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Does anyone know how to embed the youtube link in the above post? I've tried all permutations I could think of but couldn't make it work... And should I copy people's comments across? Ta x Thanks for all this, you're a star. Instructions on embedding Youtube videos can be found here: http://flythen...

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:wall: :wall: :wall: ITV news interviewing that well known commentator ''White Dee'' ''George Osborne has claimed the votes of hard working tax payers who resent people on benefits but not those on welfare'' :wall: :wall: :wall: Oh dear :( Mind if I join you? :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: :wal...

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I don't think those social security cuts are serious, are they? Political trap again. Osborne and Alexander haven't tried anything like that ambitious so far. Do you not? They said, when they introduced the cap and restricted Working-Age benefits increases to 1% or CPI per annum, that further cuts ...

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LadyCentauria wrote: From AS Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, is addressing the conference now. He has just announced that the Department for Work and Pensions will pilot paying benefits for certain troubled families with pre-paid cards, not cash, to stop families wasting money o...

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Hmmm. That pretty much means a peer then, doesn't it? Or a celebrity known for generally supporting the Tories? Could be an MEP...which means, despite the denial, it could be Hannan. He still insists he would prefer to be in the tent pissing out, I'm not entirely convinced. But did he say who's ten...

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IDS on Sky news now

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Midwives vote to strike. Best they get in quick (no, that sounds unfortunate!) Best they get their strike in because one of the grey men speaking today said they will introduce a 50% ballots returned requirement for unions before they can call a strike. And the remit to strike will be time limited,...

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AngryAsWell wrote:
PorFavor wrote:
LadyCentauria wrote:Prepaid cards for benefits? I don't. I. What!?
You put it much better than I could have done!
Has that been announced???

Yes, he was still saying it as I was typing it

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Prepaid cards for benefits? I don't. I. What!? You put it much better than I could have done! Thank you, PF! My English Language teachers would be proud of me :wink: Honestly, though, sometimes the modern phraseology expresses reaction in a more elegant, more eloquent manner than the more establish...

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Prepaid cards for benefits? I don't. I. What!?

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What? Rolling UC out across the whole country in January-the-New-Year? Guaranteed? For all claimant groups?

I don't believe it (TM)

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Suddenly he was 'misquoted'. It's suddenly disappeared off their web page, but I put the link on Twitter earlier: Here it is. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/11127836/Businesses-that-speak-out-for-Britains-EU-membership-will-be-punished-vows-John-Redwood.html Labour press are ...

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Breaking: Osborne to freeze working age benefits Yes, some 25 billion worth, who says work pays eh? If you're on the bottom of the ladder it doesn't. That's about half of the non-pension part of the total benefits budget isn't it? Basically anyone who isn't a pensioner can sod off and die. Well, th...

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Hmm if you tick the unthreaded box on the politics live blog then the nesting dissapears. I can see the many complaints starting but once you do that it actually looks useable. It changes it to Newest first though (and you can't change it to oldest). It also disables replies and recommends. It is i...

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Woot! Sorry.

The Andrew Sparrow blog is now displaying in Classic View (that is the version to which we are accustomed.) Oh, just noticed you had all noticed... Perhaps he/someone is reading here – or the flurry of Surveys... Or, yep, perhaps the trolls.

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You are all very kind. When I said on AS's blog last week that I wouldn't be posting much, I had some lovely comments from people. It's nice to be appreciated, but the fact is that I learn more from reading contributions there than I impart. Today, I am mostly incensed that the whole thing is in th...

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. . . If you get the Beta format, scroll right to the bottom of the page and click on Current Version, which is their name for the Classic Version. I think they've removed that option now. Not showing up on my desktop PC. You are absolutely correct. It is still true for some pages which haven't bee...

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You are all very kind. When I said on AS's blog last week that I wouldn't be posting much, I had some lovely comments from people. It's nice to be appreciated, but the fact is that I learn more from reading contributions there than I impart. Today, I am mostly incensed that the whole thing is in th...

