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

"I'm actually quite liberal when it comes to sexual matters. I just don't want the gays flaunting it in front of me, which is what they would do."

feel like the guy can theoretically claim continuity in policy here if he has gone to such lengths to not flaunt

I'm actually quite liberal when it comes to political matters. I just don't want the tories blah blah blah

Mr Miliband moved on to a question about businesses taking part in a National Insurance holiday for startups. Mr Miliband noted the Prime Minister had said it would help 400,000 businesses. Mr Cameron was asked how many it actually helped. The answer? 7,000.

The House of Lords votes to give the NHS bill a second reading: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8822276/NHS-reforms-clear-first-hurdle-in-House-of-Lords.html

didn't realise Fox's history, so apols on that front. still, its not the hypocrisy the media's going to focus on, is it?

in defence of the media (lol) i think there would be (and maybe has been) less prurience with similar stories about labour/lib dem people.

Fuck this NHS thing makes me angry. There's something profoundly undemocratic about the way it was softpedalled before the election and then forced through.

Pretty sure the government actually makes policy on the basis/hope that no one will understand the ramifications until it's too late.

If Labour had any balls they would offer to repeal this immediately upon election and then lead calls for a General Election. Or at least a referendum on something that's a lot more important than a fucking voting system.

tbf the fucking voting system we've got now let this lot in

Pretty sure the government actually makes policy on the basis/hope that no one will understand the ramifications until it's too late.

And/Or distracts them with bullshit policies that they can understand like BINS and 80MPH and OPT-IN PORN.

The Lords will expect the government to fill in the gaps in policy in the coming weeks before giving their assent.

Noodle Vague AKA the notorious no2AV

AV is bollocks. prior to the last election tho i have been on record as saying "PR will prevent a maniacal Tory wrecking-cru government from ever seizing the reins of government again." problem is AV isn't PR and all the gags about the lib dems being tories in disguise turned out to be not gags

and in all honesty a voting system designed to make sure we only ever get the second worst of all possible governments isn't exackly something to get one manning the barricades

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/5/12/1273701582662/Theresa-May-at-10-Downing-006.jpg http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2008/06/27/GraysonPerry460.jpg

Just saying.

Boris Johnson has been accused of a cover up after it emerged that he obtained an access all areas City Hall pass for his re-election campaign manager.

Freedom of Information requests by this blog reveal that the Mayor personally requested a security pass for Lynton Crosby in February that gave him unfettered access to the building.

Under GLA rules, staff passes should only be given to City Hall employees and tenants.

eating out last night we were sat near some braying city types, who were discussing boris pro and con: at one point one of them revealed his deep knowledge of twitter, and said that a great thing about boris is that, on twitter, you can "actually touch him"

ken's twitter-fu was then discussed: another of the types laughed and said, "surely twitter is a bit beyond ken's voting base"

we were quite glad when they finished their drinks and left

they make a fine point tho, there are no proles on the internet

need people with this level of media savvy to be running BJ's campaign tbh

The Queen is also very picky about who she lets onto her Twitter feed...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-15273410

Excellent work boosting social mobility here Dave.

Colleges absolutely knew this wd happen, my workplace's enrolments have dropped sharply this year, the budget is consequently in the red, and the latest urgent meeting about "restructuring" takes place tomorrow. If I understand correctly the pittance they have replaced EMA with is distributed to FE centres without regard to differences in regional levels of poverty, social exclusion etc, so whatever is left in the pot isn't even necessarily targeted at those in most need. "Those in most need" in a city like ours is a bit of a sick joke anyway.

(incidentally, it's hardly in colleges' interests to report drops in enrolment, and the lack of EMA is likely to be a factor in retention as much as getting students enrolled in the first place i.e. this cd look an even bigger mess come next February)

Occupy Stock Exchange planned for this Saturday apparently. Will be interesting to see how that develops - they've had a few weeks to learn useful lessons from the US.

exciting! if it survives i may come up monday or tuesday.

Yes, like "The Stock Exchange is closed on a Saturday."

xp :)

Presumably they know that and are using the weekend to set up the encampment before it gets busy. The City on a Sunday has a very 28 Days Later kind of vibe.

two days to think of some witty signs before anyone turns up to work

Could be a black Sabbath:

Can someone bring some INVOCATION/prayers and EXORCISE the buildings to be OCCUPIED, these buildings are full of evil entity it will zapped away all your energy. Somebody has to do exorsicism on these buildings comes Saturday.

The empty Broadgate Centre is awesome at the weekends, esp. if < 7 and have a scooter

exorsicism (sic)

Levitate the Pentagon!

http://images.45cat.com/zager-and-evans-in-the-year-2525-exordium-and-terminus-rca-victor-2.jpg

(xpost)

liam fox is back to complete normal apparently

Labour showing off:

Thanks for making the first week as your campaign co-ordinator so memorable. We've raised over £8,500.

the mirror tomorrow says that over the course of five days, oliver letwin took more than a hundred secret documents and dumped them in bins in a park. amazed at how flaky this government has become after only a little more than a year in power. they need to slow down, we haven't even finished with fox yet.

http://twitpic.com/6zu92x/full

loliver loltwin

finally found the best way to disseminate his hegelian dialectic

Did he water the bins after?

I always thought that Letwin was camping up the whole bumbling idiot thing to try and appeal to Boris fans but apparently not.

Mr Letwin was merely carrying out a campaign defending personal freedoms against the tyranny of EU-imposed "slops buckets" in every government department, said a spokesman for the minister.

http://twitter.com/#!/ZacGoldsmith/status/124755221518876672

He's such a wit.

Fox has resigned.

yesss

one down

hunners of millions left to go

he definitely did not get fired though, because that would make dave look like john major. or something.

Mr Werritty was also was present with Mr Fox on 18 overseas trips, including two family holidays and trips to Singapore, Dubai, Florida , Bahrain, Israel, Washington, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka.

did they go everywhere together?

well there was that implication...