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What will the tories do today?

 
  

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All Acting Regiment
11:50 / 10.11.07
Fuck off, Cameron. What that is, is student-bait. The idea is to throw around some well-known names in the hopes that various vaguely educated people might bite.
 
 
imaginary mice
13:23 / 11.01.08
Sorry, this is a link to a tabloid site. But it’s worth it.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
16:12 / 11.01.08
Cameron strikes out again
Protest scuppers Cameron's plan to re-create iconic Smiths photo

By Allison Martin 11/01/2008

And heaven knows the trendy-youth-vote-chasing, publicity-seeking Tory leader is miserable now...

David Cameron's desperate bid to boost his street cred by re-creating an iconic photo of The Smiths outside Salford Lads Club was scuppered by protesters yesterday.

Mr Cameron - who reckons he is a huge fan of the legendary 80s band - visited the club on a whistle-stop tour of Salford.

But he was sent packing by demonstrators with placards that read "Salford Lads Not Eton Snobs" and "On Your Bike Cameron".
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Matthew Mold, 26, from Salford, said: "This visit is disgraceful. What have the Tories ever done for working-class families?"

Earlier, Mr Cameron opened a new gym set up by boxer Amir Khan in Bolton. Well, he is known for his below-the-belt tactics...

iCLOD

Cameron once told Radio 1 his iPod carries tracks by The Smiths, Radiohead, Pulp, Blur, Bob Dylan, "a lot of reggae" and The Killers
 
 
Alex's Grandma
11:59 / 26.03.08
So, Boris J.

Could the bumbling, straw-haired, hard right oaf be the next mayor of London? And if so, what difference would it make?

He gets my vote because nothing would make me happier, in 2012, than to see the Olympics turn out to be an utter disaster. London is not a sporty town, so I think it would be all right if it, run by Johnson, let the world down. The Olympics being what they are.

Livingstone, on the other hand, seems like he's going to make an effort.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
16:47 / 26.03.08
(I'm not really going to vote Boris though; it'll be the usual listless high five to the Green party, and the Lib Dems)
 
 
Our Lady Drinks Your Milkshake
18:30 / 26.03.08
Stop Boris is pretty good explaining how bad Boris' plans actually are. I'm thinking of reluctantly voting for Ken with my second vote to the Greens.
 
 
Moominpingle
19:06 / 26.03.08
Apart from asking, "Why not Respect?", I'm wondering why Ken as first choice then Greens? As far as I'm aware giving the Greens your first vote and then putting Ken down second has the same effect in practical prevention of Borishorror.
 
 
West Baltimore Hausing Project
19:52 / 26.03.08
You mean the Left List, as the SWP-backed split-off of Respect, post-comedy-Left-Wing-split-into-factions-people's-popular-front-of -Judaea shennanigans, is called on the ballot paper? Or is there a Galloway candidate waiting in the wings?
 
 
Moominpingle
20:18 / 26.03.08
Galloway's now Respect Renewal, I believe, because he wasn't allowed to keep the name as his faction instigated the split.

Last time I checked Lindsey German was going under the Respect name, but I've just now looked at the Respect website, and yeah, it says Left List, although in some places it says Respect Left List.
 
 
West Baltimore Hausing Project
20:27 / 26.03.08
It's incredibly amusing - Linda Smith is the elected nomination officer for Respect, and as such also in the eyes of the Electoral Commission for the splinter parties. As such, it can't be called Respect without her permission. I'm not sure for how long this genius situation can continue, alas, so bed down for Real Respect and Continuity Respect (which will get a lot of mistaken votes from comics fans).
 
 
Alex's Grandma
07:25 / 02.05.08
I respect no one, including myself, so today I voted for Johnson. I voted for Change. How much worse could things possibly be in London?

I was brave enough, I think, to try and find out. But maybe it was a bad decision. I don't know.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
07:34 / 02.05.08
The main thing, hopefully, is that I didn't 'cock-block' anyone.
 
 
A Hu-Li
(prev. Darrell Rivers)
09:51 / 02.05.08
I was told that you flipped a coin and voted for our Ken.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
17:49 / 02.05.08
Well, that's true. The coin is a better man than I, perhaps.

I would have voted Johnson if the coin had told me to though. It would have been one in the eye for Gordon Brown.

The irony of this is that I don't think Gordon's doing too badly as PM. He seems fatally divided against himself, a former backseat driver who's a bit terrified now he's at the wheel, but at least he isn't in everyone's face the whole time, like the Blairs were. And the Camerons would be

He seems worn-out and broken, not a lot more than a barely-there skull in a lot of the photos, so the coin did the right thing, I think.

Though I doubt London under Johnson, if it happens, will be very different. I just hope he does nothing, puts his hush puppies on the desk and gets wrecked for the next four years. London would get by somehow, I suppose.
 
 
A Hu-Li
(prev. Darrell Rivers)
12:51 / 04.05.08
I have to use a train to get to work everyday.
 
 
Our Lady Drinks Your Milkshake
19:08 / 08.05.08
Dumb Boris Plan No #1: An impossible to enforce ban on drinking alcohol on the tube...

What will the wacky funster come up with next?
 
 
DecayingInsect
20:40 / 08.05.08
No doubt the ascendancy of Boris is lamentable, but is there anything specifically 'Tory' about this ban? The government had similar plans a few years back (they were opposed by the Tories and Lib Dems).

On several occasions I've been on buses, the tube or trains when inebriated or otherwise intoxicated passengers have engaged in harassing and/or intimidatory behavior, but no one has done anything, presumably owing to the fear of being assaulted.

Low-level antisocial behavior isn't the end of the world, certainly, but I'd guess that it's got to the point there's electoral mileage at least in promising to crack down on it, regardless of the practicalities and underlying causes. Expect more on this from Cameron's opportunistic crew.
 
 
velvetvandal FTW!
(prev. velvetvandal)
20:16 / 09.05.08
Well, especially since it's the same wheeze the Smiler and his crew used to get in...
 
 
Whisky Priestess
21:19 / 09.05.08
Well there's posters all over the place now warning people about the pending tube booze ban (starting June 1) which I find it very, very hard to believe Boris has had drawn up and implemented in the last week or so, so I suspect it was something TfL was planning anyway and would have happened had even St. Paddick got in.

I've got to say I don't mind it, seeing that a drunken-rowdy-cocks on public transport ban would be even more unworkable. But prepare for a lot of "Evian" and "iced tea" being belted from strong-smelling refilled bottles ...
 
 
mashedcat
21:27 / 09.05.08
lets do drug screens on all parliamentarians .
 
 
Our Lady Drinks Your Milkshake
11:40 / 10.05.08
DecayingInsect, for living memory lawanorder has not been particularly Tory or Labour but Authoritarian, with occasional touches of whoever was running things at the time (Tories claiming to cut red tape, Labour wanting ID Cards).
 
 
DecayingInsect
13:00 / 10.05.08
All very true: but note that "A neighbourhood I feel safe in" is up there in their latest
weirdly solipsistic clutch of vote-mongering slogans.
 
  

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