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Tory tension over 'Brokeback coalition' - Channel 4 News
Speaking unguardedly at a lunch with ex-colleagues, senior Tory backbencher David Davis repeated a jibe that the David Cameron-Nick Clegg partnership was the "Brokeback coalition".

He said Lord Ashcroft had first suggested the comparison with the Oscar-winning film, Brokeback Mountain, about a gay relationship.

He also said the Big Society plans were "Blairite dressing", and added that the government "has a mechanism for dealing with the Liberal party, most of whom are inside the coalition. It does not have a mechanism for dealing with the Conservative party, most of whom are outside the coalition."

Financial Times  journalists overheard the exchange at the Boot and Flogger pub in London's Southwark.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Jul 24th, 2010 at 11:01:55 AM EST
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There's stealing my stuff!

Speaking unguardedly at a lunch with ex-colleagues, senior Tory backbencher David Davis repeated a jibe that the David Cameron-Nick Clegg partnership was the "Brokeback coalition".

He said Lord Ashcroft had first suggested the comparison with the Oscar-winning film, Brokeback Mountain, about a gay relationship.

I asked just a day ago who in this darling couple wore the high heels and bent over.  Dirty stealing bastards!  At least they read ET ... there is that.

Now where's the fun in that! - Megatron

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Sun Jul 25th, 2010 at 05:31:18 AM EST
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It's a great name and you can hear journalists all over the village itching to find ways of putting it into their stories from here on. This is the defining phrase and it isn't flattering.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Jul 25th, 2010 at 06:12:22 AM EST
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But who will get the Boot and who will be the Flogger?

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
by Bernard on Sun Jul 25th, 2010 at 06:23:19 AM EST
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