1 Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition

Boggle.

2 Again, let me thank Alexander Hamilton for saving us from the parliamentary system.

3 Yes, talk about a dysfunctional living arrangement. That's like making somebody who hunts cats for sport be a roommate with an animal rights nut.

4 Wonder how long this coalition will last?  One year, two?  Several months?

5

While he's at it, he can tell the queen I want my iPod back.

6 I read somewhere (bbc's live feed I think) that a fixed term for the government may be part of the deal for the new government. It would be interesting to see how long it is if it's the case.

7 Any chance that that Hannan guy from the European Parliament (ugh...) will get a meaningful post with this Admin.? That would be a cool side effect.

8 Will he get to keep the DVD box set?

9 Wonder how long this coalition will last?  One year, two?  Several months?

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 11, 2010 02:28 PM (9hSKh)

I would bet there will be a new election within a year

10 I dreamt last night that a moving van drove up to the White House?

11 Maybe the Queen can send Brown back to Scotland by catapult.

12

Well, there is no Constitutional bar to Gordon Brown someday again leading Labour to a Parliamentary majority and moving back into No. 10.  That's because the UK has no Constitution.

Meanwhile, here in the USA, we know that (barring any bizarre circumstances) the Obamas will move out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on Jan. 20 of either 2013 or 2017.  I suppose the big difference is that we know dates certain for the Obama Administration's "closing time."

13 11 I dreamt last night that a moving van drove up to the White House?

Posted by: nevergiveup at May 11, 2010 02:30 PM (0GFWk)

Your IP address has been captured and traced, and the Dream Police have been dispatched to your location.

14 Brown and his family left 10 Downing (where they've lived for years) and that's it, they don't go back. They don't have to go home but they can't go back there. Amazing how swiftly it happens.

The jealousy, she is overwhelming.

15 Don't worry about him, he'll be fine.  He'll end up at the Center for American Progress...

16
this is like the Republicans having 50 seats making a deal with Bernie Sanders to elect a senate leader

17 Don't worry about him, he'll be fine. He'll end up at the Center for American Progress... He'll become an EU bigwig. All good leftists go to Brussels.

18 Wonder if they'll get a moonbatty Foreign Minister.

19 Nice flat, this. Even has indoor plumbing.

Hey, DVDs!

20
This is the thing: The people, the Britons, did not vote for a Lib-Dem govt. They don't want the Lib-Dems in charge or to have a prominent role in the govt.

Cameron, by making this deal, is going against the will of the people.

21 Hey, DVDs!

+1

But the jealously, she BUUUUUUUURNS.

22 Breaking: White house addresses Nashville Flooding

23 Breaking: White house addresses Nashville Flooding

Nashville flooding?

Never heard of it.

24 He resigns to a fucking monarch and asks her to call for a new government.

What a slap in the face of every citizen.  A fucking Monarch in 2010.

No wonder this country is so screwed up.  The idea that these masses of different parties should come together and agree on a government seems like a total clusterfuck to me, but it's a valid idea if that's the way they want to go about things.

Doesn't seem to be working, but then, my country isn't perfect either.

A monarch, however is totally intolerable.  I would hope all decent people there would completely refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of their royal element.  I would propose a law making it a prison worthy offense to claim any nobility at all.

25 I'd check to make sure the silverware and china are still where they should be.

26 Hey, DVDs!

And a bust of Churchill.  Look over there in the corner.  Toy helicopters!!!  Hey kids, over here!

27 I just hope the lib dims don't get the Foreign office as part of the deal. Clegg is extremely anti israel.

28 What Cameron should do is try to get something through Parliament that is wildly popular but opposed by the Lib Dems and Labour.

Vote of no confidence.  Call a new election get a majority.

I think that Hannan did not run for Parliament, so he won't have any position.  Besides, Cameron doesn't want a guy that smart and that charismatic anywhere near the leadership.

29 Does he get a consulation haggis?

30 23 Breaking: White house addresses Nashville Flooding Posted by: Hobo at May 11, 2010 02:36 PM (V8B//) Some people who didn't vote for us go their basements wet. I will now take questions about the size and wonderfulness of the president's junk.

31 #27  And a bust of Churchill.  Look over there in the corner.  Toy helicopters!!!  Hey kids, over here!

Maybe I'll get an iPod, those corruptors of democracy, with Obama speeches on it one day too!  Hip, hip, cheerio!

32 A monarch, however is totally intolerable.

Their system's worked a lot better than a lot of European republics.

33 Wonder if they'll get a moonbatty Foreign Minister.

Probably not. William Hague, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, is the leader of the Conservative negotiating team. Unless he falls on his sword for the team, I doubt he gave away his gig.

34 This is the thing: The people, the Britons, did not vote for a Lib-Dem govt. They don't want the Lib-Dems in charge or to have a prominent role in the govt.

Cameron, by making this deal, is going against the will of the people.

Posted by: Touché Turtle at May 11, 2010 02:36 PM (uFokq)

Well, the share of vote won by Labour and the Lib-Dems totalled 52 percent (what a coincidence!), so "the will of the people" is not all that clear-cut.  But Cameron is going against the will of the Tory voters -- still, the voters aren't tasked with forming a government and Cameron is.

35

As Homer Simpson said. "Can you tell me again about the part about the thing that you said."

I truly don't understand Parlimentary govt. As someone said, thank God Hamilton saved us from this mess. Not that ours isn't a clusterfark but it's less of a clusterfark then theirs which is saying something.

The only part of their form of governance I like is when they are all yelling at eachother during debate. It's fun to watch.  

36 I hope his first act as PM is to return ALL of the Obama Collector Plates in the U.K.!

37 You're welcome.

38 Holy flooding! Fire up the MoonBatMobile, Robin! (oh wait, it's a flood in flyover redneck cracker land, and you divorced me. nevermind, my bad)

39

Wonder how long this coalition will last?  One year, two?  Several months?

