Posts by Rich Lock
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This thread has not so much headed for the gutter as charged for the sewage farm at full throttle:
David Cameron/Nick Clegg slashfic, John Key, Bronagh and Danyl Mclauchlan getting tangled up in it somehow, and Craig with no clothes off to one side acting as MC.
Time for the curtain and houselights before I get hit in the eye by a ping pong ball, I think.
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Hmmm. Thinking out loud, perhaps if the BNP actually had a shot at a very small number of seats under an alternative system, they might attract a number of the flakier elements (some of the Earl Grey Teabaggers, for example) away from the Conservative party, in much the same way as UKIP has attracted a number of the flakier Eurosceptics.
This might allow the more centrist factions the opportunity to clean house and get their party firmly back on some sort of sane course.
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And back on topic...
Does anyone else double-take when reading this David Cameron quote:
We haven't yet explored all each other's offices
I said slash public spending, not write slash!
Just me? Ok then.
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I ordered the National Prime Minister as I felt like I needed a change from what had become my normal fare for the last three terms. The dish had a disappointingly bland outward appearance when served at the table, but I was assured by the waiter that the taste was to die for.
On sampling, I found there was a bitter aftertaste of free market economic policies. Frankly, someone should have told the cook that these were past their use-by date in the 1980's. The dish also relied heavily on imported failed policies to spice it up: I nearly choked on a school standards bone that I assume had been carelessly tossed into the recipe mix without proper public consultation.
Aside from that, I found it difficult, even after 18 months of careful chewing, to discern any policy flavour at all.
Although I personally wouldn't order this dish again, my dining companions seemed eager to go for seconds, although this might have had more to do with the lack of a credible alternative on the menu.
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Just to revisit the voting reform question, the Alternative Vote (AV) they are discussing is more akin to the Australian PV than our PR (MMP), right?
I think (and may be wrong) that calling the alternative they are discusssing 'Alternative Vote' is misleading at this stage.
I think they just agreed to discuss an alternative (to FPP), rather than a Capital-A-Alternative, if you see what I mean.
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Really? She simply opines the coalition will face too many hard choices they can't agree on.
Well, she's a well-known Labour cheerleader, and the tone of her article smacks more than a little of sour grapes, to my eyes.
My view is that she went well beyond simply opining. Certainly the second half of the article she seems to calm down a bit, but the first half...
These parties are cultural enemies. Lib Dems will be easily huffed and miffed, bounced, forgotten and ignored. The Tory partner, five times the size, will trample the other like a rhino without noticing.
Translation: Little boys who play with Toryfire get burned, and it all ends in tears. Still, if the silly little neophyte wants to hop into bed with the bad boys (rather than Labour where he damn well should be), then he shouldn't expect to be able to come running to me when it all gets abusive.
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had no idea you could get civilly unified with kitset furniture in the UK - damn perverted socialist hellhole.
The love between a man and his chipboard coffee table can be a beautiful thing, Craig.
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My 'beds' comment was more aimed at Labour. When the rug is pulled out from under you, it's best to realise you can't talk down to people when you're flat on your arse...
And Polly Toynbee has an epic toy-throwing, dummy spitting meltdown.
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From the other link:
One minister inside the bunker in the final hours
Did The Guardian just Godwin NuLab?
Strange days indeed.
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Perhaps I'm biased in all kinds of ways, but I'm still trying to get my head around Labour's irrational sense of entitlement and refusal to take the Lib-Dems seriously. It would be kind of funny if it wasn't so damn sad watching people in deep denial about how much things had really changed.
From that link you posted:
On Monday night, Lib Dem MPs and activists were aghast as Labour MPs took turns on television to denounce the idea of a pact between their two parties as a "coalition of losers" even as the two teams of negotiators were in talks.
Every one of the Lib Dem negotiators gave an individual report back of their meeting with Harriet Harman, Lord Mandelson, Ed Miliband, Ed Balls and Lord Adonis, and they each reached the same conclusion: that the Labour team were uninterested, with no movement on ID cards, the third runway at Heathrow, or increasing the proportion of renewable energy from 15% to 40%.
There are unconfirmed reports of shotguns being snatched out of the hands of passers-by so that senior labour figures could blast away merrily at their own feet.
Like you said, Craig, there are only so many times you can get told to fuck off before you turn around and say 'ok then'.
Still. Beds, lying in, and all that.