THE PENNY HASN'T DROPPED

That bastion of rabidity, home to the most incoherent drivel, The Daily Mail today bawls out - once again - that Yellow Dave and the Libservatives are forcing Blue Dave and the Conservatives to back down on manifesto pledges.

You can read the rant here.

Clearly there is one thing that The Daily Mail has not yet grasped.

I'll spell it out for them.

THE BLUE PARTY DID NOT WIN THE ELECTION.

Which is why there was a need for a coalition.

And why there is a need for compromise.

Sadly, the Mail also shows just why the coalition is doomed to fail.

Because rags like the Mail - and the usual suspects who nod along with everything it shouts - just don't grasp the basics of the word compromise.

"FAIR TAX" OR JUST "LESS TAX FOR THE RICH"?

In The Times, Yellow Dave has made clear another huge gulf between his Libservative party and the Tories.

Point 1: The Tories want the rich to pay a lot less tax.

Point 2: The Libservatives want the rich to pay a lot more tax.

Oops.

There is a pretty obvious clash of ideology here:

Tories cut taxes in such a way as to give great heaps of cash to the richest. They always have. It's what makes them the Tory party.

By contrast, the Libservatives think that the tax burden should be spread. The poorest should pay less tax. And in order to fund that move, the richest should pay more.

So what will the New Coalition do?

Well, in the article Yellow Dave insists that Blue Dave is of the same opinion as he. Cut the tax load on the poorest and make the rich cough up.

Fine.

But for one thing.

The great majority of the Blue party are frothing at the mouth at this prospect.

They want the rich to get a good big handout.

And they will fall out with Yellow Dave if he insists on the game being played his way.

Day 1 (cont.d)

the picture says a lot

blue dave does the talking and the other bloke, yellow dave (a.k.a the current deputy john prescott), does the looking at the ground...

is he thinking?

"why did i do this"?

THE CONDEMS - DAY 1 DISASTER 1

Today is the first day of the doomed Liberal Democrat Conservative coalition.

And already things are starting to go wrong!

Posts have been allocated in government and the grand coalition has thrown up the following:

Prime Minister (Conservative)
Chancellor (Conservative)
Home Secretary (Conservative)
Foreign Secreatary (Conservative)
Education Secretary (Yup... Conservative even though they dont believe in Education outside of the public schools)
Health Secretary (incredibly, Conservative)
Lord Chief Justice (Conservative)
Defence Secretary (Conservative)

OK.

So what senior jobs have the Libservatives been offered?

Umm....

Hang on....

Well, remember that job that John Prescott had (the one where the press sneered "What's his job description? What does he do?"), that's right, Deputy PM - well that's gone to Cleggy. The LibDem boss.

Other than that there are the following

Scottish Secretary (Libservative - no surprise considering that the Scots would stone a Tory rather than look at one!)
Secretary to The Treasury (a kind of poor mans chancellor) (Libservative)
Bottle Washer (Libservative)

And that's it!

That's their lot.