 

Watch for Teh Bamster to cross the Atlantic and show them how it's done.  After all, he's always being lauded for his mad consensus building skilz!

40
yeah, but you're equating Labour and the LibDems. They might both be leftists, but they're not exactly the same...technically

41 Again, let me thank Alexander Hamilton for saving us from the parliamentary system.

I always thought that James Madison and Edmund Randolph had more to do with our Constitution which was developed from their Virgina Plan.

42 87% of Brits think Spanish should be the national language.

43 Does he get to at least get to get his toothbrush? Oh wait......

44

This will never work. Mercury is still retro.

45 The Brits have a long history of a monarch with major limitations. It really doesn't offend my sensibilities--it's their organicly grown type of govt--they invented it and had certain freedoms who no one on earth had before anyone else had even conceived of them. The monarch is a figure head but provides a sense of stability esp because there are no terms. In fact, Londoners had freedom while the rest of the world were serfs. Besides, the last time they got rid of their monarch, the replacement was far worse. It has kept them from tyranny.

46 So that makes the Queen in charge until they sort this mess out?

47 I truly don't understand Parlimentary govt. As someone said, thank God Hamilton saved us from this mess.

I asked an English guy on my soccer team to explain to me Cricket.  He said that was impossible in any amount of time under three hours, and just consider Cricket to be a good way to waste a Sunday afternoon drinking beer.

I have a feeling explaining this Parliamentary govt. would warrant the same response.

48 I dreamt last night that a moving van drove up to the White House?

Posted by: nevergiveup at May 11, 2010 02:30 PM (0GFWk)

Your IP address has been captured and traced, and the Dream Police have been dispatched to your location.

*AHEM*

49 You do note that the one objecting to the monarch was "Lex Luthor" right?

50 28 I just hope the lib dims don't get the Foreign office as part of the deal. Clegg is extremely anti israel.

That's what I figure.  We'll see.

51

Meanwhile, here in the USA, we know that (barring any bizarre circumstances) the Obamas will move out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on Jan. 20 of either 2013 or 2017.  I suppose the big difference is that we know dates certain for the Obama Administration's "closing time."

 

HA! HA! HA! HA!!1111!!  YOU WINGNUTS ARE SO FUNNY!  (wipes tear from eye).  WE WON11!!11  BARACK'S NOT GOING ANY WHERE!!11!!  You're going to love our new Constitution...

52 I wanted see Prince Harry dragging Brown up Downing St. by his hair.

53

I just done watching the GORDON BROWN show on CNN, and it's being run in syndication on MSNBC.

 

All this talk about bigots makes me hungry for some black forest ham.

54

I asked an English guy on my soccer team to explain to me Cricket.  He said that was impossible in any amount of time under three hours, and just consider Cricket to be a good way to waste a Sunday afternoon drinking beer.

It's like baseball, except it's played with two bases and a home run gets you 6 points.  You bat until the bowler knocks down the wicket behind you, no matter how many balls, strikes, or hits you get.  There's no foul ground. 

An Innings is the time it takes each batter fom each team to lose their wicket

55

87% of Brits think Arabic Spanish should be the national language.

 

FIFY!

56 53 Can't you see a million purple shirted (to match obama's lips) thugs surrounding the white house to keep him in control? How he gets through them to play golf 3 times per week is gonna be hard...

57 An Innings is the time it takes each batter fom each team to lose their wicket Posted by: Truman North at May 11, 2010 02:47 PM (e8YaH) Is that some kind of code for group sex or something?

58 "Really freaky part of the Brit system...there's no Prime Minister right now. He resigns, chats for awhile with Liz and then she calls Cameron to pop in. Until then, there's no government."

Then for the grand pause between "governments" perhaps the monarchy prevails, in mood at least?

59 Drew,

You beat the NY Times!

Good work my boy!!

60 He resigns to a fucking monarch and asks her to call for a new government.

Can she say, "No, get your ass back in there"?

61 Then for the grand pause between "governments" perhaps the monarchy prevails, in mood at least? Posted by: maverick muse at May 11, 2010 02:49 PM (H+LJc) Nah. The bureaucrats run the country the way they always have and the politicians and monarchy go through their charade. Pretty much the same as here.

62 Whats with six points? Home run in cricket and a try in rugby, probably the mercy rule in soccer.

63

Everybody beats the New York Times.

 

64 instead of trying to strike out a batter or get him to hit a ball that results in an out, the bowler (pitcher) tries to knock down a rickety three-legged stool situated behind the batter with a metal ball the bowler bounces toward the wicket from some 40 feet away.  The first job of the batter is to deflect the ball away from the stool, which is called a wicket, so that the wicket can stay upright.

65 I wonder if Gordie and Liz watched any of Opie's speeches on the IPOD gizmo??

66 Does that mean Obama is now the Prime Minister???

67 joncelli is right, the mandarins over there have even more power then the ones here.

68 There's no second when we don't have a President.

As it's been said before:  Thank you James Madison.

69 You lost me at "wicket."

70 The rolling brown-outs got punched down.

71 This is just like how the Republicans have no leader, and exactly why they will lose 30 seats in November.

72 You know who this helps? Mitt Romney.

73

I remember when Al Haig was President.

Ahhh, the good old days.

74

UK politics...further proof that liberalism is a world-wild pandemic of epidemic proportions and that understanding the parliamantarian form of rule is akin to understanding the theory of the Time/Space continuum.

 

75

"Hey, DVDs!"

Awww, bugger.  None of them play.  Oh well.

*pulls one out of the case, sets it on the side-table, then places his drink atop it*

76 69 joncelli is right, the mandarins over there have even more power then the ones here.     I rove the merodic sound of mandarin music in the morning!

77
Jiminy wickets!

Build the danged fence.

