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- Tue 30 Jan, 2018 10:33 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 30th January 2018
- Replies: 82
- Views: 21009
Re: Tuesday 30th January 2018
Good morning Fly the Nest The more strident the Brexiters become the more I'm convinced that it must be personal. I believe that their main reason for wanting Brexit is that they have fortunes stashed offshore and they do not want us to know anything about it. The EU may well have some plans for tra...
- Mon 30 Jan, 2017 8:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 30th January 2017
- Replies: 237
- Views: 54225
Re: Monday 30th January 2017
Good evening. Just a quick query that's been nagging at me for a while.
Do you think that some sort of 'fifth columnist' strategy could undermine a political blog?
If so what features might make it recognisable?
Do you think that some sort of 'fifth columnist' strategy could undermine a political blog?
If so what features might make it recognisable?
- Mon 30 Jan, 2017 10:07 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 30th January 2017
- Replies: 237
- Views: 54225
Re: Monday 30th January 2017
Good morning
Some prescient stuff from last year
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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... trump.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Some prescient stuff from last year
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/11179774" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... trump.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Sun 08 Jan, 2017 11:04 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th January 2017
- Replies: 221
- Views: 52732
Re: Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th January 2017
Good morning and a Happy New Year to everyone. I thought that some might find this an active and informative NHS related site. I would like to draw your attention to the interesting post on 6 Jan which begins, 'Dear politicians and press..' https://www.facebook.com/robert.galloway.92?fref=nf" o...
- Sun 04 Dec, 2016 11:39 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday, December 3rd & Sunday, December 4th 2016
- Replies: 144
- Views: 33724
Re: Saturday, December 3rd & Sunday, December 4th 2016
Disclaimer; I am an irregular and insignificant contributor to this site and my opinion is very much my own and consequently has little validity. So, for what it's worth, I really miss lots of the posters I used to enjoy reading and often found educational. They have disappeared or maybe have been d...
- Tue 08 Nov, 2016 10:14 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 8th November
- Replies: 276
- Views: 61861
Re: Tuesday 8th November
Good morning.
Just to say beware the shy trumper.
Just to say beware the shy trumper.
- Sat 02 Jul, 2016 9:36 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: sat 2 and sun 3 july in worst year for quite some time
- Replies: 235
- Views: 43937
Re: sat 2 and sun 3 july in worst year for quite some time
The Tory leadership, a simple analysis by one with very tiny political antennae. Cameron says he will not face another election but will carry on whatever the outcome of the referendum. Boris positions himself within the Tory party as a popular eurosceptic whilst expecting Remain to prevail thus hop...
- Sat 02 Jul, 2016 7:26 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: sat 2 and sun 3 july in worst year for quite some time
- Replies: 235
- Views: 43937
Re: sat 2 and sun 3 july in worst year for quite some time
Good morning.
Couldn't help laughing at this...
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Couldn't help laughing at this...
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- Wed 29 Jun, 2016 11:23 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29th June 2016
- Replies: 452
- Views: 63418
Re: Wednesday 29th June 2016
Good evening. From the G today at the momentum rally; By far the biggest cheer is when McDonnell says Corbyn leadership will stop any more "military escapades" This will be very a popular position with the membership and perhaps even the country after Chilcot. Which will of course be fresh...
- Tue 28 Jun, 2016 8:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 28th June 2016
- Replies: 520
- Views: 80187
Re: Tuesday 28th June 2016
I've just seen that David Blanchflower, one of the economists that I found made most sense, has pulled out of his advisory role to the Labour Party because Jeremy Corbyn has not resigned when faced with the numbers in the vote of confidence. I can't accept this reasoning. Surely what Corbyn has to d...
- Mon 27 Jun, 2016 11:00 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 27th June 2016
- Replies: 636
- Views: 85108
Re: Monday 27th June 2016
First of all I've been Labour all my life but only joined and made donations because of Ed and a desperate yearning to defeat an appalling Tory coalition. I then voted for Corbyn and Eagle. I cannot abide lies, deceit, spin, arrogance and many other of the Tory characteristics that you highlight so ...
- Sun 26 Jun, 2016 12:31 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th June 2016
- Replies: 942
- Views: 117020
Re: Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th June 2016
Good morning. I'm bewildered by the usual suspects in the Labour Party. It's becoming so predictable that when the Tories are in trouble they create a Labour distraction through their briefings of compliant media and contacts. Isn't this the way that insurgents operate? Would you put it past serious...
