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- Sat 27 Jun, 2015 12:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th June 2015
- Replies: 161
- Views: 30963
- Sat 27 Jun, 2015 12:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th June 2015
- Replies: 161
- Views: 30963
Re: Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th June 2015
http://www.policy-network.net/pno_detail.aspx?ID=4934&title=Facing-up-to-the-scale-of-Labours-defeat&utm_content=buffer7ffa0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer There you go. Pouncing in with your good news again. Did you manage to keep one hand free whi...
- Fri 19 Jun, 2015 9:02 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 19th June 2015
- Replies: 101
- Views: 32408
Re: Friday 19th June 2015
There is a positive of sorts in Thorning-Schmidt’s loss. We won't see any more shots of Cameron doing shameful, comedic contortions to try and get in on a selfie with her. :lol: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cameron+selfie+obama&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-GB:IE-SearchBox&ie=&a...
- Fri 19 Jun, 2015 8:27 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 19th June 2015
- Replies: 101
- Views: 32408
Re: Friday 19th June 2015
Morning Willow. I don't know how few of the millions needing support have actually been put on UC but the last comment I read from Ephemerid, either here or at the G, indicated it was a miniscule number!
- Fri 19 Jun, 2015 8:24 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 19th June 2015
- Replies: 101
- Views: 32408
Re: Friday 19th June 2015
Morning AH. Nice to see you.HindleA wrote:Morning.
Doing some catching up.
Frank Field Chair DWP Select Committee.
Logging in from Scotland today and still en route further north. What an eye opener the news programmes up here were.
- Thu 18 Jun, 2015 10:57 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th June 2015
- Replies: 123
- Views: 26963
Re: Thursday 18th June 2015
Cooper is having a good campaign now after a rather unimpressive start. Still inclined to Burnham overall, but he needs to do better than last night - he is capable of it. Can't see either the first or last proposition being true myself. https://vine.co/v/eizxzUam3n6" onclick="window.open...
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 9:49 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
Incidentally, Tories paying £3 (including Toby Young I notice) to vote for Jeremy Corbyn to - in Young's words "consign Labour to electoral oblivion" is the very best reason that open primaries for selecting party candidates are a really, really bad idea. https://twitter.com/hashtag/Torie...
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 9:46 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 7:20 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
Idi Amin widow's life of tumult ends quietly in north London
Sarah Kyolaba, Ugandan dictator’s fifth and ‘favourite’ wife, was latterly proprietor of a modest hair salon in Tottenham
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015 ... ath-london
Sarah Kyolaba, Ugandan dictator’s fifth and ‘favourite’ wife, was latterly proprietor of a modest hair salon in Tottenham
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015 ... ath-london
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 6:59 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
David Miliband.
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 6:55 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
Creasy has at least 28 nominations as we speak and she is the highest placed of the 4 still below the threshold. If she doesn't make it now I shall be a bit surprised - and rather more cross :twisted: (a DL contest between just Flint and Watson is truly not my idea of fun - I would be torn between ...
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 6:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
I see that MedConfidential has been busy with FoI requests! https://twitter.com/medConfidential Exmples: Care.data topical http://www.blackburnwithdarwenccg.nhs.uk/care-data-update/ Evaluation plan for the care.data ‘pathfinder’ https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/evaluation_plan_for_the_caredata...
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 6:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
If you want Kendal to lead the Labour Party then you don't want the Labour Party to win another election.
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 6:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
Thank you for the answer. I don't think Burnham will make it to 2020 (almost fingers crossed as it would hopefully be for a good reason, e.g. someone more suited appears) and the less I say about Tom Watson, the better.
So, hypothetically then, SH, who is your "Dream Team" for 2020 or 2025?
So, hypothetically then, SH, who is your "Dream Team" for 2020 or 2025?
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 5:38 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
And I also don't agree that it is great that someone like Corbyn is there to represent people of his views https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/185542633056239616" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Ultra loyalty from Corbyn there. It is depressing that the Bennites are back...
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 5:35 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
And I also don't agree that it is great that someone like Corbyn is there to represent people of his views https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/185542633056239616" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Ultra loyalty from Corbyn there. It is depressing that the Bennites are back...
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 5:27 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
This is quite wrong. From 1997 onwards Labour was flanked to the left by the third party, the Lib Dems. Steadily they ate into this vote, especially after the Iraq war. (In 20005 I voted Lib Dem because of the war, the one time I have not voted Labour). In 2015 the major left wing alternative to La...
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 4:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
SH -
Maybe because when you speak and say "We" and "Us" you are not referring to the Labour Party you are referring to Blair's, Mandelson's and David Miliband's NuLabour.why do you who constantly want to frame everything in terms of Blair?
