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

still got a role to play on the world stage.

Great trading nation dontchaknow

We supply baddies for Hollywood!

I wonder if one day we will have nations where chief exports could be something like 'straight men for buddy action movies'.

i was gonna have a pop at the Gov's meaningless new maths & english policy until i heard a couple of thick, lazy bastards on the radio defending their right to remain in a state of pig ignorance, and now i'm like "yay Gove"

were they mp's on the radio

one of them was doing A-levels ffs

well naturally biased tbf

More American-born immigrants live in Britain than do those born in Jamaica. It is their imperial right. Immigration rules going the other way are indefensibly stricter.

yab in the indepent, is this true

Doesn't seem impossible - America is big and Jamaica is tiny.

the third sentence

It's definitely tricky to emigrate to the US, is that what you're asking?

relative difficulty vs us immigration to uk

Probably depends on what category of immigrant you fall in to. Most US immigrants to the UK are either students or on corporate transfers so it's relatively easy to clear any hurdles. Lower skilled British workers might struggle a bit more but, on balance, I think the UK is far tougher.

can see why the US would want to avoid being a melting pot tbh

Henry Smith ‏@HenrySmithMP 34m Putin really is a tosser.

it's so exhaustingly sad that that's more likely a bhurt reaction to the super-hilarious "britain is a small island that nobody pays attention to" than it is about, oooh idk, the fact that there's been a bill introduced in the duma to take the children of gay people away from them.

this govt is a parade of braying tossers who think they're in the crowd of some sporting event where they can masquerade some semblance of trad. masculinity their privileged upbringings and sour grinchiness have always denied them.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/06/recovery-election-question-living-standards

especially the first four paragraphs

Prime Minister says no other country has a 'prouder history or bigger heart'
UK leads the world in art, sport, music, philosophy and diplomacy, he says
Tribute likened to Hugh Grant's 'small country' speech in film Love Actually
Russia mocked the UK's size and boasted that oligarchs 'bought Chelsea'
Jibe sparked furious response from Britain at G20 summit in St Petersburg

Suggesting his tribute to Great Britain be 'set to music', Mr Cameron argued it had saved Europe from fascism

this is totally going to convince a country that was responsible for about 85% of wehrmacht casualties

Prime Minister says no other country has a 'prouder history or bigger heart'
UK leads the world in art, sport, music, philosophy and diplomacy, he says

what kind of shithead turns up to a global conference and chunders this self-serving bollocks?

He is like Basil Fawlty in The Germans

UK leads the world in art, sport, music, philosophy and diplomacy

LOL diplomacy, this speech being a case in point

boasted that oligarchs 'bought Chelsea'

The football team or the London borough? Either way, how is it a jibe?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23984730

"that has invented most of the things worth inventing"

(...)

"including every sport currently played around the world"

Mr Cameron said Russia had "absolutely denied" the remarks.

But he used the opportunity to champion Britain, saying few other nations had "a prouder history, a bigger heart or greater resilience".

Oh so there was absolutely no point to this whatsoever, then

congratulations dave

"... a bigger heart..."

Biggest hollowest LOL of all

Prime Minister says no other country has a 'prouder history or bigger heart'

Pretty sure he's just quoting a Mumford & Sons lyric there.

A Bigger Heart - title for Mumfords' next album?

Flashback to the headmaster in "If..." lecturing the prefects

Britain today is a power-house of ideas, experiments, imagination, on everything from pop music to pig breeding; from atom power stations to mini-skirts, and that's the challenge we've got to meet

Britain quashed the Mau Mau uprising in the firm but tender way one might put down a beloved family pet.

i'm welling up here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lvL4Bzyumg

Tomlinson even has the same haircut as Cameron there.

Similar waist size too

Britain today is a power-house of ideas, experiments, imagination, on everything from pop music to pig breeding; from atom power stations to mini-skirts, and that's the challenge we've got to meet

Love that scene.

ffs

One million of Britain's lowest paid employees will be classed as "not working enough" and could find themselves pushed with the threat of sanctions to find more income under radical changes to welfare, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has said.

DWP internal documents seen by the Guardian reveal that people earning between £330 to around £1,050 a month – just under the rate of the national minimum wage for a 35-hour week – could be mandated to attend job centre meetings where their working habits will be examined as part of the universal credit (UC) programme.

Some of those deemed to be "not working enough" could also be instructed to take on extra training – and if they fail to complete tasks they could be stripped of their UC benefits in a move which departmental insiders conceded is "controversial".

How much will they get away with before people see through this shit? Unfortunately it seems to be working so far. I moved away from my home town when I went to uni, so I have no claim on being in anyway connected to what ilx0rs might call "Real England" but I met a load of people from my family at a funeral a few months ago, who are the more ostensibly working class side of my family, and some conversations went round to politics and fuck the Sun-reading working class tory is spreading like fucking rats right now, this is mostly union people as well, some of whom marched against Thatcher in the 80s, Miliband breaking ties with the unions seems like political suicide.

xp well this is the real purpose behind UC, to put everyone on benefits in the same category as the unemployed, and put them under the same (increasing) pressure, so they can be forced into being free/cheap labour.

Big hearted Britain at its best

(btw where is that from, it doesn't ring true to me)

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/sep/06/uk-lowest-paid-classed-not-working-enough

The UK economy is turning a corner

into a dark alley

Just gonna post "The UK economy is turning a corner" ever 2 months, and everyone hast to pretend that it means anything or is of any value whatsoever. It was head story on BBC.co.uk for a while! Still a main story. smdh.

THe UK economy is turning the sort of corner that happens when a cartoon character's foot is nailed to the floor... with hilarious results!