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

god what a biddable fuckboy he is

i know that his choices were worked thru by a PR group but is that really the best they could do?

i engage in this celebrity gossip merely to pass the time btw

I loved that Kirsty's actually came out and asked him whether he'd really picked them himself.

CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE
Robbie Williams
Angels

i think there are lots of people who would give that answer and it would be true, but i really really don't buy EMil as being one of them

excellent play for the 35-45 C1 vote in middle England tho

You knew when he felt he had to apologise for A-Ha being cheesy that he hadn't got a clue. If he'd apologised for Josh Ritter that would have been a different matter though.

notably more contrived even than

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/8d5bcfbc

and

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vhdmb

as i say, one doesn't expect Ed to really get how to play the game, but who the hell is advising him?

Guy not particularly wild about pop music*, but wants a weekly delivery from the Bengal Lancer and picks Hitchhiker's Guide for his book? Isn't this what half the middle-aged men in North London are actually like?

*if 'the committee' were really on this, I'd have expected to find Soul II Soul as the school disco anthem and possibly a non-'Our House' Madness track as age-appropriate choices.

glad we are all focused on what matters this morning

yeah clowning emil for his debilitated public relations apparatus directly inhibits the positive progressive social community values movement that would otherwise be in this thread right now

i find it best just to consider these clowns as a verzh of Big Brother otherwise i get v. depressed

i suppose we could be talking about the Labour party's policies to revitalise a green UK economy, close the poverty gap and increase social mobility

or the party's policies to curtail the activities of multinational corporations in terms of driving down wages and commodifying every aspect of public/private life

Do you guys really think these choices were done by committee?

Or the party’s policies to deny welfare benefits to all under-25s and clamp down on immigrants. No mention of that from EMil on DiD.

Ernie - the fastest milkman in the west?

Do you guys really think these choices were done by committee?

Sack the committee then

Uppermost in Miliband's mind will have been to pick artists who aren't likely to turn round and say 'fuck off, cunt, I forbid you to like my stuff'.

cogent point tbf

lucky for him robesons dead then

Cameron just went in with a Desert Island Discs zing - he used to think EMil was a follower of Marx, but now he's happy to recognise that he follows Engels instead.

grudging 6/10

Worthy of Tim Vine.

well i'm sure he outsourced it

Has ILX's NickB started writing material for him?

8.
The Killers
All These Things That I’ve Done
Performer: The Killers
Others who chose this artist

Get writing, joke people

Has ILX's NickB started writing material for him?

oi!

What, it's a good pun!

yeah, if it had been a terrible one you'd have blamed CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT

suggesting i'd do anything for d.cams other than empty a slop bucket on his head, that's a bit much that

That would make me laugh, though.

Guys.

I have a proper IT'S A GOOD STORY for you.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BaEWYN9IQAAnyFB.jpg:large

^^^ Issues that matter.

tempted to question how much work the word "extra" is doing in that headline

those are some big biscuits, no wonder they were dear

i mean fuck me when you're onto custard creams the size of an iPad maybe you need to take a look at yourself

ft readers DRAGGING cameron in the comments is a sight to behold http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/add36222-56be-11e3-ab12-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2lqkEGuuw

francobollo | November 27 12:36pm | Permalink
EU immigration into the UK is uncomfortable for David Cameron because it highlights government's neglect (particularly in education, training and other fields) of existing deprived communities. The populist response of attacking the immigration clearly does not solve the neglect problem.

Would be nice to see a politician who isn't Diane Abbott make this point on occasion.

- New migrants not being able to claim housing benefit immediately
- Deportation of those caught begging or sleeping rough, with no return within a year

Dunno why they aren't just putting up a massive electrified barbed wire fence round the coast, less paperwork involved

rising energy costs dude

btw surely everybody who gets deported is not allowed to return (within some time frame maybe), not sure that a new policy makes that any more enforceable

Not surprised to see the FT comments box going ham on him though, real free market types surely understand it goes hand in hand with the free movement of peoples across geographical borders. The Economist keeps hammering Cameron on immigration policy as well.

Think Lynton Crosby is more influential on DC these days than the Economist

"The unilateral rhetoric is not really helpful, because it risks presenting the UK as a nasty country in the European Union. We don't want that," he said.

thinks he can throw mud around just cos there are no stereotypes about Hungary

Nah, Hungary's OK, it's full of right wing racist arseholes too

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/27/boris-johnson-thatcher-greed-good

FUCK OFF BORIS