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

education policy - across the political spectrum - seems to be more beholden to some kind of assumed folk wisdom than almost any other aspect of government in the UK

Pretty sure this is also true for science, health, drugs... seems that any policy area which actually has a strong evidence base will have its own team of qualified independent experts whose advice is routinely ignored.

description on cameron on a friend's facebook status:

"he's like C3PO made out of ham"

that's (c) Caitlin Moran i believe

ahhh....

he wasn't claiming to hve coined it, i just assumed he had.

funny as fuck though

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29396942

Two MPs down for the Tories in one day.

What's happening with the bedroom tax?

ppl being forced to move out of homes, committing suicide & so forth

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-youths-betrayed-259m-cuts-4030687#ixzz3Ee8icFY6

Don't worry though, Brooks Newmark will send you a picture of his cock, if you ask him nicely.

What a name.

really confused about why this dude has to resign?

i mean besides the fact that he's an idiot

p unedifying entrapment tactics from the mirror

I'm not really sure whether the Tory MPs defecting to UKIP actually realise they're decreasing, rather than increasing, the likelihood of an In/Out EU referendum?

They think Cameron is a liar.

Look at him, David Came-wrong, in his house cooking up lies. Mmm, David, what's that smell outside number 10? Is it dinner? No it's just lies... Lies for dinner. Hope you enjoy your lies David.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/30/david-cameron-schools-should-teach-mainly-in-imperial-measurements

lol

jesus. this is beyond a joke.

David Came-wrong

pretty weak name in the shadow of "bliar"

omg it's just so...petty

hahahaha he's just saying things to make him seem more traditional

and also progressive. he's having his cake and fucking it too

Surely if you're heading down the immature nicknames road for that ham-faced dickhead, it'd be Camoron?

progressive reaction

Camoran?

• Respond to the Ukip threat by pledging to scrap the Human Rights Act, which will be replaced by a new British bill of rights that would transform Britain’s relationship with the European court of human rights. The prime minister also said that he would put restrictions on the freedom of movement within the EU at the heart of his renegotiation plans before his planned referendum in 2017.

Oh, yay!

Neither of those things are likely to be remotely achievable though.

Nicky Morgan on Radio 4 this evening: "people in the UK are sick of human rights"

Can see why they made her minister for women and equality.

http://i.imgur.com/dORQPvX.png

POLL

Create jobs for everyone TICK
Safeguard the NHS TICK

'English votes for own laws' propaganda from non-dom aussie newspaper mogul

People on £10,000 gain £0.00 from this tax cut (but have their benefits cut/frozen)
People on £50,000 gain £1600.00 from this tax cut (and continue to receive child benefit)

http://www.clipartbest.com/cliparts/yik/g6e/yikg6eBiE.jpeg

FFS

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/77953000/jpg/_77953670_mail2.jpg

Always fun to see "British values" contrasted with the European Convention on Human Rights, the sneaky foreign document primarily drafted by Sir David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir. The Human Rights bill actually means more cases being decided in the UK by British judges rather than in the ECHR.

by "fun" i assume you mean "so bitterly ironic it leaves me barren of hope and wondering what in hell to do to somehow combat this tidal wave of greed, disinformation, swindlage and fuckery"

Tory reasoning these days seems to be that they're so far ahead of Labour on the economy, in terms of credibility with the electorate (and cocky about it too), that they can promise any old uncosted shite and get away with it. I'd like to believe they're heading for a fall but...

Cameron has put most of his key cards on the table so if he's not substantially ahead of Labour in the polls and hasn't put a huge dent in the UKIP numbers this week, it's tough to see what else he can do ahead of an election to get extra momentum.

idk, maybe he can come out against decimalisation and reintroduce the penny farthing.

boggles the mind that anyone would be "impressed" that this regressive asshole is all for imperial measures. still can't believe that wasn't a daily mash story or whatever.

My understanding was that these uncosted promises (on tax anyway) are to he delivered by 2020, as long as the deficit is eliminated first. So potentially will never happen, but have the current immediate benefit of letting people think they'll get these things and gives the party a boost pre-election. Media seem to be happy to report at face value.

Same with the commitment to 'putting restrictions on freedom of movement at the heart of any EU renegotiation' (which the EU will never go for) and the idea that the ECHR will not restrict the legality of UK government actions (which, unless they are going to join Belarus as the only European country not to be a signatory, will never happen). You'd hope that these policies will be interrogated a little more by the press ahead of the election.

why is the press being so complacent about this? is it simply because they're mostly right-leaning/straight-up-Nazi?

of course it would be cool if labour could interrogate this stuff too, rather than trying to figure out how to mimic it unconvincingly or junk their own principles in response.

wait

the imperial measures thing is....real?

he's calling for a return to jam sandwiches sliced lengthways too.

Imperial measures will be forgotten by tomorrow lunchtime.

The next test for the tax/ECHR desperation is to see any effect on the by-election next week.

They'll lose the Carswell one and win the Reckless one, and apparently they'll be happy with that.

And they should be - winning the Carswell seat is based upon 'him' not on UKIP.