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by 51A
Mon 20 Apr, 2015 4:03 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th April 2015
Replies: 408
Views: 72756

Re: Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th April 2015

Evening all, Frequently over the last month or two, I've wanted to wish you all well during the campaign - especially those of you actively involved - natch. And then I've read a few comments, sighed, and buggered off with a sense of frustration and, more importantly, sadness. There has been so muc...
by 51A
Fri 17 Apr, 2015 3:46 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 16th April 2015
Replies: 327
Views: 57913

Re: Thursday 16th April 2015

Not too bad. Fed up with eating bloody salad though. :wall: I've got familial hypercholesterolaemia - without meds, it's about 11.5 (total HDL/LDL) I get sick of salads and oily fish - so I don't eat that much of either. I take fish-oil supplements to compensate. Oily fish repeats on me in the vile...
by 51A
Fri 17 Apr, 2015 2:01 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 16th April 2015
Replies: 327
Views: 57913

Re: Thursday 16th April 2015

Great debate and decided now I have to go Plaid. Might not make one jot but it can't be blue or red with a blue stripe any more, it has to get wider.
by 51A
Thu 16 Apr, 2015 3:19 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 15th April
Replies: 267
Views: 54918

Re: Wednesday 15th April

I am not going to "quote" anyone because I simply cannot bear to see the "Mail" banner here. But we have to wonder why any former home built for social housing reasons is now worth £1million. The property bubble is so out of control as to make home ownership beyond the dreams of ...
by 51A
Thu 16 Apr, 2015 1:14 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 15th April
Replies: 267
Views: 54918

Re: Wednesday 15th April

I thought there was a right-to-buy on HA homes, but the discounts are small so it's not often used. So the tories will make the discounts massive and those who got HA homes because they were in dire need but whose circumstances have improved because they got decent and secure housing will take adva...
by 51A
Thu 16 Apr, 2015 12:45 am
Forum: Pub
Topic: What now?
Replies: 13
Views: 9730

Re: What now?

That is subjective, Sky. I have no wish to extend my life when those I love are no longer around me, for instance. I always said "when I can't wipe my own arse" I would not wish anyone else to. But those are my circumstances and I don't know yours. At the moment I still have kids and a Mum...
by 51A
Wed 08 Apr, 2015 12:36 am
Forum: Pub
Topic: One more Discworld novel to come!
Replies: 3
Views: 4001

Re: One more Discworld novel to come!

Never read him, always felt a bit too old to do so but my daughter loved him and I admire anyone who inspires kids to read. Terrible loss, great advocate in his final years. Enjoy the new work, those of you who read it.
by 51A
Mon 06 Apr, 2015 11:57 pm
Forum: Pub
Topic: What now?
Replies: 13
Views: 9730

Re: What now?

Just to expand on that I was snacking on Ginger Snaps and Tortillas and thought there must be something more healthy and less fattening. So I went for peanuts and ended filling a big jar with them and leaving it sitting on my desk. I was scoffing handfulls of the damn things all day long. And then ...
by 51A
Mon 06 Apr, 2015 11:35 pm
Forum: Pub
Topic: DiGriz's avatar
Replies: 9
Views: 6147

Re: DiGriz's avatar

diGriz wrote:It's a chimp holding a gun.

I thought a monkey (I know it's an ape but...) holding a gun was quite representative of me with access to internet forums.

@51A It's wearing a T-shirt.
So who the heck would put a chimpanzee in a teeshirt and then give it a gun?
by 51A
Sat 04 Apr, 2015 3:49 am
Forum: Pub
Topic: DiGriz's avatar
Replies: 9
Views: 6147

Re: DiGriz's avatar

I thought it was a toy gorilla holding a gun. Mostly because:
1. It has a hairless or lighter haired tummy and chimpanzees don't often have that, and
2. Who the heck would give a real chimpanzee or gorilla a gun?
by 51A
Fri 03 Apr, 2015 3:53 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 2nd April 2015
Replies: 412
Views: 56586

Re: Thursday 2nd April 2015

Best bits of the leader's debates have by far been the women. Blimey if we ruled the world it would be a lot better!
by 51A
Fri 03 Apr, 2015 2:56 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 2nd April 2015
Replies: 412
Views: 56586