- Sat 25 Jun, 2016 9:22 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th June 2016
- Replies: 942
- Views: 117020
Re: Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th June 2016
To be fair to all those taken in, 'thick', open to hearing what they wanted to hear, whatever they were, the whole thing about the EU is so complicated, so technical, that most people will go glassy eyed at the detail. That's why is was so wrong to have a referendum on such an important issue. Our ...
- Sat 25 Jun, 2016 9:14 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th June 2016
- Replies: 942
- Views: 117020
Re: Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th June 2016
Good morning. What a mess! A bit of after the horse has bolted with these references but for completeness and some considerations of what now. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2016/cr16169.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; https://constitution-unit.com/2016/06/20/th...
- Fri 03 Jun, 2016 7:20 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 3rd June 2016
- Replies: 105
- Views: 15573
Re: Friday 3rd June 2016
Sod politics. You need lots and lots of laughter. I remember the old Readers Digest section 'Laughter is the best medicine' that used to give £25 if they printed a contribution. I can even remember a particular item that said, As we get older we can have trouble with our vowels and suffer from inco...
- Fri 03 Jun, 2016 7:00 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 3rd June 2016
- Replies: 105
- Views: 15573
Re: Friday 3rd June 2016
Night all. Fingers crossed my blood pressure reading is better tomorrow. Have had to record it for next week's check up with the GP. Since being on this new medication it is in the severe hypertension zone which is worrying. My diastolic used to be optimal, even when my systolic was through the roo...
- Fri 03 Jun, 2016 5:55 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 3rd June 2016
- Replies: 105
- Views: 15573
Re: Friday 3rd June 2016
Oh dear oh dear.... CorbYn.
Freudian slip?
Freudian slip?
- Fri 03 Jun, 2016 5:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 3rd June 2016
- Replies: 105
- Views: 15573
Re: Friday 3rd June 2016
I'll have to have a slice of buttered banana bread and a piece of moist chocolate cake with chocolate icing, and vanilla buttercream filling to console myself. :roll: Go on gal ... you deserve it. It may not be any consolation Ohso but my wife and I have just spent an hour in the garden lazing on o...
- Fri 03 Jun, 2016 5:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 3rd June 2016
- Replies: 105
- Views: 15573
Re: Friday 3rd June 2016
G'day. George EatonVerified account @georgeeaton Tory MPs threaten to resign whip if Gove is made deputy PM: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/06/if-tory-rebels-can-t-deprive-david-cameron-office-they-will-deprive-him-power" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; … :lol...
- Tue 24 May, 2016 10:05 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 24th May 2016
- Replies: 148
- Views: 19523
Re: Tuesday 24th May 2016
Good morning.
Nissan Micra - dead cat?
Fracking announcement - dead cat?
Something brewing??
Nissan Micra - dead cat?
Fracking announcement - dead cat?
Something brewing??
- Wed 27 Apr, 2016 7:58 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 27th April 2016
- Replies: 115
- Views: 13769
Re: Wednesday 27th April 2016
@ rebeccariots2 Good news about the level of support for the junior doctors, isn't it? Odd though, given that that young Jeremy Hunt's got such a lovely smile. Good evening. Have we had this? http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/cassetteboy-remixed-jeremy-hunt-its-7847678" onclick="window...
- Tue 26 Apr, 2016 8:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 26th April 2016
- Replies: 149
- Views: 22402
Re: Tuesday 26th April 2016
Some more thoughts.
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- Tue 26 Apr, 2016 8:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 26th April 2016
- Replies: 149
- Views: 22402
Re: Tuesday 26th April 2016
This has been recommended to me,
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- Tue 26 Apr, 2016 7:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 26th April 2016
- Replies: 149
- Views: 22402
Re: Tuesday 26th April 2016
Good evening. A really sad day today for me. I sobbed when Margaret Aspinall was speaking about her son I can't raise a cheer for justice to be honest so many needless avoidable deaths and so much family grief it hurts. The callous behaviour of police, politicians and the media says an awful lot abo...
- Wed 30 Mar, 2016 5:13 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 30th March 2016
- Replies: 135
- Views: 14757
Re: Wednesday 30th March 2016
I wonder if they get inside information from a Tata source?citizenJA wrote:How are the baked goods provisions?PorFavor wrote:Surely an excuse can be rustled up for a COBRA meeting. That should act as a lure.
- Wed 30 Mar, 2016 1:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 30th March 2016
- Replies: 135
- Views: 14757
Re: Wednesday 30th March 2016
Depends where you were born and bred?Hobiejoe wrote:A Frenchman might almost say that this was very pain-full...PorFavor wrote:ohsocynical wrote: Crumbs
Crust Almighty!
- Wed 30 Mar, 2016 1:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 30th March 2016
- Replies: 135
- Views: 14757
Re: Wednesday 30th March 2016
Oops!
