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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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Jacaqueen · 11/05/2010 21:19

The Brown family on their way back up to Scotland tonight.

I wonder if they have permission to take the boys out of school.

Perhaps they will home school for a while?

MmeLindt · 11/05/2010 21:19

MrJustabout
I think that is too harsh.

And I think that we should stop bickering.

I am really sad that these threads, that have been so wonderful over the past week, are descending into this.

We are allowed to have different opinions, that is fine. Let us be polite and respect those opinions.

Prolesworth · 11/05/2010 21:18

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2cats2many · 11/05/2010 21:18

Gosh. I had tears in my eyes when they brought their boys out.

InmyheadIminParis · 11/05/2010 21:18

Okay, so SamCam doesn't want to move to No.10.

A tad too small, perhaps? Okay. Please shut me up.

MrJustAbout · 11/05/2010 21:17

Not yet straits - they get the details in 15 minutes.

taffetacat · 11/05/2010 21:17

pmsl ( in a wild eyed way ) @ hide your foxes and your gays

policywonk · 11/05/2010 21:17

Have been doing a strategically-timed bath-and-bedtime - any news ?

Agree with soph, zeph and MrJusta FWIW. Don't think there was a better way out of this situation. at Zeph's DD heckling our new premier.

TheStraitsofWTF · 11/05/2010 21:17

Osbourne looks like something from a Harry Potter film.

DHam - yes, I was surprised by full coalition, but have the LD party agreed?

badgermonkey · 11/05/2010 21:16

I just thought - wonder if there's any chance Labour will take this term in opposition to move more to the left? Think the popularity of the Lib Dems during the campaign shows there's an appetite for it (admittedly in this case it's like being sold a pizza and getting a tomato sauce sandwich, but you see what I mean).

MmeLindt · 11/05/2010 21:16

Pangloss, Sophable? What does that mean?

InmyheadIminParis · 11/05/2010 21:16

Couldn't agree more, Jacaqueen.

justaboutacompletedfamily · 11/05/2010 21:16

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MrJustAbout · 11/05/2010 21:16

Yeah, but they don't want to hear that sophable. They're hurting and having a really bad day. We might not feel entirely comfortable tonight, but we at least have the consolation that the lib dems did what they could to see what could be done with labour. Even today labour were attacking the snp votes that would have been critical to any coalition.

The ideological left is frustrating. i hate it when the ideological left (and I'm pretty politically left myself) is more interested in points and purity than actually helping people. For all this faults, Brown was interested in helping people rather than the dogma and he was more effective for it.

Some of the shit I've seen on this thread does no honour at all to Brown's departure today and I think a bunch of you need to take a hard look at yourselves.

DavidHameron · 11/05/2010 21:16

Twitter: hide your foxes. And your gays.

MmeLindt · 11/05/2010 21:15

Cheers, my dears.

StewieGriffinsMom · 11/05/2010 21:15

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CoinOperatedGirl · 11/05/2010 21:15

I'm worried about the next election, and also very very confused.

Jacaqueen · 11/05/2010 21:15

Georgie porgy as Chancellor terifies me more than DC as PM.

Fuck sake.

Heathcliffscathy · 11/05/2010 21:15

i've been called pangloss on my thread...that is the most upsetting thing that has happened to me today!

have to admit to being touched by beta's hanging out sympathetically (but not patronisingly, i think he is more worried than you lot are) on this thread.

onebatmother · 11/05/2010 21:14

Fixed term parliaments
no married couples tax allowance
no inheritance tax threshold increase

It doesn't seem like much.

LadyB - so sorry to hear that.

LeninGrad · 11/05/2010 21:14

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LetThereBeRock · 11/05/2010 21:13

My dp is moping around too.

He's from a class that would almost always vote Conservative, and his parents still do.

He doesn't vote Conservative because he believes it'd be detrimental to the majority to have them in power,though can't quite bring himself to vote Labour either because of his father's job, so he voted Lib Dem.

He's with Getorf on this. He feels as though he might as well have ticked the Conservative box on his ballot sheet.

DavidHameron · 11/05/2010 21:13

I refer y'sll to my earlier post. If they hadn't done a deal already, wouldn't you think, if a Tory can't we go it alone? Certainly the old right wing dinosaurs in the party will be pressing for that.

And if a LibDem and a decent offer on PR hadn't been made (and now that Hamboy is in power the deal must surely have shrunk?) then you might well think you might be safer going it alone and voting with the opposition when necessary...?

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