The current government
Are actually hardline right-wingers who don't care in the slightest about the vast majority of the population, and are using the economic crisis as cover to introduce policies which tend towards the furtherment of the interests of a small elite at the expense of dismantling the apparatus of the state and impoverishing millions.

I know it sounds far-fetched, like...
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 13:11, 14 replies)

That's not even a conspiracy,
it's just the Conservative Party's mission statement.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 13:14, closed)

Just what I was thinking
and the current economic climate is their perfect excuse to shaft the lot of us.
( P-MONKE We're all fucked, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 15:04, closed)

Don't you mean
part of the government.
( WormuIus, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 13:15, closed)

suppose so
I've pretty much forgotten about the Lib Dems...
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 13:21, closed)

So have they. Tories in yellow ties, the lot of 'em.

(universalpsykopath loves what you've done with your hair., Fri 2 Dec 2011, 14:48, closed)

utter nonsense

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 13:17, closed)

What do you mean "the current government"?
That was Labour's core strategy too.
(ubergeekian, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 13:21, closed)

Evidently
The consipracy runs deeper. They're probably all lizards too. Jewish lizards. From space.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 13:23, closed)

Tories Vs New Labour
both dominated by the interests of big business but New Labour throws a few more crusts at the poor.

I find this graph quite depressing - a map of all ruling parties political positions across Europe - pretty much all rightwing in outlook even if they have had socialism in their party history.

www.politicalcompass.org/euchart
( rob, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 13:32, closed)

just read this:
www.politicalcompass.org/ukparties2010

jeez

We're fucked.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 14:50, closed)

interesting site tho
I find the two axis thing v helpful in understanding political positions.
( rob, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 15:56, closed)

I heard from a bloke down the pub...
...that after cabinet meetings, George Osborne sneaks off into the nearest phonebox, changes into the outfit of someone who gives a fuck about people not called George Osborne and secretly helps little old ladies cross busy roads, rescues kittens stuck up trees, and gives money to beggars.

I'm not sure I can believe him, though...
(Harry Webshiter Spiggley biggley bog., Fri 2 Dec 2011, 13:25, closed)

I imagine he does sneak off into the nearest phonebox
if only for the tart cards
( rob, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 13:47, closed)

there was a tvgohome once
I can't find it cos I'm on my phone and it's painfully slow, where they had a programme specifically designed to outrage people, featuring a group of drunken Oxbridge students in dinner jackets laughing at a tramp dangling from a lamppost. It's how I always imagine Cameron and Osborne's Bullingdon Club days.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 13:58, closed)