There's also this:
www.monbiot.com/archives/2011/02/07/a-corporate-coup-detat/#more-1329
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 9 Feb 2011, 13:25, 4 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Yes I've read that,
There's also the news that 50% of tory funding for the election came from the city.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 13:26, Reply)

Hmm.
www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/tories-get-100%25-of-funding-from-people-who-don%27t-like-socialism-201102093525/
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 9 Feb 2011, 13:27, Reply)

Oh, I missed that one
haha. "Mr Balls added - 'but left-wing people are nicer than right-wing people. Even a child knows that' "

Genius, once again, from the Mash.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:23, Reply)

that, I'm afraid, is not "news"
it's "blindlingly fucking obvious to anyone with an IQ higher than a golden retriever"

In the same way that a huge amount of labour funding in the past came from trade unions. Which is equally unsavoury. If not possibly more so. Welcome to politics.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:16, Reply)

You don't become a Conservative member of parliament to do good in the world.
Why should we expect them to be contrite or charitable.


See what I did there.
( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 13:28, Reply)

*applauds*
Did anyone watch PMQs today, or am I alone in that thrill?
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 9 Feb 2011, 13:30, Reply)

I've got a normal job sorry.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 13:31, Reply)

Good God! I've already lost my energy. Do you expect me to lose the will to live as well.

( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 13:31, Reply)

It was ace
Ed's first question: "So, can the Prime Minister tell me - how's his Big Society going?" POW.

Then Cameron started blaming library closures on libraries.

Osborne pulled some odd and creepy faces, and everyone got told off about five times.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 9 Feb 2011, 13:36, Reply)

I do think someone should explain to Osborne, possibly punctuated by slaps
that when he totally fucks everything up, matron probably can't sort this one out. Unlike all those times at school when he got girls in the family way. Or whatever else happens at Eton.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:13, Reply)

But why would he care if he fucks things up?
He's a fucking millionaire anyway, there is no possibility he won't end up as a highly paid director on the board of a lot of multinationals once he's finished as a front bench MP. He cannot possibly lose regardless of the outcome and so there is absolutely no incentive for him to even try and understand what's actually going on in the real world.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:17, Reply)

true.
But I still think someone should slap him.

Although I'm hopeful about him not ending up as a director, I'm pretty sure even the city understands how little the man knows about anything.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:18, Reply)

Well, he'll do speaking tours then
in some form, his future as a vastly wealthy individual is assured.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:21, Reply)

There's always I'm a celebrity.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:24, Reply)

In a world in which people followed common sense, you'd hope so...
But then if Tony Blair can somehow be perversely appointed as a peace envoy to the Middle East, George Osborne's probably in with a fairly safe bet for a directorship. The cunt.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:24, Reply)

Tony Blair has some unpleasant characteristics
but the bloke is at least pretty bright. Unlike Old Georgie.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:46, Reply)

It's on in the coffee lounge every week
And every week I expect some old back bencher to furiously demand to know why there are women in the room.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 13:31, Reply)

It has the word monbiot in the link
I suspect it is Monbiot. Therefore no reading
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 13:44, Reply)

Typical right wing blinkered vision.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 13:57, Reply)

I can see why you don't like him
But he seems to be the only person to have written about that change in the tax law. So, I had to link to him.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 9 Feb 2011, 13:58, Reply)

... which is what makes me think it either isn't true
he's exaggerating, or he's misunderstood. Since his track record on truth is about as good as Hitler's on ethnic integration.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:12, Reply)

This, so much this

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:18, Reply)

It's not a passed law yet
it's still a proposal. But it's a fairly worrying proposal.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:18, Reply)

except, like anything else
we only have one side of the story here. And I don't believe or trust Monbiot any more than wankers like Osborne.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:20, Reply)

See, I've read that.
I'd like to get righteously irate about it but it's Monbiot. He's a catastrophic self-important yoghurt knitting wanker who has made up so much stuff in the past that I find it impossible to believe him now. Even though that's probably true.

If only he wasn't such a lying "terribly earnest" left-wing shitweasel then people would believe him about lying "terribly earnest" right-wing shitweasels. That'll be the clattering sound of 10 kilospoons of irony.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:10, Reply)