Originally Posted by theredbladder EVERYTHING is looking absolutely rosy in the all-new and brightly shining Conservative-Liberal coalition. Well at this early stage it would, wouldn’t it? But judging from the dire warnings coming from everyone involved from the Prime Minister down to the man who sweeps out the Liberal Hall in Yeovil they are going to take the type of budgetary decisions that will make them as popular as a couple of cheap tarts in the royal enclosure at Ascot. Taxes will rise, other things will have new taxes slapped on them and they might even be forced into the novel notion of placing a tax on taxes. None of this will play well with the voting public. No more will the types of cuts to public services that we are promised will as swinging as Herod’s slaughter of the first born. Just a few ...
Originally Posted by Expounder With Cameron's constitutional change for getting rid of an unpopular government from 51% to 55% majority he doesn't need the Lib Dems any more they were just window dressing to get him into No10. The total opposition including the Lib Dems can only muster 53%. We have a five year Tory dictatorship to do as they please. The naive Lib Dems hungry for the trappings of power plus the grace and favour plush flats and ministerial cars can play at being cabinet ministers to satisfy their own personal egos, but truth be known they are no longer needed by Cameron to survive in No10. He played them for suckers and they fell for it. All of the promises he made can be reneged on and in spite of all protestations can remain in office
Originally Posted by Expounder We are in for a five year Tory dictatorship if the Tories end up with a minority government and the Lib Dems pull out this farce of a coalition. You're so full of pontificating about the democtatic process don't you think this is the sort of stoke that any cheap political spiv would pull The Tories have cynically overturned over two hundred years of parliamentary history practice to hold on to office if defeated by a simple majority vote. We know now, and so do the gullible Lib Dems,[who are really no longer needed except for window dressing] why they were so readily accepted into the Tory lair. It was to enable Cameron to cobble his ad hoc cabinet together to give this outrageous decision a veneer of legitimacy. He doesn't need the Lib Dems any more, job done and dusted. ...
This is by way of being the final time the people will tell you, after this last warning we go to the courts, European, not your Chancery mates. We don't want any of you! NONE OF YOU HAVE A MANDATE TO GOVERN WHATEVER STINKING PATCH UP DEAL YOU TRY TO STUFF US WITH. Simply because your hangars on and, associated brain dead, toadies X MARKED WHERE YOU ORDERED THEM TO, DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE GREATER% OF US WILL ALLOW YOU, LIKE SOMALI PIRATES, TO HI-JACK OUR COUNTRY. Stop telling us we need you, stop telling us it is for the good of the country, stop telling us how ONLY you can save our economy.OUR JOBS, OUR MARRIGES, OUR CHILDREN ETC, ETC. NO SENTIENT PERSON BELIEVES THAT RUBBISH ANYMORE. You need our money - we don't, nor ever would, need pratts like ...
Originally Posted by Expounder The fact that Cameron is having to hold his nose and talk to the Lib Dems is because he tried to become a Tony Blair clone. Surrounded by a small inner shadow cabinet clique and "strategist" Big Joke, Steve Hilton and the Big Society, proves that his flawed judgement in every decision he made would make him a disaster as Prime Minister. The election was his for the taking after 13 years of a Labour government. Ashcroft's millions into the marginals, a rabid anti Labour press [with one exception] a Labour P.M. more derided by the right than Hitler, plus Duffy Gate, three Labour MPs charged over the expences scandal and a one time 20% lead in the polls evaporating mainly because of Osbourne's gaff with the word austerity. His problems are far from ...