Prime Minister David Cameron.

[EmilyKent]

At 43, the youngest prime minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/election2010/liveevent/

[Jeneral2885]

1. Welcome to Tory Story

Tighter immigration, closer monitoring of foreign aid, more Euro-Skepticism, less friendship with the US and more neo-liberalism.

[LeftishBrit]

2. Please, I've just eaten!

[T_i_B]

3. Prime Minister David Cameron - #nickcleggsfault

Sometimes only a bad Twitter in-joke will do.

[non sociopath skin]

4. Ah well, maybe Clare has a point ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/cartoon/2010/may/05/1

As the LibDems are on the other side now, can we start calling ourselves comrades again? :evilgrin:

The Skin

[Anarcho-Socialist]

8. It depends on...

...the ruling of The Socialist All-Soviet People's Revolutionary Special Committee for Impersonal Pronouns.

:evilgrin:

[non sociopath skin]

10. Thank you, comrade.

:evilgrin:

The Skin

[Hopeless Romantic]

5. Good luck to the guy. God knows he's gonna need it

Maybe he won't be as bad as expected.

[dipsydoodle]

7. Yes

and it would be somewhat childish of anyone to criticize him until he fouls up.

I can't wait to find out what the true figures are from the Treasury to which he's never had access.

[non sociopath skin]

12. Na na na na na!

:evilgrin:

The Skin

[dipsydoodle]

28. Indeed

:rofl:

[EmilyKent]

6. Osborne as Chancellor, Hague as

Foreign Secretary.

[Jeneral2885]

9. Clegg as Leader of the House?

From wikipedia. Hoohoo what a nice offer.

[non sociopath skin]

13. Does that mean he gets to open the door for Rupert Murdoch & Lord Ashcroft when they visit?

"Thank you, Clegg. Here's a little something for your trouble. A referendum on AV".

The Skin

[EmilyKent]

16. No, Deputy PM.

Plus 4 cabinet positions.

[Jeneral2885]

18. yeah small posts

Osborne, Hauge and Fox keep thier posts. Me thinks the libs may not evne get stuff like international development.

[EmilyKent]

19. Don't know yet.

The agreement isn't public thus far. However, it will at least give Lib/Dems experience at Cabinet level.

[LeftishBrit]

20. I wonder if there's any chance...

that the Tories will consider education unimportant enough to give a LibDem the post of Education Secretary? Unlikely, but I can hope...

Ugh, I can't stand the Tories.

[EmilyKent]

21. I'm hoping the agreement will be out shortly.

We're just getting bits and pieces of it, and it's very frustrating.

[LeftishBrit]

24. Blimey, they have (not that I know anyfhing about the bloke), But, god help us all,

Andrew Lansley will be Health Secretary. :puke: :puke: :puke:. GOVERNMENT HEALTH WARNING: Andrew Lansley can seriously damage your health.

[dipsydoodle]

26. I think that in reality

the most damaging thing for our health are NH contributions which never get anywhere near the NHS. That's why Labour's proposed increase in NH contributions was such a farce. Stealth tax indeed. If any party wants to increase tax they should do so honestly and openly.

[LeftishBrit]

33. If you think that's damaging, wait till they start gutting the NHS like under Thatcher!

And Lansley is an IDIOT! He's the one who said that the recession might lead to people spending more time with their families.

[LeftishBrit]

35. Update: they haven't after all; Laws took another job so it's still Gove for Education

[non sociopath skin]

15. And Daddy Warbucks aka Lord Ashcroft as Foreign Secretary ...

... at least that's what Fox News UK is apparently reporting.

The Skin

[non sociopath skin]

23. Sorry, I was wrong there. Faux UK was reporting Warbucks for Defence ...

... but apparently Liam Fox gets the tin hat and the gun. I guess Warbucks wasn't right wing enough.

The Skin

[mrfrapp]

11. Do not want

Here's hoping the Lib Dems can temper the Tory's more unpleasant policies.

