Nick Clegg's Annihilation Lap

Watching this reminds me of my ongoing reaction to the hullabaloo regarding the Supreme Court's decisions on so-called 'ObamaCare', aka the ACA.  I don't want the fascist asshole Republicans to get their way in denying insurance to people by constantly attacking the healthcare-law they christened 'Obamacare' despite it being modelled on their own party's proposals in the 'nineties for an alternative to the plan of the Clinton administration.  But the law still sucks.  It's still flawed.  It's functionality still depends upon forcing people to hand over money involuntarily to massive corporations.  And people will still die for lack of coverage, and/or the inability to pay.

Still, arguably horrible law as it is, missed generational opportunity at real reform as it may represent ('May' ?  Who the fuck are we kidding ?), the fact is that people can obtain healthcare in the United States now who couldn't before, and who might not have been able to shortly if the Supreme Court had agreed with the latest (completely bullshit) attack on the ACA.

What did Nick Clegg's sellout buy any one ? The idea that he prevented a global economic meltdown by getting into bed with the Tories is absurd -- Every nation on Earth faced similar political considerations, including the far-more financially significant United States, but where else did a political party feel the need to sell out generations' worth of political principle for short-term power ?  And if the Lib-Dems had not done a deal with the Tories, what ?  What evidence was there at the time even remotely suggesting that there could be catastrophic outcomes without the coalition ?  What evidence since ?

It pains me to watch this, because I'm inclined to like Nick Clegg, to root for the Liberal Democrats.  Even now.  Even despite all that fucker has done to destroy his own party's brand.  And especially as the so-called Labour party seems divided between possibly genuinely loony Marxists like Corbyn and complete right-wing frauds like the rest of the scumbags vying for leadership.

And that's all I have to say.  I feel the need to say something witty, something controversial perhaps, but no, this asshole just makes me sad.  His incompetence, his idiocy, his vanity...all of it...just...makes...me...sad.

Well, It's the Weekend, So We Can Just Phone in any Random Crap, Right ?

Time to read the Telegraph...Referendum, booooring.  Global realignment of power between the US and China...pass.  Tom Cruise...ew.  What's that fourth item ?

But, but, surely that's...That's...The general election was just...

Why the hell am I looking at a photoshop of the former Deputy Prime Minister and former head of the LibDems with his wife & the Camerons over the caption "I'll be there for you..." ?

Is this some shit you had hanging around from before the elections, and you couldn't be bothered to update ?

Okay, okay, the 'content' will explain, right ?  <Reads the utterly unfunny pointless drivel that follows>

Nope.  What follows has nothing to do with Friends, nothing to do with the Cleggs, nothing to with 'SamCam', and is in fact nothing more than some cheap stereotypes and cliches seguing eventually into a bolted-on mention of Sepp fucking Blatter.  Please tell me you didn't pay Mister Thomas for this shit.

More importantly, please tell me you stole that image off the internet.  No, wait... Please tell me that your unpaid intern from Albania stole that image off the internet.

I mean, you do want to be taken seriously, don't you ?  You've only been running an online presence for over twenty years now.  You were fucking pioneers on the web !  We were still using the Mosaic web-browser when you launched the Electronic Telegraph FFS !

Aw, whadda I care ?  Go ahead, keep shitting all over yourselves Telegraph.  Think those cheques are going to keep coming in from the Tories indefinitely ?


Oh, in case you actually wanted to read this shit (their shit, not mine, not that my blather isn't that), and didn't believe me about how bad it is.  Well, sure: Don't say I didn't warn ya.

Embers

Surely that's only eight...oh, the pie...,okay.  Well, I'm glad about...the...and...if...the.....no, your list just sucks.  And for the record, 'though Ed's fate was probably inevitable, and Nick can go fuck himself, I do feel slightly sorry for Nige'.  Almost looked on that stage like he might cry...

Well...yet another right-wing win then.  That's how many in a row now (yes, I am counting Tone' & co. obvs.) ?

But hey, congrats. to Nicola & the SNP and to the Scots generally.  May they long hold the Sassenachs' feet to the fire in Westminster.  And the Welsh, well, maybe it's time they took some lessons from their Scottish cousins.  Wales at least controls its own capital, unlike the Saudi-Arabian/Emirate/Russian enclaves that make up what used to be central London.  England died already, don'tcha know ?  Maybe it's time we gave it a decent burial ?

Stopping now before I start sounding too much like a 'kipper and before even getting started on Northern Ireland.  Happy next five years !

This'll Sway the Election for Sure

And we needed to know this now...why ?  FFS, first the SNP fearmongering from the Tories, then Ed cynically manipulating the deaths of migrants for political gain, and now suddenly days before the election, after all these years of letting himself be characterised as an atheist, Nick feels the need to set the record straight.

Nick, those who might actually care mostly can't tell the difference between atheist and agnostic, and wouldn't vote for you anyway.  Those who don't care and those who could tell the difference, well they wouldn't vote for you either.

Well, I guess if that Lab/Con. 'grand coalition' thing were to come off, Ed Miliband, while hardly the 'first Jewish Prime Minister', and looking rather less likely to be PM at all as the days wind down, could at least, Clegg having removed himself from contention, be the first Atheist Deputy Prime Minister.

...And the Telegraph Entertains

7 leaders answer 7 questions

6. Setting aside your differences, which one of your political rivals has impressed you most and why?

Natalie Bennett: It took some guts for Ed Miliband to stand up to Murdoch - most leaders wouldn’t have done that...

So looking for a seat (singular probably) in a Labour coalition are we Nat. ?

..., and David Cameron stood up to many in his own party on gay marriage.

Hedging yer bets much ?

Leanne Wood: Nicola Sturgeon. She is tenacious and determined and an advocate for her country.

Uh...

Nicola Sturgeon: Leanne Wood, the leader of Plaid Cymru – she was fantastic in the debates, quite rightly putting Nigel Farage in his place.

...huh.

7. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

David Cameron: I wish I’d worked harder at speaking another language.

Sure, Dave.

Ed Miliband: I would always like to spend more time with my wife, Justine, and our children Daniel and Sam.

Uh, then why the hell are you campaigning to be PM ?

Nigel Farage: I'm too tolerant, sometimes. When it comes to loyalty, I often offer too much, even to people who have let me down repeatedly. Maybe I need to be more cutthroat.

And there's the headline...

Nick Clegg: I’d be Prime Minister.

No comment.

Debate !

Is it just me, or is there not something really weird about seeing Ed on stage, debating the leaders of the nationalist parties (& Greens), while Nick & Dave are nowhere in sight ?  Not sure if the optics are good or bad for Labour, just strange and oddly unbalanced.


Update: And the Telegraph phones in their pre-scripted responses to the debate.

Uh, no.

Nick Clegg's 'Coalition of Grievance'

Fuck you, Nick.