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Just seen this tweet from Exaro News:

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Afternoon all. I wonder if this is the same Myleene Klass: In January 2010, Klass claimed she received a warning from Hertfordshire Police for brandishing a kitchen knife (through a window) at a group of teenagers who entered her garden while she and her daughter were alone in the house – she stated...

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Yet more Stalin-esque revisionism over at The Guardian, from Nadhim Zahawi our chum with the cosseted horses: Headline for those who don't want to visit the site: Labour bungled City regulation. Here’s how the Tories are putting it right Financial reform is on the Conservative agenda. Labour helped ...

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Tom Newton Dunn @tnewtondunn · 7m 7 minutes ago Did you sneer at officers that they had been sunning themselves by the pool for four days? Andrew Mitchell: "It is possible" #plebgate Tom Newton Dunn @tnewtondunn · 17m 17 minutes ago Andrew Mitchell says he was "extremely annoyed"...

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https://yougov.co.uk/profiler#/Ed_Miliband/demographics Ed_Miliband/demographics :clap: :dance: :rock: I am saved. :hug: That is much better and so much more me in most areas that it prompted the first proper laugh of the day, even if it was one of relief. I refuse to look at the one for Clegg. Mus...

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Chris Bryant retweeted Chris Williamson @ChriswMP · 2h 2 hours ago On the way to Rochester with @PaulBlomfieldMP & @ChrisBryantMP to campaign for Labour's brilliant candidate @naushabahkhan I still don't quite get why people are saying Khan's not being supported by other Labour MPs and frontben...

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Phew. We can rest easy in our beds. Dave's chairing another Cobra meeting when he returns from the G20.
Aren't we lucky to have such a clever important man in charge

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Good morning all.
Apologies if this was previously posted, but Peter Hitchens is having another go at Our Glorious Leader

http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/ ... blood.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Is it any wonder we don't know what the weather will be like? From today's Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-weather-heavy-rain-and-strong-gales-expected-in-wettest-winter-since-1981-9863585.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; UK weather: Heavy r...

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http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/11/why-rochester-wont-provide-much-relief-for-labour/? The Spectator on "why rochester won't provide much relief for Labour" ... because it's going to be fantastic for the Tories isn't it. am bored of it now, which is, frankly, a relief. Someo...

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Crisis, what crisis? http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/535878/Six-Tory-MPs-to-defect-to-Ukip-if-it-wins-by-election" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; You'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh. :rofl: Meanwhile on Sky News Murnaghan Show, Rawnsley & a woman who...

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Crisis, what crisis? http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/535878/Six-Tory-MPs-to-defect-to-Ukip-if-it-wins-by-election" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; You'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh. :rofl: Meanwhile on Sky News Murnaghan Show, Rawnsley & a woman who...

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"Vile product of the Fourth Estate" Speaking of vile products of the Fourth Estate, I give you the latest anti-Ed piece from the guardian web site Labour poll lead grows to four points – but only 1 in 5 sees Miliband as PM http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/16/labour-poll-lead-g...

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Somewhere today I saw a photo of Putin and the Australian PM cuddling Koala bears. Maddeningly because I can't remember the details I'm sure I read that koala urine carries some sort of STD and humans can catch it if they're peed on. :shock: I wonder if it's true. And did Dave cuddle one too? :P I ...

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Don't know if we've already done this and it's listed as "sport" rather than "politics" most places, but I'm full of admiration for Jessica Ennis on doing what she feels is right here http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/olympic-champion-jessica-ennishill-threatens-to-r...

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letsskiptotheleft wrote:
I wouldn't piss on the twat if he was on fire. Loathsome cretin.

I would, but only on the bits that weren't on fire.
Then he'd still be on fire & he'd also stink of piss

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Good evening all.
Interesting twitter conversation between Rentoul & Fraser Nelson:

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Good morning all.
To lighten the mood a bit, Bob Mortimer has tweeted a picture of the results of UKIP's genetic engineering - the Faragehound

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Paul Mason retweeted philip mcginley @philipmcginley · Oct 21 Get your Northern Soul name using your Gran's name + town you were born + (& the) + first car plural. MOLLY HAYDOCK & the BRAVAS That sounds fun. I'm going first. MINNIE WILLESDEN & the RAVS Hmmm. Redacted Dot Middlesbrough &...

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ukip-Calypso/dp/B00OG4HPDQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413796899&sr=8-1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; UKIP Calypso.jpg That's too much for Monday morning. I feel sick. I thought Lance Percival had the monopoly on cod patois Calypso records Hell...

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Michael Deacon retweeted Patrick Strudwick ‏@PatrickStrud 11m11 minutes ago Oh please no. Mike Read, former Radio 1 DJ, has written a song for Ukip called Ukip Calypso which they are hoping to get in the charts. James Chapman (Mail) ‏@jameschappers 4m4 minutes ago Mike Read's horrifying new single ...

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Morning all. Off topic,but sort of a general warning for people who,like me,are not very technically minded; Had a call this morning from somebody saying that my computers are all infected with some virus and that he was calling from windows support. Sounded quite genuine,in a difficult to understa...

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I have two business ideas; the first is to open a second hand bookshop, change my name to Bernard and spend my days drinking red wine & being rude to customers; That's brilliant. Let us know if you're ever looking for staff. Have you ever eaten The Little Book Of Calm ? If so you are definitely...

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Tom Pride has a link the the suppressed Musgrove Park hospital report about the problems with Vanguard. I doubt anybody here would be interested in such a thing, but just in case I'm wrong ..... ;-) http://tompride.wordpress.com/2014/10/16/read-the-suppressed-report-into-botched-nhs-operations-by-p...

