There are so many pics of Cleggy looking miserable/ haunted/ suicidal to chose from
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:56 (twelve years ago) link
.. and the words to "any way that you want me"
xpost TIMIG!
― Jilted John and Marsha (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:58 (twelve years ago) link
Have noticed David Laws sneaking back into the media spotlight recently, I imagine he'll be back in the cabinet soon
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:19 (twelve years ago) link
PMs usually look pretty haggard within a year or so but Cameron still looks like he sleeps like a baby. Clegg looking much rougher which is weird seeing as he technically doesn't have anything to do.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:24 (twelve years ago) link
Painting, attic, botox, selling yr soul to the devil... sprinkle into jokes as you see fit.
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:25 (twelve years ago) link
Nick is the sensitive type, writing tear stained letters back to Mummy about how horrid the other boys in his dorm are to him, Dave's a "roarer, a rogerer, a gorger and a puker"
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:26 (twelve years ago) link
Westminster School vs. Eton
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:28 (twelve years ago) link
Westminster boys tend to be better adjusted but Eton boys are weirder in bed?
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:29 (twelve years ago) link
Wait I didn't say that.
This hasn't come up yet?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/shortcuts/2011/dec/12/david-cameron-full-bladder-technique?intcmp=239
Cameron, it is said, used his tried-and-tested "full-bladder technique" to achieve maximum focus and clarity of thought throughout the gruelling nine-hour session in Brussels. During the formal dinner and subsequent horse-trading into the early hours, the prime minister remained intentionally "desperate for a pee".
― sean doily, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:30 (twelve years ago) link
Sounds like an overheard conversation at a Tory Party conference (xp)
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:31 (twelve years ago) link
He'd left his pissboy, young Nick, at home
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:33 (twelve years ago) link
i'd've thought the full bladder technique wd be offset by his full of shit technique
― Angles that bitch (Julie Lagger), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:33 (twelve years ago) link
Full bladder technique, yup. Like I said, Eton boys are ~weird~ in bed.
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:33 (twelve years ago) link
Is that really going to help your negotiating position? If I'd been holding it for as much as a couple of hours I'd basically be willing to give Sarkozy anything he asked for just to get out of the room.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:43 (twelve years ago) link
Nine hours, he's asking for trouble on the prostate front there.
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm, sounds like he gave him nothing, just so he could get out of the room.
― Jilted John and Marsha (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:46 (twelve years ago) link
does seem to indicate that if you're ever engaged in tense negotiations with Cameron then a swift blow to the abdomen cd have hilarious consequences
― Angles that bitch (Julie Lagger), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:53 (twelve years ago) link
If only Laws and Clegg hadn't held Vince Cable back and he'd connected that time during the coalition talks...
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:56 (twelve years ago) link
wait what, re: full bladder technique
why are our politicians such massive weirdos
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 12:00 (twelve years ago) link
though actually it's one of those stories that just makes you feel a lot better about yourself
The fact that we have a PM who thinks that Enoch Powell is someone to *emmulate*... but at least we know the sources of those metphors, then. Rivers of Blood? Rivers of piss coursing through his mind, more like.
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 12:02 (twelve years ago) link
We can just hope.
― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
Perhaps this CD would be of use for background listening during future negotiations:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61HR60NNAHL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― brony island baby (case spudette), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 13:27 (twelve years ago) link
Expect more Euro bashing and Enoch Powell evoking if this is anything to go by.
http://cdn.yougov.com/cumulus_uploads/document/n9x15djpsk/YG-Archives-Pol-Sun-results-141211.pdf
― Ned Trifle, Thursday, 15 December 2011 09:39 (twelve years ago) link
nice to see no evidence of a North/South divide there
― Angles that bitch (Julie Lagger), Thursday, 15 December 2011 09:41 (twelve years ago) link
xp Having said that - interesting disconnect between voting intention and "disapproval of Government"?
