This was too long for a Facebook status
May. 12th, 2010 11:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Christ almighty, but my Facebook page has become a political vomitzone over the last few days. Listen, everyone:
To some of those on the left, Nick Clegg has done exactly what he said he was going to do from the start to form some semblance of a stable government. So I'm not really convinced that anyone's been "betrayed" or that it's fair to describe this as a Clegg-Cameron slashfest, and the sooner the photos of the Lib Dem leader with horns and a beard crudely scribbled over the top stop coming, the better. Especially if they're also of him in bed with David Cameron.
To some of those on the right, how is it possible that you have no concept of what self-satisfied gits you've metamorphosed into since I saw you last? Go back over your posts over the last week and read over what you're saying to actual people affected by all this, when you try to say you're above arguments with which you disagree with a smug flourish. It's my hope that you'll soon have a revelation of "Wow, I really am a bit of a twat".
Then everyone can go back to making updates about Treasure Island and Farmville that I don't care about, because even that is a fair distance better than all this.
I await the oncoming piley-on with some trepidation.
To some of those on the left, Nick Clegg has done exactly what he said he was going to do from the start to form some semblance of a stable government. So I'm not really convinced that anyone's been "betrayed" or that it's fair to describe this as a Clegg-Cameron slashfest, and the sooner the photos of the Lib Dem leader with horns and a beard crudely scribbled over the top stop coming, the better. Especially if they're also of him in bed with David Cameron.
To some of those on the right, how is it possible that you have no concept of what self-satisfied gits you've metamorphosed into since I saw you last? Go back over your posts over the last week and read over what you're saying to actual people affected by all this, when you try to say you're above arguments with which you disagree with a smug flourish. It's my hope that you'll soon have a revelation of "Wow, I really am a bit of a twat".
Then everyone can go back to making updates about Treasure Island and Farmville that I don't care about, because even that is a fair distance better than all this.
I await the oncoming piley-on with some trepidation.
no subject
Date: 2010-05-12 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-13 12:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-12 05:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-12 06:46 pm (UTC)The plans to introduce a right to recall MPs seems very interesting with this in mind: I could see Danny Alexander being recalled as soon as is possible.
no subject
Date: 2010-05-13 03:46 pm (UTC)One of the early recall proposals was that MPs could only be recalled when found to be in breach of standards, like for example the expenses scandal. I don't see why you should need the further obstacle of gathering 7,000 signatures when an MP has already been found to be in breach of standards. They should just go. I look forward to seeing what is actually introduced, and perhaps going up to Inverness for the first recall election.
no subject
Date: 2010-05-14 12:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-14 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-12 06:44 pm (UTC)Having never liked Nick Clegg, I'm still upset and angry at him, as he appears to have made a lot of concessions that are too great, in my mind, often for very little.
We seem set to keep the right to 28 days detention without charge, which is absolutely wrong. Agreeing to the Conservative [unspecified] cap on number of immigrants from outside the EU is ridiculous. Universities have severe issues hiring staff from outside the EU at this stage. It is just not true that we need to be more isolationist here.
It's absolutely reasonable to feel betrayed by the Liberal so-called Democrat party. That said, I am attempting to focus on the positives there seem to be on the legislation. And stop being upset at Theresa May and IDS.
no subject
Date: 2010-05-12 10:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-12 10:21 pm (UTC)There's a Kiwi Postdoc at Kings College Cambridge who, to pay, they've sent to San Fransisco, so he can be paid to do research there, after failing to get his permit three times. It's rather ridiculous...
no subject
Date: 2010-05-13 05:03 pm (UTC)Despite this, one of my colleagues sincerely believes that anyone can come into the country whenever they like, and that the government will hand them the keys to a council house and a benefits cheque on day one.
no subject
Date: 2010-05-12 11:49 pm (UTC)Normally I resist instant reactions and give myself time for my thoughts to settle, and will be doing that again in the future!
no subject
Date: 2010-05-13 12:12 am (UTC)There's a lot to like in the new manifesto, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8677933.stm - and make no mistake, some dodgy stuff as well, but... with two parties having to cooperate, perhaps we'll see the better stuff materializing. I hope so.