I blame that Lib Dem ex MP Scottish ginger nut!
I blame that Lib Dem ex MP Scottish ginger nut!
- Wed 30 Mar, 2016 1:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 30th March 2016
- Replies: 135
- Views: 14757
Re: Wednesday 30th March 2016
PorFavor wrote:ohsocynical wrote:Crumbsohsocynical wrote: That takes the biscuit !
Crust Almighty!
- Sat 26 Mar, 2016 9:09 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Easter Weekend - 25th-28th March 2016
- Replies: 343
- Views: 36539
Re: Easter Weekend - 25th-28th March 2016
http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/14384975.READER_POLL_Who_would_you_prefer_as_PM Good morning. An amazing if small poll, of course we don't know how many readers have bothered to vote so I did! Wouldn't it be wonderful if different creeds of voter were now attracted by the obvious decency an...
- Thu 24 Mar, 2016 2:04 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 24th March 2016
- Replies: 136
- Views: 14174
Re: Thursday 24th March 2016
I would like to take the opportunity of thanking Anatoly for the weekly local election round ups which I find absorbing reading and look forward to now as a weekly pleasure! They are so much more informative than the published polls. However, more generally and worryingly, I do sense a Lib Dem recov...
- Thu 24 Mar, 2016 1:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 24th March 2016
- Replies: 136
- Views: 14174
Re: Thursday 24th March 2016
Good day. Just a couple of lighter links before your afternoon naps; For the budding authors, https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152444544075118&set=a.352710140117.348861.891095117&type=3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; For the language specialists, https://ww...
- Tue 01 Mar, 2016 11:15 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 1st March 2016
- Replies: 103
- Views: 15784
Re: Tuesday 1st March 2016
21%
Grammar school - Christian Brothers (ouch!)
Wagamamas
Skiing, horse racing and opera
I'll have to settle for that. Not proud of it though, 'me mum and dad wouldn't be pleased'.
Good night everyone see you tomorra.
Grammar school - Christian Brothers (ouch!)
Wagamamas
Skiing, horse racing and opera
I'll have to settle for that. Not proud of it though, 'me mum and dad wouldn't be pleased'.
Good night everyone see you tomorra.
- Tue 01 Mar, 2016 1:09 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 1st March 2016
- Replies: 103
- Views: 15784
Re: Tuesday 1st March 2016
Morning all. http://i66.tinypic.com/156uw3n.jpg Excellent news - a full clear-out of outsourcing companies. Now, what's next...prisons and justice please. Good afternoon. I know that secondary schools are in the news at the moment for all sorts of reasons and particularly today when I think parents...
- Mon 29 Feb, 2016 3:14 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 29th February 2016
- Replies: 128
- Views: 16089
Re: Monday 29th February 2016
Good afternoon all.
I was watching the League Cup Final yesterday and got to wondering whether yahyah was maybe a closet Touré?
As they say, I'll get me coat....
I was watching the League Cup Final yesterday and got to wondering whether yahyah was maybe a closet Touré?
As they say, I'll get me coat....
- Wed 24 Feb, 2016 10:09 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 24th February 2016
- Replies: 156
- Views: 20521
Re: Wednesday 24th February 2016
Good evening.
I may be naive but I wonder if Corbyn was trying to make Cameron robustly defend the weekend deaths statistics knowing that the Governments conclusions will be discredited by the BMAs Judicial Review?
As Kevin Keegan might say "I would love it.."
I may be naive but I wonder if Corbyn was trying to make Cameron robustly defend the weekend deaths statistics knowing that the Governments conclusions will be discredited by the BMAs Judicial Review?
As Kevin Keegan might say "I would love it.."
- Sun 21 Feb, 2016 7:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st February 2016
- Replies: 291
- Views: 38729
Re: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st February 2016
Good evening. All this piffle from the self centred Tories. I love Europe and embrace the inclusion of new countries. Within a few hours flight or a day's drive the range of cultures is immense. Where else on the planet can you experience such diversity in such a relatively small area. We have much ...
- Thu 11 Feb, 2016 9:58 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 10th February 2015
- Replies: 199
- Views: 22660
Re: Thursday 10th February 2015
I've just received this and know that I must share it; Dear reader. There have been lots of descriptions and explanations of the proposed junior contract, but I have seen none better that this one from a #militantdoc below. Posted with permission. Imagine you and your friends are all sat around a...
