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

surely the bbc could have found someone to argue with dorries who isn't one of the RCP/Spiked goon squad

lol oh surely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayFTpbKyR80

our Joel was laughing at Cameron's randomly rolled-up sleeves at some barbecue yesterday, he was totally mimicking Barack apparently

The high-five was particularly cringe-making. I'm hearing that the Tories were massively put out of joint that Obama did not endorse their method of dealing with the deficit, to which I can only add a big fat Nelson HA!

Also, the top trending topic in London yesterday was something like #cameronbackedmccain

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2011/May/Week4/15999147.jpg

High Five!

He's trying to do a Nazi salute and Cameron is politely stopping him.

Looking forward to further augmentations to the favourite Dave theme of 'I met a black man the other day'.

I think this looks a bit more like "Uh... no." At least in this shot. Also wondering if I can un-remember the idea that Cam appears to be smuggling peanuts.

"Smell my fingers"

He's trying to do a Nazi salute and Cameron is politely stopping him.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 26 May 2011 09:57 (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

mixing up obama with osama is one thing; confusing him with cameron is unforgivable.

Hahaha oh shit.

Matt just does not see colour.

The BBC has a captioned version of that shot inside the Cameron kitch.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/uk/11/cameron_kitchen_big_pic/img/kitchen_976_v2.jpg
With Dualit toaster labelled British made, but no mention of where other goods were made.
Also it looks like the Sky box has been pulled out so that you can see it better.

Unless Cam's stopping Ob from doing Hit's "Heil myself" siganal..

It's nice to know what type of sea salt the PM uses.

pathetic

I can't see the White House they've labelled underneath the sky box.

The Prime Minister came under fire last year when it was disclosed that £28,000 of taxpayers’ money from the property’s annual maintenance fund was being used to fit a new kitchen.

When they moved in last year, Mrs Cameron, 40, is said – like Cherie Blair before her – to have despaired at the dingy, outdated 1960s kitchen.

But a further row erupted earlier this month when it emerged that a second kitchen has been built, yet officials have refused to disclose the cost.

tbf the Guardian says they paid for their own kitchen. I mean they are multi-millionaires.

Wish I had £28,000 a year to maintain my house.

anyone who has £28k to maintain their house is a cunt

what if it's a really big house?

no, still a cunt

agree

what if it's a guest house?

You could buy 17 Viggers' duck houses for £28,000.

What if it's a really big duck?

you'd still have to maintain the duck houses, those bastards don't care where they shit

* insert joke about "sending them the bill", somethinglikethat *

I know, LOL economists but UK may have to slow pace of cuts, says top economist

He's hedging his bets as much as possible there, but given that Osbourne has already basically said "we're not changing course no matter what" I doubt it means much.

Don't think the top economist maybe gets why the ConDems are cutting as quickly and deeply as they are.

there's no U in ge0rge osb0rne

that's weird cos i'm sure there's a C-U-N-T in there

Ugh:

#567
Eric Pickles
Conservative
Brentwood and Ongar
Score: 1165
Won: 140
Lost: 337

Thanks to a ranking website set up by one of the stars of the E4 reality television show Made in Chelsea, voters need no longer be unsure of who is the most attractive MP in the land.

Sexymp.co.uk was established by Francis Boulle, a 22-year-old diamond mining heir and apparent Chelsea resident

http://www.tvthrong.co.uk/files/u1717/550w_made_in_chelsea_boys.jpg

I haven't not seen Made In Chelsea, but uggh, this photo

Francis Boulle is the besuited one fyi

You haven't not seen it?

Haha oops, I think that picture did something bad to my eyes

god, fucking e4, is there no cunty trend they can't bandwagon on to

Title is plain taunting now.

Tough quotas on student numbers may have to be introduced to avoid the creation of a spending black hole under plans to raise tuition fees at English universities to a maximum of £9,000, a powerful committee of MPs has warned.

....

Figures compiled by the Guardian reveal that as of Monday, 105 universities had declared the fee they will charge, with an average of £8,765. The government modelled its plans on an average fee of £7,500. The Office for Fair Access is vetting universities' fee plans. They will announce on 11 July which have been agreed.

A Whitehall source said uncertainty over the costs was inevitable given the number of variables but insisted that they were confident that the figures they had used were the best projection.

can't we just start rounding teenagers up into Soylent Green plants and get the inevitable over with?

Oxford dons will vote on a resolution that says: "Congregation instructs council to communicate to government that the University of Oxford has no confidence in the policies of the minister for higher education."

Cambridge, Goldsmiths and Warwick are to embark on similar exercises. There is fury in parts of the academic community about the hikes in fees – but also about funding cuts, particularly to the arts.

Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, called on every university to hold a vote of no confidence claiming that the plans were in "disarray".

Oooooh.

283 ayes, 5 noes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-13681202

Let's Prevent terrorism:

The new strategy will see:

a greater effort to tackle extremist ideologies, including work with mainstream individuals to make sure moderate voices are heard

tough action to exclude foreign hate preachers

work to tackle terrorist use of the internet for radicalisation, including the filtering of unlawful content by public bodies such as schools and libraries; and work with industry and international partners to crack down on unlawful content hosted in the UK and overseas

can't believe they're trying to exclude foreign hate preachers and remove extremist (i.e. anti-semitic) literature from libraries

If you're gonna borrow a copy of Eliot's Collected Poems you'd better get in quick folks.