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Cameron n' Clegg

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  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    Cat695 wrote: »
    maybe you lot can't handle change....can't handle something new.

    And you got to see history being made for the UK
    lol - you should think about writing romantic novels or even love songs.
    you could have a massive future in that.
  • iolanthe07
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    It is a shame that all the cynics and naysayers on here despise anything that is fresh and new. If the Tories can curb the Liberals' more dotty ideas, and the Liberals can curb the Tories' slash and burn, we might just end up with something worthwhile and lasting.
    I used to think that good grammar is important, but now I know that good wine is importanter.
  • inspector_monkfish
    inspector_monkfish Posts: 9,276 Forumite
    iolanthe07 wrote: »
    It is a shame that all the cynics and naysayers on here despise anything that is fresh and new. If the Tories can curb the Liberals' more dotty ideas, and the Liberals can curb the Tories' slash and burn, we might just end up with something worthwhile and lasting.


    yeah baby..... u tell 'em
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  • silvercar
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    conservative home has a lovely picture of them perched on the top of a wedding cake. (I don't know how to capture the picture).
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  • chucky
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    iolanthe07 wrote: »
    It is a shame that all the cynics and naysayers on here despise anything that is fresh and new. If the Tories can curb the Liberals' more dotty ideas, and the Liberals can curb the Tories' slash and burn, we might just end up with something worthwhile and lasting.
    looking at the current cabinet it's quite a stong one and seems like reasonably competent people.

    what i don't go for is for the likes of the forthers that have their man-crushes on David Cameron or Nick Clegg thinking everything they touch will turn to gold just because they're new and represent 'change' or they are not the Labour party so they must be ok.
  • Pete111
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    Mortgage-free Glee!
    I wonder if they will spoon or have distinct sides of the bed?
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  • inspector_monkfish
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    Pete111 wrote: »
    I wonder if they will spoon or have distinct sides of the bed?
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  • Jonbvn
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    iolanthe07 wrote: »
    It is a shame that all the cynics and naysayers on here despise anything that is fresh and new. If the Tories can curb the Liberals' more dotty ideas, and the Liberals can curb the Tories' slash and burn, we might just end up with something worthwhile and lasting.

    Putting IDS into DWP seems to be going down well.

    http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/5995848/iain-duncan-smiths-appointment-is-a-triumph-for-the-welfare-agenda.thtml
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  • silvercar
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  • PhylPho
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    chucky wrote: »
    looking at the current cabinet it's quite a stong one and seems like reasonably competent people.

    what i don't go for is for the likes of the forthers that have their man-crushes on David Cameron or Nick Clegg thinking everything they touch will turn to gold just because they're new and represent 'change' or they are not the Labour party so they must be ok.

    I think on here at any rate there're no man-crushes, as you put it: MSE posters tend not to be brain-dead (with one or two obvious exceptions.)

    What I saw today was two relatively young guys who have rocketed in my estimation, individuals who have somehow led their parties into an alliance that will be tested by time -- but will not, at its outset, lose its freshness to the oh-so world-weary cynics on their predictable know-all ego trips.

    I was once -- once -- a Labour activist, and euphoric at the 1997 GE outcome. Millions of others who were not activists nevertheless had a grin on their face when the Blairs went into Number 10.

    The years since 1997 have taught us all not to be euphoric where politics is concerned. But today -- as one who voted libDem for the reason so perfectly expressed by iolanthe at post 13, and reflected in Cat's comments -- I did have something to smile about again

    Politics -- articulate rather than dumb, bright rather than dour, spontaneous rather than robotic, young rather than ancient, pragmatic rather than self-servingly inept -- took centre stage today amidst the birdsong in Number 10's garden.

    Nobody here is daft enough to believe there'll always be birdsong and there'll always be the jocular harmony so evident at the Cameron / Clegg news conference.

    But those who come on here to attempt to diminish, denigrate or destroy this moment are but mere traders in their own particular brand of misery.

    To which the answer to them is: keep it to yourself, OK?

    Me, I'm having a pretty good day. And I suspect, so are many thousands of others.:)
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