Re: Thursday 2nd April 2015

Blimey Scots, you should be right proud of Nicola Sturgeon! I'd blooming vote for her if I lived there! I don't have that option but you do. We can't do this 2 party shite any more, Blair ruined that. We have few proper Labour voices left on the left and if to make the left louder we have to do coal...
by 51A
Fri 03 Apr, 2015 1:58 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 2nd April 2015
Replies: 412
Views: 56586

Re: Thursday 2nd April 2015

I have to think that, having been a member of New Labour in 1997 and seeing the endless let-downs, coalition for the dispossessed like Plaid and SNP has to happen or we'll have more govt by interest groups and not for the people. I know my vote won't coun't (except it might, our MP stood down and I ...
by 51A
Fri 03 Apr, 2015 1:32 am
Forum: Pub
Topic: I'm a stupid bastard.
Replies: 6
Views: 5405

Re: I'm a stupid bastard.

Hi Sky,maybe tell your dad that you're sorry for being an arse and the money would really be a big help. Once you have it you could always leave it another 5 years if you don't he on. You see, I don't think Sky should say he's an arse, I don't think he is. I think he is in need of a lot of things b...
by 51A
Fri 03 Apr, 2015 1:04 am
Forum: Pub
Topic: It's my Birthday and I'll cry if I want to.
Replies: 10
Views: 7274

Re: It's my Birthday and I'll cry if I want to.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could wake up in the morning and everything made sense? Yeah but it would have to be pre-1974 for me, not a lot made sense after that. So would we go through the whole miners' strikes again or just skip 40 years and go eco or nuclear? I quite liked the blackouts of the ea...
by 51A
Mon 30 Mar, 2015 4:51 am
Forum: Pub
Topic: I'm a stupid bastard.
Replies: 6
Views: 5405

Re: I'm a stupid bastard.

You know what, on Thursday my brother got sentenced to 19 years in prison. My father has been dead to me for 6 years and he always will be although he is still breathing and lives about 10 miles away. There is nothing more poisonous to mental wellbeing than family and when that gets tangled up with ...
by 51A
Mon 30 Mar, 2015 4:38 am
Forum: Pub
Topic: What now?
Replies: 13
Views: 9730

Re: What now?

If you're fine, then you are. Sounds like a panic attack and not arrhythmia. Arrhythmia runs in my family, they stopped and restarted my mother's heart in a failed attempt to cure it but she's still fine about a decade later and at 78 swimming 3 times a week. dancing twice a week, twice a week pub q...
by 51A
Mon 30 Mar, 2015 4:18 am
Forum: Welfare & Benefits
Topic: Foodbanks and entitlement
Replies: 2
Views: 9170

Re: Foodbanks and entitlement

Getting frustrated arguing with several people about food banks (and perceived abuse of). I know people in need are referred. Are there checks as to the frequency some people claim? Some people I talk to always seem to "know" a person who regularly "shops" at food banks. I find ...
by 51A
Sun 22 Mar, 2015 1:27 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd March 2015 -
Replies: 337
Views: 67598

Re: Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd March 2015 -

Ed Miliband unveils offensive linking SNP to Tories The dossier, which is to be sent to households as a leaflet, contains an analysis of voting by the House of Commons library showing that, between 2001 and 2005, when the SNP and Tories both voted they went into the same division lobby 64 per cent ...
by 51A
Sun 22 Mar, 2015 1:20 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd March 2015 -
Replies: 337
Views: 67598

Re: Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd March 2015 -

You know no-one will tell us where the benefits cuts will fall? Well how how about this: We all unlock our pensions, then if we fall on hard times because of "austerity", we have funds if we are between 55 and 67. There must be well over Gideon's £30 billion there. No other explanation. A...
by 51A
Sun 22 Mar, 2015 12:26 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd March 2015 -
Replies: 337
Views: 67598

Re: Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd March 2015 -

You know no-one will tell us where the benefits cuts will fall? Well how how about this: We all unlock our pensions, then if we fall on hard times because of "austerity", we have funds if we are between 55 and 67. There must be well over Gideon's £30 billion there.

