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EmilyKent Donating Member (753 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 02:14 PM
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Prime Minister David Cameron.
At 43, the youngest prime minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/election2010/liveevent/
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Jeneral2885 Donating Member (598 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 02:19 PM
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1. Welcome to Tory Story
Tighter immigration, closer monitoring of foreign aid, more Euro-Skepticism, less friendship with the US and more neo-liberalism.
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 02:40 PM
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2. Please, I've just eaten!
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T_i_B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 03:13 PM
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3. Prime Minister David Cameron - #nickcleggsfault
Sometimes only a bad Twitter in-joke will do.
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non sociopath skin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 03:19 PM
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4. Ah well, maybe Clare has a point ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/cartoon/2010/may/05/1

As the LibDems are on the other side now, can we start calling ourselves comrades again? :evilgrin:

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Anarcho-Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 04:15 PM
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8. It depends on...
...the ruling of The Socialist All-Soviet People's Revolutionary Special Committee for Impersonal Pronouns.

:evilgrin:
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non sociopath skin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 04:23 PM
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10. Thank you, comrade.
:evilgrin:

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Hopeless Romantic Donating Member (495 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 03:32 PM
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5. Good luck to the guy. God knows he's gonna need it
Maybe he won't be as bad as expected.

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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 04:14 PM
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7. Yes
and it would be somewhat childish of anyone to criticize him until he fouls up.

I can't wait to find out what the true figures are from the Treasury to which he's never had access.
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non sociopath skin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 04:24 PM
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12. Na na na na na!
:evilgrin:

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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 04:23 AM
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28. Indeed


:rofl:
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EmilyKent Donating Member (753 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 03:49 PM
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6. Osborne as Chancellor, Hague as
Foreign Secretary.
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Jeneral2885 Donating Member (598 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 04:22 PM
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9. Clegg as Leader of the House?
From wikipedia. Hoohoo what a nice offer.
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non sociopath skin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 04:27 PM
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13. Does that mean he gets to open the door for Rupert Murdoch & Lord Ashcroft when they visit?
"Thank you, Clegg. Here's a little something for your trouble. A referendum on AV".

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EmilyKent Donating Member (753 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 04:41 PM
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16. No, Deputy PM.
Plus 4 cabinet positions.
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Jeneral2885 Donating Member (598 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 04:52 PM
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18. yeah small posts
Osborne, Hauge and Fox keep thier posts. Me thinks the libs may not evne get stuff like international development.
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EmilyKent Donating Member (753 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 04:54 PM
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19. Don't know yet.
The agreement isn't public thus far. However, it will at least give Lib/Dems experience at Cabinet level.
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 04:55 PM
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20. I wonder if there's any chance...
Edited on Tue May-11-10 04:57 PM by LeftishBrit
that the Tories will consider education unimportant enough to give a LibDem the post of Education Secretary? Unlikely, but I can hope...

Ugh, I can't stand the Tories.
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EmilyKent Donating Member (753 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 04:58 PM
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21. I'm hoping the agreement will be out shortly.
We're just getting bits and pieces of it, and it's very frustrating.
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 03:23 AM
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24. Blimey, they have (not that I know anyfhing about the bloke), But, god help us all,
Andrew Lansley will be Health Secretary. :puke: :puke: :puke:. GOVERNMENT HEALTH WARNING: Andrew Lansley can seriously damage your health.
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 04:16 AM
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26. I think that in reality
the most damaging thing for our health are NH contributions which never get anywhere near the NHS. That's why Labour's proposed increase in NH contributions was such a farce. Stealth tax indeed. If any party wants to increase tax they should do so honestly and openly.

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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 06:20 AM
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33. If you think that's damaging, wait till they start gutting the NHS like under Thatcher!
Edited on Wed May-12-10 06:21 AM by LeftishBrit
And Lansley is an IDIOT! He's the one who said that the recession might lead to people spending more time with their families.
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 11:00 AM
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35. Update: they haven't after all; Laws took another job so it's still Gove for Education
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non sociopath skin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 04:29 PM
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15. And Daddy Warbucks aka Lord Ashcroft as Foreign Secretary ...
... at least that's what Fox News UK is apparently reporting.