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Morning all. Great cartoon from Steve Bell today:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... nimum-wage" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Should we be worried [as well as other issues such as handing more to the private sector] by this about the proposed scheme [said to under consideration by Downing St]: ''To head off claims of a back-door tax rise, the Government would offset the £5-a-week payments by reducing workers’ national ins...

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Morning. Apologies is anyone's posted this, haven't had time to read all last night's posts yet. 'Workers 'could be forced to pay £5 a week' to get benefits' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/workers-could-be-forced-to-pay-5-a-week-to-get-benefits-9794571.html" onclick="window...

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Exactly. And I've read he's even better in real life, unfortunately he's not very photogenic. I like Steve Bells cartoons, but think we have him to thank for the 'Panda Eyes' label. Do you think the "Go to bed with Nigel Farage and wake up with Ed Miliband" thing might be having unintende...

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Morning all. If anyone fancies going over to The Guardian, a poster called Parkin13 has posted a link to a non-Beta AS Blog:

http://discussion.theguardian.com/discu ... mentpage=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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ErnstRemarx wrote:Glenda must wonder where she went wrong...

To paraphrase Chubby Brown, every time DFH's father looks at him he wishes he'd committed the sin of Onan instead

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Sounds like Andy Burnham is going on the attack of The Daily Politics. Good

Burnham: "We didn't lose 33% of our vote last night. That is what happened to the Coalition parties." #bbcdp

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Never mind. Here's a picture of Nige relaxing with a pint & a fag

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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:
StephenDolan wrote:http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/maryr ... -miliband/

Miliband is doomed. Again.
I daren't open the link. Is it DFH?

No,
Mary Riddell (aka DFH with ovaries)

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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Oh not him too

As Faisal Islam tweeted:

Faisal Islam ‏@faisalislam 47m47 minutes ago

How can Conservatives both argue that last nights results a. "put Ed Miliband closer to Downing Street" and b. "were worse" for Ed Miliband?

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Morning all. If you want to see the 21st century equivalent of visiting "Bedlam" asylum, just go BTL on the Telegraph's main story. Also from that page, according to the defeated UKIP candidate in H&M, Ed Miliband doesn't "get" Northern voters - unlike ex-public school boy. e...

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Turncoat Douglas Carswell already has the sign made up. Poor Clacton, famous today for all the wrong reasons https://twitter.com/jon_swindon/status/520258567266639872?lang=en-gb" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (you have to read the Clacton sign...) :lol!: Curse you AAW - yo...

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Looks like it may be too late for Clacton!

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BTW Not only is it Cameron's birthday today, it also would be John Lennon's

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The aide said that if Labour bases its mansion tax on Mr Osborne's scheme , the home would face an annual levy of £15,400, costing a total of £308,000 if deferred for 20 years. (My block italics) As Brian Clough once said in reply to a statement prefaced with if: "If my aunty had bollocks she'...

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Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 48s49 seconds ago Suddenly the money is going on an early departure for Clegg. PaddyPower cut price on him going before GE from 13/2 to 2/1 If he fell on his sword; it may bring some ex-voters back. :sick: I think it would do for the LibDems what Thatcher's departure did...

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And the award for Delusional Columnist of Today goes to Mary Riddell at The Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... d-out.html

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Morning all. We can all rest easy in our beds. Our Glorious Leader is chairing a meeting of COBRA today

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TheGrimSqueaker wrote:
yahyah wrote:Rustinpeace is crowing about it on Andrew's blog.
Of course he is, that is his job after all. Has Nicky decided these are his five polls?

We can't decide anything until we find out what the weighted moving average is

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Is Ashcroft publishing a national poll today, or just a Heywood & Middleton one? http://lordashcroftpolls.com/2014/10/labour-set-clear-win-heywood-middleton/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=labour-set-clear-win-heywood-middleton&utm_source=Lord+Ashcroft+Polls&utm_campa...

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Pretty rough night down here in Devon as well - autumn happened to our plum tree overnight, stripped bare. Sprog No.1 is off on her yr6 residential adventure week this morning - hope the weather bucks up for them. In other news, The Sparrow hints that he is not amused by Beta - can't link, I'm on m...

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Usual brilliant cartoon from Martin Rowson in today's Guardian:

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Morning. Interesting article in The Indy today - looks like they are running a series of articles about the NHS this week http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/the-nhs-timebomb-our-health-systems-founding-principles-are-now-at-stake-warn-leading-doctors-nurses-and-c...

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Next time you come across someone talking about Mid Staffs, tell them about the 28 killed by Legionnaire's Disease in 1985. They'll probably disappear. Or the Bristol Children's Hospital in the early 1990;s. Professor Ian Kennedy's conclusion following the public inquiry was that " paediatric ...

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Temulkar wrote:
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PorFavor wrote:@PaulfromYorkshire

David Cameron has just said that William Hague is the "greatest living Yorkshireman".

Bloody cheek!

Over to you . . .
When did Geoffrey Boycott die?
I thought it was Brian Blessed.

I thought Sir Geoffrey owned the Trademark

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The Daily Mash take on the Tory Conference: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/duncan-smith-ahead-in-fking-stupid-ideas-sweepstake-2014100191214?utm_campaign=01102014&utm_source=emailCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=" onclick="window.open(this.href);...

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PorFavor wrote:@PaulfromYorkshire

David Cameron has just said that William Hague is the "greatest living Yorkshireman".

Bloody cheek!

Over to you . . .

When did Geoffrey Boycott die?

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