http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/15/cameron-sacks-toxic-gove-promotes-women-reshuffle

A quick summary of what Cameron is trying to achieve with his re-shuffle, probably a bit too little and a bit too late to be taken seriously and just seen as political posturing leading into the General Election in 2015, which of course is exactly what it is.

Nigs, you're like the child who can't sleep before Christmas. The most notable thing about the 2015 election is that it's in 2015. Go get yourself a cup of hot milk and try to calm down.

It was the Liberals that set me off trying to re-write coalition govt policy

Ed Miliband is a useless toad. The problem has nothing to do with whether housewives find him attractive while he's fecklessly posing with copies of right-wing tabloids. The problem is that he has no backbone and lacks the ability to stand up to the Tories, partly because he's part of the neo-Thatcherite consensus and actually appears to agree with a lot of their policies. Labour under his leadership have been one of the weakest "opposition" parties in living memory. They didn't even oppose things like the benefit cap or workfare, and they dithered over the "bedroom tax" which even the Lib Dems are now branding a failure.

I applaud you for having the verve and energy to stand for public office yourself, Nigee, and wish you luck. But please have some sense if you want to understand why Ed Miliband is not going to lead Labour to an election landslide.

We may be a long way for the general election and things can change; we might go to war which is always good for the incumbent. Baring a war, I just don't see how the Conservatives can win this election outright.

They failed in their bid to redraw the boundaries to address the bias the system has towards labour. They couldn't win outright less than 2 years after the biggest financial meltdown in history and they have done nothing for the people who didn't vote for them last time. Whilst I think that UKIP will draw vote from all the parties equally, the real effect of UKIP will be that the Tories will look like a divide force. Those fearful f UKIP in their will break ranks with the party line.

Jamie I agree with your assessment of Miliband, his references to Disraeli make me crings ..... I support a working class movement that effects the lives of millions, not the sensitivities of some middle class Liberal that feels sorry for the poor and likes the idea of social justice. He doesn't deserve a landslide I agree and he won't get one.

With vapid platitudes like that you already sound like a politician, NigeeBaby.

I thank you Invictus, I hope I can count on your support ........ Nigee 'Vapid Platitude' Baby :-)

I don't see how you can denounce the middle class while opposing inheritance taxes. British socialism is so confused and muddled as to be meaningless.

Also I thought you were from Slough. You're from Sheffield? I once heard you call northerners "monkeys". Weird.

I was a Councillor in Slough back in the day ..... I now live in Shefford, similar to Sheffield but just a different spelling and a different place :-)

"Northern Monkeys" is just a Southern insult for anyone North of Watford

Ah.

We hang monkeys in the North East, in case they are French spies.

I look forward to voting Lib Dems despite hating the Lib Dems, just because Labour have absolutely 0 chance here and it keeps the Tories out.

Clegg is the single most loathsome figure in British politics. I'd sooner vote UKIP than Lib Dem.

Norman Baker is a relatively tolerable Lib Dem and I don't think UKIP will surge enough to be a force here. It's always a straight fight between the Lib Dems and Conservatives with Labour getting ~10% around here. I hate Clegg and the Lib Dems for backtracking over university fees though.

Hellenic what Constituency are you in?

Lewes District

Aha .... it all happens down there, come on you Lib Dems :-)

I wouldn't trust those Lewes Lib Dems. I've heard some pretty damning rumours linking them to the infamous Land Acquisition & Property Development Ltd. ;)

We elected our prospective parliamentary candidate tonight to stand against the marmite MP Nadine Dorries, that is going to be an interesting fight ..... I'm excited already.

Octo, LAPD Ltd was my company, what is the link to the Liberal Democrats?
What are you trying to say, either swallow it or spit it out man (I bet that is not the first time you've heard that)

Just a joke, Nigs. I saw some archived attempts at mud flinging in your direction and thought you might find it amusing to see them again for the sake of nostalgia as you're planning on stepping back into the ring. My apologies if it's a sore point, but they were so long ago and so laughable I thought it harmless

Octo, I would love to see all of that stuff again, I have tried googling it but never found it. Those were the halcyon days, the opposition hated me because I ripped it out of them in the council chamber .... oh how I laughed. Apparently some old Loonie Left Member of the Labour Party (who was kicked out of the Party then joined some Independent Liberals) had a dossier on me ..... brilliant stuff, you couldn't make up that shit, he was a funny guy. I nailed that dick time and time again, I showed no mercy. Those were halcyon days.

It was a Labour chap?! I assumed it was from the bitter and twisted wing of the Tories who have suddenly realised their birthright of being the next Prime Minister is never going to happen and was taking out his frustration on whoever happened to be nearby.

He was an ex-Socialist that got kicked out of the Party, that was the scandal back in 1990s, the one you are referring to I think is a loonie Tory (kicked out of the Tory Party and then formed his own party, other nutters joined him) called Janik when I stood again in 2001, he got the dossier on me from the loonie ex-Socialist so he could try and spread some dirt on me ..... it failed, I stood 3 times, won 3 times. I had some fun and I always enjoyed the Loonies, they made me laugh so much, when I get together with my old socialist comrades we still larf about the nutters !!

Strange how a single stupid thing posted on the internet is national news when a UKIP candidate is the author, but NigeeBaby has years of as bad if not worse posts here and not a peep.

What are you talking about Viccy?

This is what Labour is up against in the next general election, Ed Miliband has adopted a philosophy that is attributed to a 19th century Conservative, if anyone can explain to me why he is doing this it would be most appreciated because he has lost me.
wikipedia
One-nation conservatism was first conceived by the Conservative British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli,[3] who presented his political philosophy in two novels – Sybil, Or The Two Nations and Coningsby – published in 1845 and 1844 respectively.[4][5] Disraeli's conservatism proposed a paternalistic society with the social classes intact but with the working class receiving support from the establishment. He emphasised the importance of social obligation rather than the individualism that pervaded his society.[3] Disraeli warned that Britain would become divided into two 'nations', of the rich and poor, as a result of increased industrialisation and inequality.[4] Concerned at this division, he supported measures to improve the lives of the people to provide social support and protect the working classes.[3]

Disraeli justified his ideas by his belief in an organic society in which the different classes have natural obligations to one another.[3] He saw society as naturally hierarchical and emphasised the obligation of those at the top to those below. This was based in the feudal concept of noblesse oblige, which asserted that the aristocracy had an obligation to be generous and honourable; to Disraeli, this implied that government should be paternalistic.[4] Unlike the New Right, one-nation conservatism takes a pragmatic and non-ideological approach to politics and accepts the need for flexible policies; one-nation conservatives have often sought compromise with their ideological opponents for the sake of social stability.[6] Disraeli justified his views pragmatically by arguing that, should the ruling class become indifferent to the suffering of the people, society would become unstable and social revolution would become a possibility.[3].

The problem is David Cameron and Boris Johnson have already told us they are one nation Conservatives so Miliband is like the guy who turned up late to the party and told the jokes everyone laughed at earlier, and now no one is laughing and he hasn't quite worked out why...... he's a sweet middle-class lad trying to help out the deserving poor, he would do a better job working part-time at Dr Barnados or helping with the Scouts