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Stephen Tall ‏@stephentall 8m Gerald Vernon Jackson selected as Lib Dem PPC in Portsmouth, aiming to succeed suspended/disgraced Mike Hancock http://bit.ly/1q9sIwl" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Oh FFS. Don't they learn anything? I hope they've signed their own election lo...

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Neil Henderson ‏@hendopolis 59m
TIMES: Cameron braced for more UKIP defections #tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers pic.twitter.com/HKGguTeDLU

'Cameron braced' conjures up a less than prime ministerial image ...

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Kevin Maguire ‏@Kevin_Maguire 3m
Word in Clacton is Con councillors are poised to follow Douglas Carswell and defect to Ukip. Purple is the new Blue

It's too too much all in one day - hand to brow, pained expression - sneaky snigger.

Clacton is really seeing the action.

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Tim Montgomerie ‏@TimMontgomerie 1h RT @IndyPolitics Tories fear Carswell’s defection to Ukip may be 1st of many http://ind.pn/1zMjBTf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; < I suspect 2 more may defect by October Looks like it's going to be a rip roaring conference season ... Er...

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Retweeted by Iain Dale Roger Lord UKIP ‏@RogerLordUKIP 18m I challenge you @DouglasCarswell to a duel. I will have satisfaction at this outrage you and Nigel have schemed like thieves in the night. His tweets read like something out of Blackadder though ... hard to take seriously ... but he seems v...

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Doesn't really matter, tbh. The UKIP national executive has always had the final say in selecting Westminster by-election candidates - and certainly will use their powers in this instance :) I'm sure they will - but that doesn't half mark them out as 'just like all the other parties' doesn't it? No...

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AnatolyKasparov wrote:Doesn't really matter, tbh.

The UKIP national executive has always had the final say in selecting Westminster by-election candidates - and certainly will use their powers in this instance

Doesn't look good though. But when has that ever seemed to worry UKIP?

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Roger Lord UKIP ‏@RogerLordUKIP 18m
I've had machine guns up my conk Nigel... I'm not bloody going anywhere.

Oh dear. (I take it this is not a spoof account?)

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MirrorJames ‏@MirrorJames 4m
Dave looks v angry...

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Nick Robinson ‏@bbcnickrobinson 6m
PM refuses to admit that there was no way the government could meet the Tories immigration target pre election or whilst staying in the EU

He really is a plonker. And evidently thinks the electorate are very very stupid.

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Oh dear, someone over at the DT just pointed about... Very interesting Clacton UKIP branch has already selected a candidate by democratic vote Roger Lord. I know he hasn't resigned so How can Mr Carswell stand for the same party unelected What does that say about his view of localism I would imagin...

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The Spectator ‏@spectator 10m The nun who took down an Isis flag – and stands up for east London's Muslims: http://specc.ie/VRHV97" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Interesting tale re the flag - but the reasons given to explain why young Muslims might be tempted to join IS a...

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Morning all.

Looks like it's a war of YES and NO businesses this morning - with Cameron sticking his penorth in. I wish he hadn't piped up just as the postal voting ballots were arriving on people's doorsteps.

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PCCs are proving to be a real source of political embarrassment all round. Those of us that were worried about them politicising policing were right ... but we probably didn't foresee some of the ways in which it would happen. Bedfordshire crime commissioner suspended from Labour party Olly Martins ...

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PoliticsHome ‏@politicshome 15m
Shaun Wright, the South Yorkshire PCC, has resigned from the Labour Party but will remain as police commissioner http://polho.me/1pGigfU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I don't know what to say about that.

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:lol: :lol: :lol: https://twitter.com/ThanetLab/status/504738835461578753" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Looking at the 2010 result it's perfectly possible for Farage to take enough from the Tories to let Labour in. it only went Tory in 2010 so it could well sing back. I t...

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refitman wrote:Also, the forum style may be jumping about a bit as I try to find a nice one.

Speaking of which, thoughts on this one?

Preferred it as it was before. Sorry. (Appreciate all you are doing muchly.)

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Yay - welcome back Porfavor. You have been much missed - as have others who disappeared for a while (seeingclearly, parrotkeeper or pk1 as she now is and many more ....).

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Morning. The utter hypocrisy on so many levels contained in the latest DWP press release would take sometime to outline.How about attending to the basic obligations of your own department. :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: :fight: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/high-street-could-be-boosted-by-...

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When will the penny drop for Alex Salmond? The day after the independence vote, hopefully?! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/11056857/When-will-the-penny-drop-for-Alex-Salmond.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; That's a very good write up of th...