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ohsocynical wrote:http://welfarenewsservice.com/well-rip- ... -fit-work/

Another victim of George Smith's twisted 'reforms'.

Sickening, isn't it!? No. More than sickening. Despicable, disgusting, and frightening.

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Labour Press Team ‏@labourpress 4m Osborne's announcement today on pensions isn't new - it was actually announced last July. See here: http://bit.ly/1yUXwUa" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; via @ThisIsMoney Even better, Faisal Islam has pointed out that it was George Osborne...

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Morning all. A big thanks to LadyCentauria for copying over a whole load of stuff from the old site. :clap: :clap: :clap: Well done! :clap: I tried to do some but for some reason I can't get the hang of pasting things. I'm such a Luddite..... I've never got the hang of links, either. Useless. Thank...

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refitman wrote: Hi LadyC, I've done the Youtube videos in the bits you have already copied over.

Thanks Refitman!

You rock

Oh, might it be an idea to swap the 'rock' and the 'whip' around in the Smilies list. I giggle every time I see it, mind...

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Morning all. A big thanks to LadyCentauria for copying over a whole load of stuff from the old site. :clap: :clap: :clap: Seconded! Oh and Morning. Thanks guys – but I didn't do half as many as @Refitman did so three cheers for him :D My sleep only lasted a couple of hours then I was bang awake! So...

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I'm fifty-six-and-a-half. But still a teenage hippie/metalhead, inside. Oh, my legs are different ages, apparently. Did this thing at the hospital (it's about balancing on one leg) and my left leg was in its eighties while the right was late twenties. It was a few years ago but my right leg is defin...

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That H&M blog is very good. Labour needs to up its game in such seats and appeal to what are some of the poorest and most disenfranchised people around. I work hard as a Labour councillor, but I'm always aware that I have to strive to cover every last inch, and that's far more the case for poor...

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Iain Duncan Smith: a reputation beyond accountability? http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/20540 Worth reading... Hi ohso - yes, that's a very good read and nails it down. The list of directors at IDS' pet think tank is quite terrifying in their removal from reality and the everyday lives of so many - n...

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Courgette dinner decision is on hold as one of the dogs has gone AWOL and Mr Riots is off across the fields in a panic with a torch. She would have to do this just at dusk ... and after she's been taken to the beach for a long walk and been fed a tasty dinner. Fingers crossed you find her soon Seco...

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I'm sitting here putting off the point when I have to go and work out yet another way of presenting courgettes for dinner to Mr Riots. This eating seasonal stuff is damn challenging sometimes ... Courgettes - hummm, a veg I always find challenging, the texture (when cooked) is to slimy for me :( Sl...

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A PROPOSAL to house a handful of teenage girls in a youth detention centre alongside hundreds of boys has been denounced as “dangerous” and “frightening”. http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/article1464600.ece" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Is he mad? Yes, judging by ...

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Thank you - I'd offer but I have no idea what to do. Some of them are a bit out of date, though. Perhaps it might be an idea to ask everyone if they want them or not? Maybe it might be better to do a little precis of the changes so far (I could do it when I get some time) rather than have some poor...

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Transferred from FlyTheNest archive, formatted as original Background On Friday 24th May2013 just before the Spring Bank Holiday weekend, the UK Government published a series of reports assessing the risk status of its major projects. The assessment uses the RAG (Red/Amber/Green) notation. Listed b...

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Transferred from the FlyTheNest archive, maintaining the original layout except videos not embedded From Mosely to Farage, A Brief History of New Parties on the Right ‘To be ruled by misguided sentimentalism would be disastrous. Once it was known that Britain offered sanctuary to all who cared to c...

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Transferred from the FlyTheNest archive, formatted as original except links replace embedded video There was a momentous royal anniversary in 2012. No I’m not talking about Lilibets little soiree on the River Thames. Last year the Royal Mail was 500 years old. From its origins in the Tudor times, t...

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Does anyone know how to embed the youtube link in the above post? I've tried all permutations I could think of but couldn't make it work...

And should I copy people's comments across?

