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[Oct. 4th, 2012|09:41 pm]
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Ah, I'm back to ranting about politics on LJ, it's like the old days.
There was a Cabinet reshuffle in the UK! The stats are now: 4/29 women, 29/29 white, 19/29 attended Oxford or Cambridge.
The Health Secretary (Jeremy Hunt) is anti-abortion and against hybrid stem cell research, wants to scrap the NHS entirely, is pro- 'homeopathy hospitals' and anti-science, and tried to get the NHS segment of the Olympic opening ceremony stopped.
The minister for Women and Equality (Maria Miller) voted against racial and sexual equality laws, is anti-abortion, voted against lesbians having fertility treatment, and against gay adoption rights.
The Justice secretary (Chris Grayling) "has no background in law, and wants to 'rip up
the Human Rights Act'. He also thinks B&B owners should have the right to turn away gay couples."
The new Environment Secretary (Owen Paterson) is a Climate-change denier, pro-badger cull, anti-wind energy, wants to exploit shale gas faster and expand airports.
And they didn't move George Osborne, despite him being so unpopular that when he turned up to present medals at yesterday's Paralympics, he was noisily booed by the 80,000 crowd for daring to show his face.
The internet isn't sure whether David Cameron is just trolling everyone now, or if it's Opposites Day and no-one told us. But these jokers got in on 36% of the vote when they were pretending to be moderates and promising not to cut much, and they're not bothering to hide it now.
My first question: how on earth can the LibDems justify staying in this coalition for even one more day? |
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It wouldn't get rid of the Tories if they did, would it? They'd just replace Lynne Featherstone and Vince Cable with other horrid people.
No-one's quite sure what'd happen, whether it'd trigger an election or just let the LibDems vote against everything the Tories come up with (like they should be doing if they follow the principles on their own membership cards). But they'd stop enabling this rubbish, and being linked to what is now a really, really evil cabinet.
Of course it would; it would trigger a general election or put the whole executive process into deadlock until 2015. It might even save the LDs, especially if Clegg and Alexander in particular do the decent thing and resign.
Yes, but if it triggered an election the cabinet would still be full of Labservative evil bastards. How would the country be better off?
Which ever way you slice the pie, the cabinet's likely to be full of evil bastards, be they Con, Lab, or LibDem. It's just that the Conservatives have the richest, loudest, and most power-hungry corporatist scum of all the parties and the Lib Dems under Clegg, whether they like it or not, will go down in history as their enablers. The paradigm shift isn't coming for at least another generation or more, and the few decent voices in Parliament will continue to be confined to the back benches.
Nick Robinson has analysed the reshuffle as no real change at the top with a few changes lower down to capitalise on supposed Olympic success (Jeremy Hunt and Paul Deighton).
Osborne is clearly the Con Demns answer to John Prescott - there to make the PM look good.
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