What can we expect from the next Conservative Government?

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Labour are 10-15 points adrift, people hate Brown even more than Blair -and the budget doesn't seem to have done much to change that, and the Lib Dems are a complete waste of space - and so it looks like Toryboy is heading towards No.10.

So what can we look forward to?

― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:58 (eighteen years ago)

argh

― unfished business, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

people hate Brown even more than Blair

Steady...

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

we can look forward to four years of uproarious scandal and roistering good fun! oh, and a country even more fucked-up than it ever was under blair.

;_;

― unfished business, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:00 (eighteen years ago)

That lead does not even convert into a tory minority government.

― Ed, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:00 (eighteen years ago)

So what can we look forward to?

Independence for Scotland and the break-up of the United Kingdom

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:00 (eighteen years ago)

The Tories have a lot to gain from Scottish independence.

― Ed, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:04 (eighteen years ago)

Of course, the New 1000 Year Reich

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)

The Tories have a lot to gain from Scottish independence.

Yes, eternal power in England.

― onimo, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

Cameron peeling off the latex mask to reveal scaborous oldschool Tory fuck beneath. Metaphorically, of course.

― chap, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

"New Tories, New Danger" - yes, that really worked against Blair didn't it?

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

Everyone I know who has voted labour in recent years seems to dislike Brown.

Mainly cause of the dour-ness rather than policy(the great company I keep...)

personally I am willing to wait to he gets the proper chance to outline what he wants to do before decided my final opinion.

In a weird sought of way I sort of hope Cameron gets in to show people that the Tories havent changed much

― secondhandnews, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

Mainly cause of the dour-ness

Nice polite non-xenophobic euphemism for "Scottishness" there

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

Cam3ron was in the Borr1ngton (sp?) society, the most exclusive of all Oxford University cliques. They only ever have between about 4 and 10 members, handpicked for possessing extreme amounts of cash, being from the right families, white, male and landowning. Their general modus operandi is to locate the poorest student they can find, break into their room, trash it from head to toe and then leave a fat cheque (or, better still, wads of real cash). Just because they could. This could be (and often was) applied to restaurants as well. They're about as loathsome as it gets, and DC was one of 'em. Don't believe his bullshit.

― unfished business, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

In a weird sort of way I sort of hope Doenitz gets in to show people that the Nazis haven't changed much

is another way of putting it

Anyway, if the Tories get back in you can look forward to me emigrating to Canada permanently.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

LJ xpost: The Bullingdon Club, parodied in the opening chapter of Evelyn Waugh's Decline And Fall as the Bollinger Club.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

I like Brown marginally more than Blair, he comes across as a sensible, unglamorous administrator rather than a crazed visionary. In other words, the dourness is actually a plus point for me.

― chap, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

the Lib Dems are a complete waste of space

why is this I wonder? I suspect that its coz the ppl who could join them and stop them being a waste of space think party politics is a waste of space.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks Marcello, knew it was something like that.

― unfished business, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

LJ why would you g00gl3pr00f the leader of the T0ry p4rty?

http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/noxford14.jpg

― onimo, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

Cameron student photo is banned

― onimo, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

Oooh! that picture is Bannnnnned!!!

― Mark G, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, well done - I was trying to find this photo...it's banned supposedly...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6409757.stm

― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

alt: I AM NOT A NUMBER!!!!

― Mark G, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

fcking xposts!!!!!!!!!

― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

Cameron's the spit of someone in that photo, but I can't work out who... Greg Lake?

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

It's the BUGGLES!

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

Cameron's arm and hand looks slightly odd in that picture.

― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

Some guy playing ten keyboards at once in a prog rock band anyway

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

Or, to paraphrase Geir, a symphonic rock hero lately turned to AOR

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

Who are the rest of them? Apart from No.8 obviously.

― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

The next Tory cabinet

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

Oo, number 3 looks EVIL.

― chap, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

What a different story it would have been for Britain had Richard Whiteley remained in politics and become Prime Minister.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

Carol Vorderman could be chancellor.

― chap, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

You just know what number 7's voice is like.

People should remember that Cameron's appeal outside metro-London land is really piss-poor. By-election performance and Council election performance north of Hertfordshire has been woeful for a party aiming for government. As several have said, Cameron could be more their Kinnock than Blair.

― The Boyler, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

Cue DC running onto the stage at election rally time and yelling "Al-RIGHT!" at all and sundry. Can't wait.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

so you're saying d4vid c4mer0n once went to someone's room and destroyed all the contents? surely you can sell this story to the papers.

― ken c, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

If you are gonna dish the dirt on Cameron, plz 2 wait until a fortnight before the election kthx

― The Wayward Johnny B, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

I imagine Labour are saving the showbiz sherbert stories till then

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

hard to believe that picture is from 1986. looks more like 1886!

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

I love how this thread has been derailed by a snotty-student-club point-and-snark session! :-D

― unfished business, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

I'm fairly sure Labour are sitting on the cocaine stories (and photos?) about DC and Osbourne, just letting the "ooh he smoked" stuff get out the way, and then BAM.

That's what I hope, anyway.

― Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

(1) Sebastian Grigg, (2) David Cameron, (3) Ralph Perry-Robinson, (4) Ewen Fergusson, (5) Matthew Benson, (6) Sebastian James, (7) Jonathan Ford, (8) Boris Johnson, (9) Harry Eastwood

Can't find out who #10 is yet.

― onimo, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

more of the same

― blueski, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

Could it be a 3rd Sebastian?

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

(10) Marc Rowlands

― onimo, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23385412-details/Cameron's%20cronies%20in%20the%20Bullingdon%20class%20of%20'87/article.do

and

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/14/noxford14.xml

for a "who's who?"