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 4:25 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
And a Party with "Union" in its title which will go down in history as the Party which broke the "Union" as well as pulled the UK out of the EU. That's really something to be remembered for!
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 4:12 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
2015-06-16_153126.jpg http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/scottish-politics/snp-hope-to-coax-business-start-ups-with-radical-tax-incentive-scheme.1434443723 He also signalled that the SNP would support a backbench Tory amendment to deliver full fiscal autonomy, despite warnings it would leave Sc...
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 4:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
Still catching up - with politics from last month! On this one, is it worth pursuing who actually paid for the " soiree " referred to? Surely it shouldn't be a chargeable cost to the taxpayer? On the evening of May 27, the day of the first full-blooded Tory Queen’s Speech for 19 years, Owe...
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 3:56 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
deleted original as was very angry.
Will just say "we" and "us" is not "me".
Will just say "we" and "us" is not "me".
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 3:40 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
2015-06-16_153126.jpg http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/scottish-politics/snp-hope-to-coax-business-start-ups-with-radical-tax-incentive-scheme.1434443723 He also signalled that the SNP would support a backbench Tory amendment to deliver full fiscal autonomy, despite warnings it would leave Sc...
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 3:23 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
This is a link to the Indy - warning, because that web page always freezes my laptop! George Osborne has asked Iain Duncan Smith to find even deeper cuts to benefits Jon Stone Tuesday 16 June 2015 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/george-osborne-has-asked-iain-duncan-smith-to-find-even-...
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 3:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
2015-06-16_091522.jpg https://twitter.com/JJ_159/status/610484039615672320 What a depressing graph that is. Look at the 2015 intake. See how many more than from the other groups nominate Corbyn, and how many fewer nominate Kendall. The party is drifting left, further and further away from winning e...
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 2:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
This is a link to the Indy - warning, because that web page always freezes my laptop! George Osborne has asked Iain Duncan Smith to find even deeper cuts to benefits Jon Stone Tuesday 16 June 2015 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/george-osborne-has-asked-iain-duncan-smith-to-find-even-d...
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 2:15 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
Hi Admin/Refitman Re my last post, I found the one I was looking for. It was from @adam adam PostPosted: Mon 11 May, 2015 10:37 pm Offline Lord Chancellor Joined: Wed 27 Aug, 2014 8:15 pm Posts: 323 Has thanked: 0 time Been thanked: 0 time One final thought and then I really am gone. Having allowed ...
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 1:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
Hi Admin/Refitman! On the old forum when you clicked on a member name in the members list I'm sure you could gain access to a list of posts by that member by doing a search for their posts. I've just clicked on my member name and it comes up with this (and it's the same for other members). Parse err...
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 12:24 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
When I saw this photo by Steve Parsons PA, two things came in to my mind. The polite one was "Photo Caption". No-one's actually looking at what Cameron's pointing to and the look on the Archbishop's face is worth a million words! :lol: :lol: 2015-06-16_112414.jpg http://www.theguardian.com...
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 12:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
- Tue 16 Jun, 2015 12:11 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th June 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 40084
Re: Tuesday 16th June 2015
Morning! I have some links to post, but also some reading here to catch up on, so I hope I'm not barging in and re-posting stuff! This is an excellent source: 2015-06-16_115244.jpg http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case/_new/research/Social_Policy_in_a_Cold_Climate.asp and this is a really good read: Labour’...
- Sat 13 Jun, 2015 7:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
- Replies: 235
- Views: 55898
Re: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
I've got 12 tabs open. I don't know if this one came from FTN, so sorry if it's a repeat! What makes something qualify as a seriously bad idea? In general, to sound serious it must invoke big causes to explain big events — technical matters, like the troubles caused by sharing a currency without a c...
- Sat 13 Jun, 2015 7:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
- Replies: 235
- Views: 55898
Re: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
http://www.lbc.co.uk/gove-sparks-row-over-tory-donor-appointment-111225 I expect that these are the type of "business people" which "some people" say it is essential that the Labour Party should nurture, suck up to and generally pamper, caress and lick. (please excuse my vulgari...
- Sat 13 Jun, 2015 7:04 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
- Replies: 235
- Views: 55898
Re: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
Oh! Thanks Anatoly.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Robert is taking a break from here, giselle. Hopefully not permanently.......
Hope @RobertSnozers returns soon.
- Sat 13 Jun, 2015 6:38 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
- Replies: 235
- Views: 55898
- Sat 13 Jun, 2015 6:22 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
- Replies: 235
- Views: 55898
Re: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
Justice Secretary Michael Gove is facing accusations this weekend of undermining the impartiality of Whitehall by appointing a wealthy Conservative donor and a close personal ally to his department http://www.lbc.co.uk/gove-sparks-row-over-tory-donor-appointment-111225 I expect that these are the t...