[fedsron2us]

14. Lord Liverpool

The man who suspended Habeus Corpus, passed the repressive Six Acts to limit free speech and freedom of assembly, and presided over the Peterloo Massacre. Not exactly the role model that one would want Cameron to follow

[LeftishBrit]

17. He really *was* a candidate for 'worst Prime Minister ever'

I just hope that the Tories will be restrained by their minority status from being *quite* as bad as they could have been.

[non sociopath skin]

22. I'm sure. The Tories have always done modesty and humility REALLY well ...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

The Skin

[muriel_volestrangler]

25. Current programme "from Conservative sources" includes:

There will be a "significant acceleration" of efforts to reduce the budget deficit - including £6bn of spending reductions this year. An emergency Budget will take place within 50 days
Plans for five-year, fixed-term parliaments, meaning the next election would not take place until May 2015
The Lib Dems have agreed to drop plans for a "mansion tax" on properties costing more than £2m, while the Conservatives have ditched their pledge to raise the inheritance tax threshold to £1m
The new administration will scrap part of Labour's planned rise in National Insurance and will work towards raising income tax thresholds for lower earners
A pledge to have a referendum on any further transfer of powers to the EU and a commitment from the Lib Dems not to adopt the euro for the lifetime of the next Parliament
The Lib Dems have agreed to Tory proposals for a cap on non-EU migration
The Conservatives will recognise marriage in the tax system, but Lib Dems will abstain in Commons vote
The Lib Dems will drop opposition to a replacement for Britain's Trident nuclear missiles but the programme will be scrutinised for value for money
There will be a referendum on moving to the Alternative Vote system and enhanced "pupil premium" for deprived children as Lib Dems demanded

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8676607.stm

Plus capital gains tax to go back to being the same as income tax, apart from 'entrepreneurs':

There'll be an independent commission to look at whether the big so-called universal banks, such as Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland, should be broken up, so that the more speculative investment banking activities would be formally hived off.

This is consistent with the Tories' manifesto position, but Mr Cable is more enthusiastic about breaking up the banks than Mr Osborne.
...
What may shock many investors is that the coalition will more-or-less adopt the Lib Dem's policy on raising the capital gains tax rate to streamline it with income tax. That means the top rate of CGT will be at least 40%, and possibly 50%.

However a much lower rate will be applied to "entrepreneurial" business investment: the higher capital gains tax rate is aimed at extracting more revenue from speculation, but there will in a sense be a return to the system only abandoned by Labour a couple of years ago, where there were significant tax rewards for those who invest in wealth-creating activities for longer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2010/05/libdem_voice_is_loud_on_banks.html

[dipsydoodle]

27. I heard they'd dropped

increased allowance for married couples which included gay partnerships/marriages.

[muriel_volestrangler]

29. From what I last heard, Lib Dems have agreed to abstain on it

but the Tories will propose it - which seems a bit of a cop-out, since with them abstaining, the Tories will get it through.

[dipsydoodle]

31. I must've misheard the news on radio then

but could've sworn they dropped it. I've got no personal feeling either way on that one other than the fact I was pleased they cleary expressed the inclusion of gays. I suppose it doesn't actually follow it would pass : Labour and the others in full attendance could block it if not all Cons were in attendance.

I assume you're aware that there was a time.......when we got it anyway.

[EmilyKent]

34. They spent a lot of time on this.

Either that or it was prepared ahead of time. It's an item by item agenda.

[muriel_volestrangler]

30. Summary:

http://www.private-eye.co.uk.nyud.net:8080/pictures/covers/full/1261_big.jpg

[dipsydoodle]

32. I so wish

I'd kept The Eye from the very first issue but I gave them all away in the late sixties.:-(

I got into a lot of trouble some time ago when I quoted one of Rushton's cartoons "there's a nasty nip in the air" It was compounded by the Freepers picking up on it.