General Election 2010

Egad! Look at this freaks gallery. It's like a who's who of Guess Who? faces... only freakier and considerably less diverse. There's a lot of chin here. Phil hammond looks like he's melting.

I like to imagine the noises they're making in these photos. Especially Gove. And Pickles looks like he's going to eat Warsi.

anyone want a game of cabinet guess who??

is he ginger?
is he bald?
is he a woman?
does he look like he's going "mOOOOOOOOOOOO!"?

George Osborn remined me of Rimmer.

B3ta

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Adam Boulton Arguing With Ben Bradshaw[/ame]

Boulton shows some more passion

the great repeal bill
how magical is that
all our freedoms lost under gordon brown / new labour will be returned to us.

rave with repetitive drum beats on clapham common anyone
meeting 6 of your friends in one place without the fear of arrest anyone
the ability to walk near the houses of parliament without having your name taken down and checked anyone

fuck off new labour and your nanny statism

is it just me or do those two ( cameron and cleggy ) look alike
and watching them walk arounbd the rose garden yesterday reminded me of a couple who have just started going out looking fondly into each others eyes / butterflies in their stomachs as they catch sight of each other down downing street
it's spring and romance is in the air for those two alrighty

Is Lord Strathclyde Jabba the hut from Star Wars?

Egad! Look at this freaks gallery. It's like a who's who of Guess Who? faces... only freakier and considerably less diverse. There's a lot of chin here. Phil hammond looks like he's melting.

erik pickles looks even more like a ham than karl rove:

the great repeal bill
how magical is that
all our freedoms lost under gordon brown / new labour will be returned to us.

rave with repetitive drum beats on clapham common anyone
meeting 6 of your friends in one place without the fear of arrest anyone
the ability to walk near the houses of parliament without having your name taken down and checked anyone

fuck off new labour and your nanny statism

is it just me or do those two ( cameron and cleggy ) look alike
and watching them walk arounbd the rose garden yesterday reminded me of a couple who have just started going out looking fondly into each others eyes / butterflies in their stomachs as they catch sight of each other down downing street
it's spring and romance is in the air for those two alrighty

yep. get ready for 5 years of constant gay jokes :)

I am optimistic for this new govt., i reckon it will go the full 5 years.

Funnily enough a lib-con pact was what I was kind of hoping for when I voted Liberal. First of all we sack labour and second the Libs will stop the Tories reverting to thatcherism and keep them on the straight and narrow.

Hopefully. It might all go horribly wrong though.

Since its happened Ive started to think a little like this too. I was scared from the beginning what the conservatives might do, this £6bn in cuts is gonna hurt surely?

But I was rather amazed at the deal the lib dems got out of this when they were such a minority in votes. And the coalition is starting to show tiny hints at a positive direction (the whole civil liberties thing). Its calmed me a little, but its still rather worrying.

The optimistic, mature side of me is trying to think this might be the best possible outcome and some good stuff may come out of it.

But mostly im feeling this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRxNZfRpfG8

the great repeal bill
how magical is that
all our freedoms lost under gordon brown / new labour will be returned to us.

rave with repetitive drum beats on clapham common anyone
meeting 6 of your friends in one place without the fear of arrest anyone
the ability to walk near the houses of parliament without having your name taken down and checked anyone

fuck off new labour and your nanny statism

I strongly feel that most of the issues with foreign affairs, civil liberties & the recession wouldve happened the same or worse under a conservative government or under leaders other than Blair or Brown.

Its all about what is happening at the time. The civil liverties thing is like our version of Barack Obama wanting to shut down Guantanamo as a top priority.

My concern outside of how the coalition will deal with the economy, is the fact that our Equality Minister doesn't believe in equality and is a homophobic bigot.

I have signed a petition to have her removed from this position and am very much worried about the future rights of the gays.

http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/36217.html

And if i see her, I will kick her squarely in the chuff.

Did anyone see Phillip Hammond talk about the BA strikes this morning? Besides his lopsided face i could help but feel every inch of hope leave my body when his opening statement amounted to. "Pah, unions! Its between them and BA, i don't give a shit"

Did anyone see Phillip Hammond talk about the BA strikes this morning? Besides his lopsided face i could help but feel every inch of hope leave my body when his opening statement amounted to. "Pah, unions! Its between them and BA, i don't give a shit"

i thought it was quite good when he said that he wasnt biased because the unite union arent paying his party millons of pounds, still a c***t though

I like Ben Bradshaw. He's genuinely good looking and always seems to be having such a nice time. So smiley, it's amazing. Even when being 'interviewed' by a crazed bolt on he keeps his cool.

Boulton shows some more passion

If anyone's interested I went for a drink last night with someone who was very high up in the whole process of forming the coalition Government and saw it all happen from the inside.

He said The Lib Dems were incredibly close to a deal with Labour, which was always the preferred option (even for Clegg), but Milliband and Balls sabotaged everything. Mandelson and Adonis were both spitting feathers about the breakdown of the talks. Labour wouldn't actually go as far on electoral reform as the Tories did, which is one of the main reasons the talks broke down.

There were 15 hours of talks with the Tories, about half of these were about free schools, the Lib Dems desperately didn't want to agree to them and really didn't want Gove in Education.

Brown really did try to hang on right until the end, but once the talks had broken down Mandelson persuaded him to go for the good of the party. He should really have waited but went straight away, resulting in the Lib Dems and Tories getting calls from Buckingham Palace with a message from the Queen saying 'one does not have a PM and one would like one immediately' - or words to that effect.

is it someone we'd have heard of?

No. I can't tell you who it is I'm afraid and I don't think it's a good idea to say who he works for either, wouldn't want to get him into any trouble.

But if you did know who he was you'd know how he would know this stuff.

It would entirely suit Balls and Milliband for this coalition to be Con / Lib.

Partly in an altruistic sense as it was recognised that a Lab / Lib coalition would be quite shaky and would involve lots of concessions to the more obscure parties and assemblies, but mostly due to the selfish reason that they would benefit from the inevitable Brown resignation, and then let the Tories & Libs manage the next two years of budget cuts and recession. Allowing them (after 2 years of snipey opposition experience) to ‘swoop’ back into power once the Lib voters had realized that the Tories were reverting back to type. I’d forgotten how entrenched some of the old Labour antipathy towards the Lib Dems is.

I’m amazed by the compromise on the detention of refugee minors though, I guess that must have been the flip side to the immigration caps.

No. I can't tell you who it is I'm afraid and I don't think it's a good idea to say who he works for either, wouldn't want to get him into any trouble.

But if you did know who he was you'd know how he would know this stuff.

Is it Boris?

Is it Pete Best the 5th Beatle, it sounds just like him?

@DFP ha ha, I would rep you. well I tried to, but somehow set it to "I disapprove" . oops, sorry.

Can we stop saying 'kingmakers'?

kingmakers ride fixies