lefties 7:compare the tory.com

[HerHonesty]

sorry couldnt think of anything else. gideon in charge of the economy..

HIGNFY - agree twas crap. You'd think with all the potential material this week it would have been fabulous.I wonder if they cut all the best bits?

I kept thinking the Lefties thread on Mumsnet is soooo much wittier

and just before I get stoned...i think that ian hislop/private eye and HIGNFY will have an absolute field day with DC for the next 5 years, but how can you expect a satirical news show not to rip the piss out of gordon's departure??? really? were they meant to be reverential...clearly I was very remiss to find loads of it very funny indeed.

i mean stoned to death on here... NOT stoned as in drugs btw.

I don't see why a satirical programme can't be balanced in its satire sophable.

I would have thought that it isn't quite cricket to rip the piss out of a committed politician's departure no matter what one thinks of his politics.

Not sure I agree with that Beachcomber, given that Thatcher could be described in those terms

I didn't think what was 'cricket' or otherwise was something comedians (or good ones) took under consideration . It was funny - but obviously not if you though gordon was , like, really good .

and actually,come to think of it, whats funny about Gordon is partly just how very 'committed' he was...or rather, and lets be honest , how verym very 'desperate' he was....all the way from rector at uni by way of granita to keeping schtum about iraq to tuition fees....this man would sell his granny to a slave trader for a chance to get into number ten....and yes, its comical to see him levered out of the door.

I have been reading the best book - "When the Lights Went Out" by andy Beckett.

Did anyone else not know that all the "Squatter" stuff by the Sun was actually a knowing reference to when Heath and Wilson took over?

ooooooh, Lenin

[distraught]

Perhaps that's why it offended me then. I think Gordon Brown is a fine and underappreciated politician. I feel desperately sorry for him that his opportunity came at such a bad time.

"I feel desperately sorry for him that his opportunity came at such a bad time."

Not nearly as bad as david cameron's.

take comfort from that

"When Heath left and wilson took over."

This confirms my opinion about the Sun - that it is truly quite a twisted thing.

Fair point

Gosh I don't understand what happened around here today, it's getting too sophisticated for a lefty like me, who is not even British, so I probably have a totally different way of being lefty and all...

BUT: do you knoe there is a threat about repealing the hunting ban???

I have been around for a while but have been thinking about this thread....my thoughts are that "heads we win, tails we win"...I mean either

1)the LIbDems will help to ameliorate the Tory govt in which case good for us all

OR

2. they mess up and Labour gets back in.

Some Labour politicians though might get very worried that DC will use the opportunity to pursue a real centrist/liberal agenda and stay in power for a long time! Milliband is young so he can stick around for a while yet?

Did someone said that they thought that Miliband should have challenged Brown? I wondered about whether than would not have been bloody and counter-productive?

Had me worried there, lenin Read that you couldn't be the antichrist

Prolesworth " I'm guessing it was recorded before the risible Dick Clameron love in? "

PMSL [grin} Loving Dick Clameron, sounds like a Carry On... charactor.

Any title suggestions?

I absolutely agree with everything you say, Lenin

having said that, I finally joined the Labour party at the weekend -evidently following pattern set by my one time communist grandparents. Just feeling that I need to do something- even if it's a bit shit

...tis true, you do get more right wing as you get older

Jesus, I go away and revise, take my final exam, go for drinks (champagne socialist, moi? ) and tapas and come back to this carnage!

What happened to the lefty love in?

Looks like we have imploded. See you all next election!?

For a new thread? Still like the "It was the meerkats what did it" although less relevant now.

MarionCole - yes, I get deeply angry about the way the press can caricature a decent, public servant.

Why did the LDs think that they could get away with the spin that Labour didn't want a coalition? Why didnt they just say that the ConLib coalition would be stabler?