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AAV: spot on. Philip Hammond has been talking absolute crap about the economy For the first seven months of his job as Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond remained pretty tight-lipped about his plans for the economy, but on Sunday March 5th he started blabbering ludicrous economically illiter...

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http://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2017/03/josh-neidus-why-may-must-not-give-up-on-single-market-membership.html Our growing movement is waking up to this fact: we respect the democratic mandate that the referendum gave the Government, but this did not give it the right to surrender our econo...

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When is Humphries going to fuck the fuck off and keep fucking off?
Mornings are so much more pleasant listening to a podcast instead of Today.

.... or Radio 3

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Kevin Maguire in the Mirror: Two words describe Labour's humiliating loss in Copeland: Jeremy and Corbyn http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/two-words-describe-labours-humiliating-9908171" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Maguire mentions how even Corbyn devotees ('disciples...

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Just when you thought ukip and Eddie Hitler Nuttall couldn't sink any further, it emerges that they've distributed a photoshopped picture of Gareth Snell with Corbyn - replacing Corbyn with a woman in a burka (and a Labour rosette). Blogger Another Angry Voice has posted this on FB: UKIP have clearl...

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Some will no doubt dismiss this as the usual stuff from me, but I think the criticism here is fair. An astonishing series of promotions for this person. http://labour-uncut.co.uk/2017/02/17/ian-lavery-should-not-be-labours-elections-coordinator-or-anything-coordinator-with-his-toxic-past/#more-2136...

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Daily Mash - spot on People looking for leader of West choosing between Trudeau and Merkel but definitely not May PEOPLE looking for a new leader of the western world are eyeing up Justin Trudeau and Angela Merkel and dismissing Theresa May without a second thought. Since the post became vacant four...

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Anyone else seen this? American musician Moby has posted on Facebook what he says is insider information on Trump. It all seems pretty feasible. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/moby-donald-trump-russia-connection_us_58a2265ee4b094a129edf17c" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false...

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"Hitler and the NSDAP were socialists" was a meme amongst young Tory "libertarian" types in the 1980s if not earlier. I don't think it is any more widely accepted now than it was then. I remember Rhodes Boyson (who was regarded as some kind of authority on education by the Thatc...

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From the Daily Mash: Jeremy Corbyn has denied ‘malicious’ claims that he is leader of the Labour Party. The Islington MP insisted it was ‘gossip from the Westminster bubble’ and pledged to carry on not being the Labour Party leader until the next general election at the earliest. In a speech in Lond...

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'Javid is responding to Healey. He accuses Healey of paying cheap party politics. He could do that, he says. He could say house building dropped to its lowest levels when Healey was housing minister.' So Javid labels what he himself says in response as cheap party politics. :toss: Javid is a seriou...

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Happy birthday pk1!

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Thank f**k for the paywall: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/are-you-an-over-educated-elitist-snob-5cj3628rx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Yes, by the law of unintended consequences, Uncle Rupe installed an anti crap-o-meter. Before it disappears into the paywall I just ...

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Tory MP and idiot Daniel Kawczynski tweeted a graph of national debt in an attempt to attack Labour's record, not realising that it exposed his own party's disastrous performance. He then deleted the tweet, in the naive belief that that would make it disappear. Blogger Another Angry Voice is worth a...

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Owen Jones uses the c word about some of Corbyn's supporters. ''looks cult-like''. Good job he didn't post that on FTN before the great exodus. He'd have got his ears soundly boxed for that and likely some abuse too. :lol: He'd back a younger leader, says he would find it difficult to vote for Corb...

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Owen Jones uses the c word about some of Corbyn's supporters. ''looks cult-like''. Good job he didn't post that on FTN before the great exodus. He'd have got his ears soundly boxed for that and likely some abuse too. :lol: He'd back a younger leader, says he would find it difficult to vote for Corb...

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Brexit latest: Liberal Democrats say they will oppose Article 50 unless there's a second EU referendum 'This Tory government are keen to laud the democratic process when it suits them, but will not give the people a voice over the final deal,' Tim Farron says http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po...

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It's just dawning on me the ridiculousness of fringe British figures Lecturing Germans About Trade. Quite. The world's third largest export economy doesn't need advice from half baked fantasists. What's sad about that article is how the German audience were quite receptive to start off with, until ...

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Incidentally I can't believe May thought that (no doubt eye watering expensive) tartan Westwood trouser suit was a good look. That combination of baggy trousers and her massive feet. She looks like an escapee from the circus - that or a Little Britain character (see today's German newspapers). I'd s...

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A lot of words have been said about May's Brexit speech. However, to quote a disillusioned Johnny Rotten on the last ever date of the Pistols' disastrous tour in the US: 'Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?' Rob Manuel's picture on Twitter sums it up. May is even wearing nearly the same outfit...

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Cornwall is an increasingly impoverished part of the country whose fortunes are going to be further worsened by Brexit. St Austell and Newquay used to have a LibDem MP but since their meltdown in 2015, a Tory now represents it. And he sounds a right charmer. A homeless man is murdered, and the Tory ...

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Sturgeon's in a right fix regarding Brexit. She played her own part in it by smearing Labour as 'red Tories' and sneering at Miliband. You betcha she wanted Cameron back in Number 10 ...

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I have placed a reasonable stake on the government winning the appeal on betfair, and have a side bet with Jolyon Maughan. Long odds now on offer (5/1 on betfair) If the government loses their big headache is Scotland. A Bill could be short, is easy to draft, and there is a big commons majority for...

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I was fascinated by the Rosa Klebb shoes in the Guardian's (on-line front page) photo' of Theresa May's Sky interview. One thing I do notice about her is that her left foot is often swollen. She has diabetes, which can cause serious feet problems. Worst case scenario is amputation. That's usually p...

