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

come on, you can hardly compare some right wing playboy troll to yeah you know how this ends

Today it's some guy, something 'Farage', dunno, don't recognise him

There's something deeply embarrassing about the PM taking to Twitter to chunter on about how angry he is and how he won't pay a bill he secretly knew was coming for ages.

He won't be paying it on the 1st of December. Didn't say anything about not paying it on the 2nd.

Fk it let's all not pay our bills.

EU Contribution Riots in Parliament Square, this time the ringleaders being Her Majesty's Government.

ukip will jump for joy about eu bill irony

ukip housing spokesperson makes £££ from migrant tenants irony

irony
will be the end of me

Fallon told Sky News: “The Germans haven’t seen our proposals yet and we haven’t seen our proposals yet"

if you see them say hello (they might be in tangiers) thanks bob.

The Falkirk MP, who quit the Labour Party after a boozy brawl in a Commons bar in 2012, was questioned on suspicion of causing actual bodily harm in the latest incident.

The alleged confrontation happened on Friday at the News and Food Express shop in Camden, north London.

Staff claim Joyce turned on the youths after they bumped into him.

One boy fell to the ground in the scuffle as the MP tried to stop them escaping.

Owner Muhammed Hussain, 44, arrived as police were quizzing Joyce and the boys.

He said: “The sweet stand had collapsed and there were sweets all over the floor. I think one of the boys pulled it down as they were trying to get out the shop.

“It cost me around £200 to repair the damage as well as another £100 in lost trade.”

Hey, he was pre-emptingly preventing a robbery, right? I mean, if he was an old soldier, he'd be getting a medal from the queen right?

No. Not

He is an old soldier.

thought this was a hack, but it's been up two hours now.
https://twitter.com/educationgovuk/status/528892190496686080

"Nonsense to say schools 'must teach gay rights'. We want schools to teach broad curric based on British values" (@educationgovuk)

Raus! Raus!

Wow the Labour Party is so inept at committing regicide. Their brilliant plan seems to be to replace E-Milli with a dude who doesn't want the job and whose first act as shadow chancellor was to tell the media he was off to buy a primer in economics.

When was the last time a party chucked their leader when they were ahead in the polls with six months to go until a general election? I have little to no sympathy for Miliband but The Guardian has been trying to orchestrate this for months and the only MPs who have hinted in public that they would look at a change are Simon Danczuk, who'd be more at home in UKIP anyway, and Tristram Hunt.

There doesn't even seem to be an ethos behind the 'plotters' other than 'we should have someone who is more popular'.

that sentiment is the Clause 4 of Ghost Labour

EMil has barely anybody else but himself to blame for his leadership but there's been a whiff of anti-semitism amongst the general anti-intelligentsiaism that's been pelted at him from day 1. NB you don't have to be a member of any kind of intelligentsia to draw the insinuations from the gutter press.

Be too smart/dumb/weird/straight/ginger/bald/plebian/privileged

Be the leader of the labour party, at any point in history

"We should have someone who is more popular" is a reflexive panic move from any party especially when faced with actively populist leaders like Salmond and Farage. Some segments of the Tories are desperate for Boris Johnson for the same reason.

The "he looks weird" thing is definitely informed by unacknowledged anti-semitism - cf multiple amateur social media comedians comparing him to the Child Catcher. Although it's worth pointing out that the person to whom he is most consistently unfavourably compared is his own brother.

My guess is that Labour's long poll lead has been entirely chimeric for years and will evaporate at election time. Still, I suspect that Labour were banking on basically stumbling over the line next May and are now bricking themselves because of Scotland. There's almost certainly some unvoiced frustration at the leadership having committed to austerity, which still feels like a very high political price to pay for the opportunity to scrape over the line and become the weakest and post pilloried Prime Minister since the 70s if not before.

has this genuinely happened anywhere in the last 50 years? i mean surely you don't/ can't switch leaders with less 200 days to go? i wonder what David Miliband makes of it all.

One of my friends is wont to save of EMil, "If only he'd die or something!" That's, uh, pretty harsh. Still, Gaitskell, mystery illness, rapid decline and death, Labour win next election.

... John Smith!

yeah, that worked out well

has this genuinely happened anywhere in the last 50 years? i mean surely you don't/ can't switch leaders with less 200 days to go?

Australia last year (& cf the last four years)

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/79242000/jpg/_79242446_thesunfront251114.jpg

not sure how much damage this will do to the tories but both cabbies and van drivers insulted by the old guard trad parties in the space of one week in what feels like son of plebgate - seems to be creating yet more room for farage to do his man of the people shtick and the sun seems to be more than happy to stir it up

^^^ Is exactly what this is about. UKIP might as well be the political wing of News International at the moment. The Sun probably doesn't want them as a government but they're one hell of a pressure group on both main parties.

there is a personal element too though - mellor has long been an enemy of the tabloids, am sure that murdoch is loving the chance to stick the boot in

So Cameron has issued a 'warning' of a second recession. A warning, mind. Not an admission. If you don't all behave, that's what's going to happen.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/16/david-cameron-third-eurozone-recession-g20-warning

Ooooh, you little liar!

He was a complete clown to have sued. Will cost him career and a hell of a lot of money.

He hasn't had a career in a while anyway. Of course if he was a brazen cunt like Chris Huhne he wouldn't let it stop him pursuing a lucrative media career of some sort.

He's still an MP, at least until the next general election.

Another Islingtonian, btw. The borough's not having a great run.

"I am delighted to hear again my innocence, my reputation and my integrity as a police officer has been recognised."

the judge said PC Rowland was "not the sort of man who would have had the wit, imagination or inclination to invent on the spur of the moment an account of what a senior politician had said to him in temper".

lol

ha ha. bit of a dick move by the judge there tho. people are v good at imaginatively rehearsing the speeches of entrenched enemies imo.

in this case tho it's the "pleb" part that's the problem that probably makes the judge right - public school snobbery and of course the whole imaginative greatness of this particular particle of UK social shittitude.

Now I want Emily Thornberry to sue that fat fuck from Rochester

yes, she should take a stand for the benefit of everybody who's ever made an internet comment entirely devoid of classist snobbery

lol so the judge found the policeman too plebby to have come up with the word pleb

Kind of odd seeing my GP (his wife) interviewed about this on the news.

His bill could end up being comfortably over £1.5m. I'd have thought the PC would be in line for out-of-court damages on top of that.

Literally the first thing you learn when studying libel law is to never sue unless you are absolutely sure you're going to win. The second thing you learn is that you can never be absolutely sure you're going to win.

thought the idea was mostly to intimidate small fry who could never afford to defend a libel case- ergo, one that gets to court, has failed.

Yes, that's pretty accurate.

Mitchell's seat, Sutton Coldfield, has been Tory since the war at least but good grief imagine the populist / independent candidates that are going to be up against him at the next election.

I can imagine the "Pleb and Proud" party forming..

http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2014/11/28/the-first-of-the-new-workhouses/

^ ?

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