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I'm afraid I don't think any of those are actually realistic. I could see him going for 30m cash or player exchange combined value. I would be surprised to see him going for much more than that. If they pay a value of 45m I would piss myself laughing but I just don't see it. It could be argued they are **** dumb - see Lescott/Dunne deals - but are they actually dumb enough to meet a 45m valuation? I would love to think so but I suspect not.

Check out these **** idiots.

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." (hows about nothing and nothing? ) Heh heh! The correct answer!

Remember you are talking about people's livelihoods here. How are you going to pick up the pieces of (extra) millions unemployed? I worry about the human race. How have we become so divisive? Spot on. The way some people talk they'll almost be happy to see people in the Public Sector lose there jobs. These people have families etc and will only add to the couple of million already unemployed. If that is the way forward it will end in disaster and mass strikes as no doubt the Unions will rightly kick up a fuss and try to protect its members and rightly so. I have no problem with unions trying to protect their members against unreasonable employer behaviour. I do, however, have a big problem with unions behaving like dickheads and I don't want them wielding political power. Politicians, for better or worse, are elected to be the legislators and the mechanism of government. Union officials are not. I fully expect union action in response to what will be necessary government cutbacks. They will not be doing it entirely for their members, which is actually the sole purpose of a union. They will be doing it for political reasons as well, which is not why they exist but the activists have decided is their right. Oh, yes. It may surprise some to hear I'm actually a union member. I joined so I could be protected from unfair practice and behaviour by my employer, not so the rocket polishers could try to get me out on strike in support of a bloated public sector that needs trimming down.

Ah, Clegg is finally going to show his face and give a press conference. I'll be interested to hear what he's got to say.

I expect this to happen. And we are going back to the dark days of the 1980s with millions unemployed. I'd be very worried if I were a civil servant right now. Maybe it's escaped your attention but there are already millions unemployed. If there is numerous strikes, massive disruption and mass protests it will because of union words removed in the public sector thinking they should be exempt from the kind of cuts the private sector has had to implement to stay in business.

Yes, I did realise that

Mmmm. I do wonder. history does suggest not! However, the story is that there are a few disillusioned Libs because of the deal. More interestingly, if reports are true, one of the primary reasons for failure of the Lib-Lab pact was because of widespread fury within the Labour Party about the deal and how it was being conducted. However, you are right. No many of the words removed could even spell integrity, let alone practice it.

Yes, indeed, I echo your sentiment. Brown is enough to make any right-thinking person puke.

Oh, they'll both stand. If I was Cameron I'd be trying to win every by-election possible to reduce the dependency on the coalition. Enough by-elections and enough wins and the coalition can be junked. I think it unlikely that there will be 20 by-elections in the next parliament, particularly ones that could result in Tory gains. Under normal circumstances I would agree entirely. However, these are not normal circumstances and I could see some MPs deciding to resign their seats in the next year or two as a result of recent events and the party political stuff that will happen next. They could be from any of the three parties but I would expect a higher number of by-elections in the next couple of years than would normally be the case.

Queen: "So, we have finally got rid of you and you still have that stupid rictus grin on your face. Now one should do one before one smacks you one" Brown: "Ma'am, I've been working hard for hard working families." Queen: "You'd have happily put my family on the scrapheap. Your time is up" Queen: "I'm so glad you've taken over from that dreadful Caledonian. I couldn't abide the grinning fool who used to come here before him, either. There used to be a country actually worth being a constitutional monarch over." Cameron: "I understand your despondancy, Ma'am but we are now in with a fighting chance."

I could see why that might happen but one government party campaigning against another? I'm not sure how clever that would be or how, exactly, it would play out. On consideration, you're right. The smart thing would be a carve up to keep out the Labour candidate.

No, he isn't. He's been on the box more frequently than Tony Slattery in his prime. Tony Slattery had a prime. Damn, must have missed it!

Oh, they'll both stand. If I was Cameron I'd be trying to win every by-election possible to reduce the dependency on the coalition. Enough by-elections and enough wins and the coalition can be junked.

If it wasn't they got the best "celebrity double" ever! Not wasting any time, is he? Wasting his life maybe!

It was mooted but happily wrong

Clegg confirmed as Deputy, Liam Fox into Defence

Props to Kirsty Wark shaking her head in disbelief at the total shite that word removed Polly Toynbee was coming out with on Newsnight. Oh, look. Now it's Creepy Ben Bradshaw's turn to talk bollocks

I hope they junk that Minister of Justice shite. Totally ridiculous. Toss it in the same bin as the Human Rights Act.

Campbell behaving like a total word removed on Newsnight. Enjoy your retirement you piece of shit. Actually, please don't enjoy any more of you life. Get a debilitating disease.

I've read a lot of what you have posted. You should be worried but the fact that you have had an episode of lucidity that has enabled you to recognise it means you can get help before it's too late.

Agreed, Clark is head and shoulders the best candidate for the Treasury. Has Osborne's appointment not already been confirmed though? Regrettably he has. It's a mistake that will likely come back and haunt him unless Ken acts as his minder, which I wouldn't rule out.

Would've prefered if they somehow snuck Portillo in through the back door! Clark wouldn't be a bad choice though. Yes, I read something about Portillo being something of a backdoor man, but perhaps that is just in his youth. I've actually got a lot of time for Portillo, he is one smart mother ****. If you watch him on This Week with Andrew Neill and Dianne Abbott you come to realise he is usually correct. I would welcome him as part of the new government but I suspect he is now more comfortable being a backroom adviser. Cameron needs to be ruthless and **** Osborne off.

The one point I've agreed with you tonight. Osborne should have been sacrificed as art of the negotiations. Ken Clark as Chancellor FTW.

The mess the Tories left from the 70s/80s is still here as well. Whaaaaaat? So what the **** have Labour actually been doing for the last 13 years? How long did they want to "right the mess"? If they had concentrated on righting the so-called mess rather than royally **** up economically and doing their best to create a combination of a nanny state and a control freaks wet dream maybe we would be in a better position now.