David Cameron Is Our New Prime Minister

[Peter Parka]

Finally!!! :thumbup

Cameron is new UK prime minister
Conservative leader David Cameron has become the UK's new prime minister after the resignation of Gordon Brown.
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg will be his deputy after they agreed to the UK's first coalition government in 70 years.
Mr Cameron, who at 43 is the youngest PM in nearly 200 years, vowed to set aside party differences and govern "in the national interest".
Mr Clegg said he acknowledged some Lib Dem voters would have doubts about the deal but urged them to "keep faith".
Mr Cameron's party won the most seats in the general election last week, but not enough to secure an overall Commons majority, resulting in a hung Parliament.
'Unique opportunity'
Following hours of talks with the Conservatives on Tuesday, the Lib Dem parliamentary party and its federal executive endorsed the coalition agreement by the required three-quarters majority at a meeting that broke up just after midnight.
Speaking minutes later, Mr Clegg said: "I hope this is the start of the new politics I have always believed in - diverse, plural, where politicians of different persuasions come together, overcome their differences in order to deliver good government for the sake of the whole country."
He acknowledged there would be problems and "glitches" and, in a message to Lib Dem voters, he added: "I can imagine this evening you'll be having many questions, maybe many doubts, about this new governing arrangement.
"But I want to assure you that I wouldn't have entered into this agreement unless I was genuinely convinced that it offers a unique opportunity to deliver the kind of changes you and I believe in.

"So I hope you'll keep faith with us, I hope you will let us prove to you that we can serve you and this country with humility, with fairness at the heart of everything we do, and with total dedication to the interests and livelihoods of everyone in Great Britain."
Meanwhile, details are emerging from Conservative sources about the new government's programme, including:

• Plans for five-year, fixed-term parliaments
• The Lib Dems have agreed to drop plans for a "mansion tax", while the Conservatives have ditched their pledge to raise the inheritance tax threshold to £1m
• The new administration will scrap Labour's planned rise in National Insurance but some of the benefits will go on reducing income tax thresholds for lower earners
• A pledge to have a referendum on any further transfer of powers to the EU and a commitment from the Lib Dems not to adopt the euro for the lifetime of the next Parliament
• The Lib Dems have agreed to Tory proposals for a cap on non-EU migration
• The Conservatives will recognise marriage in the tax system - Lib Dems will abstain in Commons vote
• The Lib Dems will drop opposition to replacement for Britain's Trident nuclear missiles but the programme will be scrutinised for value for money
• There will be a "significant acceleration" of efforts to reduce the budget deficit - including £6bn of spending reductions this year
• There will be a referendum on moving to the Alternative Vote system and enhanced "pupil premium" for deprived children as Lib Dems demanded

Mr Cameron has begun the work of appointing his first cabinet, with the Tories' George Osborne as chancellor, William Hague as foreign secretary and Liam Fox as defence secretary.
Mr Clegg's chief of staff, Danny Alexander, who was part of the party's negotiating team, is to be Scottish Secretary, the BBC understands.
Lib Dem Treasury spokesman Vince Cable has been given responsibility for "business and banks" but it is not known if his title will be chief secretary to the Treasury, a senior Lib Dem source said.
A Downing Street spokesman said it had been agreed that five cabinet posts would be filled by Liberal Democrats, including the appointment of Mr Clegg, although there are expected to be about 20 Lib Dems in government jobs in total.

Mr Cameron's arrival in Downing Street marks the end of 13 years of Labour rule.
The coalition is also the first Liberal Democrat and Conservative power-sharing deal at Westminster in history.
Mr Cameron, who is six months younger than Tony Blair was when he entered Downing Street in 1997, is the youngest prime minister since 1812 and the first Old Etonian to hold the office since the early 1960s.
Barack Obama was the first foreign leader to congratulate Mr Cameron in a brief telephone call during which the US president invited the new prime minister to visit Washington in the summer, Downing Street said.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel also offered her congratulations and invited Mr Cameron to visit Berlin.

“ I came into politics because I love this country, I think its best days still lie ahead ”
David Cameron

In a speech outside his new Downing Street home, after travelling to Buckingham Palace to formally accept the Queen's request to form the next government, Mr Cameron paid tribute to outgoing Prime Minister Gordon Brown for his long years of public service.
He also pledged to tackle Britain's "pressing problems" - the deficit, social problems and to "rebuild trust in our political system".
He said he aimed to "help build a more responsible society here in Britain... those who can should and those who can't, we will always help. I want to make sure that my government always looks after the elderly, the frail, the poorest in our country.
"We must take everyone through with us on some of the difficult decisions we have ahead.
"I came into politics because I love this country, I think its best days still lie ahead and I believe deeply in public service.
"I think the service our country needs right now is to face up to our big challenges, to confront our problems, take difficult decisions, lead people through those decisions, so that together we can reach better times ahead."
Emotional statement
The Conservatives had been in days of negotiations with the Lib Dems - who also negotiated with Labour - after last Thursday's UK election.
Earlier the Lib Dems said talks with Labour had failed because "the Labour Party never took seriously the prospects of forming a progressive, reforming government".
A spokesman said key members of the Labour team "gave every impression of wanting the process to fail" and the party had made "no attempt at all" to agree a common approach on issues like schools funding and tax reform.

