Yawning gap
Annoying deluded person: “Wasn’t it lovely when they were walking in the door of number 1o? He looked so chuffed.”
drD thinks: Er no, it was pretty soul destroying actually. Some of us resent multi-millionaire toffs seizing control of our government to further their capitalist rich-boy agenda comrade.
Annoying deluded person: ”Everything feels so hopeful again, like a fresh start.”
drD thinks: You mean like Tony Blair in 1997?
Annoying deluded person: ”I thought it was really good that ministers will be taking a 5% pay cut”
drD thinks: Yep it’ll sure make all the redundant workers and re-possessed homeowners feel better that multi-millionaire cabinet ministers will be getting £137000 instead of £144000.
Annoying deluded person: ”I think the coalition will be really good for the country; parties working together.”
drD thinks: Don’t you mean backstabbing each other as usual?
Annoying deluded person: ”I really like David Cameron”
drD thinks: Oh sod off will you.
May 17th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
So how would *you* have them solve the deficit left by your heores eh? Call in the IMF like Greece? Or pretend it hasn’t been happening, just like Darling, Goldfish and Bliar? Perhaps you can explain the joke of the Treasurey ‘note’ to me?
May 18th, 2010 at 5:15 pm
I seem to recall a fairly detailed and costed plan from Labour during the election campaign. There was no such plan from the Tories. We shall have to wait and see shan’t we? You seem to be having a few spelling problems today BW – most unlike you so I hope it’s only a temporary issue. As for Liam Byrne’s ‘humour’ – we’ve all said things in one context that sound horrendous when presented in another. If anything he was foolish to be so flippant when there are rabid right wingers still baying for Labour blood. Scapegoating is such an ugly practice and those who practice it are diminished in my view. That said, my post was not about any of this. It was about my irritation at the sudden emergence of Tory loving types warbling on about how lovely they all are. Bollocks to that.
May 19th, 2010 at 9:13 am
I think you and I live in a different reality drd! I thought the LibDems had the best costed plans? Plus, it’s hard to cost things when you don’t know the true figures you’ll be working with.
“Scapegoating is such an ugly practice and those who practice it are diminished in my view.”
You views on Lady Thatcher aside, of course…
I’m typing not using the VRS, and my neurology is not co-operating at present. It ain’t going to get better either, so you’ll just have to consider making special arrangments under the DDA for me
May 19th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
No one is diminished by scapegoating Thatcher – she is the root of so many of our present ills (her and Esther Rantzen) – but I know there are still deluded disciples abroad. Best place for em really. I’ll fill in a DDA risk assessment for the comment box; I fear you may score very negatively on Political Acceptability though.
May 19th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
I have a piece in drafts to post when Lady T eventually pegs it.
One cannot view Lady T or EZ by current hindsight. They were both fundamental and pivotal tot heir time.
drD: I bet you have – along with all the other Deluded Ones.
It will be very different to yours methinks
drD: La Thatch will be pivoting in her grave a fair bit methinks.
The only Party I support is the BW Party. *That* at least has some sensible ideas.
May 19th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
BTW, discrimination on political grounds is contrary to the DDA…
drD: It won’t be soon, I suspect, once ‘The Greatest Political Reform since William the Conqueror” is enacted by your blue rinse buddies.
May 20th, 2010 at 8:22 am
My hairdresser says that the only people who have blue risnses these days live on council estates