I see ex-Labour supporter Noel Gallagher is quoted today as 'not knowing what Labour stands for anymore'. Yesterday it was staunch Labourites Ant & Dec saying the same thing. Okay, these people aren't brains of Britain but they are examples of what I find over and and over again. Ordinary peopl...

I've always had a grudging admiration for Peter Oborne - I didn't always agree with what he said, but he expressed his views with force and eloquence; he also did his homework and is a proper journalist. The Telegraph has been going downhill for some time, and now we know a bit more about it. I've ...

I see ex-Labour supporter Noel Gallagher is quoted today as 'not knowing what Labour stands for anymore'. Yesterday it was staunch Labourites Ant & Dec saying the same thing. Okay, these people aren't brains of Britain but they are examples of what I find over and and over again. Ordinary people...

Tory obesity 'crackdown' would hit just 1,780 people

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The media duly bought this distraction policy hook, line, and sinker...

No one wants to see the back of the Tories more than me but Labour's performance has been shambolic and has allowed a banking crisis to be flipped as a spending crisis. Just day-to-day piecemeal announcements.

There's no coherent narrative, no presentation skills. no chance.

Toby Latimer wrote:

TheGrimSqueaker wrote:Labour definitely got the better ex-TV presenter!!

I think so.

I'm old enough to remember Austin Mitchell presenting Calendar on regional Yorkshire TV . Never saw him in a swimming costume though

Me too

Feint praise for Ed is looking like Tory policy. It's good for them since it appears to balance Crosby negativity, and it keeps the idea that Ed is somehow an issue himself in the spotlight, when it was the Tories who put it there in the first place. The Tories are fortunate in that they themselves ...

Will disability-hate crime cover anonymous malicious calls to the DWP benefit fraud hotline about disabled people?

It could be argued they are not only facilitating crime but actively indulging in it.

Ed should really go hard on the tax haven stuff. People aren't impressed by billionaire tax dodgers who don't even live here telling us how to vote. I sometimes don't understand the left; whereas the right finds a populist issue like immigration and exploits it to the full, where Labour's views coin...

The appalling death of a man caught up in benefits nightmare

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Apologies for the earlier rants, folks, I'm at a pretty low ebb at the moment.

Care in the Community was good in principle but what has happened is exactly what I expected - it's become 'couldn't care less in the community' with people left to fend for themselves with antagonism and worse ramped up by politicians and tabloids and their 'scrounger' rhetoric. Some of the old ins...

The last thing people with mental health issues need is politicians uttering platitudes and soundbites in an attempt to win votes. We are not a political football. The Work Capability Assessment, banned in the US as 'disability-denial factories', was the result last time Labour looked at mental heal...

I see Ed Miliband is the latest politician to jump on the mental health bandwagon with a lot of stupid soundbites & platitudes. I wish all politicians would just fuck off and leave us alone. Last time Labour looked at mental health they designed the WCA & hired Atos to throw us all off benef...

Now they're arresting ppl who represent vulnerable claimants

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I watched some of McVile's performance at the W&P Select Committee yesterday. I couldn't watch it all, because I was sickened by what went on. No answers to any of the questions put to her or that idiot Hayes. Waffle, obfuscation, and blatant lies. A claim that 70% of sanctioned people get a jo...

Harsher punishments for unemployed than those found guilty of committing a crime

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All Governments spin, but this one really is the Government of All the Liars.

No lie is too big or outrageous. They lie first and think later.

It's instinctive.

Interesting how these groups object to their comments being reported accurately. "Freedom of speech! Don't tell me what I can and can't say!" "I'm outraged! How dare you say that about me!" It always amazes me how UKIP types are forever whining about 'political correctness gorn ...

Ukip takes on school for using their photos to illustrate Holocaust slideshow UKIP will lodge a formal complaint about “political indoctrination in schools” after a picture of its leader Nigel Farage was used during assemblies about the evils of the Holocaust. http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics...

Good morning everyone. It's my birthday today and I have got a huge bunch of flowers and some very wicked chocolate cake. And some lovely messages and cards. I'm very low at the moment; although I have plenty to be grateful for, I'm finding the anger and frustration is beginning to take its' toll a...

I'm happy to make common cause with anyone who hates the Tories, regardless of their background, and, apart from the obvious exceptions, from pretty much any political creed. However my hatred for Tories is essentially pathological. I can think of no other event that would benefit this country and i...

Afternoon all (including newbie Rednorth!) The Mirror has compiled a handy list of Cameron "fibs". No. 9 is particularly outrageous, but they're all pretty bad: Workless households is a notoriously difficult figure to make sense of, for instance, if you built a million new pensioners bung...

Afternoon all (including newbie Rednorth!) The Mirror has compiled a handy list of Cameron "fibs". No. 9 is particularly outrageous, but they're all pretty bad: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-cameron-accused-smears-bribes-5068474 FIB 9 The number of kids in workless homes doub...

Apart from an occasional comment I gave up on the Guardian when they went to nested threads, which turned it into a troll's paradise IMO.

Some more benefit news, but disappointing the way the Mirror has set it with a 'scrounger story' about a man with a lot of kids getting a bigger house.

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Hi all, newbie in dark times.