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

Running over time and budget is something all parties excel at.

yeah it's terrible the way labour used to get all these big it and infrastructure problems in on time and under budget, and now look at the mess we're in

All true but trying to think of the last attempt by a Labour government to do something as big as Universal Credit, let alone fuck it up

UKBA?

NHS records digitization

But are they as big as the entire benefits system?

the NHS one was may have been a smaller budget but was probably more complicated

Dunno, it's not like a Labour government to try anything too ambitious, got to worry what Paul Dacre might think of it

Possibly yes. xp = tbf its not just the govt projects. IT projects in the private sector fail quite badly too, for various factors.

and they fucked the nhs thing up for like ten years, not a couple.

my point is basically none of the parties are realistic in the slightest about these things, but the actual incompetence problem is institutional to the civil service

feel like all these c words should sit down with a copy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month before they're allowed to spend more money on it than the cost of an ipad

I saw a review of the reissue of that in The Observer a couple of months ago.

it's great. totally readable if you're not a computer person. a+ recommended.

MP Patrick Mercer has resigned the Conservative Party whip.

Mr Mercer is a former shadow defence minister who has represented Newark since 2001.

The former Army officer was sacked from the Conservative frontbench by David Cameron in 2007 after allegedly racist comments.

The BBC understands his decision to quit is in connection with a lobbying story being pursued by Panorama, scheduled to go out on Thursday.

In November 2011, the press reported that Mercer had been taped making disparaging remarks about David Cameron, calling him "despicable" and describing him as an "arse" and "the worst politician in British history since William Gladstone". The same articles claimed he had predicted that Cameron would be ousted by Conservative MPs in early 2012. Mercer later denied making the comments

The worst politician since Gladstone is quite a claim.

Was he bad then, ol' Gladdo?

The Tories certainly thought so cos he kept beating them in elections.

Well, by that reckoning they must think Brazil are a terrible football team.

good lookin' guy http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67910000/jpg/_67910721_mercer_pa.jpg

who is the Downing Street Shagger?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2013/jun/02/mailonsunday-davidcameron

John Prescott & Anne Widecombe. Calling it now.

i may ever cease vomiting

Lead theory on Twitter this afternoon is Samantha Cameron and Boris Johnson. Allegations as to parenthood of a child.

This one seems popular.

Followed by Hague and mystery man.

ach gott mein eyes

Cameron's wife and Boris is just too hilarious to be true. Also, virtually logistically impossible.

Dream scenario would be Clegg and someone but I understand they're both Tories.

1) pick two random Tories
2) imagine 'scenario'
3) vom

not in cabinet but important enough to be a big deal? how many candidates can there be?

meanwhile, pro tip for members of the upper house. if a dude you've never met before offers you a bag full of cash to plug his business interests, you might wanna check see if he's wearing a wire.

Cameron's wife and Nigel Farage?

Why can't the Mail disclose who they are "for legal reasons"? Because no source is willing to speak up and they'd be sued for libel?

implication is there's a superinjunction in place

which rules out any member of the Cameron household imo

My first thought was Liam Fox, there's a lot of smoke around that guy at pretty much all times, plus he was running the MoD, although that would be too public-interest for a superinjunction. Maybe Bercow-related?

Boris having an extramarital affair hardly constitutes a 'dynamite revelation' really.

whole thing feels a bit overplayed by the Mail hacks, wonder if there's some actual bad news they want burying

Dream scenario would be Clegg and someone but I understand they're both Tories.

splittin hairs there Matt

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What, that they're all doing the cash for questions fiddle.

It has been said that they are middle-aged figures and that the affair has now concluded. It does not involve anyone serving in the cabinet.

Boris having an extramarital affair hardly constitutes a 'dynamite revelation' really.

Yeah, surely Boris having a dalliance is on the dog-bites-man end of the news spectrum?

This guy must not think anything of long prison sentences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpr7WUf9cyE

This guy must not think anything

ps is that david quantick y/n?

i want that guy sending down just cos he sets the crepe detector thru the roof tbh

Nathan Barley?

I guess we just have to wait for tomorrow's French/Italian/American papers to be published

they're not politicians but they're close to the pm

http://orderorder.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/acrb.png

clue's in the link

Going to spend the rest of my evening watching all that guy's youtube videos.

(two pairs of initials in the html)

(this is the clue i'm seeing being floated around)

they're not politicians but i guess this posed a conflict of interest?

OH SHIT.

If it is them, is it really something that could 'bring down Cameron'?

Alan Carr and Rebecca Black?!?!?!

AHAAAHAAAHAHAAH

Too late to never become the story, but still, if that's true....