A few people seem to be waking up to the fact that the PM misled voters and that his Chancellor is starting to look a little bit clueless.
Add in a dash of potential corruption over privatising healthcare, a few attacks on the poor and the weak, and this government is starting to look both cheap and nasty.
Weâll never know but I wonder if DAVID Milliband might have been regarded as a viable alternative by now.
From a marketing point of view Cameron needs a war - and soon.
#belgrano
Originally posted by @pap
Zero hours contracts on the rise.
I wonder what the sea change was in 2013 that led to the jump
Something doesnât stack up - there are over a million agency worker in the UK and have been for many many years. These workers have always been on zero hours contracts, so it doesnât make sense that according to this graph âonlyâ 200k were on zero hours prior to 2011
David Miliband is a lazy fucking prick that did the offs as soon as he lost the election to Ed.
One volunteer who campaigned in South Shields, but who wants to remain anonymous, told me:
âAs I knocked on doors, it was depressing to hear former Labour voters saying theyâd stay at home or vote for a protest party because David âdid nothing for South Shields, I never saw himâ. **** We were told that the voter contact rate had been just 0.2% before the by-election â and the 100 people this equates to had been transferred into the constituency following boundary changes.â
By election day â thanks to work on the ground by new MP Emma Lewell-Buck, party staff, local activists and the central phone bank â the contact rate in the constituency was up to a more respectable (but still quite low) 20%.
So the question must be asked â what on earth was David Miliband doing in this seat over the previous 12 years? How many doors did he knock on and how many constituents did he speak to? Which local campaigns were run and what data was collected?
People that have met him complain that heâs always looking over your shoulder, looking for somebody more important heâd rather be speaking to.
He might be fucking useless but thatâs never halted a political career - itâs all about image and he was the most electable in his family.
And he could eat in public.
Heâs a liability at this point. How can he say that he has Britainâs best interests at heart when he fucks off to the US for a ÂŁ425K p.a. job? Would such a man be the ideal person to fight austerity cuts?
Didnât do anything for his constituents while he was there and abandoned them the moment his political aspirations took a five year pause.
There always seemed to be an insidious âprove yourself one of usâ element to that bacon sandwich pic anyway. Would we expect a Muslim politician to do the same?
Veins-standing-out-on-the-forehead Pap - his fingers dancing across the keyboard faster than he can think, just at the mere mention of David MillibandâŚso much hatred to spew, so few keys.
Keep your sandals on fella, I promise not to mention him againâŚ
Is this thread now tories (and new labour) in trouble?
I think Iâm in trouble!
Back on the Tories. They canât even competently ban the harmless substances they want to ban 
Poppers are so harmless and have such limited effects they do not actually fall under the Governmentâs ban on legal highs, the Governmentâs top drug advisors has said.
Ministers believed they had banned poppers as part of their Psychoactive Substances Act, but later said they would consider unbanning them after an outcry by parts of the gay community.
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs however said that despite what ministers believed when they passed the new law, they had not banned poppers.
âThe ACMDâs consensus view is that a psychoactive substance has a direct action on the brain and that substances having peripheral effects, such as those caused by alkyl nitrites, do not directly stimulate or depress the central nervous system,â the council said in a report to ministers.
âIn the ACMDâs view, alkyl nitrites (âpoppersâ) do not fall within the scope of the current definition of a âpsychoactive substanceâ in the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016.
âConsequently, the ACMD does not see a need for an exemption under the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016.â
Iâm a very good typist, and therefore nearly always type faster than I can think. Whyâd you think I can produce so much crap? 
On the running away thing, Miliband is as bad as Louise Mensch, possibly worse.
Nah, she really is scum.
She ran away, he ran away.
Given that most people say they become politicians to serve the public, theyâre both self-serving cunts.
Itâs more the people she associates with, and the shite she comes out with on Twitter. I donât really know what DM has been up to, if I am honest.
Plus, she constantly heaps praise on Gamergate. So, she can get in the sea.
Missing you already!
Not.
Jumping before heâs pushed to try and save some face imo - heâll be replaced by somebody even more spineless and subserviant by next week anyway.
Also, did anyone see this fucking terrifying footage of George Osborne trying to look normal? Good job this man doesnât run our entire economy or anythiâŚshit.
I think youâre confusing zero-hours contracts and agency work. If you work for an agency (and Iâve done this myself years back, in a number of shitty jobs) then youâre not guaranteed any number of hours; you work whatâs on offer. However, in this scenario youâre free to work for other agencies if they have work on offer (again, Iâve done this myself before).
If youâre employed on a zero-hours contract, youâre contracted to be available to work for a particular employer (whether via an agency or not), but are not guaranteed any work. You canât work for any other employer, as if you did youâd be unavailable for the employer with whom you have a contract. So, you could be working a few hours here and there, and want to work a good deal more, but not be able to.
Agency work can be pretty shitty and I wouldnât recommend it (though the much-maligned EU has at least introduced legislation giving some rights to temporary staff). But the zero-hours model is a whole new level of shittiness.
Letâs take a breath. Iain Duncan Smith has just joined my rather limited pool of Tories-I-might-respect-but-thought-I-never-would.
I know his form. Fuck, Iâve taken delight in trading on his apparent hypocrisy in the past. Didnât seem that much of a prick as leader, though - if ineffective.
What a turnaround.
The face of the much hated DWP effectively saying he can no longer deal with it, and this is just his resignation statement. Justifications and memoirs will follow. A huge blow to the credibility of the government. Did anyone see it coming?
Except for those people who like these type of contracts. Google it mate.