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AK -- WOE indeed if there really were serious numbers going for yet another leadership selection in the Shires .

Now too late to bring on the Swordbearer or Mophead !

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Julia Davis does a noble job subtitling the mainstream RU TV, demonstrating the routine insistence that we here all deserve a good nuking --

Which shit deserves a businesslike answer --

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Yes, I had a quick look at the telegraph article about this 'private school closing due to Labour policy' and worked out that they were about 100 pupils short of capacity & struggling to get pupils in for years. Very good thread too ! The numbers of people quitting Xitter seem to have declined ...

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Oh dear, how sad .. Shippers -- " MPs are furious that they have had little time to prepare for the end of their careers. “It’s all right for him,” one ex-minister said. “We all know he’s got a job lined up in California and he doesn’t need the money anyway. I wish he’d just resigned and let Pe...

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Good point

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I checked -- Len Deighton is still with us, he was 95 in February !

No kidding at all , this Austrian plotting might well have been invented by him --

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An utter shambles posing as a political party. I always enjoy my free reads at the FT -- (AVM) Stringer added: “Some form of national service has been a popular success in the JEF countries [Scandinavian and Baltic nations] that have used it as a part of building national resilience.” The idea of s...

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https://x.com/freddouglass765/status/1794707102411509818 Sonia Sodha is an Observer columnist -- Finally, there has as of yet been less scrutiny of the independent and Green candidates trying to appeal to Labour-sceptical voters than there has of Reform on the other side of the spectrum. It is not j...

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39 DAYS !!!!!!!!!!!!

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Like the 'tactical voting' bit --

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ADITYA-- Worth reading the whole article, but back to the IFS -- Consider the economy, supposedly the number one issue in this election. The big picture is that the UK has been through a shockingly bad five years, in which people are on average worse off than they were at the start of this parliamen...

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"Trussism ... without Truss ! "

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Hunt wants to reduce taxes -- welcome to more potholes ! and "Inheritance Tax is against Tory values", so will we end up with one person owning everything ? Both parties say they want to reduce the National Debt ( make cuts ???) I think the IFS has something to say on that ... The frontpag...

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Good morning

40 days to go !

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Wiki tells me the EA has a huge range of tasks and the news tells me it is failing on very many of them -- Underfunded since 2010 that's all, like everything else. Won't improve under Labour unless they spend some money on it. see above. Yep, was thinking much the same ... It is tax smoothing that ...

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Fat finger pre EDIT

Have a smug fu**er !

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Pretty sure he's gonna walk it. Labour will be on a hiding to nothing, standing against him Well, at least the Labour leadership's decision has got the Zionist endorsment. https://x.com/JewishLabour/status/1793916710258385387 The worldwide Zionist Movement is getting uglier and uglier-- On the nigh...

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CRUEL CRACE !!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ar ... -to-voters

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Wiki tells me the EA has a huge range of tasks and the news tells me it is failing on very many of them -- https://x.com/Dr_D_Robertson/status/1793887858392224097 Confession of failure by the boss man -- Duffy said: “I see these letters and these FOI requests and I’ve got great volumes of them, and ...

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refitman wrote: ↑Fri 24 May, 2024 8:44 am Per Sky's review last night

This bit was a killer, well one of them --

in response Bridget said we had to keep the UK attractive to business, guess which reply went down better in a city where Amazon workers are on strike?

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RogerOThornhill wrote: ↑Fri 24 May, 2024 8:39 am 1st up? Now this is a rare event.

Good morning.

I went back to bed, not wanting to monopolise and thinking refit would be along soon !

That was an excellent QT Report !

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Of course no idea of how 'random' these are, but very sensible !

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Merci !

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Testing !

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ALL audiences must be carefully vetted !

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Haha ! One thing that occurred to me too is that better weather in the Channel Would not help Sunak -- MORE boats ! In addition Danny Finkelsein --- " Then there is Rwanda. It is quite possible, in fact highly likely, that once the policy gets going properly, it won’t stop the boats. Holding an...

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Roger -- you can't be too careful

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R4 World at One -
Sunak: Vote Tory to send migrants abroad

versus

"Border Security Command "

I'm waiting for the Mirror Front Page "Starmer the New Top Cop"

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https:/twitter.com/coldwarsteve/status/1793324426177446145

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dud !

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Morning refit Andrew Sparrow was up earlier than me -- https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/may/23/uk-general-election-2024-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-conservatives-labour-lib-dems-live-latest-news-updates On R4 Nick Robinson grilled him, provided a few figures -- US grew7.8% and UK 1.8 (sin...

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Not really that much of a "surprise" is it though. Apparently it is to many Tory MPs whose reactions seem to range from bemused to furious. I really don't understand why he's done it. All that fuss and nonsense about the Rwanda flights and he's calling an election before they even get off...

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Join a Union , LOL CRACE --https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/22/cringing-in-the-rain-soggy-rish-kickstarts-his-farewell-tour KETTTLE --https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/22/election-rishi-sunak-pm There has, though, been one July general election in moder...

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Finally! Rishi Sunak will call general election for July in surprise move – sources https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/22/rishi-sunak-will-call-general-election-for-july-in-surprise-move-sources Rishi Sunak will this afternoon call a surprise early election for July, senior sourc...

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refitman wrote: ↑Wed 22 May, 2024 1:11 pm Deepheat and painkillers are certainly helping with my back. I'm glad I'm not back in work until next week.

Good to hear that it's under some control ......

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Afternoon refit My turn to sleep in today, and hoping that your back is improved ? Some long time ago we had great fun on Prem Sikka Guardian articles, a few score comments making debate possible ... PREM-- https://parallelparliament.co.uk/mp/lord-sikka/bill/2023-24/postofficehorizonsystemcompensat...

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Afternoon refit My turn to sleep in today, and hoping that your back is improved ? Some long time ago we had great fun on Prem Sikka Guardian articles, a few score comments making debate possible ... https://twitter.com/CWUnews/status/1793229798589755830 https://twitter.com/premnsikka/status/1793236...

frog222 · Re: Tuesday 21 May 2024

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Fallowfield 10 minutes ago 2 All organisations tend towards cover-up because their structure is hierarchical. As Max Weber pointed out long ago, this is the true meaning of bureaucracy, information passes up, decisions pass down, a place for everyone and everyone in his place. The paperwork which we...

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Some stunning views of Lindisfarne castle from sunny Northumberland at the weekend. Sky -- that prompted me to fill another gap in my knowledge -- "What is the connection between Iona and Lindisfarne? In 635 the Northumbrian king, Oswald (reigned 634–42), summoned an Irish monk named Aidan fro...

frog222 · Re: Tuesday 21 May 2024

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MudMutinyAndMadness 22 minutes ago 26 " We stayed in the Jewish Quarter when in Paris not that long ago, wonderful holiday. Lots of armed police protecting Jewish schools and synagogues after the terrorist attacks. Quite a development when the same French state backs the ICC. Biden & Sunak ...

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frog222 wrote: ↑Tue 21 May, 2024 7:41 am Good morning
I switched off R4 after the "outrageous", so missed this --
https://x.com/davidyelland/status/1792805266058358904

OK, it was Nick Robinson being a tool, again --

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