Search found 249 matches
- Wed 23 Sep, 2015 3:07 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
- Replies: 102
- Views: 22003
Re: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
re the Labour public spending thing - I noticed that Toby Young touched on this in his "Why I'm a Conservative" piece he's just written for some new (as if we really needed another) thinktank/right wing grouping. http://con4lib.com/toby-young-why-i-am-a-conservative/" onclick="w...
- Wed 23 Sep, 2015 12:32 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
- Replies: 102
- Views: 22003
Re: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
George Osborne, the chancellor, is still in China. As the Press Association reports, he has announced that Britain is giving £3m to a Premier League scheme to train a new generation of football stars in the country. Osborne said the funding, which will pay to train 5,000 coaches in the country, wou...
- Sun 13 Sep, 2015 5:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Sunday 13th.September
- Replies: 324
- Views: 49304
Re: Sunday 13th.September
Kate Butler @Kate_Butler Crowdsourcing the Qs for PMQs might be a stroke of genius y'know. PM sneers, jeers and evasions now directed at the electorate? We'll see! Why isn't Mrs Trellis asking about the fall in unemployment figures? #Brexit @DbAshby 5 mins5 minutes ago #Brexit retweeted Kate Butle...
- Sat 12 Sep, 2015 11:09 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 12th September
- Replies: 390
- Views: 57895
Re: Saturday 12th September
Morning all. On tenterhooks, but I think it'll be a cakewalk for Corbyn. Hope all decide to debate policy civilly and within party walls rather than throwing their toys out of the pram.
- Fri 21 Aug, 2015 10:09 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 21st August 2015
- Replies: 164
- Views: 25675
Re: Friday 21st August 2015
But look at what he actually said. He called Isis 'brutal', he doesn't condone their actions. & the remarks are from last year, a lot of the Isis violence-porn pics and reports the media have been publishing, seemingly more to titillate or provoke amygdala type responses than anything else, [ju...
- Fri 21 Aug, 2015 9:47 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 21st August 2015
- Replies: 164
- Views: 25675
Re: Friday 21st August 2015
But look at what he actually said. He called Isis 'brutal', he doesn't condone their actions. & the remarks are from last year, a lot of the Isis violence-porn pics and reports the media have been publishing, seemingly more to titillate or provoke amygdala type responses than anything else, [ju...
- Thu 20 Aug, 2015 10:29 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 20h August 2015
- Replies: 194
- Views: 23960
Re: Thursday 120h August 2015
I'm getting pretty tired of this "guilt by association" being levelled at Corbyn. Look at this meeting between an obscenely wealthy, out of touch autocratic despot and . . . oh, fill in your own punchline http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/13/article-2086288-0F72A9D900000578-537_634x44...
- Thu 20 Aug, 2015 10:12 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 20h August 2015
- Replies: 194
- Views: 23960
Re: Thursday 120h August 2015
I've bought the odd copy of Socialist Worker in the past. Pre CCTV days, though, so I might be safe. I joined up in order to get on a Coach going to march against the Criminal Justice Bill back in the '90s. I had a shiny gold card with a red fist on it and everything. I think that was the first occ...
- Thu 20 Aug, 2015 9:56 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 20h August 2015
- Replies: 194
- Views: 23960
Re: Thursday 120h August 2015
I can find that he was, in the distant past, a member of the Communist party, he left the SWP in 2007. My husband sold Socialist Worker at Turnpike Lane tube station before we were married in the mid 70's. Should he have been banned from joining the Labour party a couple of years ago, 40 years late...
- Wed 19 Aug, 2015 10:52 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 19th August 2015
- Replies: 139
- Views: 18693
Re: Wednesday 19th August 2015
But . . . but he eats Pringles . . .yahyah wrote:That's part of why I voted Corbyn. I want someone who will point that out.
Why is it we can have a right wing government that is selling off all and sundry and we get fed the notion that Cameron is middle ground ?
- Wed 19 Aug, 2015 10:31 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 19th August 2015
- Replies: 139
- Views: 18693
Re: Wednesday 19th August 2015
Has anyone had the Labour List survey about releasing the voting figures after the election? Apparently Labour has decided not to publish the breakdown of the vote. Credit to Liz Kendall, who has asked for this to be looked into. It would be interesting to know - whoever wins - which groups (long-t...
- Mon 17 Aug, 2015 4:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 17th August 2015
- Replies: 198
- Views: 27644
Re: Monday 17th August 2015
Isabel Hardman @IsabelHardman 10m10 minutes ago Government departments preparing their staff for spending review job losses, Coffee House has learned http://specc.ie/1IWKwmG" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Learned? This has been around for ages. I've been looking around fo...