 

[Peter Parka]

"Certain key Labour cabinet ministers were determined to undermine any agreement by holding out on policy issues and suggesting that Labour would not deliver on proportional representation and might not marshal the votes to secure even the most modest form of electoral reform," he said. Labour's Lord Mandelson told the BBC they had been "up for" a deal, but the Lib Dems had "created so many barriers and obstacles that perhaps they thought their interests lay on the Tory side, on the Conservative side, rather than the progressive side".
After it became clear the talks had failed, Mr Brown tendered his resignation and said he wished the next prime minister well.
In an emotional resignation statement in Downing Street, Mr Brown thanked his staff, his wife Sarah and their children, who joined the couple as they left for Buckingham Palace.
Mr Brown said it had been "a privilege to serve" adding: "I loved the job not for its prestige, its titles and its ceremony - which I do not love at all. No, I loved the job for its potential to make this country I love fairer, more tolerant, more green, more democratic, more prosperous and more just - truly a greater Britain."
He also paid tribute to the courage of the armed forces, adding: "I will never forget all those who have died in honour and whose families today live in grief."
Later he thanked Labour activists and MPs for all their efforts and told them Labour's general election performance was "my fault, and my fault alone".
Mr Brown had announced on Monday that he would step down as Labour leader by September.

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[dt3]

:clap I'm impressed with the way they worked it out. Can't imagine something like that happening over here nowadays.

 

[Peter Parka]

It was touch and go, looked like we may have had the two losers in power for a little while. No one wanted Brown though!:thumbup:clap

 

[Accountable]

So the Greens get porked?

:clap I'm impressed with the way they worked it out. Can't imagine something like that happening over here nowadays.

Of course it can, if some "third" party were somehow able to overcome all the obstacles the controlling dual party has thrown in the way and threatens their stranglehold. Now that is what won't likely happen.

 

[Peter Parka]

So the Greens get porked?

They got their first ever MP. Of course now that will mean jack shit for them, thank god!

 

[dt3]

Of course it can, if some "third" party were somehow able to overcome all the obstacles the controlling dual party has thrown in the way and threatens their stranglehold. Now that is what won't likely happen.

I like how it was way back when, when Adams got stuck with Jefferson as a VP. No way either party would ever let that happen again.

 

[Accountable]

They got their first ever MP. Of course now that will mean jack shit for them, thank god!

I got it in my head somehow that the Greens had won a plurality of seats. Oh well.

 

[edgray]

Congrats to the UK - there's a good chance of imrovement now

yay for compassionate Conservatism, let's see if Cameron is good to his word.

 

[Peter Parka]

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David Cameron already tired of being followed everywhere by Nick Clegg

Just twelve hours into the new coalition Government between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and new Prime Minister David Cameron is already said to be tired of being followed everywhere by his new deputy, Nick Clegg.
Clegg was announced in the post of Deputy Prime Minister shortly before midnight last night, but by breakfast this morning his constant position at the Prime Minister’s shoulder was already becoming tiresome to the country’s new leader.
A Downing Street insider told us, “Nick doesn’t seem to realise that Deputy Prime Minister is essentially an honorific title. Labour didn’t even bother having one for much of their time in charge. But he seems happy enough, which is the main thing I suppose.”
“Unfortunately, for some reason he keeps asking David if what he’s doing at that precise moment is something ‘Deputy Prime Ministerial’ that he should be doing too - even simply reading the papers over breakfast. This is going to get old, very soon indeed.”
“We genuinely hope this is something he’ll get bored of doing very, very quickly.”
“Just an hour ago he turned up in the same suit and tie combination as David, which left Samantha very confused indeed.”
Conversations
Cameron spent most of the evening on the phone receiving congratulations from the world’s leaders, including Barack Obama and Angela Merkel.
Our insider continued, “Nick leaned in as close to David’s phone as he could possibly get, and kept whispering, ‘Should I talk to him now? I am the Deputy Prime Minister, perhaps I should be on that call? You know, just to introduce myself?’. David wasn’t impressed.”
Political commentators have suggested that it all began when David Cameron was summoned by the Queen to be invited to form the new government.

Nick Clegg enjoyed meeting the Queen

The BBC’s Nick Robinson explained, “Nick Clegg told the new PM he would wait by the phone in case any important calls came in which only a Deputy Prime Minister could deal with.”
“The next thing you know he’s letting himself out of the boot of David’s Jag, and waving to all the cameras outside the palace.”
“Then he parked himself in between David and the Queen introducing himself as the new ‘Deputy Prime Minister and second in command of the whole country you know’.”
“It was all a bit embarrassing, and the PM has put it down to a bit of nervous excitement. But seriously, another five years in opposition is looking a lot more attractive than it did twenty-four hours ago.”


newsarse

 

[Burntblood]

I don't know shit about politics and even less about the UK but I saw that dude on CNN and he looked pretty fucking cool to me.
You should be pumped, our pres is a douche.

 

[Azazel]

he looked pretty fucking cool to me.

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