78 60 Yes. In the old days, the monarch had to call parliment to get money. Sometimes they just wouldn't call it because then it exerted control and the monarch would try to get money elsewhere but the monarch could not raise taxes. Later, they passed laws saying when the monarch had to call parliment. So technically, the monarch calls it and it responds. For a long time there was no prime minister, just the two houses. Now the House of Lords is figurative too.

79 Shit!!!!   Can we get Obama to do the same thing? Go to the Queen and resign as President of the US Colonies ????

80 Did someone mention the queen.   Me just love the queen.

81
dagnabit!

too many illegals in this danged country!

I like tea!

82 Speculation is that Clegg will be Deputy PM. That will be fun to watch, as Cameron will inevitably come out and say 1 thing about [insert whatever policy here] and Clegg will come out and say the exact opposite.

83 I  . . . must . . . kill . . . the Queen

84 I thought the UK got its mandarins from Thailand. Are those tastier?

85 Buster, gotta promote him up. I nominate Obama for President of the World (UN Chairman).

86 Yes, the evolution of the constitutional monarchy in England is tremendously fascinating.  They were way out in front of their time in the 11th-17th century.

87 "I'm so ronery!  So ronery!"

88

"A monarch, however is totally intolerable.  I would hope all decent people there would completely refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of their royal element.  I would propose a law making it a prison worthy offense to claim any nobility at all."

But it was fine with Da Ebil Boosh was doing it, wingers!

89 (oops, forgot to add I'm strumming mandarin)

90
How 'bout those Minutemen, eh?

91 You can't quit from Commons?

92

25 He resigns to a fucking monarch and asks her to call for a new government.

What a slap in the face of every citizen.  A fucking Monarch in 2010.

I'm pretty sure he's just following about 400 years of precedent there. Since about the time of Olilver Cromwell or so.

93

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooh Thailand.  I rike thailand.

My favorite dinner is Cream of Sumyunguy.

94 Thanks Truman for proving my point.

When I happen to surf onto Sky Sports when they're talking Cricket games, I wonder if they're speaking the same language.

95
You know who sucks?

Barack Hussein Obama. How'd we get stuck with that guy, anyway?

96 There's no crying in Parliament!

97
"I'm the king of the world!"

98 I asked an English guy on my soccer team to explain to me Cricket.

The "pitch" (area where the bowler and batsman operate) is a rigidly defined area dimensionally, the rest of the field can be shaped/sized randomly to suit local conditions.

Points are scored by running back and forth between the wickets.  Each iteration scores.  A side keeps batting until every player has been gotten out.

If the bowler (the guy whipping the ball like a baseball pitcher) knocks some dowel like thingies off the wicket you as a batter are defending, then you're out.  There's all kind of oddball tosses just like in baseball, fastballs, curves, knuckle ball variations, even bouncing the ball off the dirt is acceptable.

The fielders are much like baseball infield/outfield players.  They field the ball when its hit and fling it back in towards the pitch area.

There you go, Cricket in a nutshell and it didn't take 3 hours.

99 The resignation speech.

Tolerance, green, blah blah blah

translation.....

Arabs and crooks......

Nice words about military, but not a word about terrorism in England.

Anita Dunn in the  "house" with Cameron....
Why?????

100 I heard Rugby is becoming popular in the United States.

Isn't this the sport of broke people?  It's like soccer.  You just need a ball and players.

101 Brown just left the Palace after a 15 minute audience.

Was he dragging the stone of shame?

102 No wonder that country is srewed up.They have a figure head queen who does absolutely nothing but live off the publics back.And Brown who is totally bat shit as a prime minister.Now that he has stepped down nobody is driving the clown car.This is the type of government O'jugears wants to emulate?Unfortunately he's heading in that direction.

103 If Cameron were as sharp as Harper, he'd have the opposition looking stupid regularly, like when the Libs had to dump Dion.

104 Really freaky part of the Brit system...there's no Prime Minister right now. He resigns, chats for awhile with Liz and then she calls Cameron to pop in. Until then, there's no government. In the US, the President elect becomes President at Noon, whether or not the oath has been taken. There's no second when we don't have a President.

That's because they have no separate Executive branch, to speak of.  The royals are the permanent Executive and the European systems were developed with parliaments just taking powers from those permanent Executives and then piling those powers in the corner of the room, with no real organization or limits.  That is the main difference between our individualistic, limited, Constitutional structure and all of the crappy, unlimited, unstructured party-oriented parliamentary systems that the rest of the world has.

105

I guess he didn't have THE STUFF.

What Brown couln't do for Mother England.

106  
The Queen comes running full-bore out of Buckingham Palace like a toddler at a skate rink and starts slashing and hacking at Gordon Brown's cardboard-like motionless torso with a kick-ass folding blade while screaming "21 foot rule my ass,  you one-eyed cocksucker!" in 5,  4,  3,  2...

107 From Sky:

Openers Michael Lumb (32 off 21 balls) and Craig Kieswetter powered England off to yet another purposeful start with a 24-run stand off just 16 balls.

Kieswetter, who hit Nathan McCullum for a four and a towering six in the first over of the chase, perished for 15 off 12 balls when he slapped Kyle Mills straight to the off-spinner at cover point.

Ravi Bopara (nine) failed to take the chance presented to him through Kevin Pietersen's absence when he fell in similar fashion off the medium-pace of Scott Styris.

The England wobble continued when Lumb was trapped lbw sweeping Daniel Vettori (1-24) three balls later, and Paul Collingwood's poor form continued when he chipped Styris tamely to midwicket.

But Morgan and Wright, who shared a 95-run partnership against the Windies in Guyana, brilliantly put the chase back on track.

The pair added 52 in 38 balls before Wright, who had bludgeoned three fours in his 17-ball knock, hooked Shane Bond (2-29) straight to Mills on the square-leg fence.

