The mess we inherited watch

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun May 06, 2012 9:42 am

He's desperate, isn't he?

Althea · **Posted:** Sun May 06, 2012 8:45 pm

Tom_UK wrote:

Willetts got "the mess we inhereted" in there very early on last night's Any Questions. He was the first guest to answer the first question, and he got it in there in his first sentence. Textbook.

Paddy Ashdown was right after him. Arsehole.

Arrowhead · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 6:08 pm

Maria Miller squeezed in a least a couple of references during Question Time on Thursday evening.

smod · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 4:21 pm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/vide ... CMP=twt_gu

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 4:49 pm

Yeah, right on, Dave - you don't mind if I call you Dave, do you? I mean it's not like Britain's really broken now, is it? :roll:

Kevin Clash · **Joined:** Sat Apr 14, 2012 12:32 am **Posts:** 141

I don't recall Ed Balls being Chancellor of the Exchequer, or personally masterminding a global financial crash.

new puritan · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 5:23 pm

I'm not really an Ed Balls fan but I do enjoy the way he so clearly gets on Cameron's tits. Every week at PMQs he struggles to contain himself because he's got Balls taking the piss out of him relentlessly. Very funny.

Althea · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 8:50 pm

Aww, look how happy the Tories are in their insular world, bouncing up and down with glee at petty insults laced with sheer ignorance and arsetalk.

Bastards.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 9:11 pm

new puritan wrote:

I'm not really an Ed Balls fan but I do enjoy the way he so clearly gets on Cameron's tits. Every week at PMQs he struggles to contain himself because he's got Balls taking the piss out of him relentlessly. Very funny.

I've seen Balls accused of 'sledging' DC. Apparently today he was going on about Shiny Dave's claret intake, and it really got under his skin. I think the 'muttering idiot' must have been Balls. He hasn't forgiven Dave one little bit for the Tourette's jibes. He also knows that Dave will eventually blow and then we see the Flashman side, and the mask slips just a bit.

spoonman · **Joined:** Tue May 11, 2010 2:27 pm **Posts:** 889

There's your Broken Britain™ right there, led by a man firing out an insult in the Commons that would be more suited to a primary school playground.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 9:28 pm

Simon Hoggart discusses today's sledging in his perennially entertaining sketch:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012 ... CMP=twt_gu

Quote:

The Conservative party resembles the survivors on the Raft of the Medusa, dying of starvation and thirst, waving desperately at an invisible sail, hearing that someone has just kicked over the last bucket of fresh water.

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 8:57 am

I think a "What about the mess they're going to leave behind" mantra is long overdue.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 9:09 am

Good point.

new puritan · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 9:37 am

Q1 GDP now revised down to -0.3% from -0.2%, says the ONS. Gordon Brown's fault, obviously.

I see construction output was down by a whopping 4.8%. We could always provide the construction industry with a shot in the arm by actually building some council houses, but unfortunately we have a housing minister who's apparently happier with pathetic supply-side tinkering instead.

smod · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 9:57 am

Mehdi Hasan ‏@ns_mehdihasan

...ignoring the empirical fact that the economy was growing and unemployment falling when Tories took over in May 2010. Typical! (2/2)

Mehdi Hasan Mehdi Hasan ‏@ns_mehdihasan

I was just on Five Live with Tory MP Peter Bone debating latest (lack of) growth figures. Bone went with "we inherited a mess"... (1/2)

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