- Sat 13 Jun, 2015 6:14 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
- Replies: 235
- Views: 55898
Re: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
I don't know if this is good or bad @RobertSnozers ? I just remember when the "NHS" and "Risk Assessment" were a jointly current topic! Consultation on changes to the risk assessment framework: June 2015 (Monitor) 1. Introduction The NHS faces a continuing and significant challen...
- Sat 13 Jun, 2015 3:57 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
- Replies: 235
- Views: 55898
Re: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
List of banks acquired or bankrupted during the Great Recession
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_b ... _Recession
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_b ... _Recession
- Sat 13 Jun, 2015 3:11 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
- Replies: 235
- Views: 55898
Re: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
At our election campaign review meeting last night (where to start? - so I won't really try) I was informed that the ward where I was the lead campaigner went - according to watchful eyes at the count - roughly 50% Labour 50% Tory. We don't have the final figures / marked up registers yet - but if ...
- Sat 13 Jun, 2015 2:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
- Replies: 235
- Views: 55898
Re: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
Oh, FFS: Picking fights with business doomed Labour to defeat Mary Creagh http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/12/i-am-quitting-labour-leadership-race-anti-business-doomed-ed-miliband" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Much has been said over the past few weeks ab...
- Sat 13 Jun, 2015 2:27 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
- Replies: 235
- Views: 55898
Re: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
Edited out as IMF report I opened from link above!
- Sat 13 Jun, 2015 2:22 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
- Replies: 235
- Views: 55898
Re: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
And talking of bailouts. Feast your sore eyes and use your scroll finger on this from over the water!
Bailout Recipients
https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/list
Bailout Recipients
https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/list
- Sat 13 Jun, 2015 2:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
- Replies: 235
- Views: 55898
Re: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
I know @citizen "does" the NAO but I've got HM Treasury next accounts due in my notepad so was looking at the 2014 set - extract below - when I thought, "Yes, let's look at what was said about taxpayer payback for the banks bail out as well, since it's quite topical with the headlines...
- Sat 13 Jun, 2015 2:07 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
- Replies: 235
- Views: 55898
Re: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
I saved this link from one of the recent articles about Osborne's budget surplus joke. I've never really understood Quantitative Easing before reading this. I may have to read it again, too! http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetarypolicy/Pages/qe/qe_faqs.aspx# Edited Quantitative - courtesy of RR2!
- Sat 13 Jun, 2015 2:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
- Replies: 235
- Views: 55898
Re: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
Matthew Hancock being made to look an even bigger fool by Andrew Neil. Hancock still ranting gibberish lies about Labour.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/06 ... 51750.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/06 ... 51750.html
- Sat 13 Jun, 2015 2:04 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
- Replies: 235
- Views: 55898
Re: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
Budget surplus target plays politics with economic growth
Geoff Tily 11/6/15
http://classonline.org.uk/blog/item/bud ... mic-growth
Geoff Tily 11/6/15
http://classonline.org.uk/blog/item/bud ... mic-growth
- Sat 13 Jun, 2015 2:03 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
- Replies: 235
- Views: 55898
Re: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015
Afternoon! I found this to be an interesting read. The aim of this paper has been to argue for new forms of public ownership to address the growing private appropriation of resources, ownership and control in the economy. After over three decades of market deregulation and privatisation and its divi...
- Fri 12 Jun, 2015 12:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 12th June 2015
- Replies: 78
- Views: 18853
Re: Friday 12th June 2015
Afternoon. I don't get this. Two articles and two outcomes. 2015-06-12_090751.jpg http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/your-practice/practice-topics/access/pms-seven-day-gp-access-pilot-scrapped-after-proving-unpopular-with-patients/20010222.article#.VXoZwdtRGpo That was 11 June 2015-06-12_090811.jpg http://...
- Thu 11 Jun, 2015 1:56 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 11th June 2015
- Replies: 114
- Views: 29463
Re: Thursday 11th June 2015
As I've still got to catch up, apologies if this is a repeat. Credit to @showmaster Universal Credit costs will not be revealed until after general election A DWP spokeswoman said the department would publish its whole-life cost estimate for Universal Credit in the next Cabinet Office Major Projects...
- Thu 11 Jun, 2015 1:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 11th June 2015
- Replies: 114
- Views: 29463
Re: Thursday 11th June 2015
@giselle97 Ah, that's the report which goes with an item from Con Home which I keep in a folder called Inconvenient Truths. Redwood urges bonfire of regulations http://conservativehome.blogs.com/torydiary/2007/08/redwood-urges-b.html The Sunday Telegraph has a preview of the major recommendations o...