"I fear he's right, and like many a marriage, once the initial thrill has worn away it will all end in tears."
But hey Cleggie and Dave will be able to claim the tax break for married couples. The Lib Dems gave up their opposition to this, but have been allowed to abstain when the bill is put forward.
Cheers
D
"If George Osborne seriously wants to be chancellor it is time he put away childish things and produced a credible plan of how he would restore the health of the nation's finances" Vince Cable on George Osborne last month.
im sttruggling to come to terms with this..
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Re: Me too, but they'll pay in the long term.
[quote]They lost five seats after bragging about being the new force in politics all the way through the campaign.[/quote]
True, but a 1% rise in the vote share isn't 'flopping in the polls', is it? Not when another party has just lost 7-8% of it's vote share. That's like seeing Lisa Riley and Baby Spice walking down the street together and you calling Baby a 'chubby cunt'.
[quote]Incidentally, "the polls" means the REAL poll. The vote on the day.[/quote]
Bollocks. Do you know ANYBODY that says 'the polls' when talking about the election......apart from you, apparently. No, you got mixed up and hate admitting it !laugh!
[quote]Sadly he's an unprincipled cunt but I guess the ministerial Jag soothes whatever miniscule traces of a conscience he has about dumping his voters in this way.[/quote]
Are you talking about Clegg? Clegg who has the support of his party? In a coalition there has to be compromises. Given that, all parties will have to back down on certain policies. If that makes them unprincipled in your view then that's fine. For me, Clegg NEVER ruled out a coalition with the Tories in the case of a hung parliament and so no promises were broken to the voters. Like I've already asked (and you failed to answer): Do you think, then, that all the coalition government of 1940-45 was unprincipled? Also, does that meant that every other country that currently has some sort of coalition is full of unprincipled politicians?
You don't have to like what the Lib Dems are doing - there are many things I don't like about it- but this childish sniping and finding faults for the sake of finding faults is plain sour grapes.
True, but a 1% rise in the vote share isn't 'flopping in the polls', is it? Not when another party has just lost 7-8% of it's vote share. That's like seeing Lisa Riley and Baby Spice walking down the street together and you calling Baby a 'chubby cunt'.
[quote]Incidentally, "the polls" means the REAL poll. The vote on the day.[/quote]
Bollocks. Do you know ANYBODY that says 'the polls' when talking about the election......apart from you, apparently. No, you got mixed up and hate admitting it !laugh!
[quote]Sadly he's an unprincipled cunt but I guess the ministerial Jag soothes whatever miniscule traces of a conscience he has about dumping his voters in this way.[/quote]
Are you talking about Clegg? Clegg who has the support of his party? In a coalition there has to be compromises. Given that, all parties will have to back down on certain policies. If that makes them unprincipled in your view then that's fine. For me, Clegg NEVER ruled out a coalition with the Tories in the case of a hung parliament and so no promises were broken to the voters. Like I've already asked (and you failed to answer): Do you think, then, that all the coalition government of 1940-45 was unprincipled? Also, does that meant that every other country that currently has some sort of coalition is full of unprincipled politicians?
You don't have to like what the Lib Dems are doing - there are many things I don't like about it- but this childish sniping and finding faults for the sake of finding faults is plain sour grapes.
[i]I used to spend a lot of time criticizing Islam on here in the noughties - but things are much better now.[/i]
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[quote]I am not having a dig or anything because as I said I've no idea how they work. Can you explain how they will go about it?[/quote]
I've not really thought about it too much, randyandy. I guess we'll both find out soon enough and it will be interesting. I'm sure this happens quite a lot in countries like Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Finland......and others. They seem to manage so............
I've not really thought about it too much, randyandy. I guess we'll both find out soon enough and it will be interesting. I'm sure this happens quite a lot in countries like Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Finland......and others. They seem to manage so............
[i]I used to spend a lot of time criticizing Islam on here in the noughties - but things are much better now.[/i]
Shock horror. New politics = old politcs
Chief Treasury Secretary David Laws has apologised for claiming more than ?40,000 in MPs' expenses to rent rooms in homes owned by his partner.
Of course, now he's been caught he will pay the money back... "accidental" expense fiddling is a wonderful thing. There's absolutely no suggestion that he was on the fiddle. Oh no.
Of course, now he's been caught he will pay the money back... "accidental" expense fiddling is a wonderful thing. There's absolutely no suggestion that he was on the fiddle. Oh no.
Re: im sttruggling to come to terms with this..
>Here we have a lib dem party,supposedly of the left,who got crushed at the election,actively propping up and nodding in support at a right wing govt that will rip britain apart
Yes because everything was going so well under Labour.
No debt
Dropping unemployment
Reduced crime
Immigratiom under control
NOT !
Yes because everything was going so well under Labour.
No debt
Dropping unemployment
Reduced crime
Immigratiom under control
NOT !