a million reasons to be afraid

apparently, according to the Daily Mail, 23 of the 29 ministers are worth more than

1 million pounds.
Maybe this is the reason why the two parties get along so well.

DAILY MAIL MONDAY 24/05/10

The coalition of millionaires: 23 of the 29 member of the new cabinet are worth more than £1m... and the Lib Dems are just as wealthy as the Tories By Glen Owen Last updated at 9:45 AM on 23rd May 2010

It is the £60million Cabinet. David Cameron’s coalition Government may have adopted ‘fairness’ as one of its defining slogans, but his team of Ministers has been drawn almost exclusively from the ranks of the financial elite – leading to accusations that politics is once again becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

Of the 29 Ministers entitled to attend Cabinet meetings, 23 have assets and investments estimated to be worth more than £1million.

-cosusbelly67

for more. frankly it makes me ill:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/election/article-1280554/The-coalition-millionaires-23-29-member-new-cabinet-worth-1m--Lib-Dems-just-wealthy-Tories.html#ixzz0osCrzjXj

a suitable epitaph for Gordo's career

soon
a taste:
no more boom and bust
the Iraq war is good for the economy
Poisoned chalice of Blair
tax the poor, they're too lazy and illiterate to apply for their state aid

swing voters are like any swingers

We're damn hot. Dead sexy, even.
we are kingmakers. Every party sucks up to us.

We're willing to listen to each and every party and then make up our minds.
Parties are sending all their stupid platitudes towards us, but we're too intelligent.

Vote for change. Try Posh Cola, now!
bullsh*t

we're the ones willing to go for a hung parliament, because we think that politics is the biggest scam since the sale of Manhattan.

Make one scratch on a paper and then shut up for exactly 5 years. bullsh*t
Now the onus is on the politicians not to screw up, or else they could land on their butts in Downing Street , like Gordo. We'll find a way to drive the gay wedding of Dave and Nick to the divorce court.
that's politics, hanging from a branch. A totally different kind of swinger.

a lord calling a democrat posh

[pic- fotosearch.com- toffee nose]
We all know that David Cameron is, like, 32nd in line to the throne.
[he should try using a pub toilet on a Friday night, he'd 56th.]

Anyway, one of Labour's last breathless tactics was not attack the fact that DC's has had every privelege in his upbringing.
Just a minute though. If Mandelson, the Prince of Darkness, was made a lord because his corrupt track record makes him unelectable, then DC has beaten Mandy in the democracy sweepstakes. David's practically a man of the people in comparison, and that's even before you consider Mandy's Machiavelli act.

As for the posh thing, I'm going to look up Mandelson on wikipedia, in two seconds, and I'm sure he'll be the alumnus of a number of educational institutions of the highest standing.
You don't get an accent like that just by being gay. I say, old boy!

Hold the presses. Oxford and grammar school. Not bad for a proletarian Labour minister.

But, he did say DC has a 'toffee nose'. That kind of an insult will get you beat up in a schoolyard, where I come from.

Call him 'boogerhead', Dave. Don't let Mandy bully you.
Take a limp swing at him.

-Cosusbelly67

[story from Metro newspaper]

I'm Liberal, I'm a democrat and I'm radical

I'm wondering about whether the Lib Dems are ever going to come out of the wilds.
Are they left?

or right?

They've got some good policies, like a tax-free first 10 000 in income.

Then, they turn around and promote a 2 million pound threshold for house tax.

This may be why many don't take the LDs seriously, and why I think they're most often

foils (see below).

I'm starting to organise a philosophy about some Lib Dem supporters.

They actually are ignorant of realpolitik. They just want to dream of Utopia.
They just want to be left in their rooms with their ideas.

But, why do that now, though? History awaits.
They have a chance to get some of their policies enacted.

Maybe a ministry for Vince.

They have a chance of mellowing the Tories' savaging of the working stiff.
So, what do some of their politicians and supporters say?

"I cannot countenance co-op with the Tories."
Oh?!
"We are a radical left party" one says.
Ya. Left of Genghis. I'll give you that.

Now, I'll tell you how to shut those people up:
This is a country of 70 million people with massive debts, and it's in limbo.
The hedge markets are waiting to savage UK, plc.
BP needs a bailout, and a mop'n'bucket.
Britain's imaginary enemies in Afghanistan are looking for signs of weakness.

One way to stop the uncertainty is to find a way to negotiate with the enemy.
No, not the Taliban; the Tories. Mullah Osbourne! xD
the Mullah of moolah.

If more than a few LDMPs jump ship, then
confidence in the government coalition will melt.
Then we'll all be grabbing our handbaskets, because hell awaits.
So, everybody has to get off their arses and co-operate like big adults.
Now, go on. Git goin'!

My opinion in the past was the LDs were there to foil the 'outgoing' government when
it was clear to the Man that the incumbents were due to leave.

I'm LD. I'm left. I'm right. I'm zig-zagging.

Why does the Man have to decide?

Well, the UK voters seem to be infinitely patient with stumble-butt governments.
You tolerated the Tories for 14 years; Labour for 13.

Now, was that intelligent? I ask you!

The comical side of this is:

You folks wait until a party has been in power for so long that they can't stop

behaving like moronic pigs at the trough,
Roman senators on the grape,
like some medieval despot,
Mandelson-type person.
Now I know where Monty Python got its humour from.
Incumbent politicians. Kick 'em out.

