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

i really like people

8 months inside for the Huhne dawg

His and Hers matching sentences! But likely they'll be out in three months.

porridge is a dish best served cold

I've only just got round to reading the emails between Pryce and the Sunday Times journalist and... it's amazing how naive she is.

yeah what's that about? she had a QC neighbour advising her as well. "yeah, don't worry about it sure it'll be fine tbh."

Matt - could you summarize them in one or two sentences for those too time-pressed/lazy to do their own research? And whatever his sons text messages said too please?

And whatever his sons text messages said too please?

iirc "Fuck off Dad, I hate you".

"why the fuck is our name still huhne u twat x"

Most lol/sad thing about the father/son texts was CHuhne's inability to escape political "I hear your concerns but let's be reasonable" speak when his own son is telling him to fuck off for breaking up the family.

texts neatly summarized here

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/02/05/article-2273507-175B7CB1000005DC-565_634x459.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/02/05/article-2273507-17595797000005DC-954_634x470.jpg

i'd have more respect for Peter Huhne if the relationship broke down cos his dad was a Lib Dem

Peter Huhne, ILX display name generator.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md7sgc7t2A1rzmyd7o1_500.jpg

i KNEW it reminded me of something..

phone hacking?
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/02/05/article-2273507-175B7CB1000005DC-565_634x459.jpg

it feels weird that these are allowed to be published

(i see that it was revealed in court)

Objecting to phone hacking is so last year

What a twunt David Burrowes is.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/mar/14/eric-joyce-arrested-commons-brawl

Again? That's literally two weeks after the first pub banning order expired.

Two weeks? That's a long celebration...

More on the Return of the Scuffler

Shouldn't laugh but:

"I can vividly remember a policeman's hat rolling on the ground towards me as I was watching this scene unfold."

Bertie Wooster on the trouble at the Drones Club

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/15/dwp-law-change-jobseekers-poundland

just when i think i can't hate these cunts more they go and pull some completely indefensible shit like this because they know they can get away with it

LIKE OMG YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE LAW RETROACTIVELY TO MAKE YOUR OWN ILLEGAL ACTIONS LEGAL

except apparently you can

The Guardian understands that Labour will support the fast-tracked bill with some further safeguards and that negotiations with the coalition are ongoing.

ffs

our "opposition" can fuck off as well

They'll do this, but they won't retrospectively decriminalise swapping speeding points to keep Chris Huhne out of prison. Huh.

further safeguards

PHEW FOR A MINUTE THERE I WAS WORRIED

what, the lib dem bloke? (xpost)

Does Labour not want to be in government, then? Do they just not want people voting for them?

What's the use - the opinion polls say having people's futures pulled out from underneath them isn't as important as sticking one to the Germans, so, as somebody else said way upthread (can't remember who), the degradation and oppression will continue until Britain goes broke, or starves, or drowns, since that seems to be what most British people want.

tbf the opinion polls suggest the government is pretty unpopular right now. Which is why it's even more nonsensical for Labour to be having any truck with Gauleiter Duncan Smith's banana republic bullshit.

Shitting on the unemployed is probably the single most popular thing the government is doing right now.

Presumably this both can and will be challenged?

The people who hate benefit claimants that much aren't going to vote labour anyway. Labour has nothing to gain, and much to lose if they support this.

Also getting flashbacks to that 'Thick of It' episode where Rebecca Front announces her support for some hardline government policy in order to show how tough and realistic she can be, when the same time the government abandons the policy because of its toxic unpopularity.

do you think people like this watch TTOI and if so are they oblivious to its central messages?

The people who hate benefit claimants that much aren't going to vote labour anyway

I doubt this very much

Labour voters are all delightful vegan anarcho-socialists who want their unemployed brothers and sisters to have a good standard of living, surely?

Oh no, not the... sarcasm.

your average Labour voter wd have no truck with dead-eyed right wing authoritarians like Frank Field or Jack Cunningham or Jack Straw or Yvette Cooper

Not sure what you're getting at there, but I don't remember any of those having much of a personal following tbh.

and yet they've all been elected to parliament by Labour voters

So was Robert Kilroy-Silk. What of it?

The people who hate benefit claimants that much are perfectly capable of voting labour anyway,

because the Labour vote in 2013 is primarily made up of idiots who vote for the red team because they always have, nostalgists, and over-sentimental Tory wets

idiots who vote for the red team because they always have

Doubt this is much of a factor nowadays.

nostalgists, and over-sentimental Tory wets

Fall into the category of not hating benefit claimants that much, I'd have thought.

I'm not saying everyone who votes labour is invulnerable to the widespread 'fuck the unemployed and disableds' tabloid talk, but I do think they can't be *that* obsessed by it. The only people who would be *actually impressed* by the government shamelessly trashing the rule of law in order to renege on the debts incurred through its own mendacity and incompetence... those are the true hayterz, and they aint going to vote labour.

Have you ever met Labour voters?

'Cos it sounds like you haven't

No, Tom D, I have never met a labour voter in my entire life. I concede that this may cast some doubt on the authority of my pronouncements.

Fucking xpost