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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...

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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?

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Good morning
Some prescient stuff from last year

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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...

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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...

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Good morning.
Just to say beware the shy trumper.

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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...

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Good morning.
Couldn't help laughing at this...
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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Oh dear oh dear.... CorbYn.
Freudian slip?

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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...

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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...

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Good morning.
Nissan Micra - dead cat?
Fracking announcement - dead cat?
Something brewing??

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@ 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...

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Some more thoughts.

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This has been recommended to me,

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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...

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citizenJA wrote:
PorFavor wrote:Surely an excuse can be rustled up for a COBRA meeting. That should act as a lure.
How are the baked goods provisions?

I wonder if they get inside information from a Tata source?

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Hobiejoe wrote:
PorFavor wrote:
ohsocynical wrote: Crumbs

Crust Almighty!
A Frenchman might almost say that this was very pain-full...

Depends where you were born and bred?

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Oops!
I blame that Lib Dem ex MP Scottish ginger nut!

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PorFavor wrote:
ohsocynical wrote:
ohsocynical wrote: That takes the biscuit !
Crumbs

Crust Almighty!

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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....

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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.."

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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Worth a read.

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Worth a read.

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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...

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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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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.

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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!

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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 ...

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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.

I think that's a Spoonerism for sure!

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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