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

and then the ref at the end calls it a draw so it's quite sweet, two kids learning martial arts and getting to play at MMA like they probly watch on TV, christ knows why the Beeb are trying to turn into shock horror broeken Britain oh hang on I do know why

The £500,000 GREAT campaign plans to create a £1 billion business boost linked to the games and attract four million extra visitors and 'put the great back in to Great Britain,' Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said.

The government has unveiled a £100m campaign to "set the record straight" to overseas visitors in the wake of the riots in August, vowing to use the 2012 Olympics as a catalyst to attract 1 million extra tourists a year.

wait so they pissed away 500k/100m and then totally unrelated we get a tourism boost around the 2012 olympics and think 'look at how GREAT we are at doing this

The ten posters for the £100 million campaign are intended to promote an image of Britain that will attract an additional 4 million foreign visitors and create 2,016 jobs by 2016

and create 2,016 jobs by 2016

And 2,525 jobs by the year 2525, if man is still alive, if woman can survive

100mill between 2,016 = £49,603 each.

Its a shame most of the rest of the world increasingly knows Great Britain as The UK or England. The small Britain is not really going to help things.

is it me or must this campaign have been approved and begun before any of the riots?

also i am not a pedant i will not get radge at people wilfully misunderstanding the meaning of "great" in "great britain" i promise myself

one of the execs behind it was on the today programme saying we should be celebrating what britain is today, and the riots were part of that - he said new york is a boring place to live now compared to its fun violent past!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9596000/9596297.stm

xp to NV ^^^haha, that was EXACTLY my first thought too.

And I promise not to say anything until I read the first comment about let's make Britain Great Again...

i mean tbf it's a very long-standing pun but it never gets delivered like a pun, just like straight-faced by jingo if we do

Think they should get Brucie to duet with Adele on a new version of this beauty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWqysqItAzI

Looking at that campaign, I think it's time we put the Britain back into Great

Meanwhile the Daily Mail's having none of it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2040260/Maciej-Dakowicz-Cardiff-After-Dark-binge-drinking-images-turned-Britain-laughing-stock.html

one of the execs behind it was on the today programme saying we should be celebrating what britain is today, and the riots were part of that - he said new york is a boring place to live now compared to its fun violent past!

― ledge, Thursday, 22 September 2011 12:43 (57 seconds ago) Bookmark

This is interesting though. I went to Margate the other week and they have a sort of cottage industry there based on the mod vs rocker clashes. At the time it was all "OMG these animals are tearing society apart with their bare hands" and now it's fuelling the local economy.

Dakowicz admits that he would be unable to produce images like this in his home town of Bialystok in Poland.

The Polish being a famously abstemious people

I don't see what's wrong with a lot of those photos tbh

Are cuts to public services going to make the streets of Cardiff less full of litter then?

I went to Margate the other week and they have a sort of cottage industry there based on the mod vs rocker clashes. At the time it was all "OMG these animals are tearing society apart with their bare hands" and now it's fuelling the local economy.

Sealed Knot Society needs something to do on non-Civil War anniversaries innit?

The Perfect Tie Knot Society should be set up to re-enact mods vs. rockers

I dunno about Margate, but last time I saw the "culture clash" in Brighton, they were helping each other with scooter repairs, etc...

War is over, if you want it and are 40-odd

I don't see what's wrong with a lot of those photos tbh

― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Thursday, September 22, 2011 11:55 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Nor me, and I didn't think so when he started putting them up on flickr about 4 years ago. I'm pretty sure they've been in other UK newspapers over the years too, not sure why the DM is suddenly getting excised about them.

Ha, the Mail has even shown them before...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1182373/Welcome-binge-Britain-Polish-photographer-documents-years-drunken-revelry-Cardiff.html

those pics are quite beautiful btw

Really can't see what the problem is they are only enjoying themselves, it's certainly not only confined to Britain goes on all over the world can't see it's the worst part of society.
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A shame that whatever comment that goes against the article's view gets the major dislike buttoning.

I want to see pics of comatose DM readers engorged on their own digust lying prostrate on their driveways.

those pics are quite beautiful btw

OTM

had a argument with a senior-ish social worker in the pub last night re: teeny cage fights but i told him he was getting hung up on the cage and he seems to have watched a version where the kids was "leathering the fuck out of each other whilst baying pissed-up blokes egged them on" that looked different to the BBC verzh

dunno who the banker this morning on Radio 4 is but surprisingly he's the biggest cunt on god's earth

Was that why he was on? Is he in the Guinness Book of Records?

teeny cage fights

The kids were 8 years old, not teens. My son's boxing club would never have kids that age doing "demonstration" bouts.

I don't think the boys were harmed but why have 8-year-olds fighting at an otherwise adult MMA night? Seems a bit of a strange thing to have imo.

I've had first-hand experience the crowds at small scale MMA nights in our area and "pissed up blokes egging them on" doesn't come close to describing the atmosphere some of these cunts carry around with them. Half of the crowd is MMA guys & their gym mates - everyone's drunk, half of them are 'roided up balloons with testosterone leaking out all over the place. Many will be on coke as well. They bring a constant threat of something about to kick off that you can feel in the air. No place for a child imo.

I'm feeling a bit Daily Mail now. Unless the Mail is all "keeps them off the streets" about it.

This whole thing strikes me as deeply dodgy but then I'm not crazy about the idea of children boxing either.

i agreed to disagree with the social worker last night too. i'll give you that this probably isn't the best thing in the world but in the scheme of "not the best thing in the world"s that kids are exposed too i think it's pretty harmless. i also get a bit defensively radge when i suspect the media are going off on a "look at these working class animals" frenzy

This whole thing strikes me as deeply dodgy but then I'm not crazy about the idea of children boxing either.

Neither am I. I stopped my son from going for years despite his constant pleading. We finally relented when he reached 11 and the trainer assured us he'd be protected and do no more than light sparring and training. He won't fight competitively until he's 13 (if at all - I'd rather he just trained) and if his karate "career" was anything to go by he'll be bored of it by then and he can concentrate on injuring himself on (or off, rather) his skateboard.

i suspect the media are going off on a "look at these working class animals" frenzy

Yes there's definitely a bit of that going on. Won't someone think of the feral kids?

just realised that my display name looks like it's related but it's not, it was Oscar de la Hoya's line in The Simpsons the other day and me and our Joel have been annoyingly repeating it to each other ever since we saw it

Zombie Labour's new appeal to the electorate: "we're pretty much identical to the Tory party, tbh"

No one's paying attention anyway.

all the more reason to go nuts imo

There's probably a point about midway through this parliament, probably after another recession, when it will become apparent that the coalition haven't actually dented the deficit despite causing a hell of a lot of pain in the process. Until that happens, it doesn't reall matter what Labour say as they'll only be greeted with responses of "zero economic credibility".

Looks like Ed Miliband has competition for the party leadership: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15064396

comedy turns at conference from callow teens, god they really are the Tory party

If he stole the show, it must have been a really dire show.

"we shouldn't have done that" <--- not feeling this rallying cry

aren't you meant to mention '-provided you then replenish the stock of available council houses' when saying 'it was right to allow people to buy their council houses'

If the reaction from people who should be favourably disposed to Miliband is anything to go by, he doesn't stand a chance of convincing the wider electorate.

just wanna let you all know, i'm not Tony Blair.