No other explanation.
by 51A
Sat 21 Mar, 2015 11:56 pm
Forum: Features and Analysis
Topic: Labour’s commitment to disabled people
Replies: 2
Views: 10445

Re: Labour’s commitment to disabled people

http://labourlist.org/2015/03/labours-commitment-to-disabled-people/ Well for a start Labour has promised to repeal the Bedroom Tax. So at least those who need a carer to stay sometimes will be able to have that. And as for "living in hope", well, Ms May who has stymied to many inquiries ...
by 51A
Mon 09 Mar, 2015 3:20 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 7th March & Sunday 8th March 2015
Replies: 306
Views: 91066

Re: Saturday 7th March & Sunday 8th March 2015

Wow ! Fancy being saddled with a name like that going through school.... If I'm perfectly honest, I'm as surprised he has fathered 3 children as the names that were chosen for them. He'd better not have a fourth. Helena won't get any child benefit. Too late, he's fathered four. Do you know what, ab...
by 51A
Mon 09 Mar, 2015 2:53 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 7th March & Sunday 8th March 2015
Replies: 306
Views: 91066

Re: Saturday 7th March & Sunday 8th March 2015

Is no-one else wondering if little Nancy Cameron not only got her place in the "Outstanding" state school within Westminster but her dad also applied for a place for her at an equally "Outstanding" state school somewhere in the Chilterns? Because he's not sure to be there so neit...
by 51A
Mon 09 Mar, 2015 2:36 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 7th March & Sunday 8th March 2015
Replies: 306
Views: 91066

Re: Saturday 7th March & Sunday 8th March 2015

Considering the BBC runs 4 TV channels on mainstream TV plus radio channels and the World service that provides news & entertainment to many countries, I personally don't begrudge £12.12 per month to pay for it. £3 per week is less than the cost of a pint or a packet of cigarettes. I begrudge p...
by 51A
Mon 09 Mar, 2015 2:03 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 7th March & Sunday 8th March 2015
Replies: 306
Views: 91066

Re: Saturday 7th March & Sunday 8th March 2015

Goodnight, everyone. What day is it please. Hello CJA. It's going to be Monday when you wake up, unless you don't wake up soon, in which case its's going to be another day. And your post about the police and their lack of sensitivity. Well, last November 1st, really late at night, Gwent Police hamm...
by 51A
Mon 09 Mar, 2015 1:49 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 7th March & Sunday 8th March 2015
Replies: 306
Views: 91066

Re: Saturday 7th March & Sunday 8th March 2015

Is this even legal ? From Dacre's rag, the use of the word "says" implies this is a direct quote surely ? 'Knifing David was worse than I expected, says Ed Miliband' Ed Miliband last night admitted his decision to knife brother David in the Labour leadership race led to a worse deteriorat...
by 51A
Sun 08 Mar, 2015 3:12 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 7th March & Sunday 8th March 2015
Replies: 306
Views: 91066

Re: Saturday 7th March & Sunday 8th March 2015

All things being equal, no. But things are not equal. There are risks with either option. Having pushed for the debates all this time, would it not do more harm than good not to take part? And taking part in the two 6-7 headers is the price for 90 minutes on prime time TV by himself to help get his...
by 51A
Sat 07 Mar, 2015 9:15 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 7th March & Sunday 8th March 2015
Replies: 306
Views: 91066

Re: Saturday 7th March & Sunday 8th March 2015

PorFavor Because it cannot do Miliband any good to be placed on an equal platform, with equal time, as Clegg, Farage, Sturgeon, Bennett and the Welsh One. All things being equal, no. But things are not equal. There are risks with either option. Having pushed for the debates all this time, would it ...
by 51A
Sat 28 Feb, 2015 3:56 am
Forum: Pub
Topic: Funny Youtube videos
Replies: 7
Views: 5623

Re: Funny Youtube videos

Since I popped to this thread, knowing it would let me know if this computer/OS/browser combination would let me view embedded videos, I though I'd share this one from youtube. Good news is that, yes (yippee!) I can now watch embedded vids, thanks to this iMac, OS X 10.8.5, and Chrome Version 40.0....
by 51A
Sat 21 Feb, 2015 9:42 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday, 21st & Sunday 22nd Feb
Replies: 202
Views: 55766

Re: Saturday, 21st & Sunday 22nd Feb

Austin Mitchell doing his best to sabotage Labour in Grimsby... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/labour-mp-austin-mitchell-even-if-we-selected-a-raving-alcoholic-sex-paedophile-we-wouldnt-lose-grimsby-10061754.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false...
by 51A
Sat 21 Feb, 2015 12:30 am
Forum: Pub
Topic: There's more to life than books you know....
Replies: 5
Views: 4951

Re: There's more to life than books you know....