- Mon 17 Aug, 2015 3:08 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 17th August 2015
- Replies: 198
- Views: 27644
Re: Monday 17th August 2015
Y'know, it somewhat sticks in my craw that the Guardian comes out for Yvette Cooper whilst hawking shirts saying things like: "Labour: I prefer their earlier work," and quoting Attlee and Bevan. You can't have your cake and eat it, Guaardvarks.
- Mon 17 Aug, 2015 11:43 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 17th August 2015
- Replies: 198
- Views: 27644
Re: Monday 17th August 2015
Can anybody confirm or deny the line casually quoted in the Guardian that Corbyn is in favour of withdrawing from NATO? I'd be interested in this too. My understanding up to this point had been he'd thought that expansion of NATO with Poland, considering Ukraine etc had been a mistake. Ditto allowi...
- Mon 17 Aug, 2015 11:38 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 17th August 2015
- Replies: 198
- Views: 27644
Re: Monday 17th August 2015
Morning all, Just returned from mini break to Cornwall to find three leaflets on my door - Kendall didn't even bother to send a mailshot. For some reason, I should be swayed by the fact that David Walliams is supporting Andy Burnham. Disappointed to see Yvette Cooper trying the desperate fingertips ...
- Tue 11 Aug, 2015 12:41 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 11th August 2015
- Replies: 122
- Views: 22187
Re: Tuesday 11th August 2015
Liz Kendall shows her red side http://leftfootforward.org/2015/07/liz-kendall-shows-her-red-side/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Kendall implies that as prime minister she would mandate elected worker representation on company boards As someone who's already a member of a ...
- Tue 11 Aug, 2015 11:34 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 11th August 2015
- Replies: 122
- Views: 22187
Re: Tuesday 11th August 2015
Being serious, I'd find this hard, and I think the majority of the PLP would. His views on Russia, Kosovo, Israel and so on are not things I can support. Most MPs will keep their heads down I expect until the time comes for his removal. He'll inevitably say or do something, probably in relation to ...
- Tue 11 Aug, 2015 10:50 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 11th August 2015
- Replies: 122
- Views: 22187
Re: Tuesday 11th August 2015
I tend to agree with ephemerid that opinion has been fairly well spread here among most of the candidates - there are a handful of people who prefer Corbyn, and we are vocal, but, overall, I've felt that the split here was far more balanced. Anyway, I posted this over at the other place, because I ...
- Tue 11 Aug, 2015 10:41 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 11th August 2015
- Replies: 122
- Views: 22187
Re: Tuesday 11th August 2015
Too much negativity from a lot of folks. Drama queens full of doom and gloom - we should be grasping hope ! The idea that a Corbyn win will herald the four horsemen of the Apocalypse is nonsense. Our doom and gloom should be reserved for thoughts about the current government, who possibly do herald...
- Tue 11 Aug, 2015 9:46 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 11th August 2015
- Replies: 122
- Views: 22187
Re: Tuesday 11th August 2015
Y'know, I can sum up my reasons for voting Corbyn in one name: Toby Young. If you didn't listen to it on Saturday, please pull out Any Questions and listen to Toby's diatribe on Corbyn. If you listened to him, you'd think Corbyn was going to open Gulags, set up the Khmer Rouge and start Collectivisa...
- Fri 07 Aug, 2015 3:22 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 7th August 2015
- Replies: 87
- Views: 14751
Re: Friday 7th August 2015
In other news, The Spectator commissions Jonathan King to write a blog entitled Edward Heath wasn’t gay. Trust me, I tried – and failed – to seduce him http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/08/edward-heath-wasnt-gay-trust-me-i-tried-and-failed-to-seduce-him/ And what red-blooded homosexual ...
- Fri 07 Aug, 2015 11:21 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 7th August 2015
- Replies: 87
- Views: 14751
Re: Friday 7th August 2015
If, as was suggested in the media, the prospect of an SNP-backed Labour government cost the Labour Party votes, is this a wise move? Labour leadership frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn has signalled he would be willing to make a pact with the SNP to become prime minister. http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/je...
- Thu 06 Aug, 2015 2:29 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 6th August 2015
- Replies: 64
- Views: 12507
Re: Thursday 6th August 2015
Well, having seen Burnham's pitch it looks as if he's just the next regeneration of the later, more desperate determined, Milliband. I've not seen a policy of his that wouldn't have sat with the pessimistic Milliband vision of "Like them, but a bit better," Although, to be fair, he was les...
- Wed 05 Aug, 2015 12:31 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 5th August 2015
- Replies: 111
- Views: 19182
Re: Wednesday 5th August 2015
And due to my amazing looking skills, here it is.
- Wed 05 Aug, 2015 12:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 5th August 2015
- Replies: 111
- Views: 19182
Re: Wednesday 5th August 2015
Fun Fact: For all that Burnham is positioning himself as working class Scouser in a tie, a quick comparison of his record V Corbyn against Cooper's record V Corbyn indicates that actually she's closer to Corbyn in terms of how they vote in the HoC. I've downloaded their voting records from the Publi...