― onimo, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

What Tony thinks of them:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/uk_politics_enl_1172779548/img/1.jpg

― onimo, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

which photo has the highest net cunt value? i can't decide, because there are more cunts in the second photo, but the cunts in the first photo are clearly bigger cunts. it's a tough one.

― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

Meanwhile, Gordon all on his oddy knocky, as usual...

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41305000/jpg/_41305909_young_brown_203.jpg

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

Gordon looks like an ILXor there. (not any specific ilxor, just the form)

― The Wayward Johnny B, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Politics/Pix/pictures/2003/03/06/brownstudent300b.jpg

― onimo, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno, there are some right cunts in the Blair photo. The cunt in the big hat, for example. Or maybe he's more of a twat.

― chap, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

What about a dashing young Prescott for PM?
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41618000/jpg/_41618614_steward.jpg

― onimo, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Gordon was cute

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

It's Nick Berry!

xpost

― Mark G, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

Tory HQ the morning after the next election:
"We nearly made it...Every loser wins..."

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

which photo has the highest net cunt value? i can't decide, because there are more cunts in the second photo, but the cunts in the first photo are clearly bigger cunts. it's a tough one.

It's more that DCs photo is full of cunts, while TBs is full of twats. TBH I'd rather have a twat than a cunt in #10.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://files.myopera.com/zenya/blog/2wasteland.jpg

― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

10 Alan B'stards.

― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

Number 10 is clearly NOT actually a Tory, but a passing member of Spandau Ballet.

I am absolutely... flabbergasted by this photo. Oh my. Is it getting warm in here? ::fans self::

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/crc/webquest/OutsidersWebQuest/pictures/5.jpg

the one on the far left without sleeves is Menzies 'The Merciless' Campbell. that's who i want running the country.

― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

#10 is Mika.

GB looks exactly like my dad.

― Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

#7 is TV "funny"man Stephen Mangan.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

Cmaeron does look like the one with the most leadership potential, his pose is somewhat napoleonic.

― chap, Friday, 23 March 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

The future of British politics.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/uk_politics_enl_1211515479/img/1.jpg

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 23 May 2008 06:33 (seventeen years ago)

ie. No labour, stupid candidates looking for 5 seconds of tv, tories (cameron lookalike plus yummy mummy) winning, and Lid Dems just happy to be there.

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 23 May 2008 06:36 (seventeen years ago)

No one has really answered this question. Is there an analysis of just what the conservatives have voted for and against in the last few years?

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 23 May 2008 07:40 (seventeen years ago)

There was a hint of what's to come in the votes on abortion and IVF I guess. According to this article 92% of Conservative MPs backed Iain Duncan Smith's call for fatherhood to be recognised when decisions about fertility treatment are being made and 83% of Conservatives (voted) for 22 weeks.

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 23 May 2008 07:45 (seventeen years ago)

As a UK Civil Servant I can expect the Tories (as they did in their last manifesto) to insist that the vicious cuts performed under Labour don't go far enough and to actually depopulate the Civil Service to such a level that privatisation becomes the only option. So good luck on getting your passports from UK Passports PLC or your JSA from Dole Scum Are Not Welcome Here PLC.

Either that or they'll open each set of pay negotiations by sending someone round to piss in each individual Government employees' face.

― Stone Monkey, Friday, 23 May 2008 09:14 (seventeen years ago)

nine months pass...

"I want the police to do what they're supposed to do which is to fight crime, not waste time." Mr Grayling said that a Conservative government would reintroduce a sense of "right and wrong" in the criminal justice system.
"Fewer rights, more wrongs. The starting point has to be that reality of life today," he said.

I don't even understand this http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23649927-details/Cameron+tells+yobs:+Watch+out+the+Tories+are+about/article.do

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 14:03 (sixteen years ago)

= huge prison building programme.

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 14:12 (sixteen years ago)

something we totally won't have under the present government

― meme economist (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 14:16 (sixteen years ago)

Current members of Bullingdon Club to be targeted?

― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 14:16 (sixteen years ago)

oh wait

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7216143.stm

― meme economist (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 14:18 (sixteen years ago)

Bloody Titian again!

― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 14:22 (sixteen years ago)

I'm not saying the present government won't build huge prisons, although it doesn't have much time left to do anything, but if the tories want to lock up more people they will have to. Either way, it's the wrong way to go. This macho posturing is bullshit from any party and will lead to more crime, but the public seem to want to hear it.

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 14:28 (sixteen years ago)

= huge prison building programme.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 09:12 (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

because california is such a great model.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 14:28 (sixteen years ago)

less cure more cause

― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:16 (sixteen years ago)

More shame, less blame.

no..

More flame, less lame.

Hmm,

More pun, less fun.

;;__::

More slam (i.e. prison doors), less cam (era surveillance in pubs and streets and so on)

― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:22 (sixteen years ago)

I still can't get my head around the "fewer rights, more wrongs" soundbite.

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:49 (sixteen years ago)

yeah who does he think he is? Geoff Hoon?

― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:50 (sixteen years ago)

More like Ted Maul

― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:51 (sixteen years ago)

I get it now. He's saying that Labour has got less stuff right and has therefore made more mistakes (ie. wrongs).

I thought he was talking about how the Conservatives would give criminals fewer rights. I couldn't figure out why he would want to give them more 'wrongs'.

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:42 (sixteen years ago)

no. fewer rights for criminals, more "wrongs" ie, things that will not be tolerated:

"For the last decade or so, we have seen that vital, single-minded focus on crime-fighting disastrously diluted so the Home Office and the police too often see themselves as some kind of social service," he said.

― joe, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:56 (sixteen years ago)

My reading comprehension is a bit shit, isn't it?

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:59 (sixteen years ago)

in your defence it's a completely retarded phrase.

― joe, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:03 (sixteen years ago)

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