... but not much more. Some suggestions for required reading in the build up to May, or just more generally. I kick things off by giving you the slightly-odd-at-first-glance suggestion of... Our Future: Doctor Magnus Pyke Predicts http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NjkzWDQyOQ==/z/W8kAAOxykmZTMbCB/$_35.JPG P...
by 51A
Sat 21 Feb, 2015 12:16 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 20th February 2015
Replies: 137
Views: 40957

Re: Friday 20th February 2015

@ RR2, yahyah & Lady C Thank you ladies. He's home with an almighty great wound because his tumour had dug into the gluteal muscle & was significantly bigger than any of us had expected. Whether it is malignant or not, we won't know until he goes for the follow up next Friday. In the meanti...
by 51A
Sat 21 Feb, 2015 12:04 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 20th February 2015
Replies: 137
Views: 40957

Re: Friday 20th February 2015

Tubby Isaacs wrote:Private sector jobs miracle.

Northants County Council outsource everything.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-no ... e-31544256" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Well it will sure as heck reduce the pensions bill. Astoundingly awful.
by 51A
Fri 20 Feb, 2015 11:58 pm
Forum: Pub
Topic: There's more to life than books you know....
Replies: 5
Views: 4951

Re: There's more to life than books you know....

I would like to add to the list: To Kill a Mocking Bird. Solicitors don't go on strike often, but they did when the principle of representation in Court or at the the police station of anyone accused of a crime likely to result in the loss of liberty was withdrawn, as it now has been. This used to b...
by 51A
Wed 18 Feb, 2015 2:21 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 17th February 2015
Replies: 304
Views: 72543

Re: Tuesday 17th February 2015

If RedNorth's still reading I'd like to say this. This is how I feel and what pushes me. I voted Lib Dem in 2010. I am eternally ashamed that I allowed the Conservatives to begin their run of evil, and even more ashamed that the LibDems enabled them. I helped cause the despair and desperation we re...
by 51A
Tue 17 Feb, 2015 11:00 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 17th February 2015
Replies: 304
Views: 72543

Re: Tuesday 17th February 2015

If RedNorth's still reading I'd like to say this. This is how I feel and what pushes me. I voted Lib Dem in 2010. I am eternally ashamed that I allowed the Conservatives to begin their run of evil, and even more ashamed that the LibDems enabled them. I helped cause the despair and desperation we re...
by 51A
Fri 13 Feb, 2015 2:41 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 12th February 2015
Replies: 276
Views: 68443

Re: Thursday 12th February 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/feb/12/evictions-rented-homes-record-levels-2014#comments "Evictions from rented homes hit record levels in 2014"(115 a day) In the article it says that only 20% of evictions sought were granted so there were 575 cases seeking possession. Dreadful num...
by 51A
Fri 13 Feb, 2015 2:33 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 12th February 2015
Replies: 276
Views: 68443

Re: Thursday 12th February 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/feb/12/evictions-rented-homes-record-levels-2014#comments "Evictions from rented homes hit record levels in 2014"(115 a day) In the article it says that only 20% of evictions sought were granted so there were 575 cases seeking possession. Dreadful num...
by 51A
Fri 13 Feb, 2015 2:31 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 12th February 2015
Replies: 276
Views: 68443

Re: Thursday 12th February 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/feb/12/evictions-rented-homes-record-levels-2014#comments "Evictions from rented homes hit record levels in 2014"(115 a day) In the article it says that only 20% of evictions sought were granted so there were 575 cases seeking possession. Dreadful num...
by 51A
Fri 13 Feb, 2015 1:57 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 12th February 2015
Replies: 276
Views: 68443