Morgan continued to torment the Kiwi bowlers but perished to Bond - and a diving catch from Vettori - with England eight runs short of victory.

108 108  <snip>  That is the main difference between our individualistic, limited, Constitutional structure and all of the crappy, unlimited, unstructured party-oriented parliamentary systems that the rest of the world has.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 11, 2010 03:05 PM (Qp4DT)

Doesn't Liberia have the same representative Republic that the USA has?

109
Remember, oh, about 180 days ago when Gordon Dunce Brown said the world had 60 days to agree on an environmental policy or it would be too late to save the planet?

Remember that? Hahahaha, what a guy. Can't believe people take that shitstain Brown seriously.

110 85 I  . . . must . . . kill . . . the Queen

Posted by: Reggie Jackson at May 11, 2010 02:57 PM (Mmw0q)

STRRRRRRRIIIIKKKKKKE THREE YOUR OUTTA HERE!

 

111 Wonder if she gave him the "queen's wave" when he walked out the door.

112 "

I'm pretty sure he's just following about 400 years of precedent there. Since about the time of Olilver Cromwell or so.

Posted by: penejo grande at May 11, 2010 02:59 PM (JHZ+N)"

And it's wrong.

We do stupid things for hundreds of years sometimes.  Government derives her mandate from the consent of the governed, not some fucking King or Princess or rock in the mud.

And this is indeed part of the reason the people's will is not going to be honored.  They don't want the government they are about to get.  It's a serious issue to some.  I realize people get to vote on representation, but this is still a serious breach of the basic concept I find to be absolute.

113

Doesn't Liberia have the same representative Republic that the USA has?

Posted by: Hobo Liberation Front at May 11, 2010 03:07 PM (LdYLm)

Probably. The Phillipines do, also.  I should have said "that just about the rest of the world has".  I usually do say that, but sometimes I get tired.

114 I heard Rugby is becoming popular in the United States.

Another working class sport for people who ain't right in the head.  Don't get me started on Aussie Rules Football.  Entertaining as all hell, and only about 14 rules.

So, your saying I would rock at that sport as well. Cool - but I think I'll stick to making the Yankees look silly.

Only if you can "bowl" the ball without bending your arm.

115 115 85 I  . . . must . . . kill . . . the Queen

Posted by: Reggie Jackson at May 11, 2010 02:57 PM (Mmw0q)

STRRRRRRRIIIIKKKKKKE THREE YOUR OUTTA HERE!

 Posted by: Frank Drebbin at May 11, 2010 03:08 PM (pr+up)

Hey Look! It's Enrico Pallazzo!

116 Again, let me thank Alexander Hamilton for saving us from the parliamentary system.

I always thought that James Madison and Edmund Randolph had more to do with our Constitution which was developed from their Virgina Plan.
Posted by: Vic

The pity remains that Jefferson was not "drawn" to economics amongst the many topics facing our nation's founders.

"Jefferson Contra Hamilton: Too Tame, Too Late," by Albert Jay Nock at mises.org 4-22-10.--"Jefferson knew economics. He stood by the bedside of its birth in Paris; he knew its parents and godparents, both personally and by their writings. Yet he did not know what manner of child had been brought forth...

Others, however, almost immediately applied to Hamilton's system a kind of homespun economic analysis that reached to its bottom. In dealing with funding and assumption, Rep. John Francis Mercer of Maryland, Rep. James Jackson of Georgia, and Sen. John Taylor of Virginia at once penetrated to the fundamental truth that all largesse to the speculator must ultimately be paid out of production, and that Hamilton's proposal therefore was actually to put a gratuitous first lien on future labor. They also took the same ground of public policy in opposing the bank bill.

The bank project was simply a continuous monopoly of public funds, raised by taxation, by investors in a semiprivate corporation — or rather, nominally semipublic but really private, since so large a proportion of the Senate and House were themselves investors who had already profited egregiously by funding and assumption, and who would certainly become shareholders in the new bank. All this, they insisted, was to be brought about at the uncompensated expense of production.

A levy of taxes for this purpose was, according to Taylor, an outright conversion of labor-made values into law-made property, vested in hands which had done nothing to produce them. "An annuity to a great amount is suddenly conjured up by law," said Taylor.

    It is paid out of labour, and labour in all countries falls on the poor.Â… But the aristocracy, as cunning as rapacious, have contrived to inflict upon labour a tax, constantly working for their emolument.

117 So, your saying I would rock at that sport as well.

I think Cricket bowlers are required to throw with a locked elbow.  The mechanics of a toss would be quite different than for a baseball pitcher. 

118

STRRRRRRRIIIIKKKKKKE THREE YOUR OUTTA HERE!

Posted by: Frank Drebbin Enrico Palazzo at May 11, 2010 03:08 PM (pr+up)

119 So I survived another round with Gordon Brown.

120 Not sure who the bigger quitter is, Gordon Brown, Or Mack Brown. BOOMER!

121 Purple Avenger you explained everything nicely except for the part about why the hell its called cricket.

122

Keith Olbermann seeking to become the World Champion Candyass.

http://tinyurl.com/2an44y4

 

123 118

Doesn't Liberia have the same representative Republic that the USA has?

Posted by: Hobo Liberation Front at May 11, 2010 03:07 PM (LdYLm)

Probably. The Phillipines do, also.  I should have said "that just about the rest of the world has".  I usually do say that, but sometimes I get tired.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 11, 2010 03:09 PM (Qp4DT)

I wouldn't be the leader of the Hobo Liberation Front unless I had an eye for details.

124 Seems like a good time to send in the Seals, and take it over. Hoist a Mexican flag and let them all go there if they hate Mexico and us so much. Fish and Chips? Fish Tacos? what the hell..............

125

Not to worry, folks. E.J. Dionne wrote an article saying that Cameron did the smart thing and moved the conservatives the great and grand center. It's what all smart conservative leaders do, according to Dionne, and it's why the Republican party here will implode.