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Apparently May deliberately snubbed Andrew Marr for her first major interview of the new year. It's the first time since Marr's programme started in 2005 that the PM hasn't made his programme the venue for their new year interview. The reason is allegedly because the BBC are 'biased against Brexit'....

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Can someone check my maths, please? I'm taking the information I posted above from the same source and including the following: House of Commons BRIEFING PAPER Number CBP7529, 7 July 2016 UK Election Statistics: 1918-2016 "Since 1918 there have been eleven Conservative governments, eleven Labo...

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Zelo Street blog is always worth a read - I especially liked this post about the hypocrisy of professional pearl necklace clutcher, Heil hack and Tory wife, Sarah Vine. Every New Year's Day the Mail has a tradition of publishing frankly prurient photos of young women out on the lash and sometimes in...

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Bit puzzled by the need to change the pound coin. It'll mean councils will have to change parking meters to take the new coin, and supermarket trolleys that use a pound coin will have to change as well.

It'll look like a 50p. Maybe that's intentional (inflation round the corner)?

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Happy new year everyone.

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Brooker on Trump:

A cling-filmed parcel of frankfurter meat that's been kicked through a yellow cobweb.

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Did anyone here see "To Walk Invisible" (the drama about the Brontës) yesterday? So good. I recommend it if you haven't seen it (or even if you have). I'll have to watch that on the iplayer. Had Charlie Brooker's 2016 Screenwipe on instead. That's worth seeing. He's not a fan of Corbyn th...

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Margaret Thatcher was secretly plotting to destroy the NHS and free education New Treasury papers show the PM and her first Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Geoffrey Howe, continued to work to keep the plans alive, holding meetings with key colleagues to “soften them up” .... The paper, by the Cent...

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/30/margaret-thatcher-resignation-shocked-us-ussr-files Margaret Thatcher's resignation shocked politicians in US and USSR, files show Emotional Henry Kissinger called to say it was ‘worse than a death in the family’ and Soviet ambassador reported conste...

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National Parks in England 'have lost millions in government funding' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38462686" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; National Parks in England have lost millions of pounds of government funding in the past five years, says the Press Association news ag...

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We've had enough of experts, part 94: German neuroscientist also told to leave UK after residency rejection Sam Schwarzkopf, who has lived in UK since 1999, tells the Guardian he had a similar experience to Monique Hawkins https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/dec/29/german-neuroscientist-told-to...

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/29/no-10-david-cameron-nato-job-theresa-may No 10 plays down claim that David Cameron is lined up for Nato job His Christmas card was a cartoon portraying him and his wife as the two halves of a pantomime donkey . And he's been killing wildlife (grouse)...

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Talk about May and Trump doing a Maggie and Reagan double act makes me think of the phrase 'history repeats itself, once as tragedy then as farce'. Although there's plenty of scope for tragedy as well with a dangerous man baby like Trump in charge. May is a bit like a repeat of Gordon Brown as well....

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I know this isn't politics but it's still worth seeing - marvellous. [youtube]9LVgr-nk1mM[/youtube] That was lovely, thanks Roger. Debbie R had a hard life in lots of ways, not least Eddie Fisher's betrayal and then two more even worse husbands. But the films are joyful. Tragic to lose her daughter...

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Cameron was the worst PM since Eden (and Eden had some redeeming qualities which Cameron lacks).

May is shaping up to be worse though, which is saying something.

However, the fact that May was able to consolidate her position after her serial balls-up at the Home Office is Cameron's fault as well.

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The Telegraph Verified account ‏@Telegraph 1h1 hour ago David Cameron is being considered for the role of Nato Secretary General, according to reports http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/29/david-cameron-tipped-nato-secretary-general-role/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false...

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Four days of this God-awful year to go. 2017 had better be an improvement. Edited - typo I heard something the other day about 2017 being Chinese year of the Rooster, which apparently means they'll be a lot of grandstanding and 'cock of the walk' type behaviour from world leaders. Frankly that woul...

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Merry Christmas everyone

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Louise Trethowan's encounter with May, for anyone who missed it My brawl over Brexit with Prime Minister, Theresa May Louise Trethowan complained about Brexit to her local MP – Theresa May – and received an invitation to discuss the policy. But the subsequent encounter did not go quite as she expect...

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I know this is old news, but it still p1sses me off. Theresa May reveals how her faith in God gives her confidence she is 'doing the right thing' 'I am a practising member of the Church of England and so forth, that lies behind what I do', the Prime Minister says I think if she met JC (the one alleg...

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Many congrats Dr Roger

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Apparently South Yorkshire police are contesting Cliff Richard's legal action against them, putting all the blame on the BBC - or more specifically reporter Dan Johnson. I think Richard is totally justified in pursuing his claim against SYP and the BBC, although the fact that they're both public bod...

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Didn't hear Charles's Thought for the Day but read it via the link (thanks HindleA).

Hope his message gets taken on board against all the tabloid rabble rousing and Farage-o-vision (aka BBC News and Politics Dept)

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Jonathan Bartley good on BBCaq today. Yes he was. Dawn Butler good as well. David Gawke and Esther McVey (thought we'd seen the last of her) spouting the usual drivel. Bartley made point that there's always money for tax breaks for the rich, and money to spend on Brexit, despite the government clai...

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Michael Sheen to quit acting to fight fascism

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Good for him

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/15/brexit-transitional-deal-is-an-obvious-inevitability-says-nick-clegg brexit-transitional-deal-is-an-obvious-inevitability-says-nick-clegg In the past I would have said that because Clegg said it would happen ut was bound not to. But on this occasion....

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