Dr Gloom

when you look at how far apart the tory and libdem ideologies are on things like europe, immigration and nuclear weapons, you have to question howr how this alliance will ever work. will the tory backbenchers atdn for all the concessions the tory negiotiaters made to secure the allaince? the new chief whip is going to have his work cut out. but this could be remembered for being the moment when british politics changed and the end of the genuine right wing in as a mainstream political force. unless labour retreat to the left in opposition, which could be dangerous for their chances of winning the next election, we're potentially going to end up with three parties jostling for position in the centre ground with no real opposition other than a few lunatic fringe parties.

not spending silly money is wise not spending any money is scary

couldn't have happened to a nice bloke.

were you guys watching the presser? it really was extraordinary stuff - man-love in full bloom in the PM's back garden. there was a deliciously awkward moment when cameron was asked about a gag he cracked about clegg being his favourite joke

that was one bizarrre press conference. it was set up like a wedding, a total love in. almost as if this coalition had been part of some grand plan....a 5 year plan i wonder. The Telegraph’s James Kirkup tweets: “Oh god. The country is now being run by two characters from a Richard Curtis film.“

48 hour benders are a thing of the past now too. I can't imagine many things worse now than staying up all night then ploughing on through the next day. It was standard a few years back

So the public schoolboys are teaming up to bash the poor

pics or shut the fuck up

cappelo's only sven moment to date

never has the jesus wept emoticon been so appropriate that said, didn't we get in via this route one year?

sky news is really fucking annoying. they can shove their skycopter up their arse; kay burley's arse to be specific

hangovers getting worse definitely coincides with hitting your 30s. when you're young you can drink as much as you want and not get bad hangovers, eat all you want and not put on weight then all of sudden your body stops performing as it did. if i go out on the piss friday and saturday night now i'm absolutely ruined for the rest of the week.

he's trying to do a bobby robson isn't he

just spoke to my west ham mate about it. he doesn't fancy sparky hughes. billic is the one they want apparently

yup. a new striker is absolutely crucial to survival. you need at least one striker that can get around 15 goals to stand a chance of staying up. don't fancy any of our current lot to do that Actually, only 11 players scored more than 13 PL goals this season : 1 Didier Drogba 29 2 Wayne Rooney 26 3 Darren Bent 24 4 Frank Lampard 22 5 Carlos Tevez 22 6 Jermain Defoe 18 7 Fernando Torres 18 8 Francesc Fabregas 15 9 Emmanuel Adebayor 14 10 Gabriel Agbonlahor 13 11 Louis Saha 13 and here are the top scorers for the teams who stayed up... Brimingham (9th finish) top scorer : Jerome(FW) 10 Blackburn (10th finish) top scorer was Dunne(MF) with 9 Stoke(11th) : Etherington(MF) 5goals Fulham(12th) : Zamora(FW) 8goals mackems : Bent(FW) 24 Bolton : Klasnic(FW)8 /Taylor (MF)8 Wolves : Doyle(FW) 9 Wigan : Rodallega (FW) 10 West Ham : Cole(FW) 10 that's an interesting stat. it does highlight though that if you don't have a guy that can regularly score goals, you are almsot certainly looking at a long, hard season of scrapping near the bottom of the table.

yup. a new striker is absolutely crucial to survival. you need at least one striker that can get around 15 goals to stand a chance of staying up. don't fancy any of our current lot to do that

Fucking hell, are we rehiring fat Sam as manager? That's dad's army with the exception of Joe Cole, who in a perfect world we'd do everything we can to sign. Problem is we're more likely to get Andy Cole. true. i would still fancy that 11 to hammer out lot. petrov, cole, belletti, gallas, ballack and gudjohnsen would be good buys for us but there's no way in a million years they would consider signing for us nor would fat mike splash out on the massive wages required

not a bad team to be fair. a few old legs and hefty pay packets but i'd take all of them David James Juliano Belletti Sol Campbell William Gallas Sylvinho Michael Ballack Patrick Vieira Morten Gamst Pedersen Martin Petrov Joe Cole Eidur Gudjohnsen

the boulton/campbell ding dong was brewing for a while -

what a cunt. she just shouts at him. i know you're supposed to challenge and provoke but she came across like a smug 9 year old bully tbh

i wish all three party representatives would stop harping on about the national interest when it's blatant that all three parties have their own interests at heart before anything else. seems bizarre that the future government is going to be decided on pr when it wasn't an issue in the election campaign at all

it's genius isn't it. after watching the thick of it, i expected campbell to be the one to lose his rag and start squaring up to boulton.

he makes a good point though. how can this rainbow coalition really be stable? too many conflicts of interest if you ask me. i don't want to see the tories in power but a lib-tory alliance might be in the best interests of the country, and of the labour party in the long term.

a serious man. the cohen's poorest in a while i thought.

john reid just on bbc news saying labour would be wrong to stagger on alongside the libdems, the public won't accept an alliance of the losers and that the snps, pc and other nationals the lib-lab coalition would need to get on side in order to form a majority will insist that england and not their own countries suffers the worst of the cuts. he's got a point to be fair. it might be a better strategic move for labour to bow out gracefully now, let the lib dems try to force a referendum on pr with the tories then waltz back into power after the tories are remembered for the savage cuts when an election is called in a year or so