E.J. Dionne. Prophet. Political genius. Incontinent.

126 Just imagining Nolan Ryan with a metal ball ...

127

Fish and Chips?

If you like your fish and chips, you can keep them. 

128 Anyone know where I can get one of those Plaid Cymrus?  Harrod's?

129
They just traded one leftie wanker for another, who cares?

130 Is it too late to appoint Jeremy Clarkson?

131 Interesting note: The deal isn't formally done between the Conservatives and the Lib-Dems. The thought was Brown would wait and then resign to continue a continuity of government. Brown seems to have jumped the gun. Bit of pique on the way out the door?

Yeah, very sore-loserish sounding to me.  The original story was that he would resign in September as Labour leader (and, of course, step down as PM when the government is formed). Maybe he's trying to force Cameron's hand, thinking that whoever forms the government is in for a world of hurt.  I'm not sure about that.  I never believe in winning by losing.  If Cameron is deft, he can manipulate the situation to his favor.

132 I wouldn't be the leader of the Hobo Liberation Front unless I had an eye for details.

Splitter.

133 Is it too late to appoint Jeremy Clarkson?

Clarkson's an anti-American f*ckhole.

Is it too late to re-animate the corpse of Churchill?

134

Really freaky part of the Brit system...there's no Prime Minister right now. He resigns, chats for awhile with Liz and then she calls Cameron to pop in. Until then, there's no government. In the US, the President elect becomes President at Noon, whether or not the oath has been taken. There's no second when we don't have a President.I

I don't find that freaky at all.  In fact, I find the fact that some do to be a revealing glimpse of how far we've fallen in America.  For a free people and nation to be without a government or chief executive temporarily should be no problem at all.  The federal government doesn't charter the county governments or the citizenry, it's the other way around.  Government has (or should have) only the powers it's people delegate to it, so if those powers temporarily go undelegated, so what?  The world still turns, and people still stop at stoplights.  Continuity of government may have become a practical necessity in the cold war, but that's still no reason to make a fetish of great men or dear leaders and elevate them beyond their worth.

135 Just imagining Nolan Ryan with a metal ball ...

Actually, the one I saw was closer to a MLB ball (leather wrapped), only with one seam across the equator.

136 hmm so the senate voted to audit the feds. That's going to be painful if they actually go through with it

137 If you like your fish and chips, you can keep them.

But not your bacon butties, fat-asses.

138

"We do stupid things for hundreds of years sometimes.  Government derives her mandate from the consent of the governed, not some fucking King or Princess or rock in the mud."

What is your take on watery tarts passing out swords?

139 Government derives her mandate from the consent of the governed,

You seem to have completely missed the bit where Brown stepped down because he lost the consent of the governed.

140 Gentlemen...Gentlemen.... There will be NO FIGHTING in the War Room !!!!!!

141
It's funneh when AoS commenters Waterhose and Firehose comment in the same thread.

142 Does he get a consolation haggis?

Haggis is always a consolation.

143 137 I wouldn't be the leader of the Hobo Liberation Front unless I had an eye for details.

Splitter.

Posted by: popular front for the liberation of hobos at May 11, 2010 03:20 PM (4WbTI)

See ya and raise ya

144

"But not your bacon butties, fat-asses."

Not unless you pay the penance of three cans of vegamite.

145 I call the shots, bitches!

146 Haggis is always a consolation.

I thought Haggis went away because of Mad Cow.

147 I think the LibDems kinda span the left side of the spectrum, from a-bit-left-but-can't-stomach-Labour's-machine to the weird-beards. 

Their platform is big on all of the things that suck, really.

We'll see if they've actually agreed over which portfolios they get, and how much tussling remains. 

None of the party leaders come out of this election smelling particularly good. 

The LibDems lost a bunch of seats; they're in the government, though, and making some kind of deal was probably Clegg's last chance to hold on. 

Cameron tried to be the Teddy-Bear Tory with lots of that, uh, compassionate conservatism, all it really got him was a bunch of voters who couldn't see enough daylight between the Conservatives and Labour to matter so some drifted back, just enough went UKIP to hurt (the UKIP candidate stole just enough votes to prevent the unhorsing of the egregious Ed Balls.)

And, of course the one-eyed Scottish idiot is now on his way back to the north.

148 I saw an episode where Clarkson loved blasting a Corvette across Nevada, I would say he is anti-American cars. But, aren't we all - now American trucks are a different story.

149 It's funneh when AoS commenters Waterhose

Waterhouse

150

"It's funneh when AoS commenters Waterhose and Firehose comment in the same thread."

Do we amuse you?

151 Not unless you pay the penance of three cans of vegamite Spotted Dick.

FIFY

152 Jean??  Dick Cheney has 2 balls of steel.

153 In related unprecedented news, two untouched first editions of "Dreams of my Father" and "The Audacity of Hope" were the only personal effects left by Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown at 10 Downing.

154
just go with it, Waterhorse.

155

"Waterhouse"

Cut him some slack.  This is a thread about England.  Usage of u's is fast and loouse.  It is the neighbourly thing tou dou.

156 how is it possible to form a sentence with the word "conservative-liberal-democrat"

157 OT,
Gold just blew right threw the record, $1230 baby!

158 Yes it's true that Brown has one eye.  But he has no balls.

159 how is it possible to form a sentence with the word "conservative-liberal-democrat"

If it ends with "walk into a bar..."

160 One big-eared fuck down. Another to go.

161 162 OT,
Gold just blew right threw the record, $1230 baby!

Speculation.  What can you do with gold?

162

Any chance that that Hannan guy from the European Parliament (ugh...) will get a meaningful post with this Admin.? That would be a cool side effect.

