Lefties 7: Simples

[Ewe]

Hope this is ok, I was getting withdrawal symptoms!

Oh, thread moved fast. I am not at all sure what I think of current situation, so am not going to venture an opinion until I have one.

I really must go to bed. So glad we don't all have to have a fight

Here's fingers crossed that the lib dems finish their meeting soon, and that we don't have long to wait until we find out the terms of the deal, and that eggy has made the deal of a lifetime...

Or that maybe there isn't a deal after all... (I think there is though isn't there)

How long before it all goes tits up then?

Ah well. At least we won't have to watch any more BBC news montages for a bit after this week

to LadyB. You poor bugger. I hope you are all right.

Sophiable - I can't see the wood for the trees for depression, mate.

George Osborne is chancellor. Shoot me now.

LadyB - I'm feeling somewhat pathetically juvenile and haven't had the day you've had. Drink the Prosecco and be rude to people as much as you want.

what do we think first scandal/travesity which shows them for their true colours?

Thanks MmeL - sorry for being a drip.

Right, who wants slightly smudgy glass of lukewarm lidl prosecco anyone? Let's toast gordon and his rubbish leadership and the inevitable slide like a teatray on the titanic to the tories.

I am comforting myself with Johann Hari (not literally) - one cock up and they're out

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...?

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.

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.

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.

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

Fuck sake.

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

Cheers, my dears.

Twitter: hide your foxes. And your gays.

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.

Couldn't agree more, Jacaqueen.

Pangloss, Sophable? What does that mean?

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).