- Thu 11 Feb, 2016 6:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 10th February 2015
- Replies: 199
- Views: 22660
Re: Thursday 10th February 2015
Hearing the news about gravitational waves made me think of our much missed LadyCentauria. She'd have been so excited by it. I miss her middle of the night posts... I miss everything about her posts - including the menus and recipes. I always enjoyed Lady C's comments and like many here miss her as...
- Thu 11 Feb, 2016 3:07 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 10th February 2015
- Replies: 199
- Views: 22660
Re: Thursday 10th February 2015
Worth a read.
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- Thu 11 Feb, 2016 3:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 10th February 2015
- Replies: 199
- Views: 22660
Re: Thursday 10th February 2015
Worth a read.
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- Thu 11 Feb, 2016 2:02 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 10th February 2015
- Replies: 199
- Views: 22660
Re: Thursday 10th February 2015
Good afternoon. As others have said on here, Jeremy Hunt is trying to demonise the doctors by describing the dispute in terms of Saturday working when the reality is it's about Government funding. I have seen a comment that sums this Hunt logic up, (logicunt?) 'What Jeremy Hunt thinks is that by div...
- Tue 09 Feb, 2016 1:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th February 2016
- Replies: 116
- Views: 13281
Re: Tuesday 9th February 2016
Hello. Have we had this?
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Wasn't he the one that doubted the existence of WMDs in Iraq? Wasn't he correct?
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Wasn't he the one that doubted the existence of WMDs in Iraq? Wasn't he correct?
- Thu 31 Dec, 2015 11:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 31st December 2015
- Replies: 154
- Views: 28476
Re: Thursday 31st December 2015
Happy New Year everyone and thank you for news, views and good humour through a difficult year politically.
I have a simple wish that there is more kindness around in 2016.
All the best.
I have a simple wish that there is more kindness around in 2016.
All the best.
- Sat 26 Dec, 2015 6:38 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Christmas Bank Holiday Weekend: 26, 27 & 28th December
- Replies: 290
- Views: 51315
Re: Christmas Bank Holiday Weekend: 26, 27 & 28th December
They should hold another of their now regular emergency meetings of the Cock-ups Or Bollocks Rivers Apologists with their chairman the deluded King 'Kanute' Cameron who will surely volunteer to hold the waters back with his undaunted faith in the Trident held aloft!
- Sat 26 Dec, 2015 6:03 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Christmas Bank Holiday Weekend: 26, 27 & 28th December
- Replies: 290
- Views: 51315
Re: Christmas Bank Holiday Weekend: 26, 27 & 28th December
Good evening. I live in the sodden North West but fortunately on the coast, away from torrential rivers. I would say that this year even here I have noticed rainwater having difficulty in flowing away down the drains with consequent pools building out into the roadways. I'm sure this is because the ...
- Sat 26 Dec, 2015 12:02 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 25th.December - Christmas Day
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9871
Re: Friday 25th.December - Christmas Day
I think that's a Spoonerism for sure!tinybgoat wrote:Need a new word, been playing with thesaurus & got as far as contumelious,
but doesn't really do it.
Though 'Contumelious Hunt' has a certain ring to it.
- Tue 22 Dec, 2015 7:03 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 22nd December 2015
- Replies: 113
- Views: 19065
Re: Tuesday 22nd December 2015
Good evening everyone. I don't often comment on education issues but read the posts with interest because of my grandchildren. I can't help but be suspicious of the new academies and free schools that at some stage might allow for the introduction of the notorious pupil 'voucher' where the education...
- Sun 13 Dec, 2015 6:47 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 12th December & Sunday 13th December 2015 -
- Replies: 231
- Views: 35592
Re: Saturday 12th December & Sunday 13th December 2015 -
I noticed lots of today's headlines using Trump as a double meaning. Love to see one next week,
Trump follows through!
Sorry a bit messy for a Sunday evening.
Trump follows through!
Sorry a bit messy for a Sunday evening.
- Sun 13 Dec, 2015 4:25 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 12th December & Sunday 13th December 2015 -
- Replies: 231
- Views: 35592
Re: Saturday 12th December & Sunday 13th December 2015 -
Good afternoon. I received this today and thought that I might share it with you. The author is ex army having spent many years in all the recent trouble spots. With all these posts and tweets about bombing in Syria, I thought I'd share with you a completely unrelated story: There’s huge wasps’ nest...
- Tue 08 Dec, 2015 7:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 8th December 2015
- Replies: 143
- Views: 25853
Re: Tuesday 8th December 2015
Good evening. He's at it again isn't he. Who on earth is impressed by the little phrase? I was holding my cobra on a dark winter's night I like to chair my cobra for some porcine delight Whether it's weather or bother head scratchings we make Which pig's mouth will pleasure my one eyed trouser snake...