The Business Secretary brands Tories 'headbangers' and 'backwoodsmen' who find sacking workers an 'aphrodisiac'

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....ories-infighting.html

With such cabinet members such as Vince Cable, who needs an opposition?

/// The Business Secretary insisted that any future government should ‘have Liberal Democrats at its heart’ and boasted of his recent flirtations with Labour. ///

Does he even think there will such a thing as a Lib/Dem coalition with the Labour Party?

I would much rather see a Tory/Labour coalition.

[tonyav]

So would I aog, those Lib / Dems are dangerous.

[Hopkirk]

A Tory / Labour coalition AOG?

Impossible.

[anotheoldgit]

Why do you say that Hopkirk?

Who would have guessed a Tory/Lib/Dem coalition?

[Hopkirk]

Anyone could have guessed at a Tory/LibDem coalition, AOG.

[youngmafbog]

I thought they have already tried that ? Well half of them anyway in the Liblab pact?

Cable is a loose canon. The plonker does not seem to realize that his chance of any power in the future is slipping away. Do you really think Labour are looking at him thinking 'Must get into bed with Cable' ?

[ichkeria]

With the Tories increasingly unpopular (15% points behind Labour in one recent poll) and with themselves behind UKIP for God's sake, it's absolutely vital for the Lib Dems to assert their independence and identity in front of the party faithful and for the electorate at large. And who better to do it than cheeky chappy Vince. That's politics.
Apparently he is going to do an acoustic version of Nick Clegg's 'apology' single. It is to be called "Cable Unplugged"

[tonyav]

LOL ^^^

[Zeuhl]

Compared with Cameron and Osbourne, or Milliband and Balls, Vince Cable and Nick Clegg still manage to appear credible, grounded, competent and sincere.

Though that may be more of an indictment of politicians in general than a plaudit for Cable and Clegg

[craft1948]

Cable is a complete snake in the grass who has a grossly over-inflated sense of his own worth. He'd stab anyone in the back if he thought he could gain advancement, and for some reason he thinks he is popular with the electorate.

[Zeuhl]

craft

More popular than Clegg at least:

<The ICM survey for The Sunday Telegraph puts Mr Cable, who has not ruled himself out as a future leader, 11 points ahead of Mr Clegg among voters of all parties. Among Lib Dem supporters, Mr Cable’s lead is seven per cent.>

[sandyRoe]

The tories took over Labour party by stealth. How else can Blair's leadership be explained?

[Zeuhl]

And more popular than Ed Balls lol:

<New evidence of the Business Secretary’s popularity emerges amid reports this weekend that Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, would be prepared to make Mr Cable the Chancellor in a possible coalition between the two parties after the 2015 General Election.>

Telegraph

http://www.telegraph....s-Lib-Dem-leader.html

[Zeuhl]

LOL sandy

Blair - Maggie's basterd (sic) child

[craft1948]

Zeuhl are you trying to imply that it would be difficult to be more popular than Balls and Clegg (sounds like a good variety act)

[jno]

being sacked for being anti-Murdoch can't have done Cable any harm - especially when he was replaced by a man buried in Murdoch's back pocket.

[Zeuhl]

craft lol - hardly

Balls should be in jail (if only for having an inappropriate permanent smirk) and Clegg has managed to turn a triumph (come third but get a share of government) into a credibility disaster.

But hey! Cameron, Milliband and Osborne are putting in a good effort at being 'posh but dim'

[Zeuhl]

craft

just occured to me:

<<Cable is a complete snake in the grass who has a grossly over-inflated sense of his own worth. He'd stab anyone in the back if he thought he could gain advancement, and for some reason he thinks he is popular with the electorate.>>

Delete Cable
Insert name of almost any politician

[emmie]

old fart needs a lesson in economics for one thing. Then tell him that his party are a bunch of no hopers. I will reiterate that i would rather Cameron had lost outright, than form this ridiculous alliance.

[craft1948]

Cable was at school with my brother-in-law in York, he said he was a smarmy know-all back then. Luckily the people of York knew him quite well, which is why on two occasions, he failed to be elected as his home city's MP.

[emmie]

Zuehl, Maggie wouldn't have had that basterd believe me.