None whatsoever.  The two parliaments are entirely separate beasts.  The European parliament isn't even all that powerful, given how much authority the EU's bureaucrats wield.  I agree Daniel Hannan is a cool guy, but this is like asking if some Republican US Senator will be given an executive job in his home state when a Republican governor is elected.  Except the gulf is even wider.  The answer is, not only "no," but that it wouldn't even occur to anybody.

163
Never trust a man with two first names whose first and sur names are colleges and universities.

164
What's his middle name, Endicott?

165 Speculation.  What can you do with gold?

Attract women.

166 Didn't Captain Fuckstain (Obama) about a week ago call Cameron a lightweight?  Now he is PM, How will Capatin Fuckstain lie his way out after insulting Cameron?  If I were Cameroon I would tell Obama to "Muck Off" !!

167 So what is Cameron's opinion of the Brown Doctrine?

168 Over/Under on when Bambi will formally call Cameron to congratulate him? 5 PM eastern?

Or will Cameron have to call Bambi and remind him that the UK still exists?

169

The people of the wet turd isle have spoken, and they asked for change!

Congratulations to the English people!

170

What Cameron should do is try to get something through Parliament that is wildly popular but opposed by the Lib Dems and Labour.

But, with the sad state of British politics, that would have to entail more government handouts.

Wrong:  EU referendum.

In fact, that is the only way to keep Britain from continuing irrevocably down its road to serfdom.

171 Kratos - Olin is holding at $ 19.735

172

They got rid of BROWN.

 

FUCKING RACISTS.

173 I will instruct Joe Biden to call PM Cameron ASAP. Joe is good at these things, you know !!! 

174

"What can you do with gold?"

Oh baby!  What can't you do?

175 170 Speculation.  What can you do with gold?

Attract women.

Posted by: Waterhouse at May 11, 2010 03:36 PM (c7UMz)

Excellent plan!  When do we attack?

176 20 Nice flat, this. Even has indoor plumbing.

Hey, DVDs!

Posted by: David Cameron, on moving day at May 11, 2010 02:35 PM (oHWLY)

Sucker.  They're region 1.

177

This will never work. Mercury is still retro.

Posted by: Rachel Maddow at May 11, 2010 02:44 PM (SVZM2)

A '47 Mercury is really retro!

178 He'll become an EU bigwig. All good leftists go to Brussels. Gerhard Schröder got a better deal. The Russians made him a millionare for selling out Eastern Europe...

179 Fox just said Cameron is the new man.............

180 Fixed term Parliament reported as "line 1" of the agreement between the Tories and Lib Dems by the BBC

181
I agree with everything you guys are saying.

Dagnabit!

182 Why are there bicycle cops in Cameron's motorcade?

183 Fixed term Parliament reported as "line 1" of the agreement between the Tories and Lib Dems by the BBC

Yeah. That's pretty big.

184 I sure wish we get Obama and Michelle to leave the White House so easily. Something tells me it is going to be tougher here.

185 hmm so the senate voted to audit the feds. That's going to be painful if they actually go through with it

Well, its a restricted audit, so it means nothing.  Funny how they were going for a full audit and right before the vote all the liquidity drained from the market and the DOW fell 1000 points.  All of a sudden, its now a restricted audit.  Its almost as if there was some manipulation, but thats just crazy talk.

186 Over/Under on when Bambi will formally call Cameron to congratulate him?

He's loading him an I-Pod full of distractions as we speak.

187 I'd vote for Cameron's wife.

Vote like a viking.

188 Why couldn't he just quit in front of the National Enquirer and Greta Van Sustern like Palin did?

189 He's loading him an I-Pod full of distractions as we speak.

I think that's Rahm's job, since Barry's admitted he's too stupid to figure it out.

190 Oops, looks like someone already did.

191 Cameron:

"Our country is more open at home and more compassionate abroad, and that is a good thing." [paraphrased]

This is a conservative?  Okey doke ... And they wonder why they didn't get a majority.

192 I render myself unable to contribute anything noteworthy to this thread because I don't understand their freaking government system!

193 (5Etcj)

Still not epantsipated yet?

194 187 Why are there bicycle cops in Cameron's motorcade?

Posted by: mesablue at May 11, 2010 03:42 PM (sl3Ei)

--Carbon credits

195 Why couldn't he just quit in front of the National Enquirer and Greta Van Sustern like Palin did?

V Baker wouldn't let him.

196 Could you imagine Obama giving a clear, coherent speech like this off the cuff?

197

 

<blockquote>Haggis is always a consolation.

I thought Haggis went away because of Mad Cow.

Posted by: CUS at May 11, 2010 03:29 PM (wOGfT) </blockquote>

Haggis is made from sheep not cattle.

Sheep don't care how mad the cows get.

Speaking of sheep, Cameron is an AGW believer. He is as green or greener than Brown. (That's what Dionne means by center, he means LEFT). Cameron is John McCain's politics with John Kerry's personality. This coalition will fall apart in one year, there will be another election, and thanks to the press the Tories will get the blame. The real election story is what happened to Scotland. While Conservatives were picking up seats everywhere else, they lost seats in Scotland. Clegg? He's an idiot. Charming, but an idiot. Clegg's big deal is public housing - putting families into one bedroom houses. Families. One bedroom. Back in the USSR...

The gov't will look something like John McCain with Ralph Nader. Now I've got to go drink an early martini to get that image out of my brain. 

198   187 Why are there bicycle cops in Cameron's motorcade?

Posted by: mesablue at May 11, 2010 03:42 PM (sl3Ei)

its kinda like why they dont carry guns. they yell STOP. Or I will yell STOP again.

199 Could you imagine Obama giving a clear, coherent speech like this off the cuff?

I'm so confused. Where were the "dramatic" pauses? Where was the chin-thrust?

200 204 Could you imagine Obama giving a clear, coherent speech like this off the cuff?

I'm so confused. Where were the "dramatic" pauses? Where was the chin-thrust?

