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- Fri 31 May, 2024 6:20 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st May 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 166
- Fri 31 May, 2024 11:50 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st May 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 166
Re: Friday 31st May 2024
Faiza Shaheen dropped by Labour for liking pro-BDS, Corbyn and Green Party posts The lengths they're prepared to go to, to get rid of a candidate they don't like, still surprises me. Maybe there's an element of banning candidates with a modicum of charisma because they'll show the front bench up. P...
- Fri 31 May, 2024 10:31 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st May 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 166
- Fri 31 May, 2024 9:34 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st May 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 166
Re: Friday 31st May 2024
Sky -- thanks for the reporting, and extra-happy that Mr Toad was so deflated ! Parp parp ! This morning's Times -- https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F7effb77d-69de-422b-8556-fcc5db821616.jpg?crop=2684%2C1789%2C640%2C184&resize=900 The New versio...
- Thu 30 May, 2024 10:39 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 30th May 2024
- Replies: 28
- Views: 261
Re: Thursday 30th May 2024
Now for QT !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- Thu 30 May, 2024 8:10 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 30th May 2024
- Replies: 28
- Views: 261
Re: Thursday 30th May 2024
We've discussed before whether Corbyn was too meek facing the coordinated attacks of the Zionists . It looks like the initial reactions of Russel-Moyle and Shaheen were also too appeasing ( tho AK has secret knowledge that he committed terrible crimes),, but at any rate she is fighting back ! Here J...
- Thu 30 May, 2024 7:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 30th May 2024
- Replies: 28
- Views: 261
Re: Thursday 30th May 2024
PS from the Aljazeera , so much for Freedom of Speech -- Israeli Professor Neve Gordon, vice president of BRISMES and professor of international law and human rights at Queen Mary University in London, told Al Jazeera that by conflating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, the IHRA definition may resul...
- Thu 30 May, 2024 7:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 30th May 2024
- Replies: 28
- Views: 261
Re: Thursday 30th May 2024
https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/i-worked-on-jeremy-corbyns-team-this-is-how-labour-rotted-under-him-m8r5711y I worked on Jeremy Corbyn’s team. This is how Labour rotted under him Josh Simons reflects on what his 'brief but unpleasant' stint taught him about where the party goes from here Josh Simons...
- Thu 30 May, 2024 1:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 30th May 2024
- Replies: 28
- Views: 261
Re: Thursday 30th May 2024
I saw this the other day...a great rant. Fifteen years. Five prime ministers, seven chancellors, eight foreign secretaries, twelve culture secretaries and sixteen housing ministers. A thread, for #RantyTuesday. One third of all children in poverty. Triple the NHS waiting list (6.4m). Energy bills u...
- Thu 30 May, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 30th May 2024
- Replies: 28
- Views: 261
Re: Thursday 30th May 2024
OK Sky, all up to you ! XX
- Thu 30 May, 2024 7:24 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 30th May 2024
- Replies: 28
- Views: 261
Re: Thursday 30th May 2024
Morning refit
( " To be fair, the person pre-interviewing me sounded pretty shocked, which was immensely satisfying." )
( " To be fair, the person pre-interviewing me sounded pretty shocked, which was immensely satisfying." )
- Wed 29 May, 2024 9:07 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29tth May 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 243
- Wed 29 May, 2024 7:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29tth May 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 243
- Wed 29 May, 2024 7:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29tth May 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 243
Re: Wednesday 29tth May 2024
Thanks for the Iain Dale and the Gullis
More accurate would be to describe Farage as an influencer, but unlike the others he doesn't need TikTok, youtube et al, he's got the BBC !
More accurate would be to describe Farage as an influencer, but unlike the others he doesn't need TikTok, youtube et al, he's got the BBC !
- Wed 29 May, 2024 4:15 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29tth May 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 243
Re: Wednesday 29tth May 2024
This one may be true ... https://x.com/moon_treacle/status/1795721568099959177 This one is ghastly routine for US pollies -- https://x.com/BeckettUnite/status/1795517197235696047 ( Bring back National Service, or NHS eye-testing, he can't see the difference between a 155mm shell and a 'bomb' :-) )
- Wed 29 May, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29tth May 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 243
Re: Wednesday 29tth May 2024
Rogue State at work --
- Wed 29 May, 2024 12:34 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29tth May 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 243
Re: Wednesday 29tth May 2024
Off to see what the Liveblog has to say --
- Wed 29 May, 2024 12:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29tth May 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 243
Re: Wednesday 29tth May 2024
Classic Starmer --
- Wed 29 May, 2024 11:11 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29tth May 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 243
Re: Wednesday 29tth May 2024
"The left of the Labour Party are nice, decent people and it was a privilege to meet them. The right of the Labour Party are some of the most f*cking horrible, vile, gruesome people. I've never met such awful people as those on the right of the Labour Party." ~ Alexei Sayle This may be a ...
