Psychoactive Substances: Rolling UK Politics in The Neo-Con Era

BB, most of my working-class/estate-dwelling neighbours aren't actually racist - was just commenting on something my MP got as feedback from some older people who aren't representative of the wider group, but their opinions are amplified purely through moaning to him.

Old people with racist views, whodathoughtit?

life-long Tory voter 'quits party' and sabotages website over 'appalling' disability cuts

A disability campaigner and life-long Conservative

lol

It does beg the question of what exactly he expected of the Conservative Party. Unless he's all "taking from this lot of vulnerable people was okay, but you've crossed a line now".

Con MPs that chair disability charities have also been forced to resign.

xps
maybe a late road to Damascus moment or just plain old self-interest, whatever the case he wasn't a disability campaigner in the past tense or at least he was a pretty fucking shit one.

Con MPs making noises that changes to disability benefit won't get through parliament. Sunday trading has gone to their heads

http://politicalscrapbook.net/2016/03/car-crash-interview-osborne-gets-asked-on-radio-4-why-he-keeps-missing-his-targets/

YouGov poll puts Lab in lead by 1pt after budget

link?

No story up yet but https://twitter.com/SamCoatesTimes/status/710587916557357056

Same poll has this the first budget majority rate as unfair since the Omnishambles too

Danczuk nailed on a false expenses claim to add to his numerous troubles:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/12197771/Simon-Danczuk-ordered-to-pay-back-11000-in-expenses.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

that last photo in the story: How Journalism Works

I don't think that relying on a former member of staff to "describe the rules to me at he time" defence is going to fly

That's not fair Tracer, the story is all about Danczuk's ex-wife. Er, implicitly.

Nicky Morgan is a rising star and a real contender for the Tory crown...

LOL

Always worth remembering the calibre of the sort of clowns the Tory press like to big up.

She's no Hilary Benn.

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Petition demanding referendum for "undemocratic" major policy change on schools already on 60000 votes.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/academies-petition-tories-force-all-schools-60000-48-hours-a6939296.html

“There is growing evidence that academies underperform & serious questions about their financial oversight. Buildings & land are being handed over to unaccountable orgs.

“Once they are transferred there is no legal mechanism to get them back. Before all schools become academies we demand the government holds a full public inquiry - that takes into account educational research and the views of teachers, parents and students - followed by a referendum in order to show that they have a mandate.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35847611

Apparently taking money away from people with disabilities isn't the vote winner they imagined.

my partner just said IDS has resigned.

Indeed he has, now it's getting interesting.

Yep. Shit's happening.

YES bye fucker

He has royally stuck the boot into Osborne too.

Imagine being Cameron and bottling having sacked IDS time and time again for him to then go and do that.

lol ids resigned in protest of the disability cuts. i didn't know he had an ounce of compassion in him, apparently he isn't a complete scumbag

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/03/iain-duncan-smith-has-resigned/

apparently he isn't a complete scumbag

I wouldn't go that far

He is a complete scumbag, but Osborne is the consummate scumbag.

that's true.

quite indicative of how egregious using disability cuts to fund a middle-class tax-break is that the axe-man himself blanches

How much is positioning re: Brexit fallout rather than genuine concern? It's taken him a fucking long time to find any kind of conscience.

So that first wave of cuts and unfair sanctions that disenfranchised many, put many into poverty and some into death were alright? I have seen him defend them enough times to see he was having no trouble sleeping.

I suppose, as a Eurosceptic, he now has time to focus on that campaign. Then be positioned to be a cabinet minister in the government of the next Tory leader - in case of Brexit you'd imagine Cameron would step down.

Chancellor to Boris's PM. Eugh. Nightmare fuel.

It's definitely about Brexit this but he was handed a massive weapon by the Budget.

People who know him say he genuinely thought the welfare reforms would help people (and ignored the evidence) but has increasingly thought Treasury cuts to them were undermining them. Remember he came up with these PIP changes; he just didn't like them being rushed.

Also to do with the fact that Osborne loathes him and would sack him in a nanosecond if he became leader.

I'm not convinced Cameron will be too distraught at any woes of Osborne's - his legacy will be leading the Conservative party back to power, and (he hopes) sorting the EU vote - he might be annoyed at having to choose between "well the great work will broadly continue, this is a salient note from our esteemed colleague" and "well it's possible that George has let it all get to him, not everyone's suited for the big decisions you know".

I could always be projecting based on the fact that I can't imagine anyone actually liking George Osborne, of course.

IDS the secret socialist at the end is fuckin hilarious, of course.

People who know him say he genuinely thought the welfare reforms would help people

yeah, the "easterhouse epiphany". seeing a glasgow scheme made him cry, but his solution to the problem of poverty, unemployment, and benefits-dependency was to give the poor less money.

(I say 'of course' a lot, but you'll have spotted that)

Cameron will be unsettled that some direct charges are laid at his door in the letter. His whole approach since becoming PM has been to let others take the flak ensuring none of it sticks to him

Three days late for the 'beware the IDS of March' headlines.

Ultimately, concern or otherwise, he'd end up catching the fallout for the cuts and has little reason to stay and continue to be the face of the party's least popular policies.

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FPDFHWZHL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

RIP, sensitive renaissance man.

What happens now I wonder. Osborne looks weak if he gives in, but he can't hold the line with this majority.

Lonely guy just thinking baout things

http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/pictures/643xAny/2/3/5/41235_IAIN_DUNCAN_SMITH.jpg

http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/pictures/643xAny/2/3/5/41235_IAIN_DUNCAN_SMITH.jpg

'As I walk on
Through troubled times
My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes....'

Do tax cuts, threshold changes and cuts to capital gains tax which have been announced have to go through parliamentary votes? Or are they just in place if they are announced by the chancellor?