The Scottish GE results probably weren’t rigged as one; the discrepancies required to disenfranchise the SNP would be obvious, given the recent referendum result; and two; the Tories – knowing the fix was already in elsewhere – didn’t need to bother. Far better to have a northern bogey party to replace the wreckage of ‘Labour’…

Which raises the interesting conundrum of an aggrieved UK citizen, denied their EU human rights by the UK government, and bounced out by the ‘new’ UKHRA taking their case directly to the EU in the hope of forcing the EU to impose its jurisdiction upon the UK…

I wonder if the existing UKHRA legislation is ‘repeal proof’ under european law?

Cameron might be biting off more than he can chew in trying to take the EU judiciary on.

Why should the anger of those wronged directed against those who have wronged them be described as ‘irrational’ and ‘frothing’? Justified and smouldering would be a more apt description. But that’s drawing slightly off topic.

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/377883.html

Hopefully its a reattachment rather than a removal.

I expect the SNP to let Cameron stew in his own juice.

Ro5ey; What do you think will happen with regard to the grexit? Might it be as close as May 11th?

Settle? PAH!

At least Farage’s career is over!

Oh yes, things can get worse…

https://app.box.com/s/wqd96xz908l3hjl5m0sksfcw19jrr9yc

given the ‘Labour’ leadership election will drag on until the party conference you can expect Cameron to make hay in the next few months.

An EU referendum is one hell of a risk for Cameron, given that the electorate may consider it to be a protest vote against the govt by then.

Hang on in there Molegrips. I remember ’83 and ’87, but this feels worse.

Today may be Theirs, but tomorrow will be ours.

A lot of dystopian novels won’t need to be rewritten.

Although you can expect some tory MPs to die during the course of the next parliament.

Not enough of them, mind…

I think the SNP should regard the result as a de facto vote for independence and push ahead regardless.

70 years on a hostile ideology has sneaked up behind us…

“It’ll be interesting to see if their rhetoric moved back to the centre to make them electable again or whether they’ll continue the suicidal shift further left.”

WHAT?! ‘Labour’ now are further to the right than Thatcher was. This was the reason IMO they fell so far short: People wanted an alternative, not more of the same under a different brand.

IIRC, if 5000 votes had been changed in the most marginal constituencies in 1992, Neil Kinnock would have won.

So wurdling the result may not be that difficult…

Yes, there is a predominant right-wing tint to UK politics, and I expected the lid-dems to be slaughtered, ‘Labour’ to underachieve, as well as struggle to escape the Blair-Brown legacy, and UKIP to be more or less irrelevant; but even so, the results don’t ring true to me. We’ve been – yet again – the victims of an electoral coup.

Lizards 1 – Hope 0 (as ever)

This country is fecked already, and has been for the last few decades

Your relief may be short-lived when the contrived pre election boomlet stutters to a halt. Then you too might find yourself one of the new jewry.

And did I mention the ghost at the feast? Greece’s continuing problems are by no means ‘solved’, May the 11th being the next crunch point. It may yet be the domino which wipes the smug grim of Cameron’s face.

“Today they are wringing the bells; tomorrow they will be wringing their hands!” – Robert Walpole.

There are many desperate people out there who have nothing to look forward to except their lives being made deliberately even worse by the new government. One day their forbearance is going to snap.

It’s his own stupid fault, trying to out tory the tories. It’s a lesson ‘Labour’ stubbornly refuses to learn. No doubt his replacement will be just as inept.

Whining? No, this time you might actually get some rioting…

Can be sidestepped.

Cameron gains a working majority for the eighteen months he’ll want to consolidate his position, then try again for another mandate.

They were mad to get into bed with the tories the last time, yet it didn’t stop them. They have ben cut down to their minimum, so they really don’t have any more to lose by doing so.

So what’s it to be; a minority Tory government with a wafer thin majority, or another coalition with the rump of the lib-dems?

And surely this will reignite the smouldering Scottish Question.

While around town today I looked at the crowds of people and wondered which of them had already voted to impose further misery on their poorer fellow citizens.

…through the sight of the loaded RPG launcher you’re holding…

Yes, Mrs Windsor and her representatives are completely apolitical…

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis

We’ll see in the next few days how non-poitical she is in regard to choosing the new government…

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/queen-palace-coup-miliband-snp-cameron-huitson-345

I can’t understand why anyone should be entitled to weild power as a result of an accident of birth.

With an unelected second chamber, the members of which outnumber the elected parliamentarians, and a hereditary head of state, it just goes to show how backward this nation really is, and far we have to progress.

I predict the New Boss will be the same as the Old Bosses.

It won’t matter; Lizard Woman will have the final say…

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/queen-palace-coup-miliband-snp-cameron-huitson-345

The hatemongering cow ought to be ‘done’

Yes. I refuse to participte in the fiction the UK is a democracy.

The barb struck home! :)

Ten years ago STW wasn’t so far up its harris with middle class wood burning Audi twattery.

Admit it; all you tories get wood over being able to express your prejudices and impose abject nisery upon other, poorer people; yet thanks to the anonymity of the ballot box, not be held to account for it.

Oh, and despite railing against government handouts, you’re quite happy to accept the little rewards thrown your way for supporting the anchor (rhyming slang) party.

Dogspurts the lot of you!

Should’ve been Chardonay or Cherelle.