Where's the "uh... uh..."?

201 When they say "limited term," how limited are we talking about? Does this mean a new election before the end of the year?

202 This coalition will fall apart in one year, there will be another election, and thanks to the press the Tories will get the blame.

Posted by: Carmelita at May 11, 2010 03:47 PM (gq1Fx)

After listening to that speech, I wouldn't be surprised if this government didn't fall one week after it's finally put together.

203 "The argument that we must do everything a Minister demands because he has been 'democratically chosen' does not stand up to close inspection. MPs are not chosen by 'the people' - they are chosen by their local constituency parties: thirty-five men in grubby raincoats or thirty-five women in silly hats. The further 'selection' process is equally a nonsense: there are only 630 MPs and a party with just over 300 MPs forms a government and of these 300, 100 are too old and too silly to be ministers and 100 too young and too callow. Therefore there are about 100 MPs to fill 100 government posts. Effectively no choice at all."

204 196 Cameron:

"Our country is more open at home and more compassionate abroad, and that is a good thing." [paraphrased]

This is a conservative?  Okey doke ... And they wonder why they didn't get a majority.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 11, 2010 03:44 PM (Qp4DT)

No, Cameron is in no way a conservative.  On the American scale he's a leftish Democrat.  He's not even conservative on the British scale.

205 Haggis is made from sheep not cattle.

Yes.  IIRC, one of the original thoughts as to the origins of Mad Cow was that the cows were fed sheep parts.  Haggis is made from sheep parts.  No Haggis for you.

206 Where were the "dramatic" pauses?

That's not a dramatic pause.  My scroll speed is kinda slow.

207 This jackoff LibDem on the BBC seems to think that "come to an agreement" means "do what we want".

The UK is so boned.

208 Where's the "uh... uh..."?

Posted by: Doc at May 11, 2010 03:48 PM (WKOg4)

..........................
uhhhhhhhhhhhhh............  and let me be clear. what a fucking jerk our Jugeared leader is.

209 When they say "limited term," how limited are we talking about? Does this mean a new election before the end of the year?

Posted by: joncelli at May 11, 2010 03:51 PM (RD7QR)

--I know in Canada there has to be an election called within two years if it's a Minority Government.

210 Just watching the BBC's replay, Cameron copped a little squeeze off his wife on the way into #10. Maybe he has some AoS lifestyle in him after all.

211 When they say "limited term," how limited are we talking about? Does this mean a new election before the end of the year?

They're talking about four years.

212 so is Brown still an MP?

213 so is Brown still an MP?

The BBC initially said he was going to step aside, but have since rescinded that claim. He is no longer the head of the Labour party though.

214 This is badness, I think. I was hoping the LibDems & Labour would pull out a deal.

Cameron - who wasn't the strongest conservative to begin with - is diluting some of the very things the electorate liked in order to deal with the LibDems.

Britain will NEVER get back on its feet unless there's some relief from the crushing taxes and bankrupting benefits programmes.

If LibDem/Labour had put together a deal it would have shattered inside of 6 months with a new election being called. Cameron's service will be at the mercy of the LibDems and it comes at a time when Britain needs some drastic reforms. The reform-lite that Cameron will now probably enact won't help a whit and the Tories will be blamed and ousted from power at the next opportunity. This is what I fear and I hope to God I am wrong.

215 Just watching the BBC's replay, Cameron copped a little squeeze off his wife on the way into #10. Maybe he has some AoS lifestyle in him after all.

Posted by: Doc at May 11, 2010 04:01 PM (WKOg4)

Buns or boobs?

216 Well,  I am not so negative about Cameron.   Here are some good points:

1.  His wife,  even while pregnant,  looks willowy and graceful and knows how to dress appropriately,  which will infuriate the First Wookie.
2.  Obama didn't want him to win.
3.  His speech,  while thanking Gordon Brown,  was very clear about the trouble the country is facing,  and he talked about responsibility,  working, freedom, and keeping families together.  It's been a while since we heard that from Britain.
4. He speaks without a teleprompter,  which is going to make Obama look bad.

So,  being the optimist I am, I will wait to see what he does.  

217 Cabinet appointments coming in now:

http://timesonline.typepad.com/election10/

218 Brown is to the UK as Obama is to the US. Watch Hannen again and imagine he's speaking to Obama. Exactly correct.

219

I have called PM Cameron to congradulate him and as a special treat sent him a DVD of all my speeches. This should impress him with my uh...uh...speaking uh...uh... skills.

220 Foreign Secretary a member of the Conservative Friends of Israel since age 15 according to Wikipedia.

Ought to chafe the left a little, tee hee.

221 220 Just watching the BBC's replay, Cameron copped a little squeeze off his wife on the way into #10. Maybe he has some AoS lifestyle in him after all.

Posted by: Doc at May 11, 2010 04:01 PM (WKOg4)

Buns or boobs?

Looked like a 'lil boob action to me as he was reaching to hug her.

222 Looked like a 'lil boob action to me as he was reaching to hug her.

I suppose it would be crass to suggest that we should be thankful he didn't go for the Queen.

223 I think Browny has down a great job..................

224

CUS, the cows were fed sheep parts?!? I'd get mad, too. And thanks but you could get me to eat mad cows before I'd touch haggis.

And to think we feed our cattle hay. Never thought to give meat to an herbivore without the proper disgestive system to use it. Those crazy brits.

Cameron is a large C Conservative, not a small c conservative. He has almost no conservative values. For those of us who wanted McCain to win, if we want to know how that would have turned out just watch the UK. It falls into the 'careful what you wish for' category. It remains to be seen if he has the stomach for the type of fiscal reforms the Brits need.

