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

it's so exhaustingly sad that that's more likely a bhurt reaction to the super-hilarious "britain is a small island that nobody pays attention to" than it is about, oooh idk, the fact that there's been a bill introduced in the duma to take the children of gay people away from them.

this govt is a parade of braying tossers who think they're in the crowd of some sporting event where they can masquerade some semblance of trad. masculinity their privileged upbringings and sour grinchiness have always denied them.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/06/recovery-election-question-living-standards

especially the first four paragraphs

Prime Minister says no other country has a 'prouder history or bigger heart'
UK leads the world in art, sport, music, philosophy and diplomacy, he says
Tribute likened to Hugh Grant's 'small country' speech in film Love Actually
Russia mocked the UK's size and boasted that oligarchs 'bought Chelsea'
Jibe sparked furious response from Britain at G20 summit in St Petersburg

Suggesting his tribute to Great Britain be 'set to music', Mr Cameron argued it had saved Europe from fascism

this is totally going to convince a country that was responsible for about 85% of wehrmacht casualties

Prime Minister says no other country has a 'prouder history or bigger heart'
UK leads the world in art, sport, music, philosophy and diplomacy, he says

what kind of shithead turns up to a global conference and chunders this self-serving bollocks?

He is like Basil Fawlty in The Germans

UK leads the world in art, sport, music, philosophy and diplomacy

LOL diplomacy, this speech being a case in point

boasted that oligarchs 'bought Chelsea'

The football team or the London borough? Either way, how is it a jibe?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23984730

"that has invented most of the things worth inventing"

(...)

"including every sport currently played around the world"

Mr Cameron said Russia had "absolutely denied" the remarks.

But he used the opportunity to champion Britain, saying few other nations had "a prouder history, a bigger heart or greater resilience".

Oh so there was absolutely no point to this whatsoever, then

congratulations dave

"... a bigger heart..."

Biggest hollowest LOL of all

Prime Minister says no other country has a 'prouder history or bigger heart'

Pretty sure he's just quoting a Mumford & Sons lyric there.

A Bigger Heart - title for Mumfords' next album?

Flashback to the headmaster in "If..." lecturing the prefects

Britain today is a power-house of ideas, experiments, imagination, on everything from pop music to pig breeding; from atom power stations to mini-skirts, and that's the challenge we've got to meet

Britain quashed the Mau Mau uprising in the firm but tender way one might put down a beloved family pet.

i'm welling up here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lvL4Bzyumg

Tomlinson even has the same haircut as Cameron there.

Similar waist size too

Britain today is a power-house of ideas, experiments, imagination, on everything from pop music to pig breeding; from atom power stations to mini-skirts, and that's the challenge we've got to meet

Love that scene.

ffs

One million of Britain's lowest paid employees will be classed as "not working enough" and could find themselves pushed with the threat of sanctions to find more income under radical changes to welfare, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has said.

DWP internal documents seen by the Guardian reveal that people earning between £330 to around £1,050 a month – just under the rate of the national minimum wage for a 35-hour week – could be mandated to attend job centre meetings where their working habits will be examined as part of the universal credit (UC) programme.

Some of those deemed to be "not working enough" could also be instructed to take on extra training – and if they fail to complete tasks they could be stripped of their UC benefits in a move which departmental insiders conceded is "controversial".

How much will they get away with before people see through this shit? Unfortunately it seems to be working so far. I moved away from my home town when I went to uni, so I have no claim on being in anyway connected to what ilx0rs might call "Real England" but I met a load of people from my family at a funeral a few months ago, who are the more ostensibly working class side of my family, and some conversations went round to politics and fuck the Sun-reading working class tory is spreading like fucking rats right now, this is mostly union people as well, some of whom marched against Thatcher in the 80s, Miliband breaking ties with the unions seems like political suicide.

xp well this is the real purpose behind UC, to put everyone on benefits in the same category as the unemployed, and put them under the same (increasing) pressure, so they can be forced into being free/cheap labour.

Big hearted Britain at its best

(btw where is that from, it doesn't ring true to me)

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/sep/06/uk-lowest-paid-classed-not-working-enough

The UK economy is turning a corner

into a dark alley

Just gonna post "The UK economy is turning a corner" ever 2 months, and everyone hast to pretend that it means anything or is of any value whatsoever. It was head story on BBC.co.uk for a while! Still a main story. smdh.

THe UK economy is turning the sort of corner that happens when a cartoon character's foot is nailed to the floor... with hilarious results!

http://www.jasonhawkes.com/blog/news/DSC_1538.jpg

corners are definitely being turned.

British Social Attitudes Report finds softening attitudes to benefits. Though I wouldn't be surprised to see it's hardened quite considerably again in the last year due to ongoing media propaganda war.

perhaps its softening as people are beginning to realise that even they who aren't caricatures of benefits claimants require benefits to make ends meet

would be nice if labour party could somehow help verbalise this fact better

it wd probably be nicer if the Labour party had found a different route than the Byzantine tax credit system to lift people out of low pay, tbf

Tories/Lib Dems vs. the UN

firmly on the side of the sinister world government guys in this case

rejecting these complaints because they're based on anecdotal stories which are not something the coalition wd ever use to make a case

Grant Shapps to write to the Secretary General demanding an apology.

Filed right in the fucking wastepaper basket.

Getting mightily sick of DWP spokespeople, who are supposed to be impartial civil servants, clearly being on-message Tory SPAD types.

i know this'll sound like i'm trying to be some 'macho man' or something but i'd really like to pummel grant schapps' legs repeatedly with a baseball bat, and then watch him fail an atos test.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/sep/10/mary-portas-contract-channel-4

Shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne said the policy should be dropped and said what was "shocking" was that the Conservatives were pushing ahead with "hated" changes which he said were primarily hitting disabled people.

Labour has not committed to scrapping the policy

your opposition right there

When I think of what even a semi-competent Labour party could have done against this barefaced shower of fucktards we call "The Coalition" I have to fight the urge to kick a wall then I just cry a bit.

Just sack everyone now and start a-fucking-gain. Yvette Cooper to lead, some non-arseholes given a chance, make a break, SOMEBODY

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nick-clegg-is-worse-than-michael-foot-says-key-lib-dem-peer-lord-oakeshott-8812916.html

well Michael Foot was a principled, cultured, intelligent man with a strong sense of decency and a great deal of respect for his fellow party members so yes, obv

i used to work in a bookshop that he used to come into regularly - you'd heard him coming before you saw him because by this stage there'd be a sort of staggered step, a loud clomp of his gnarled mage-like stick and a sort of high pitched throat-clearing noise of effort. he used to come in and see whether I had the edition of Gulliver's Travels he'd written an introduction for - if I didn't he'd always say this was excellent as it meant it had sold out, and if I did, he'd usually get a copy as he was always giving the one he had away to friends. This was nice of him as it was usually my inept ordering that dictated whether there was a copy or not. Hero, obviously.

As you say, Nick Clegg doesn't have an ounce of anything approaching Michael Foot's qualities.