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

vidkun clegling is stuck w/ the nazis

I could've done with that link an hour and a half ago Ned

I blame Twitter.

Assume Mumsnet's mods wd've been up to the task anyway

Thank you, clegg_u_nazi_cunt, your question is awaiting moderation

CTRL F'd the page and the only "cunt" was a typo for "country".

Well that and Nick Clegg.

StewieGriffinsMom Mon 13-Sep-10 13:09:50

Well, considering he actively lied about his policy on Trident on the last webchat, I'm not holding out too much hope.

the best job in the world right now belongs to the tory apparatchik who gets to send nick clegg on errands

- squirm for the cameras while giving a 'humane face' to the destruction of public services
- give yr byline to op-ed piece written by enoch powell
- spend an hour each week lying and having shit thrown at you by mumsnet

Baby shit's not so bad tho

encomium of meconium

when are these arrogating little shits going to push through 55%, boundary changes, restoration of star chamber etc?

presume he enjoyed kicking it with the pope today too

55%/fixed terms is being held up by the legal dude

legal dude = someone cameron went to school with who now sits on the privy council or something. saw this maybe monday on the G website but can't find it now, didn't sound like a serious challenge though.

here we are: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/sep/07/fixed-term-parliaments-bill-open-legal-challenge

The bill is intended to end the considerable advantage a governing party enjoys by virtue of the prime minister being able to tactically plan and choose an election date most favourable to his party.

haha yes that's the main intention

it does seem pretty shambolic but they have clarified that vote of no confidence requires disolution of parliament

not going to be easy getting this past the tory right / constitutional conservatives, tho i dunno if the lib dem backbenchers will put up a fight

Liked Nicky Wire talking about Clegg the other day - "how can you be a young musician and not want to write a song about this cunt?"

Meanwhile Cable's starting to break with the party line:

Immigration limits are costing the UK thousands of jobs and hurting the country’s fragile economic recovery, Vince Cable said, in scathing comments that lay bare tensions on the issue within the coalition.

More FT video

“A lot of damage is being done to British industry,” the business secretary told the Financial Times on Thursday.

“I’ve got a file full of examples. This is not just people whingeing,” he said.

The cap on non-EU workers was a manifesto pledge for David Cameron and proved popular with voters: it was reluctantly accepted by Lib Dems in the May coalition negotiations.

Mr Cable’s complaints reflect business anger at the way the coalition has imposed an interim cap on work visas for people coming from outside the EU, leaving many companies able to recruit only a handful of non-European staff.

Mr Cable said he was fully signed up to the coalition’s plan for a permanent immigration cap but wanted to see it applied flexibly.

Companies said the interim cap, launched in July amid fears of a flood of visa applications before the introduction of a permanent limit in April, was rushed in too quickly and places Draconian limits on hiring foreign talent.

Their biggest complaint centred on the way border officials have calculated how many work permits each company should have this year based on the number they used in 2009, although many companies were then locked in a recession-enforced hiring freeze.

Mr Cable, speaking before the Liberal Democrat conference in Liverpool, refused to name companies but said the complaints took in investment banking, engineering and pharmaceuticals.

“I am not known of as the best friend of investment bankers, but you know they are quite an important source of economic activity,” he said.

“I was talking to people in the City and there were two investment banks that recruit hundreds of people from the non-EU area, Indians and Americans. They were allowed only 30-40 visas. They have moved some operations to Hong Kong.”

Mr Cable said in one instance a UK company needed 500 specialist engineers but was given a quota of four. He spoke of an entrepreneur who ditched plans to open a factory and create 400 jobs in northern England after failing to secure visas for key staff.

Mr Cable said the temporary quota cap had been wrongly fixed at 2009 levels.

“The economy is now recovering but companies can’t get access to the people they need.”

didn't realize things had gone to shit this quickly

lol “I am not known of as the best friend of investment bankers, but you know they are quite an important source of economic activity,” he said.

that's pretty zingy for a member of government

the rats can't wait to get in the drainpipes and do big fetid shits everywhere

i trust there was a comma after 'you know', if cable has any sense of comic timing

He reputedly hates the coalition so I'm not surprised he's talking out of turn already.

Also Cable's department is facing the biggest cuts of any govt department.

yes, rip science

Govt intervention in the market innit.

p.s. nick clegg's wife still hot

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11359306

Good attempt to pacify the rank and file here ahead of the conference. Can't see the Tories being mad crazy for this idea though.

ashcroft is leaving too, and is zinging cameron re: the campaign et al as he goes.

Likening tax evaders to benefit cheats

In the saw way one might liken the Great Train Robbers to a schoolkid pinching chocolate buttons

Shows how skewed the public debate has become that that's the bit that will resonate with people.

Liberal Democrats vote against free schools and more academies

Can we get a Drudge siren?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/20/tax_detector/

lol at conservatives leaking cranky sounds-like-a-lib-dem policy stuff before the ld conference.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/sep/22/cable-speech-attacked

don't think vinnie cabes said anything controversial at all, here but oh look at all these cunts

im not usually in favour of extreme state violence but can't something be done about these jackals?

Believe Vince's speech had little to do with prospective Government policy and everything to do with making sure he (and a couple of thousand delegates) could sleepier (slightly) easier in their beds of a night

That was the speech of someone who knows he has fuck all influence on government policy if you ask me. There's a reason the Tories have put him in a department that sounds important but that they are planning to eviscerate.

yeah not disputing any of that

"Let the old boy have his fun, what?"

I think it also shows he understands what Clegg doesn't seem to, that there's no sense in banging on about being Cameron's best mate, unless someone high up impresses some kind of distinctive identity then they're completely fucked.

heard clegg responding to it, and to the guy talking about trident (who was appalling): really clueless, evasive, unctious wanker

the trident guy was unbelievable. his argument about what to do next was solely based on making things awkward for labour. he isn't a serious politician. effing lib dems.

Good luck Suffolk.
Suffolk County Council to outsource most services

"im not usually in favour of extreme state violence but can't something be done about these jackals?"

c'mon you know to do a lenin.jpg. Don't fight it!

Vince Cable's serious face always looks like he's smelling shit.

(on QT now btw)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/world/europe/24allies.html

Vince Cable's serious face always looks like he's smelling shit.

Whereas George Osborne's face looks like he's smelling shit

... or poor people (same thing for George)

Ken Livingstone has beaten Oona King to the Labour nomination for London mayor, setting him up for a political rematch in the capital with his old rival Boris Johnson in 2012.

Not in favour of that. Ken's past it.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4IqAMwAGn1w/SCeQW4DTxWI/AAAAAAAACGI/C6jjIBq-Gnc/s400/ken_livingstone_l.jpg

lawl