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Lefties 7: Simples

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Ewe · 10/05/2010 22:11

Hope this is ok, I was getting withdrawal symptoms!

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taffetacat · 11/05/2010 16:43

Lemsip was a bit crap eh, they are filling ridiculously on the Beeb. Did you know at Privy council meetings you have to stand up? They said it three times, ffs.

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Hassled · 11/05/2010 16:42

House of Cards - I LOVED that show.

Like Justa, I went and did something else (the garden) and then things happen.

Imminent press conference...

policywonk · 11/05/2010 16:39

Righto ABD. I know v little about electoral systems, must read wubbly's link (although STV is apparently known as BPS in the rest of the world - British Proportional System. Weird huh?)

Hmm. So the media has passed a tiny little turd of Actual News (which is that Cameron is going somewhere and he's smiling) and now we're back to the endless yakyakery. I'm going to try MmeL's tactic and Look Away for a bit...

LeninGrad · 11/05/2010 16:38

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policywonk · 11/05/2010 16:35

Hey toast, have you read 'A Place of Greater Safety'?

wubbly, I sort of agree I think. Everything will depend on the policies that actually get implemented.

BeenBeta · 11/05/2010 16:35

Policywonk - not sure why AV would promote a Lib Dem split. I just had a feeling it might produce an outcome none of us expect.

Sort of unintended consequences and all that once the LibDems have had a taste of real power.

GetOrfMoiLand · 11/05/2010 16:34

I am loving the genius rolling updates from the bbc news website: "1633 David Cameron has just left Tory HQ - not a word passed his lips."

It is better than House of Cards.

wubblybubbly · 11/05/2010 16:32

this link explains the various different systems pretty well I think.

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BecauseImWorthIt · 11/05/2010 16:30

(btw - DP is back ...)

jenny60 · 11/05/2010 16:29

No Wonk, I thought it was quite right that he spoke to both, but the Labour talks should not have been done secretly. It was a terrible situation for him, so I don't want to be too hard on him.

wubblybubbly · 11/05/2010 16:29

I'm not so sure Policywonk. Labour might do okay longer term, but the rest of us mere mortals will be totally screwed over the next couple of years, unless Ham'n'Egg have agreed on the lib dem economic policy.

It seems totally pointless of Blunkett, Reid et all to be refusing to negoiate on electoral reform when the tories have already conceded to a referendum. It's going to happen whether they want it or not.

I don't think these bloody Blairites have the interests of either the Labour party or the country in mind. The in-fighting has already started.

GB has been magnificent in all of this, shame these tossers don't have the same principles. I think they're hoping it'll be a disaster for the country under the libs/tories and they'll stand by rubbing their hands in glee, whilst the rest of us pay the price.

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MmeLindt · 11/05/2010 16:29

True, Lenin. They have really done well.

Cameron leaving Conservative HQ

On his way to Downing Street?

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thetoriesaretoast · 11/05/2010 16:27

GetOrf, can't you stand on a gatepost a la Camille Desmoulins and incite the crowd to put DC's head on a pike? Then no one would accuse you of being a Tory.

MmeLindt · 11/05/2010 16:27

Watching Lempik (or whatever his name is) on BBC news.

policywonk · 11/05/2010 16:26
BeenBeta · 11/05/2010 16:25

Is that a removal van I can see at the back of Downing St on Sky?

GetOrfMoiLand · 11/05/2010 16:25

Don't start on my name again BeenBeta!!

Noooo emphatically not tory.

at 'DC off to the palace'. Off with his head, if I had my way.

I do think it is best if labour go into opposition, it would not have been sustainable. Still bastard, fuck, arse though. And aimed at Nick Clegg for causing all this fuss and nonsense in the first place.

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LordPanofthePeaks · 11/05/2010 16:25

CAn we all pug our MN irons in once Parliaments opens again for the Queen's Speech? Its the "MadamL" technique to oust an unwelcolme interloper.

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