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

weird that uk and ireland are nearly identical

Is it? Culture/peoples quite similar are they not?

OK so the Lib Dems have finally speak up

"Oh gosh," quipped Ozzy, "I'd better retract it. Don't want to upset Danny; he did such a good job with the Olympic ceremony."

Black man looks like a black man, no not that black man, the other one!

Nadine Dorries MP ‏@NadineDorriesMP 8 Apr
Chuka Umumma reminds me more of the guy with the monocle and the squeaky voice than Obama. Whats his name? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305496/Did-rising-Labour-star-Chuka-Umunna-use-fake-identity-edit-Wikipedia-entry.html …

Nadine Dorries MP ‏@NadineDorriesMP 8 Apr
Chris Eubank! That's it . He's deffo more Eubank than Obama. #chukaumanna

Nadine Dorries MP ‏@NadineDorriesMP 56m
Apparently I'm racist because I think Chuck Umunna looks like Chris Eubank ?What would I be if I said he looked like someone who was white??

Separated at birth
http://www.chuka.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Chuka-Umunna-MP.jpg http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/entertainment/theatre/images/eubank_203x152.jpg

jesus fucking christ

one of them is a fucking buffoon given to endless self-promotion and devoid of any instincts deeper than popularity, and the other was a pretty good boxer

Umumma used to box?

SIKE

http://www.markpack.org.uk/40249/how-leaflets-used-to-look-colchester-1951/

Both teams going with an characteristically adventurous 1950s 2-3-5 formation. Tory FC somehow nicked it with an ugly forward line against hopelessly optimistic defending.

http://i2.wp.com/www.markpack.org.uk/files/2013/04/Colchester-1951-inside.jpg

the ref is blind

john justice and i. despair won't watch it

Spivy at right half MOM 4 me.

Labour lost that election and looking at the defensive naivety on show there it's hardly surprising.

Like I'm not sure Slummy and Unemployed would do much for you but no defender would want to be facing War when he's all fired up.

And Competition is always a fierce, er, competitor.

Also, 7am kick off? Seems that matches being shifted to awkward times long predates sky tv.

Anyone know who actually won the Colchester constituency?

Just checked, it was the Blue(s) team.

7am kickoff = time polls open in the UK.

<quiet cough>

Anyone know who actually won the Colchester constituency?

Anyone know if the Pope is a Catholic... actually the current MP is a Lib Dem and its first MP was Joseph Elianore in 1312

Ah, so maybe this wasn't about an actual football match? Is there any way we can check?

Some nit has gone and put this massive poster on his fence. It's the first thing you see when you get out the station :-(
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/733957_10151633108629796_1341112139_n.jpg

surely that is not going to stay in its current pristine state for too long !?

needs a photo every week as the f*cking thing becomes more and more defaced ...

an eyesore. I hope someone puts a wind turbine in front of it.

Put Nigel Farage in front of the wind turbine and you'd have a true source of renewable energy.

'Let's put Britain first, for once, instead of putting ourselves first like all the other times.'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/18/uncovered-error-george-osborne-austerity

also here Rolling US Economy Into The Shitbin Thread

Ah, thanks - I was wondering why I'd not seen anything on ILX about this.

Had a flyer through the door yesterday for the Labour candidate in the forthcoming council elections.

He's opposed to:

NHS cuts
The Bedroom Tax
Rich people getting richer

He's standing for:

Increased wages for council employees and direct council contractors
More primary schools (in a high occupancy conservation area, this can only mean evictions from under-utilised property)
"Imaginative use" of the council employee's pension funds to attract investors into building houses

It just feels like two different people wrote the flier to be honest.

At least he's attempted to offer something resembling a policy.

I recently got an email from my MP about "tackling the big issues" where he identified some issues (bedroom tax, uncertainty, jobs) and said fuck all about tackling them then:

The Tory led Government favours cuts over investment while the SNP favours the promise of tomorrow rather than the reality of today.
What became abundantly clear to me is that both Governments are failing to act in the interests of the many.

Not a word about how one goes about "acting in the interests of the many". Also it's a bit rich to talk about "the many" when your vote against same sex marriage was decided because two (2) constituents wrote to you.

heard a Labour guy on the radio the other night, didn't catch the name but he was explaining how Labour was a centrist, common sense party on the side of the hard-working man, and if you played fair they'd be on your side but if you didn't want to play fair they'd be on your back.

i find it helpful that they keep reminding me never to vote for them.

Local UKIP crazies being crazy:

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10378900.East_Sussex_UKIP_election_candidate_in_holocaust_storm/

can't understand why UKIP would attract racists and conspiracy theorists

go right to the source

http://www.secretsofthefed.com/was-pope-benedict-fired-by-the-knights-of-malta/

Also on the profile, which claims to be verified by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg, is the statement: “I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I am a conscious, aware, critical thinker and tired of being lied to. Are you?!”

Facebook experts: What does that 'verified' mean?

It means she typed the words

Profile Original & Official II Verified By Mark Zuckerberg✔ Facebook CEO and Founder

MArk Zuckerberg is well know for his interest in suburban nazi housewives.

So what do we think of Milliboris?

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/4/25/1366848978221/Jo-Johnson-appointed-head-008.jpg

It's like someone used software to amalgamate Boris and Dave.

Then prevented the result from getting any sleep, ever.

George Galloway not returning to Labour - Ed Miliband. Not interested in the story but this quote jumped out at me:

"The Respect MP, who has twice defeated Labour to win a seat in Parliament, recently told the Evening Standard that he found Mr Miliband "quite impressive, physically and intellectually"."

been sneaking a look in the gents

"Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, yer walloper."

It's over, :(

"I realise now that I showed poor judgement in finally agreeing to meet Miliband. An unprincipled coward with the backbone of an amoeba."

Just goes to show that relationships built on physical attraction don't always last.

backbones more important than frontbones for GG

That UKIP poster's still fucking up there and not a scratch on it. Of course he's the kind of asshole to have cameras all over his house and the station car park has cameras too. Orwellian, much?

Cover it with England flags

Bulgarian flags surely?