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

You would have thought the Sun would keep well away after the Belgrano Gotcha! incident, but no:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20907312

John Redwood, the Conservative MP for Wokingham in Surrey, which has three betting shops, said he had been "surprised" by the spread of bookmakers in poorer areas.

"I put it down to the fact that poor people believe there's one shot to get rich. They put getting rich down to luck and think they can take a gamble.

"They also have time on their hands. My voters are too busy working hard to make a reasonable income."

cunt ffs really oh god this fucking guy

beyond parody ..

He always has been.

on the other hand maybe the proliferation of payday loan sharks and pawnbrokers in poorer areas is cos working class entrepreneurs are seeking venture capital

think about it you Vulcan cunt

THINK? Are you MAD?

the worst of it is, of course, that we could live in a world where these pantomime villains wandered the margins, churning out misanthropy in exchange for the publicity they crave. that a Redwood exists is an amusing footnote in history. but every Redwood is speaking to/for a whole sorry spiteful antihuman constituency, that can't be reasoned with, that can't be persuaded, that will always do nothing but hate and exploit and sleep dreamlessly.

. that a Redwood exists is an amusing footnote in history.

for years this appeared to be the case.
when the c*nt came back into the fold it was an indication as to just how bad shit was going to get ..

jesus FUCKING christ this government

compare and contrast to "poor people don't take enough risks" a few months ago - http://www.newstatesman.com/staggers/2012/11/twisted-logic-making-poor-poorer

utter moron - http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jan/06/david-cameron-threat-eu-insanity

This is a shell-game to remove EU human rights protections from British people.

Stephen Lennon jailed for 10 months for using a false passport, too bad old cock

A lot of people in the UK who were very pro-welfare cuts up to now are about to realise what that actually means for them. Be interesting to see how eg. The Sun plays this given a lot of their readers will be have been claiming tax credits up to now.

why would any self-respecting leader of the EDL want to leave the country anyway? traitor.

It is quite funny considering how much energy they spend on complaining about illegal immigrants

i assume he cdn't get into the States under his own name due to previous convictions for aggro

He's been arrested a shitload of times according to wikipedia - beating up his girlfriend, fighting at football matches etc

Still, good result for Luton at the weekend, eh

A lot of people in the UK who were very pro-welfare cuts up to now are about to realise what that actually means for them.

They'll blame those people on welfare who are even poorer than them. "Simples".

xp I like the fact he tried to pass himself off as Andrew McMaster. Not MAX POWER then?

The McMaster Race

The PM and deputy PM described their agreement as a "Ronseal deal" which "does what it says on the tin".

Good to see they're keeping up to date with their cultural references.

they're Jewson useless

That Ronseal thing doesn't actually make any sense.

That depends what it says on the tin, tbf.

They could be on an inspired-by-Piero-Manzoni tip, is what I'm saying.

lol

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jan/07/nick-clegg-protests-shirkers

Clegg: "I don't think it helps at all to try and portray that decision as one that divides one set of people against another, the deserving and the undeserving poor, people in work and out of work."

O RLY?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3341539/.html

What a fucking cunt.

Talking of cunts

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/930812/thumbs/o-TORY-BENEFITS-VOTE-570.jpg?7

Today Labour Are Voting To Maintain a System That Allows Employers to Pay Workers Less Money Than They Need to Live On

what a horribly formed sentence

xp!

Also In Case You Haven't Noticed Workers Wages Have Been Consistently Cut Since We Came to Power

So Really What They're Voting For Is for Benefits To Be Cut Less Aggressively Than Low Paid Workers' Wages

Arbeit Macht Frei, That Will Be All You Plebs

Their sudden concern over public service workers' wages strikes me as, uh, somewhat less than convincing

we're all in this together - not you, tax credit scum

private sector workers have been taking real terms pay cuts as well tho, right? almost as if the current government was creating a climate where that was okay and people were too frightened for their jobs to fight back

"It's just not on, these scroungers and scumbags are getting larger benefits rises than ummmm, the, ummmmm, hard-working public sector workers who we were characterising as layabouts and spongers, uh, last year"

private sector workers have been taking real terms pay cuts as well tho, right? almost as if the current government was creating a climate where that was okay and people were too frightened for their jobs to fight back

Vote Liberal Democrat

Sick of seeing Lib Dems saying, "We don't agree with this characterisation of people on benefits as layabouts and scroungers", in other words "We don't care if you live or die either but at least we're nice about it, you've got to give us that at least"

Ugh. That propaganda is already hanging over the underpass bit of the Holborn one-way system, sandwiched in between American Apparel and some other shite.

I don't think anyone wants to be governed by people who are essentially trolling the 64 per cent of the population who did not vote for them.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20978487

Tory MPs want to be paid £20k more than Lib & Lab MPs.

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

"we are cunts in power."

Fuck me, the next two years worth of tabloid political discourse are going to be even worse than the last few, aren't they?