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non sociopath skin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 05:04 PM
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23. Sorry, I was wrong there. Faux UK was reporting Warbucks for Defence ...
... but apparently Liam Fox gets the tin hat and the gun. I guess Warbucks wasn't right wing enough.

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mrfrapp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 04:24 PM
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11. Do not want
Here's hoping the Lib Dems can temper the Tory's more unpleasant policies.
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fedsron2us Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 04:29 PM
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14. Lord Liverpool
The man who suspended Habeus Corpus, passed the repressive Six Acts to limit free speech and freedom of assembly, and presided over the Peterloo Massacre. Not exactly the role model that one would want Cameron to follow

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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 04:50 PM
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17. He really *was* a candidate for 'worst Prime Minister ever'
I just hope that the Tories will be restrained by their minority status from being *quite* as bad as they could have been.
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non sociopath skin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 04:59 PM
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22. I'm sure. The Tories have always done modesty and humility REALLY well ...
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 03:42 AM
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25. Current programme "from Conservative sources" includes:
There will be a "significant acceleration" of efforts to reduce the budget deficit - including £6bn of spending reductions this year. An emergency Budget will take place within 50 days
Plans for five-year, fixed-term parliaments, meaning the next election would not take place until May 2015
The Lib Dems have agreed to drop plans for a "mansion tax" on properties costing more than £2m, while the Conservatives have ditched their pledge to raise the inheritance tax threshold to £1m
The new administration will scrap part of Labour's planned rise in National Insurance and will work towards raising income tax thresholds for lower earners
A pledge to have a referendum on any further transfer of powers to the EU and a commitment from the Lib Dems not to adopt the euro for the lifetime of the next Parliament
The Lib Dems have agreed to Tory proposals for a cap on non-EU migration
The Conservatives will recognise marriage in the tax system, but Lib Dems will abstain in Commons vote
The Lib Dems will drop opposition to a replacement for Britain's Trident nuclear missiles but the programme will be scrutinised for value for money
There will be a referendum on moving to the Alternative Vote system and enhanced "pupil premium" for deprived children as Lib Dems demanded

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8676607.stm


Plus capital gains tax to go back to being the same as income tax, apart from 'entrepreneurs':

There'll be an independent commission to look at whether the big so-called universal banks, such as Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland, should be broken up, so that the more speculative investment banking activities would be formally hived off.

This is consistent with the Tories' manifesto position, but Mr Cable is more enthusiastic about breaking up the banks than Mr Osborne.
...
What may shock many investors is that the coalition will more-or-less adopt the Lib Dem's policy on raising the capital gains tax rate to streamline it with income tax. That means the top rate of CGT will be at least 40%, and possibly 50%.

However a much lower rate will be applied to "entrepreneurial" business investment: the higher capital gains tax rate is aimed at extracting more revenue from speculation, but there will in a sense be a return to the system only abandoned by Labour a couple of years ago, where there were significant tax rewards for those who invest in wealth-creating activities for longer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2010/05/libdem_voice_is_loud_on_banks.html

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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 04:21 AM
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27. I heard they'd dropped
increased allowance for married couples which included gay partnerships/marriages.
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 04:43 AM
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29. From what I last heard, Lib Dems have agreed to abstain on it
but the Tories will propose it - which seems a bit of a cop-out, since with them abstaining, the Tories will get it through.
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 05:03 AM
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31. I must've misheard the news on radio then
but could've sworn they dropped it. I've got no personal feeling either way on that one other than the fact I was pleased they cleary expressed the inclusion of gays. I suppose it doesn't actually follow it would pass : Labour and the others in full attendance could block it if not all Cons were in attendance.

I assume you're aware that there was a time.......when we got it anyway.
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EmilyKent Donating Member (753 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:14 AM
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34. They spent a lot of time on this.
Either that or it was prepared ahead of time. It's an item by item agenda.
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 04:45 AM
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30. Summary:
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 05:07 AM
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32. I so wish
I'd kept The Eye from the very first issue but I gave them all away in the late sixties.:-(

I got into a lot of trouble some time ago when I quoted one of Rushton's cartoons "there's a nasty nip in the air" It was compounded by the Freepers picking up on it.
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