-Cosusbelly67

The Ghost of Inquests Past

I know this is late, but some of us have a life as well as our blog.

Anyway, in the home stretch for the election, Tony Blair, the Middle Eastern peace envoy.

piece of what, you ask?
peace is breaking out everywhere in the ME, innit?

Anyway, he shows up and says 'the Liberal Democrats are not a real party'.

I've heard it said by people that this is the opinion of large parts of the UK.

I guess the results show that this opinion holds.

Of course, TB looks a bit dorkier with grey hair and those ears.
And he would have been even more convincing if he had
been anyone but Tony Blair.

I don't understand this 'I vote Labour', 'I vote Conservative'
It's like 'I don't use my brains, ever'
No strategy, no faith, no questions, no future, no brains.
point 1 Why not kick out the incumbents?
Has it been 13 uninterrupted years of happiness in the proletarian kingdom?

jab 2 What's the difference between Labour and the Tories?
Honestly, did the Labs cancel any Thatcherite policies?
I rest my case.
I vote Coalition. D-uuuuH!
Make 'em work for their daily crust.

I'm still king of the hill

[pic invivo.blogspot.com- horse trading]

While everybody is now Nick Clegg's best friend, in the election, the Lib Dems
were kicked around like an old mule.

Of course, the regal Labour party is using this excuse:

Well, the public didn't vote decisively in favour of the Tories.
True
But they dumped Labour quite hard.
How hard?
Well, if Labour partners up with the
Lib Dems,
the Ulster Unionists,
Plaid Cymru,
the Scottish National Party,
and the Greens,
then everything will be fine.
At least until the coffee break on the first day.
That's when the daggers will be drawn.
The public will calling for the absolution of Guy Hawkes.

-Cosusbelly67

five live talks no jive

It ain't no thang! = my pleasure (jive)

If you've read my other blogs, I'm no fan of Lord (Jezuz!) Mandelson.

But, one brave fella calling in to BBC Five live said it all. He said something like:

Look at this so-called party of the people. Their most prominent politicians are all
un-elected Lords.

Lord Adonis is the Minister of Transport. There's Baroness ___(I forget)

[pic - politics.co.uk, Lord Adonis- no adonis, here]

and then Lord-about-town Mandelson, is the Joker.

How can this country ever reform itself when the elected government
chooses to rely on people who haven't stood for election?

There were always Labour lords. It's bizarre, but true.
It's only in the last 5 years that they've taken over the party.
They've gotten accustomed to things as they are.
They were convinced by Blair that, with Thatcherite
policies and money from the unions, he and the lords could
fool the British public together.
Here's the trick.
All they have to do is warn the working public about how conservative
the Conservatives are. This is true, but Labour is also
Thatcherite. Not Thatcher-lite, Thatcher-bloody-ite.
So, the people, full of fear, are supposed to vote Labour.
Every so often, like yesterday, that will cease to work.

-Cosusbelly67

pollsters should tell us the polling data before we vote

I think that we should have the polling data on how every constituency intends to vote. Several companies, and the government should be updating this regularly

If we just go and vote, that's a waste of a strategic opportunity.

You need to know which constituencies project mixed results. Then we can decide where to place our vote. The end goal is to balance things out.

Minority government.

e.g. If the results are heading for a Conservative majority, we need to vote for
Labour wherever it's close between the Conservatives and Labour,
or Lib Dem where the vote is close between the Conservatives and the Lib Dems.

It's not enough to know what the parties 'intend' to do.
We need to take charge, by voting strategically.

I've been busy, but I'll look for some stats. The BBC has the 'notional stats' from the beginning of the election period.
Have a look. Use your vote strategically.

Hi! I'm Nick Clegg and I'm surprised to be here

I'm amazed how the Lib Dems have not gone into melt-down with all the attention they've received.
Other times they used to say the dumbest things.

Point one from this year:

"I want to be Prime Minister". Well, I want to have 2 Jaguars, but it's not going to happen.
If you win the election, by not saying stupid things, then maybe he will be the PM.
It just shows how naive Clegg can be.

He should say:
"In these trying times, I feel that I am the right person to lead a consensus government, and improve the lives of the public."

-Cosusbell67

Jekyl and Posh

I'm worried about giving the rule of this country to a very rich, semi-royal in these financially-trying times. I have my radar on and I can sense when his training in Shakespearean theatre and Roman history give him this posh sheen, that makes me sick.

When the idea of a minority government started making the rounds, the first reactions were very telling. Cameron showed shock and disappointment, probably because he thought,

"hey, it's my turn. I've been a good boy, I have!"

What would you do with a photographer in your campaign bus, when you're relaxing with your spouse? Would you say "take a break, pal", or would you project an aspirational picture to a sycophantic nation? The man looks into the distance, recognising that History awaits! The woman shows how she relies on her guy. Voters are supposed to think (mostly women) that this could be me. Of course, it's an illusion.

[Times, 4 May]
Labour picked up on how Cameron was saying "I'm ready to a,b,c" as if he was already PM.

So, I don't know what he's thinking, but I'm pretty sure he needs a check on his regal-ness.
Watch that he doesn't turn into King David.
He needs a minority government.

-Cosusbelly67