- Wed 29 May, 2024 9:22 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29tth May 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 243
- Wed 29 May, 2024 9:05 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29tth May 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 243
- Wed 29 May, 2024 8:53 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29tth May 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 243
Re: Wednesday 29tth May 2024
Getting down with the Common People -- (very excited !)
- Wed 29 May, 2024 8:15 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29tth May 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 243
Re: Wednesday 29tth May 2024
Blimey, so much going on !
- Wed 29 May, 2024 7:28 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29tth May 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 243
Re: Wednesday 29tth May 2024
Morning refit Opened my door very early and later on a very wet cat came up to say good morning . Usually he buggers off outside when finding I'm skiving and not getting his breakfast, but today he curled up beside me . Dreadful ongoing news on the Israeli pogrom from @dgurdasani1 Xitter . On Radio4...
- Tue 28 May, 2024 7:04 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 28th May 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 247
Re: Tuesday 28th May 2024
Hodges not the only one left exposed ---
- Tue 28 May, 2024 2:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 28th May 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 247
Re: Tuesday 28th May 2024
This is disgraceful treatment of Diane There is a lot of criticism of Starmer and His Party, but the ' AAS' vitriol against Diane is quite something ! This is very educational ! ( I paused watching 11m29 when Margaretr Hodge said this -- "After Corbyn became leader I experienced a surge of ant...
- Tue 28 May, 2024 9:59 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 28th May 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 247
Re: Tuesday 28th May 2024
Morning all Repeated 'overtures' by Mossad chief to the Chief Prosecutor at the ICC -- " nice grandchildren you've got there, a shame if something happened to them" https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/israeli-spy-chief-icc-prosecutor-war-crimes-inquiry OK I made that quot...
- Mon 27 May, 2024 8:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
Re: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
More usual discussion episode
- Mon 27 May, 2024 8:26 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
- Mon 27 May, 2024 7:22 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
Re: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
Having a small break I watched my bumbles coming and going to their nest on the lawn
- Mon 27 May, 2024 6:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
Re: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
Jonathan is heading towards a 100K subscribers, the best Ukraine interviews around, several hundred now .
This is a rare one, just his own updates --
This is a rare one, just his own updates --
- Mon 27 May, 2024 5:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
Re: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
I'm occupied cutting down a clump of ancient lilac** trees festooned with thick ivy . Every 20 to 30 minutes my back demands a break, so come in to check the latest hilarity . Ideal mix of work and play :-) ** Plus google tells me it makes excellent firewood . ( No-one else around to share my partic...
- Mon 27 May, 2024 5:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
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( It's STEVE BAKER ... )
- Mon 27 May, 2024 5:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
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And the other classic from Anne-Marie Trevelyan She told ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “This will be encouraged and will become part of the norms. Importantly, of course, when you then as a young person apply for a job, there will be a question that employers will want to know how you got involved – ...
- Mon 27 May, 2024 5:28 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
- Mon 27 May, 2024 10:41 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
- Mon 27 May, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
- Mon 27 May, 2024 9:41 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
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CCHQ Files https://x.com/GetStarmerOut/status/1794696710566093265 " Haha, same story as the above -- Now, get out those Oliver Eagleton articles on Starmer brown-nosing the cousins on McKinnon and Assange, and then destroying the files . " " But surely we'd have done the same ? "...
- Mon 27 May, 2024 8:29 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
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Brilliant !
- Mon 27 May, 2024 8:14 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
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Only 38 days more of batshit-crazy and bonkers Sunakikery ! I listened to the first half of lat night's Westminster Hour. There were four articulate humans -- Ben Wright BBC , Marianna Spring BBCDisinfo, Politics professor Rob Ford and the FT's Lucy Fisher . They all gave the pollies a hard time . T...
- Sun 26 May, 2024 9:20 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
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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 !
Now too late to bring on the Swordbearer or Mophead !
- Sun 26 May, 2024 6:32 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
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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 --
Which shit deserves a businesslike answer --
- Sun 26 May, 2024 6:25 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
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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 ...
- Sun 26 May, 2024 6:13 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
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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...
- Sun 26 May, 2024 4:11 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
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Good point
- Sun 26 May, 2024 4:03 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
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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 --
No kidding at all , this Austrian plotting might well have been invented by him --
- Sun 26 May, 2024 3:58 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
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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...
- Sun 26 May, 2024 3:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
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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...
- Sun 26 May, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
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39 DAYS !!!!!!!!!!!!
- Sat 25 May, 2024 6:54 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1922
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Like the 'tactical voting' bit --