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Authorities failing in hunt for 'most wanted' tax dodgers who owe HMRC £844m Campaign that publicly identified those sought has seen results, but many have fled abroad http://www.independent.co.uk/money/tax/authorities-failing-in-hunt-for-most-wanted-tax-dodgers-who-owe-hmrc-844m-9692699.html and G...

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Morning all. My radio alarm went off this morning at 6:45 and woke me up to the dulcet tones of Nigel bloody Farage ranting "THEY'RE GOING TO SEND THEIR BIG GUNS AFTER ME." in his best 'ordering from a busy golf club bar' voice. No lazily stretching and yawning before rolling over for ano...

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Followed a link to a new site called Note my Vote. It's aiming to poll registered users & use the results of those polls to inform user's MP's of their opinions. It might not amount to much but given that we all complain loudly that our MP's don't listen to public opinion, it might be worth eng...

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Nicholas Watt ‏@nicholaswatt 3m John Bercow gives way on Commons job after stern warning from MPs http://gu.com/p/4x3cx/tw via @guardian Was thinking today that these MPs didn't seem to think there was any problem re having someone from abroad without an in depth knowledge of the UK police procedur...

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Nicholas Watt ‏@nicholaswatt 3m John Bercow gives way on Commons job after stern warning from MPs http://gu.com/p/4x3cx/tw via @guardian Was thinking today that these MPs didn't seem to think there was any problem re having someone from abroad without an in depth knowledge of the UK police procedur...

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Talk of the devil ...

Laura Kuenssberg ‏@bbclaurak 2m
So Farage will fight the election to become MP for Thanet South ( not that surprising!) but a big moment !

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Robert Hutton ‏@RobDotHutton 28s
IT'S FARAGE FOR THANET SOUTH! AND THE CROWD GOES WILD.

We can probably expect an entire Newsnight dedicated to his selection now .........................

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Excellent well-informed posts, Eric. Thanks for that :oops: There's an interesting, and very readable, summing up of the post-independence legal position by Prof Adam Tomkins, Glasgow University chair of public law here: http://notesfromnorthbritain.wordpress.com/2014/01/ in particular he says: &qu...

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Indeed. I've yet to find out from the 'yes' camp just how they're going to force another sovereign state into a currency union when said state has already said it ain't gonna happen. What's Salmond going to do? Use harsh language? Call them Sassenach bastards? The rUK government will shrugs its sho...

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Somebody on Twitter noted that the Rotherham case had reminded them that we still don't have a chair appointed to the panel investigating the historic abuse allegations re the 'Establishment'.

Quite.

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Faisal Islam tried to ask Salmond about the currency issue on Sky News earlier, only to be told to move on, by Salmond, no change there then. Sky News in fairness isn't half bad, they had a piece on last week about kids going hungry in the school holidays, the BBC had the story of Lidl's venturing ...

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Faisal Islam tried to ask Salmond about the currency issue on Sky News earlier, only to be told to move on, by Salmond, no change there then. Sky News in fairness isn't half bad, they had a piece on last week about kids going hungry in the school holidays, the BBC had the story of Lidl's venturing ...

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AngryAsWell wrote:Morning all
Well this looks good - thank you for getting it together - hugs
Cold wet and miserable here today - and my birthday.
Off to read the papers, catch ya laters

Happy Birthday AAW. May you stay warm, dry and happy all day (and maybe not angry for a while?).

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Morning both - and any lurkers. This is yet another failure of the Conservative's privatisation and de regulation programme .... another bad policy that has impacted the poorest worst ... and, of course, London has had entirely different treatment and has fared much better as a result. Bus deregulat...

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I'm having real problems with accessing this new site. Totally hit and miss - with the miss happening far more often than the hit. So please keep open some way of us communicating with FTNers when we are unable to log in / get this site up. I guess I'm saying we will need the old site - simply to le...

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I have no idea why the Tories seem to gleeful at Darling not performing well - no-one is going to remember these debates. But they will remember Cameron being the PM who lost Scotland from the Union. For a Conservative and Unionist leader to lose Scotland won't play very well on his record. Quite. ...

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RogerOThornhill wrote:Evening all...thought you'd sneak off without me did you?

As if we'd do that to you .....

I'm giving it a go with the 'Quote' button for this reply - see what happens.

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Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 21m Main impact of #IndyRefdebate will be to reinforce views on both sides reinforced views on both sides. pic.twitter.com/xJiVsE52Cs Agree with Smithson on this. It was shouty, pouty stuff. Had hoped that the BBC would have done better with chairing ... obviously not. Gl...

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