Okay, so I love Nick Clegg like a huffing steam train, and I loathe David Cameron like I loathe pirate radio stations cutting in to the music on my iPod, and yes, I think that Cleggy's wife is an absolute fox, but, Goddamn it, as a certain community has pointed out frequently, those two are acting like they're in a Mills and Boon novel.

Some of ( Read more... )

"During the 2010 general election campaign Osborne is considered to have been sidelined due to his perceived unpopularity and perception as a 'weak link' by both the LibDems and Labour strategists [28]. According to records on the Conservative website Osborne made just two campaign speeches in the first three weeks of the campaign, because he ( Read more... )

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

It's those couple of hours every four, or five years when the Queen actually runs the country.

THE QUEEN. IS. IN. CHARGE.

Actually, it always makes me a little edgy, because one day,  I have this lurking feeling that she's going to turn around and go LOL. I STAY IN POWER K? Even though I know that she wouldn't, and we'd be out on the ( Read more... )

Hung parliament is immanent.

Labour/ Lib Dem Left Coalition in 5... 4... 3...

Fuck you fucking exit poll.

='(

/manly tear.

Thus far, I am very, very pleased.

The party that I have supported for most of my life, even going as far as to speak on their behalf at my sixth form before I could even legally vote has been, for a long time, the third party in a two- party race. However, following recent scandals, they have come out the best of all the major parties.
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... scored their ultimate victory : they are better at cooking than us we, the self-proclaimed kings of nosh."

I read this article this morning, and had to laugh.

So, looks like, statistically, we are better cooks than the French.
o3o

(That being said, I like how this is pulled out after the weekend where we lost in the Rugby to France. "Okay, okay ( Read more... )

lmao

Oh dear.

Bitches better keep their hands off our Falkland Islands.

A mini history lesson:
When we last went to war over them, and had a jolly old ship battle in the middle of the ocean, we called upon the Anglo- Portuguese alliance in order to utilise Portuguese ports. When was this, you ask? The 80s.
The 1780s?
No.
The 1880s?
No.

1982, actually.

Israel sickens me. It always has done, ever since I was a small girl and I saw Israeli soldiers firing on unarmed Palestinian citizens.
Like most British people, I've grown up quietly supporting the Palestinian cause, watching in absolute disgust as Israel flaunted the rules again, and again, protected from international scorn because Big Brother ( Read more... )

OH DEAR, GREECE.