General Election 2010

I don't agree with this really, but it is funny...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LakONB4FCU

Oh yeah...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FnmnuDiVno

nice^Hari is pretty insightful as always. Vids give it some humour, which God knows we need. Good posts.

"It was Tony's idea to be Prime Minister. Cameron was just copying him"

fucking brilliant :-)

Boris has it dead right about custard too.

that shot of Cameron sneakily pulling down his wristband whilst barely masking his contempt for the people he is sat opposite should be seen by all of the electorate.

^ you do realise it was an Armando Ianucci pisstake don't you?

the clip is real, the contempt is real, the wristband is real.

Yes! But Cameron did the wristband bit all by himself :-)

Whoops. Snoop overlap:

"It was Snoop's idea to respond, Jar was just copying him"

:-)

i'm struggling to hide my contempt

the clip is real, the contempt is real, the wristband is real.

The clip is real. The contempt is in Ianucci's script. It looks real because you have now associated it with the voiceover, but taking clips out of context and putting his own spin on them is what he does.

I have a bit of contempt for ASDA employees. I can only imagine how much smarmy tory-boy has.

ASDA employees seem pretty decent to me, it's iceland that's full of cunts.

and there is a knob who works in Morrisons on Stamford Hill.

Yeah that guys's a dick.

Sneakily making sure his wristband is visible like that is open to interpretation I suppose.
I know what my conclusions are.
Not a Blairite, but at least he was genuine, even if disagreeable. Cameron just comes over as a fraud. I don't need Oochi Gucci Iannucci to plant that in my mind!

ha

Johann Hari's piece seems a bit naive.
I don't think the majority of the british public are all that left wing. It depends what questions you ask. And which answers you select.
I bet a majority of the british public want to bring back hanging, opposed the reduction of the gay age of consent to 16, want us out of the EU, and an end to immigration, lower welfare costs, etc. They are all pretty right-wing views. I don't think that politics has been about right and left wing since the end of the cold war. Socialism demonstably failed. So did capitalism. There is a consensus that a middle path is essential. That which I suppose we call social or liberal democracy.
He has a point, even if he does make it crudely. Newspapers and politicians collude to push certain issues into the fringes - so to be opposed to Britain's membership is now painted as a right-wing extremist position, whereas in 1973 it was mainstream Labour policy.

I'm a natural conservative I suppose, but I think it would be awesome if the Lib Dems took a majority and changed this country's politics forever.

Not a Blairite, but at least he was genuine, even if disagreeable.

What the fuck?
Blair was the biggest bullshit artist and spin-meister of his generation. You could tell when he was lying because his lips moved. The man didn't have a genuine bone in his body.

Two posts on politics by Niall that I agree with, what the fuck is going on? ;-)

I'm a very complex individual :-)

Not a Blairite, but at least he was genuine

please tell me more...

the stuff Blair did (walking into no 10 holding a guitar to appear 'normal', holding a mug with a picture of his family on it) was kind of broad, obvious and funny. Cameron in that clip just looks irredeemably slimey.

Cameron is irredemably slimy.
Welcome to politics. They are all as bad.

^facile and untrue

Name an MP you would actually trust.