Our new government

[annwfyn]

What's a bit like a “cross between a bulldog and a Chihuahua” and a “bright blue tropical fish with yellow dots"?

Apparently it's our new government. According to Boris Johnson:

I think actually that the British people in their brilliance and their imagination have come up with something potentially rather wonderful.

They’ve taken the political pallet of colours and they’ve mixed them. They didn’t want pure Conservative, they certainly didn’t want Gordon Brown. And they’ve got something new and different.

They’ve created a mongrel breed. ... And like all mongrel breeds I think it will have a great deal of hybrid vigour and strength. ... It’s like a glorious new, bright blue tropical fish with yellow dots, and it might well survive for a very long time. It might be very popular and very successful.

Bless you, Boris.

I wonder if the cabinet is going to be animal themed?

Comments

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

Now I'm having a horrible image of the cabinet as a bunch of furries.

Or cooler, they could all have an animal totem and trsnform into them, and the opposition could turm into some kind of robot and then they fight at prime minister's question time!

Thankfully our local MP didn't get his promised place in the cabinet. Weasel is never a good totem.

*grins*

[eniel]

Misread that as "a horrible image of the cabinet as a bunch of furbies".
Which would be horrible, but so terribly amusing too !

[melsner.livejournal.com]

Ok. Look up the movie trailer for a film called "Splice" starring Adrian Brody.

That's your new government.

[commlal.livejournal.com]

Nooooooooooooooo. That movie is awesome! Only caught a little bit though :(

[commlal.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of the HoP being relocated to the London Aquarium across the river and all the MPs being mutated into fish... Wonder who would be what.

[hareb-sarap.livejournal.com]

It's a macaw coalition, least macaws that don't have red in their plumage.

[lawrencegillies.livejournal.com]

I'm broadly happy with the coalition as the est outcome. As a Liberal voter, its doesn't repel me,I think its actually quite a good compromise, which gets both sides things that they really want.

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[lady-o-lavender.livejournal.com]

Sadly I'm much less optimistic than you are about the coalition, it's like my two worst parties and the two that are most evil to working families (both want to remove tax credits) combined into one and therefore the scariest government I have ever known in my life. Don't forget I know from real life experience how evil and amateurish the Lib Dems can be! But I am optimistic that Labour are getting a real resurgence since the coalition was announced - 12,000 new members and new members including a lot of working mums, as there are now people - left wing people - who simply won't vote Lib Dem anymore because of it. Also I think we will see lots of strike action going forward. So I think here begins the big fight back on the part of schools, hospitals and families everywhere. I also don't think the coalition will last five minutes. It is splitting the Lib Dems -there have been resignations from people I would have regarded as die-hard who simply cannot support the concept, and Kennedy and Ashdown have come out against it. It is merely Nick Clegg (who I have met) wanting a bit of personal power and glory, and it won't work in the long run. I actually read somewhere a particularly stupid Lib Dem writing that Labour are the third party now. Labour have got 280 MPs, the Lib Dems have only 51 and so should no way have a Deputy PM in office! I mean if they are going to make crazy statements like that, at least they could have the decency to learn basic arithmetic first i.e that 280 is a bigger number than 51!!!!! But it is good that there will be a strong opposition and so it will be hard to get a lot of their more unattractive policies, like stopping tax credits, through Parliament. I guess it is a case of watch and see but I disagree wtih the analogy overall, as the British people did not actually "choose" blue & yellow. They only slightly chose blue and then yellow chose blue, probably because their two leaders are mates from their public school days rather than for any other reason. Very few of us had anything to do with the yellow bit and many, many more people wanted red than yellow!