Re: Thursday 12th February 2015

Oh, I can feel a tiny bit smug. I don't own a working television. So I don't pay the licence fee. And after listening to Jonathan Dimbleby's clear bias on Friday evenings and watching his big brother do just the same last night (on a laptop, on catch-up well after the event), I might actually sleep ...
by 51A
Wed 11 Feb, 2015 2:10 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 10th February 2015
Replies: 272
Views: 71891

Re: Tuesday 10th February 2015

Can I just say, there are many, many things that really piss me off. Oddly, one of the ones at the forefront is that twonks call the queen "brenda". All in lower case all to call to your attention my misestimation both at the "brenda" tag and the notion that there is a family bor...
by 51A
Tue 10 Feb, 2015 1:57 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 9th February 2015
Replies: 184
Views: 50565

Re: Monday 9th February 2015

Brilliant HindleA. Now where did you find it? I couldn't see it anywhere. Lib Dems and UKIP not looking good ... not good at all. For a start, outside England UKIP has no purchase. I would dearly like to see Clegg lose his seat and in the nations (that's the nations other than England who joyfully ...
by 51A
Tue 10 Feb, 2015 1:30 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 9th February 2015
Replies: 184
Views: 50565

Re: Monday 9th February 2015

I now expect to be expelled from the site. My hymn sheet only has honesty, not dogma. I'm hoping that's a rather poor joke & not a serious remark..... Not a joke. But I did feel rather brave posting a remark even questioning Labour. And I am getting on a bit, for many years I was a Labour Party...
by 51A
Tue 10 Feb, 2015 1:13 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 9th February 2015
Replies: 184
Views: 50565

Re: Monday 9th February 2015

I'm staggered that the HSBC tax dodging is only given a front page by the Graun. Major story like this being ignored by the RW press just shows how hard Labour are having to work just to be heard. Can we please stop talking like Labour fought the banks off. It just didn't, they just wore different ...
by 51A
Tue 10 Feb, 2015 1:03 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 9th February 2015
Replies: 184
Views: 50565

Re: Monday 9th February 2015

Latest Scottish Westminster poll (TNS-BMRB | 14 Jan - 02 Feb): SNP - 41% LAB - 31% CON - 16% GRN - 6% LDEM - 4% UKIP - 2% Brilliant HindleA. Now where did you find it? I couldn't see it anywhere. Lib Dems and UKIP not looking good ... not good at all. For a start, outside England UKIP has no purcha...
by 51A
Thu 05 Feb, 2015 1:59 am
Forum: Pub
Topic: Spiders
Replies: 2
Views: 3295

Spiders

Utterly clever little creatures. I never chuck them out until their legspan is bigger than my handspan. Little one just dropped slowly on his silk from my ceiling, spotted the cat, went back up again, can't even see him on my ceiling now. I expect he's in the lightshade. He's welcome.
by 51A
Thu 05 Feb, 2015 1:37 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 4th February 2015
Replies: 163
Views: 47678

Re: Wednesday 4th February 2015

WTF is the Guardian banging on about. Nobody gives a toss about the Commons Defence Committee, they are less relevant to the modern world than the Sinclair C5. Errm, Guardian ended its YTU thread last week, could have lost readership (clickage) there (some brilliant and wonderful Yutters, some not ...
by 51A
Sun 01 Feb, 2015 2:20 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 31st January & Sunday 1st February 2015
Replies: 305
Views: 71261

Re: Saturday 31st January & Sunday 1st February 2015

Hate on Sunday has another of their 'Crisis for Red Ed' headlines, along with requisite quotes from disaffected Blairites including Jason Cowley - again !! WTF is this guy doing writing anti-Labour bilge in the Daily Hate ? :toss: So much for the New Statesman being a leftie magazine ! http://www.d...
by 51A
Sun 01 Feb, 2015 2:05 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 31st January & Sunday 1st February 2015
Replies: 305
Views: 71261

Re: Saturday 31st January & Sunday 1st February 2015

Bugger, just learned that my Old Labour but Cabinet Member of New Labour, Welsh constituency MP won't be standing this time due to age and fixed term parliaments. Totally good constituency MP, born and lived here, got an email back within a week of sending one to him on any matter. Paul Murphy will...