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

things you don't have to wash up before dinner.

First mention of Michael Gove on ILX is prescient.

Michael Gove is a cockfarmer.
― Tom, Friday, 26 October 2001 01:00 (10 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

to be fair £60m is only a quid each and i dislike the queen less than some of my work colleagues.

as long as i get to sign a massive birthday card

£60m would be the cost of the boat - I suspect there might be some ongoing costs associated with it. Of course I'm sure the Queen wouldn't mind if it was branded up like a football shirt if it saved us all a few bob.

Take the £60mn out of the salaries of MPs, and double as much out of the millionaires in the cabinet.

If that means generations of their families starving to death, so be it.

Joining the Tories from Labour seems more like just a change of tie colour than it ever has.

I keep imaging the Queen's new yacht to be unveiled on Jubliee Day and it's made of gold, pure gold, and is called HMS Bling. This hasn't been officially announced, has it?

yachts take like 5 years to build, so she better be happy with an IOU

xxp total salary of MPs is less than 60m, so they would owe us money

Cameron has come out against it apparently. Maybe it would be a bit less brazenly arrogant if they bought her a submarine instead?

If he was STRONG LEADER he would fire Gove (preferably from out of a cannon from the deck of the Queen's new yacht)

Cameron's playing as blinder this week. He gets someone to make noises about a royal yacht then gets to put the idea down and show he's in touch with the people, and in doing so he also gets Ed Miliband to agree with him on yet another issue (in the same week Ed's come out in support of civil service pay freezes and protecting the Union from upstart Scottish Nationalists).

Amazed that Miliband is stupid enough to fall for that one from Cameron, he is beyond redemption and parody by now. Given that forecasters are saying we might be in a recession already, this is a particularly dumb time for Labour to decide they actually agree with the coalition on significant chunks of economic policy.

I'm sorry, I forgot, it's about "credibility".

Cameron's playing as blinder this week.

Yeah, I keep waiting for this smug bastard to fall on his fat face and for it to be reported that he'd fallen on his fat face and for him to be admonish for falling on his fat face

Milliband is just such a pathetically useless fucknugget.

Next campaign slogan's leaked already?

just for a change i'll be fair.

to me, it sort of speaks well of emil that he's such a useless professional media-friendly politician. the problem being that his job is to be a professional media-friendly politician.

he's such a useless professional media-friendly politician

Yes, but what is he good at? I honestly can't work out what his strengths are.

i think his response to the dianne abbott furore was the last straw for me. what she said was clumsy and unwise, but the public dressing down made it clear whose side emil and labour are on - and its the daily mail readers.

i don't know either but anything's better than being a pro politician in the 21st century. maybe he's really funny when he's drunk or something.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/16/labour-mp-tom-harris-resign

"Labour MP Tom Harris had posted Downfall parody video likening Alex Salmond to Hitler"

It's the constant shitting on benefit claimants that's winding me up. You'd think that the question of 'WHERE ARE THE JOBS?' would be resonant enough to counter that but he's just not brave enough to make that case.

Also coming out in favour of a welfare cap now, when it could prove to be a complete disastrous clusterfuck, is really stupid.

If Miliband were leading Labour in 1990 he'd be constantly telling people that he was "not opposed to a poll tax in principle".

"Labour MP Tom Harris had posted Downfall parody video likening Alex Salmond to Hitler"

... his party's led by some called Johann!

I don't understand the current labour party.

Also lol if a Downfall parody gets someone fired. It truly is the age of meme.

Surely above all else, the fact he posted it in the first place without thinking through the consequences shows he's a completely inept social media tsar?

.. which is the point, yes.

"completely inept" "Scottish Labour Party" = interchangeable

could apply to any Scottish party tbh - SNP are lording it by being slightly less inept than the rest and having one politician with a big enough ego to carry them.

^lol. I was at a do before xmas and he turned up unexpectedly mob handed and his crew had to pull up chairs so they could still be within hearing (and laughing) distance of their leaders bon mots.

tbf he had a few good lines.

also xp. as downfall parodies go that one was quite funny.

fwiw this actually gets worse
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/10044408

like the best, most okay part of this article is the start

And now Cameron thinks a privately funded boat is a great idea. And so does the Daily Mail.

So say "Ho!" to the Santander Queen!

Well, she didn't travel as much as being in the armed services, but when she was design director at Smythson and I was an MP, sometimes she'd go off to New York for five days and I was left looking after the little ones, so it has happened...

And the rest:

...The children wouldn't starve or anything; the food was OK - I'm a reasonable cook - and they'd get to school on time, but I'm afraid the house would quite rapidly deteriorate. I'm not as good about tidying up as you go along as my wife is."

What a traditional man the dude is... Vote, um, whats the name again?

Couldn't care less whether there's a privately funded yacht. Privatise all royal funding as far as I'm concerned.

"...The citizens wouldn't starve or anything; the food is OK - Asda is very reasonable - and the Queen'd get to her island breaks on time, but I'm afraid the country would quite rapidly deteriorate. I'm not as good about tidying up as you go along as my wife is."

"which was nice."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jan/17/michael-gove-king-james-bible

"A plan by the education secretary, Michael Gove, to send a copy of the King James Bible to every school in the country – each including a personal inscription from him – has run into trouble after government sources reported he has been told to find private funding for the project."

each including a personal inscription from him
each including a personal inscription from him
each including a personal inscription from him
each including a personal inscription from him
each including a personal inscription from him
each including a personal inscription from him
each including a personal inscription from him
each including a personal inscription from him
each including a personal inscription from him
each including a personal inscription from him

whoever it is in the Department of Education that is leaking all this stuff about Michael Gove has my undying eternal love.

Gove will make a really shit prime minister one day.

"each including a personal inscription from him"

CROPPIES LIE DOWN

Gove's basically the Mandelson of this Cabinet isn't he? In that no matter how shit he is and whatever he does you know full well he'll be back a couple of years after his first sacking. Whereas someone like Liam Fox is clearly never coming back.

At least Mandelson was clever

we're speaking relatively here, right?

Of course, devious is probably more accurate. Time for Vince Cable to dust off that old Stalin to Mr. Bean knee-slapper. Parliamentary wits, eh?

Proposed Thames Estuary airport already being refered to as 'Boris Island'. I kind of imagine it like a remake of 'Fantasy Island', with Johnson in the Richardo Montelban role.

Popbitch on our future prime minister:

According to an ex-girlfriend, which yacht and bible loving cabinet minister kept a curious jazz mag collection under his bed?

Future prime minister? Ex-girlfriend?