Ta x

{i}Edit: no actual edit, just a swift experiment[/i]

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This essay has been transferred from the FlyTheNest archive, maintaining the original layout Ministries of the talentless, A Brief History of Coalition, http://www.leftfootforward.org/images/2011/03/Nick-Clegg-David-Cameron-Downing-Street-Rose-Garden.jpg David Cameron and Nick Clegg in the Rose Gar...

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References [1] Counting the Uncountable. Data and Trends across Europe - Bastian Vollmer December 2008 [2] The Ecologist - News investigation Bitter harvest: how exploitation and abuse stalks migrant workers on UK farms Andrew Wasley - 10th October, 2011 [3] East-Central European migration to the U...

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Part 3 - Tackling the problem. It is now time to turn to the elephant in the room, the UK supermarkets (so the elephant could in fact be a very large horse painted grey with word elephant stencilled on it). Almost all of the problems with the UK agriculture sector can be traced back to them. The re...

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Part 2 The problem of organised Migration - why it helps UKIP and how to limit it. This is where it all gets pretty messy as we look in depth at some areas of immigration, which of course is an issue also exploited by racists. This article looks at agriculture, but similar issues exist in the packi...

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Part 1 - Who are the Kippers and how should Labour attack them. No doubt many regular FTNers have enjoyed the sight of the Tory party ripping lumps out of each other, and yet are also concerned with the rise of Nigel Farage and his merry band of kippers. Therefore it seems logical to look at UKIP, ...

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Fighting UKIP from the left by addressing the issues of migrant labour in the UK. Abstract This article looks at the nature of UKIP and how it gains traction from the issues of migrant labour. It argues that an effective policy for attacking UKIP from the left is to address the issue of migrant lab...

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This essay has been transferred from the FlyTheNest archive, maintaining the original layout This section contains a rather long article on UKIP, where their support comes from and why migrant labour is a big issue. It looks at the nature of migrant labour in the UK and what might be done about it....

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AngryAsWell wrote:Search the Money

Just enter a Tory MP or post code and it brig up all donations

http://searchthemoney.com

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Mark Reckless, the ex-Conservative MP that defected to Ukip on Saturday, looked to have cancelled a planned walkabout to celebrate his move with leader Nigel Farage after a negative reaction in his Rochester constituency. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/farage-sent-home-from-rochester...

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Hello everyone. I asked yesterday about all the posts from the W&B section, and whether we could have some of them here. Can anyone help? They need to be copied over one by one (we can't copy them all at once). I'll see what I can do, if anyone else can help it would be appreciated. I'll give s...

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http://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/nick-ferrari/516253/Nick-Ferrari-Beware-Ed-Miliband-s-promises Even for the Express this seems to have been written by someone who is ten. an unblinking, die-hard minority of the electorate who clearly see us all in the future wearing boiler suits, riding...

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..."more members than the Primrose League..." says Grant Shapps, about 17 mins into his speech at tory Conference. So that's around a million, then. Rather a long way down on the circa three million they had in the fifties. And rather a lot more than their subscription income can account f...

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Marr was disgraceful this morning. I was struck by how easy a time he gave Cameron, allowing him to sloganise and propagandise to his heart's content. No difficult questioning, instant acceptance of anything Cameron said. No incredulity regarding the latest plan to further cut benefits for the wors...

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Marr was disgraceful this morning. I was struck by how easy a time he gave Cameron, allowing him to sloganise and propagandise to his heart's content. No difficult questioning, instant acceptance of anything Cameron said. No incredulity regarding the latest plan to further cut benefits for the wors...

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Cripes. Re the housing market: I've just checked. At the height of the boom, one bedroom maisonettes, were around £147,000 in 2007. The lowest they dropped when the recession hit was around £130,000. A year ago they'd crept back up to £147,000. Today [and they're leasehold] they are going for £165,...

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Tucked in the middle of that Groan article is a comment that these new starter homes will be exempt from the affordable homes legislation. Does that mean they can stack them up in city centres, waiving carbon legislation and various taxes, then sell them discounted to what were once described as &q...

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