- Wed 05 Aug, 2015 11:17 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 5th August 2015
- Replies: 111
- Views: 19182
Re: Wednesday 5th August 2015
Overall its a fairly decent package from Burnham, even if not earth shattering. I see that some in the MSM are now trying to push Cooper as the "stop Jezza" candidate. What has she come out with in comparison? I was going to ask the same thing - apart from being backed by Johnson, saying ...
- Fri 31 Jul, 2015 10:43 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st.July
- Replies: 112
- Views: 14235
Re: Friday 31st.July
So, I went to a meeting of new Labour members the other night - a bit frustrating as we wanted to have a good debate about purity vs pragmatism, but the agenda of the organisers obviously had a brief to look at these as focus groups and wanted us to come up with marketable strategies for growth. How...
- Tue 28 Jul, 2015 1:46 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 28th July 2015
- Replies: 145
- Views: 20922
Re: Tuesday 28th July 2015
Cameron to boost HoL because its not representative of the country? Presumably hell be looking for SNP Lords, then. Looking at the numbers, it seems as if the Tory majority is about equal in both houses, its just the Lib Dems that would need to be kicked out. Surely the parliamentary committee can'...
- Tue 28 Jul, 2015 1:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 28th July 2015
- Replies: 145
- Views: 20922
Re: Tuesday 28th July 2015
Cameron to boost HoL because its not representative of the country? Presumably hell be looking for SNP Lords, then. Looking at the numbers, it seems as if the Tory majority is about equal in both houses, its just the Lib Dems that would need to be kicked out. Surely the parliamentary committee can't...
- Mon 27 Jul, 2015 4:31 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 27th July 2015
- Replies: 102
- Views: 15763
Re: Monday 27th July 2015
What depresses me about the election is that it's being run as an election at all. I'm constantly being asked for 'donations' to the various leader or deputy leader's campaigns, as if plutocracy should determine who is the leader of the labour party - Kinnock "The Labour Party!" /Kinnock A...
- Mon 27 Jul, 2015 4:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 27th July 2015
- Replies: 102
- Views: 15763
Re: Monday 27th July 2015
Afternoon, all. I've kept a low profile since the election - not only has it been A Funny Few Months, but also The Other Place was over-run with gloating and nonsense. Also, I know my own shouting from and about the left has not always been the same as consensus-building . I'll mouth off about Kend...
- Thu 21 May, 2015 9:03 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 21st May 2015
- Replies: 174
- Views: 30426
Re: Thursday 21st May 2015
In my new found spirit of co-operation, tolerance and attempts to understand Tories, I'll be avoiding ad hominem attacks. However, I couldn't resist this one. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3090172/No-sex-Im-40-New-research-claims-womens-libido-fizzles-41-right-says-Sarah-Vine-just-chore....
- Tue 12 May, 2015 2:19 pm
- Forum: Features and Analysis
- Topic: Chuka Umunna
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11728
Re: Chuka Umunna
Quotes from Chukka (1) http://www.labourbisteam.org.uk/pro-worker-pro-business---chuka-umunna-speech-to-tuc-congress I am a proud trade union member. Out of choice and out of conviction. I don’t come from a family with a history of labour trade union activism. The reason my entrepreneur father suppo...
- Tue 12 May, 2015 12:55 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: To Troll or not to Troll
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6097
Re: To Troll or not to Troll
Option 4: Edit the posts to make them say "I have never satisfied anyone in bed and my parents are ashamed of me."
- Tue 12 May, 2015 12:49 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 12th May 2015
- Replies: 333
- Views: 56212
Re: Tuesday 12th May 2015
So glad that the modern Haven cuisine is growing in popularity so much that you've used the lip-licking smiley, @ Swarthlander . That is what :P means, isn't it? :grin: It is now. :lol: There was a sitcom on TV (I can't remember which one and it's driving me crazy) where an 'old dear' kept turning ...
- Tue 12 May, 2015 12:20 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 12th May 2015
- Replies: 333
- Views: 56212
Re: Tuesday 12th May 2015
Chuka, please no no no. To veer, so violently, from Ed Miliband to Chuka Umunna would dent Labour's credibility - probably irretrievably. It would be akin to renaming (again) the Party. I don't believe we could get away with it. Chukka Umunna was one of the Labour MPs who put Ed Miliband forward fo...
- Tue 12 May, 2015 11:19 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 12th May 2015
- Replies: 333
- Views: 56212
Re: Tuesday 12th May 2015
Chukka Umunna's standing!
He needs to get a running mate from the traditional wing of the party - Andy Burnham or Alan Johnson would be good.