Is it "I don't like it so it must be good for me"?
― Ned Trifle, Thursday, 15 December 2011 09:42 (twelve years ago) link
or a percentage of the disapprovers are disapproving cos the gov isn't right wing enough
― Angles that bitch (Julie Lagger), Thursday, 15 December 2011 09:46 (twelve years ago) link
Not enjoying the voting intention percentages, but I am enjoying that 50% of people who voted for Clegg in 2010 believe he has no redeeming qualities
― brony island baby (case spudette), Thursday, 15 December 2011 11:44 (twelve years ago) link
Striking that Labour have a healthy lead with every age group apart from the over-60s. Shame they're the only people who vote.
― The Artist Formerly Known As Teh HoBB, Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:03 (twelve years ago) link
Twisted old bastards
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:05 (twelve years ago) link
wow i hadn't picked that up, man a nice long cold winter cd completely decimate the Tories' support
― Angles that bitch (Julie Lagger), Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
REPEAL THE WINTER FUEL ALLOWANCE
"They don't like it up 'em, the EU"
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:11 (twelve years ago) link
On those numbers could the LDs get wiped out in scotland?
― Ed, Thursday, 15 December 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
Fingers crossed. Lots of their 'star' MPs are from Scotland.
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Thursday, 15 December 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
Most of their Scottish voters are on the right, so I imagine the SNP and (possibly) the Tories would benefit.
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Thursday, 15 December 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
― Angles that bitch (Julie Lagger), Thursday, December 15, 2011 1:06 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
:D
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Thursday, 15 December 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
HOPE!
Sixty years of free health care, free bus travel and discounts at the National Trust tea shop and this is how they repay you...
― Ned Trifle, Thursday, 15 December 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
Disappointing night for Bus-Pass Elvis supporters
Amusing (intentionally?) quote from Simon 'Scumbag' Hughes:
"What happened here was what normally happens in a by-election. People protest against the government, so government parties take a hit and the opposition normally moves forward."
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Friday, 16 December 2011 09:55 (twelve years ago) link
Lib Dems - 1,364 (5.87%)
Much lower than the 9-11% they've been polling nationally for the past year.
― mortified of ILX (onimo), Friday, 16 December 2011 11:11 (twelve years ago) link
They've changed that article - originally the Tory quote came from the defeated candidate (I think) and was along the lines of 'well, it's a good result because people said we were going to get hammered and that hasn't happened'. Except there was a swing of 8.6% from the Tories to Labour (which would give Labour an 88-seat majority if repeated nationally), the Labour lead over the Tories was over 26% and they got almost double the Tory vote in a seat which the Tories held in the 90s, and less than 8% of the electorate could be bothered to vote for the Tories. I know it's only a by-election and the result means nothing in the long-term, but it's still a shit result for them.
― The Artist Formerly Known As Teh HoBB, Friday, 16 December 2011 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
(which would give Labour an 88-seat majority if repeated nationally)
is so meaningless it doesn't even deserve saying with the "i know this means nothing" caveat
― caek, Friday, 16 December 2011 13:28 (twelve years ago) link
28% turnout. Turnout in Homs was probably higher.
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Friday, 16 December 2011 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16224394
― boxedjoy, Friday, 16 December 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
"I'm saying something obnoxious that will piss you off, but I'm trying hard to say it in a way that won't piss you off. However that just pisses you off even more."
― yes this is the real (snoball), Friday, 16 December 2011 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
Describing himself as a "committed" but only "vaguely practising" Christian
So which is it then, hypocrite or fucking liar?
― Seed Production Scientist cum Head (Julie Lagger), Saturday, 17 December 2011 10:16 (twelve years ago) link
The bible contains plenty of both. Cameron would have fit right in.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Saturday, 17 December 2011 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/LAQwV.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/LAQwV.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/LAQwV.jpg
― awesome to have a clever englishman zinging yr enemies (nakhchivan), Sunday, 18 December 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link