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

"When we have a queen who is a lesbian and she marries another lady and then decides she would like to have a child and someone donates sperm and she gives birth to a child, is that child heir to the throne?"

Only one way to decide - send for Jeremy Kyle.

It's like the synopsis of a JG Ballard novel, if Ballard had been a massively homophobic bigot.

what if the future Queen of England was a killer lezbot?

Tebbitt hasn't been watching Game of Thrones.

Good demonstration of how absurd the idea of a monarchy is, well done Norman.

Only one way to decide - send for Jeremy Kyle. POLL!!!

(I like how it's "when", not "if"...)

the more i think about this "what then???" scenario the more baffled i am -- no matter where the sperm comes from, the child of a reigning queen would inherit 50% of its genes from the royal family, which is basically ideal unless you are a pharaoh (or a targaeryn).

the only way this works as a thought experiment is when the "other lady" is the one having a child? maybe Tebbit didn't feel the need to indicate that because it's clear that lesbians can't have children but must find ladies to marry who will bear them issue.

But what if they both are pregnant?

But what if the babies get mixed up? What if a prince is brought up... as a pauper?

And what if that pauper goes on to lead the resistance in the war against machines? And what if the machines send a robot back in time to kill his mother, and he sends a fighter back to protect her, who ends up sleeping with her and becoming his father?

It's ridiculous isn't it? Think of the other scenarios where a female first-in-line might not be able to conceive and therefore adopts or if there is some sort of surrogacy arrangement. Sexuality is not the primary issue here, it's the idiotic importance we attach to genetic determination of our monarchy in a world where this just should not be relevant.

and what if the robot doesn't know the laws of cricket?

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to caught behind.

dunno who's gonna start the norman tebbit sci-fi thread but it's a promising avenue

Davros joke

Dan Dire, Pilot of the Future?

Pilot of the Past, amirite?

Pilot of getting out of going to the Maggon's funeral by going to a different funeral.

Ice-cold of Kinnock to have his best friend murdered just so he could get out of Thatcher's funeral. But understandable.

http://www.brits.co.uk/sites/default/files/styles/629-349/public/photos/1986_0013.jpg

^ talking about insemination?

It's like one of my colleagues said: we've got to make these same sex marriages available to all. It would lift my worries about inheritance tax because maybe I'd be allowed to marry my son. Why not? Why shouldn't a mother marry her daughter? Why shouldn't two elderly sisters living together marry each other?"

Erm....

no you don't understand, he's equating the freakish unnaturalness of gay to incest or any other crime against nature

Well, if Jimmy Savile was alive, he'd be voting for it...

http://www.bbm.org.uk/images/uv-6680-b.jpg

^ he was lobbying for it back then

"What if I marry my dead mother to avoid inheritance tax?"
"Sounds good to me, Norman!"

Clegg says this is a government of the centre ground. Is he dishonest or stupid?

a little from column a, a little from column b.

If he means the centre ground of a SINKHOLE...

Continuation of the process of everything being skewed further to the right all the time through a combination of constant Tory pulling and the weak left perpetually crumbling. The centre's not in the same place as it was twenty years ago.

In one foul swoop, Cultural Marxists, who have been working behind the scenes for decades in Britain, have broken both marriage and the Conservative party, once the greatest of British institutions.

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/05/david-cameron-has-caused-a-crisis-in-conservatism

cultural marxists!!!

"In one foul swoop"

Engels was a bit of a homophobe, dunno about Marx tbh

"In one foul swoop"

listen, britain is so broken that english idioms don't even work any more, they have been murdered by marxists like all great traditions

this guy's just some local councillor, explains the bare literacy tbf

in a shocking turn of events the "cultural marxists" meme turns out to be anti-semitic in origin (acc. Dan Trilling here)

As I recall, Anders Breivik had a bee in his bonnet about Cultural Marxists too. Stay classy, Spectator.

The way things are going, we surely can't be that far from a stalking horse or full-on John Redwood-style leadership challenge? Even if it doesn't succeed it would probably be suicidal on the Tories' part given that pretty much the only thing going for them is that more people consider Cameron to be a Prime Ministerial figure than Miliband, but then again Cam is looking increasingly lame duck as it is.

Cultural Marxists and Lesbian Queens sounds like some latter day young tories Tarts and Vicars fancy dress party,

Possibly useful in the coming weeks & months:
http://www.isdavidcameronstillprimeminister.com/

What, no http://www.isedmilibandstillcrap.com?

Ed, the young Tories are still doing Jeremy Kyle parties as far as I'm aware.

Tend to leave the 'plantation owners and slaves' shindigs to Ukip these days.

Wtf just happened in woolwich

knife attack
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22630303

http://twitter.com/BOYADEE

...followed by the police shooting the two suspects

can we get Boya Dee on this board now please

Boya Dee ‏@BOYADEE 1h

The first guy goes for the female fed with the machete and she not even ramping she took man out like robocop never seen nutn like it

o_O

I used to walk past there going to work.