Gordon steps out, Cameron steps in.
http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2010/May/Week2/15630059.jpg
A good election for Old Etonians, but a bad election for Old Estonians what with Lembit Opik losing his seat.
Nice how Cameron brought his missus along to the palace, especially considering her family use to OWN it (!). I hope she gave lizzie grief about the dust on the mantelpiece.
This deserves a caption thread of its own.
âAnd what do you do?â
Interesting theory from one of my pommy colleagues here - England will win the world cup and Cameron will immediately call a general election which he will win in a landslide on a wave of englander euphoria.
Of course my colleague is drunk.
:rolleyes: - yeah , real fucking interesting
NCC, good to hear from you. I thoight you would have been busy googling Aboriginal nations to see if you could find one for your missus.
Adam Boulton and Kay Burley: almost 1,500 complaints to Ofcom
Media regulator Ofcom has received almost 1,500 complaints about Adam Boultonâs on-screen clash with Alastair Campbell and Kay Burleyâs interview with electoral reformist David Babbs.
As of this morning Ofcom has received a total of 1,418 complaints from members about the two incidents involving Sky News presenters. Burleyâs interview with Babbs, of electoral reform campaigning group 38 Degrees, attracted 722 complaints. The complainants accused Burley of bias and aggressive behaviour in the interview. The interview resulted in the presenter being heckled by protesters saying âsack Kay Burleyâ and a Twitter campaign.
Ofcom has also received 696 complaints about Sky News political editor Adam Boultonâs on-screen row with former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell. Most of the complainants are understood to have objected to what they viewed as unprofessional behaviour by Boulton, who appeared to lose his temper after Campbell accused him of being âupset that David Cameron is not prime ministerâ.
Ofcom is still assessing 700 complaints that Boulton allegedly âheckledâ Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg about his expenses in the second leadersâ debate.
Cracking row between Campbell and that pompous cunt Boulton. Starts to heat up four minutes in.
That video was posted in Kay Burley thread. Sky in particular are a disgrace. One thing to have print journalism being partisan but its pretty unheard of to have broadcast television being biased in this part of the world.
In an attempt to even up the balance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKFTtYx2OHc
So, I broke into the palace
With a sponge and a rusty spanner
She said : âEh, I know you, and you cannot singâ
I said : âThatâs nothing - you should hear me play pianoâ
apart from RTE of course- the workers party influence there was so bad censorship was meekly accepted
Being a Tory MP must really suck:
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Ed Miliband has beaten his brother David to become the new Labour leader. David was ahead after the first two rounds but was overtaken in the final head to head. Margin was 1.23%.
Pleased that Ed beat David. He is more of a genuine alternative to con lib. Also nice that Blair, Blunkett, Reid, Mandelson and Campbell didnât get their first choice. Labour party will no longer continually just try and take Tory ground but actually stand up for traditional Labour values.
David Milliband lost his chance when he bottled out of challenging Brown last year. Ed will come along with traditional pie in the sky lefty aspirational politics. Good luck to him. Has he ever had a real job in his life or has he always been a policy anorak?
Environmental Secretary. Did a good job there too in fairness.
Blairâs endorsement of David did him no favours thankfully.
Was working for Brown since the mid 90s anyway I think when he would have been around 25, so doubt heâs ever really worked anywhere else. Worst possible result for the Labour Party today I reckon. The Tories (and by extension The Mail and I presume The Sun now) will pound away at the fact that it was union support that got him the leadership. Doesnât take long for a perception that he is in hoc to them to take hold, regardless of whether or not it is true. Couldnât see it being any way helpful in winning back the type of voters that used to vote for Blair but were lost in the last election (better off suburbs, etc.). Larry, you may enjoy them standing up for âtraditional Labour valuesâ (by which I assume you broadly mean higher taxes and more money being put into State education and welfare), but Iâd expect that it will make the Tories more likely to win the next election if they do, particularly once the bias in the electoral system that has built up towards Labour is reversed by a constituency redraw. AV will be defeated in referendum imo. I think Labour have been on the wrong side of the arguement about balancing the budget since before the election campaign, and it would seem that Ed wanted them to go even further.
One area they might get some joy from is mopping up the anti-coalition Lib Dem vote (and membership if anecdotal evidence is to be believed). That has certainly given them a boost in the polls post election.
One thing is for sure; itâs a folly to try to predict what will happen in the next election at this stage. Pretty much anything could happen between now and then.
Well either Labour stand for something or they donât. By electing Ed they are giving voters a genuine alternative between Tories and themselves and not like situation we have in Ireland where our two main political parties are virtually identical policy wise.
Ed did an excellent job in Environment so it is ridiculous to suggest he has merely being working on behalf of Brown. There is quite a difference between many of Brownâs policies and those of Ed. Balls was far closer to Brown than he ever was.
Truth be known Blair lost the voters that used to vote for Labour and by the time he left as PM they were on to a hiding. Not only had Cameron taken some of Blairâs centre right ground but they had also lost some of their traditional vote who were quite rightly disillusioned with the party after Iraq,trident,sleaze etc.
If politics is just about winning at all costs and looking to appease largely right wing media then perhaps Labour should have elected David as he would have been far better from a Mail or Murdoch perspective. If however Labour are trying to reduce inequality, preserve a public service in so far as possible and achieve more of a balance approach to foreign affairs then he was the last one they should have elected.
Can a left wing manifesto get a party into power anymore though? The discourse is so skewed to the right that traditional Labour policies will sound like and, more importantly, will be presented like unworkable madness. They still have unions though so thereâs some hope.