 

225 Buns or boobs? Posted by: stuiec at May 11, 2010 04:29 PM (7AOgy) Uh, no thanks... I already ate...

226 Cameron continues to be an idiot. He made a deal with the devil which will set back tories for years. It'd be like Jim DeMint having Nancy Pelousy as VP and Barney Frank as Speaker, and Bernie Sanders as Senate Majority Leader. Sure, there'd be a conservative at the primary helm, but the knives of the liberals would be everywhere out for the President; and since the conservative would get the blame, the backbiting and anonymous carping from the liberals would be astronomical. I only hope that Cameron didn't pledge that the Tories would do everything to support the deformation of electoral politics proposed by Captain Clegg but that they reserved their right to oppose it when it goes before the public. This is a lose lose situation for conservatives, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.  It would have been much better to just let the government fail and call for new elections.

227 #231.  They won the plurality of votes, so they should form the government. To crawl away, afraid that 50 Lib-Dem votes will corrupt them would signal that they aren't serious.

Give the Lib Dems some 'touchy-feely' cabinet posts, and make some changes that will get the country turned around. Then next election you might be given a true majority to really fix things.

228 Oldcat - yeah, they have to try.

They benefited this cycle from both a generalized exhaustion with Labour and a specific distaste for Mr Brown. 

If somehow the Tories let power fall back in Labour's lap there is the chance that party might find a leader that clicks with the public, which combined with a 'what, going to the polls AGAIN?' sentiment might be enough to muddy the waters still further in a subsequent election this year.

Most of the LibDems' customary sort of left issues - kissing up to the EU, immigration, etc - smell bad to the voters right now (they LOST seats in this election, after all) and so they're hardly in a position to walk out over, say, tighter immigration controls lest they give the Tories a real majority.   And even the Conservatives haven't been in any rush to throw out Labour's greenie/warmist nonsense.

So long as the Tories can hide behind the LibDems on tax policy and public services issues, make sure Clegg's crew can't ease away and point fingers at the Conservatives when things get painful, Cameron will have the whip hand on other matters, for a while at least.

229

It's pitiful really.  The British Empire in its day was, well, an empire.  Now, it's a bunch of scruffy people with charming accents who have their hands full running an island.  A fairly small island at that.  They are being eaten out of house & home by the invading muslim welfare-entitled horde who bring dozens of wives (illegal but nobody dares say anything to them), hundreds of children, and they're all busy making sure they don't offend the invaders.  Or fight back when they are attacked on the street or in their homes.

I don't get it.

230

25 He resigns to a fucking monarch and asks her to call for a new government.

What a slap in the face of every citizen.  A fucking Monarch in 2010.

Asking the Queen is all ceremonial, it means nothing. Kinda like Obama's oath to protect and defend the Constitution.

 

231 New PM? Another iPod full of my speeches, comin' up!

232 Hey, Brits! Word to the wise: check the new asshole's birth certificate. We learned this one the hard way.

233 IP = 117.28.77.143

234 IP = 59.175.0.62

235 you explained everything nicely except for the part about why the hell its called cricket. Probable explanation it comes from "kricke", a middle dutch word for "stick", or old english "cricce", which is a staff. I asked an English guy on my soccer team to explain to me Cricket. He said that was impossible in any amount of time under three hours, and just consider Cricket to be a good way to waste a Sunday afternoon drinking beer. Well, you are supposed to drink tea, but... really, it ain't all that hard (the basics): You got these two guys in the middle of a field, we call it a pitch. Each guy has a rickety three wood contraption called a "wicket". They take it in turns, one guy pitches the ball, the goal trying to get the batsman "out" (it's called being dismissed, we are oh-so-proper in Limeyland, you know) by knocking out one of the sticks behind the batsman (called a "bail"). Once ten batsmen are dismissed the innings (with an "s") is "over", and the other team gets to bat (Kinda like baseball here) The batsman's job is to get runs. He knocks that sucker out into the field, and then starts running back and forth between the wickets like a tiger trapped in cage. Each back-and-forth is a run, he can make as many as he can. If he hits that sucker past a certain boundary (think wall, except not) after the ball bounces, he gets four runs automatic. If he "homers" it (goes over the boundary without touching the ground), it's six. There are other ways runs are accumulated, but those are the basics. Baseball can seem to take days when you go into extra innings, but in a Test Match (think of it as a sort of World Series of Cricket) it LITERALLY can go for days (usually maximum 5 days, or a set number of innings have passed.). Hence, the need for alcoholic drinks. There are other ways to go "out" besides knocking over the wicket...the ball can be caught, the batsman hits the ball twice, etc. Anyway, here is a sort of "Cricket for Dummies" sort of outline: http://www.cricket-rules.com/

236 I heard Rugby is becoming popular in the United States. Isn't this the sport of broke people? It's like soccer. You just need a ball and players. Well, a sport of brokeN people, mainly various bones. Who needs piffling things as protective gear. It's the sport of MEN, damnit. Well, it's not quite like soccer, and more like American Football...with more injuries, swearing, drinking in the stands, fights, occassional deaths, and fewer adverts, dog-fights, and overpaid ponces.

237 Whats with six points? Home run in cricket and a try in rugby, probably the mercy rule in soccer. Dunno, why six points for a touchdown in Am. Football?

238 Why are there bicycle cops in Cameron's motorcade? Didn't want to pay the five-pound congestion charge?

239 The BBC initially said he was going to step aside, but have since rescinded that claim. He is no longer the head of the Labour party though. He's still an MP until he quits...and well, since you are allowed to just quit, he has to apply to an office called Crown Steward to either the Chiltern 100s or NOrthstead. Basically, working for the Queen (which an MP is not allowed to do) so he is disqualified from being an MP. No, don't ask why an MP isn't simply allowed to resign, it's complicated...basically, an MP is entrusted to his constituents (yes, I know, it's quaint) and just can't willy-nilly hop it when he wants, so we have this silly legal fiction in order to do it. Look up Act of Settlement 1701.

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