He needs to get a running mate from the traditional wing of the party - Andy Burnham or Alan Johnson would be good.
- Tue 12 May, 2015 11:12 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 12th May 2015
- Replies: 333
- Views: 56212
Re: Tuesday 12th May 2015
Our comfort blanket is a default position of antagonism towards the Tories for their own sake. It's a divisive, angry, polarising vilification of the middle ground that defies people to position themselves as for or against - which, though it might play well on the battlefield, frightens those to w...
- Tue 12 May, 2015 11:09 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 12th May 2015
- Replies: 333
- Views: 56212
Re: Tuesday 12th May 2015
Labour needs to be careful of lots of things in the coming months. What do you think our comfort blanket is? I'm pretty sure it's probably very different for several groups ... and that's part of the problem. Our comfort blanket is a default position of antagonism towards the Tories for their own s...
- Tue 12 May, 2015 10:44 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 12th May 2015
- Replies: 333
- Views: 56212
Re: Tuesday 12th May 2015
Labour needs to be careful of lots of things in the coming months. What do you think our comfort blanket is? I'm pretty sure it's probably very different for several groups ... and that's part of the problem. Our comfort blanket is a default position of antagonism towards the Tories for their own s...
- Mon 11 May, 2015 4:54 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 11'th 2015
- Replies: 338
- Views: 55606
Re: Monday 11'th 2015
By the way, I wasn't just venting my "what to do?" despair rhetorically. I genuinely don't know and would value the advice of those around here. mrs. onebuttonmonkey says I should rejoin Labour; I don't know if I've ever felt like I'm about to have less in common with them or less ability...
- Mon 11 May, 2015 2:02 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Outreach
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1753
Outreach
For the last five years we have taken comfort in our anger; we have shrouded ourselves in moral catharsis - we have flagellated and spat in the face of those who see things differently; calling them at best deluded and feeble minded. What we haven't done, and what the failure of Labour has been, is ...
- Sun 10 May, 2015 8:28 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 9th, Sunday 10th May 2015
- Replies: 881
- Views: 128292
Re: Saturday 9th, Sunday 10th May 2015
I've signed up to Labour as a paid member. I can't look at my kids in five years time and say that I didn't do every thing I could to stop a third term. So, the autopsy. The rebuttal unit. What was needed was a calm forensic explanation of what actually happened in the crisis; where the money was sp...
- Mon 13 Apr, 2015 9:08 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 13th April
- Replies: 237
- Views: 66466
Re: Monday 13th April
Sorry, Labour, but putting in a doctor who lives in Scotland for North Somerset, although the symmetry with Liam Fox might be poetic, doesn't endear me to you on this occasion. I'll be hoping Ed wins nationally, but as Fox's majority is over 5k I may as well go for Green on this occasion.
- Sun 22 Mar, 2015 6:24 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd March 2015 -
- Replies: 337
- Views: 68773
Re: Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd March 2015 -
Just seen the Afzal Amin story - interesting that the Mail splashes on it, but not to be seen in the Telegraph. mail coming out for UKIP, or just different print deadlines (although not on website either). So we have a Tory engineering a crisis so that he can use it as an excuse to bring in an ideol...
- Sat 14 Mar, 2015 3:22 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th March
- Replies: 295
- Views: 72919
Re: Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th March
As I've said in The Other Place there are four constituencies in Scotlqndwhere voting for the snippers could possibly (and then not plausibly) let the Tories in and in Angus Robertsons constituency SNP moving to Labour could let them in. I think no that if Scottish voters feel that strongly about in...
- Sat 14 Mar, 2015 9:52 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th March
- Replies: 295
- Views: 72919
Re: Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th March
Nigel has only got one ball? We know a song about that, don't we boys and girls?StephenDolan wrote:UKIP leader Nigel Farage: 'NHS almost killed me' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31883683" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Tue 10 Mar, 2015 5:04 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 10th March 2015
- Replies: 127
- Views: 33561
Re: Tuesday 10th March 2015
Someone starts to try and be realistic about a Labour/SNP coalition/pact: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/general-election-2015-what-would-a-labour--snp-coalition-look-like-10096132.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Opinions? I'm all for it....
- Tue 10 Mar, 2015 4:57 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 10th March 2015
- Replies: 127
- Views: 33561
Re: Tuesday 10th March 2015
According to the Guardian's home page, Steve McFadyean was Rio Ferdinand's ex-Lover.
No wonder the Mirror resorted to phone hacking!
No wonder the Mirror resorted to phone hacking!
- Sun 08 Mar, 2015 4:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 7th March & Sunday 8th March 2015
- Replies: 306
- Views: 91887
Re: Saturday 7th March & Sunday 8th March 2015
Mini point of order, North Somerset is a separate constituency and is full of Liam Fox. Only UKIP and angry farmers can dislodge him.