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rebeccariots2 wrote:

I'm saying nothing.

'Bangers' - legal speak for not sausages (which have to have a certain amount of meat in them to be labelled 'sausages') but contain all the other bits and some rusk.

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From yesterday's G. Clegg says poll that suggests he will lose his seat is ‘utter bilge’ http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/feb/05/nick-clegg-poll-lose-sheffield-hallam-seat-bilge Just wanted to mention that I have taken the day after the GE off so that I can stay up to watch him lose everythi...

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AngryAsWell wrote: "academy brokers" ?

Chum's pockets.

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08;15 Last night. Just hours after McVey had lied, bullshitted and blustered her way through the W&P committee, making David Clapsons's sister cry in the process - it's reassuring to see Rachel with her finger on the pulse of the days events She doesn't do herself any favoura, does she? Certain...

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Al Murray's Debut Campaign Poster Is Better Than Anything Ukip's Nigel Farage Has Unveiled http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/02/03/al-murrays-debut-campaign-poster-better-anything-ukips-nigel-farage-unveiled_n_6604070.html?1422977962 If you are needing a smile raised. Loved this bit. On the hot ...

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I still can't get over how shit the Guardian now looks, never fails to amaze me. The Independent is a mess, doesn't know if it's a crap version of Buzzfeed, a bog standard National Geographic or a newspaper. Easiest on the eye is the Telegraph, and that's frankly barking. The saving grace of the ne...

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Thatcher stopped Peter Hayman being named as paedophile-link civil servant
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... e-archives

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Ok, have to ask and appear ignorant but what does 'OGRFPG' stand for. The closest I can manage is Our Great Red Faced Pig God but that's incredibly insulting to bovine deities. Our Great Ronsealed Fish Pointer General Nay, nay, and thrice nay! It is, of course, as coined by me, OGRFG, ie. Our Glori...

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Oooh Looks as if Cameron's appearing later. I'll be out Yes - just seen that. I'll have to eat my words then ... straightaway. Sky News has just announced that David Cameron will be taking part in its Ask the Leaders event. We won't be able to see it ... someone will have to give us the 'highlights...

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Andy Burnham ‏@andyburnhammp 15m15 minutes ago READ > my full speech setting out Labour's 10-year plan to build a national health & care service > http://andyburnhammp.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/andy-burnham-speech-on-labours-10-year.html?m=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;...

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Prime Minister David Cameron's visit to Bursledon Community Centre causes "total chaos" at GP surgery :smack: To add insult to injury the Mirror Chicken - a person in a life-size chicken suit designed to mock Mr Cameron for saying he would not appear in TV debates - was tipped off about t...

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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:
diGriz wrote:The GE banner at the top is an hour out.

100 days in 2 1/2 hours?
Technically it is perhaps correct, since we will have moved into summer time by then

All depends how you count that short day I guess....

Ah. But still, a nice thought to wake up to tomorrow.

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The GE banner at the top is an hour out.

100 days in 2 1/2 hours?

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http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/55 ... -next-week

I know it's the Express but still.
Britain on red alert as 'displaced polar vortex' to unleash crippling snowstorms next week

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PorFavor wrote:
diGriz wrote:
citizenJA wrote:Oh, for chrissake...
I like Grant nice but Green.
Surely, if anything, the Chairman should be clarifying what other party members have said - and not the other way around? He's a real ass(et), isn't he?

It's as if someone weaponised the village idiot.

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Grant Shapps, the Tory party chairman, said that the politicians and broadcasters were “edging towards a solution” and, when asked whether he was saying yes or no to Cameron turning up, he replied: “It’s a yes.” Party sources later said Shapps meant Cameron was in favour of participating in princip...

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Paul Mason @paulmasonnews · 1h 1 hour ago Second exit polls due soon -- my latest from Athens http://bit.ly/15wOeUd" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Really good update with some thoughts about the future. I've not been following this so this quote has foxed me. It looks like...

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Cameron willing to take part in TV election debates, say Conservatives Conservative party chairman says politicians and broadcasters ‘edging towards a solution’ but further talks were needed http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/25/cameron-tv-election-debates-conservatives What do you reckon...

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Thanks CitizenJA. Appreciated and bookmarked.

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PorFavor wrote:BBC News24 saying that the signs are that Syriza are on course for outright victory.

I take it everyone will come out singing Brown's praises tomorrow for not taking us into the Euro.

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Just caught up on the last 24 hrs here, it does seem the Leon Brittan thing has been eclipsed by some MEP I've not heard of changing parties/fortunes... And that's just on this forum. If what is distilled from the media here has run dry then I'm guessing the media aren't touching it. What the fuck h...

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Hi all, does anyone have a decent source that shows Osborne has borrowed more in five years than every Labour government combined? Thanks. Fraser Nelson, over at the Spectator: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/11/the-tories-have-piled-on-more-debt-than-labour/" onclick="windo...

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Hi all, does anyone have a decent source that shows Osborne has borrowed more in five years than every Labour government combined? Thanks.

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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Louise Hartles ‏@Squish815 9m9 minutes ago
Is the Guardian website down?

I imagine so, it doesn't seem happy with all the bad news going on.

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Have just seen Tony Blair's tweet on the passing of this repellent despot - the only possible response is :sick: Verdicts vary on his time in office, and that will remain the case - but there will be virtual unanimity that his behaviour since 2007 demeaned both himself and the PMship once held. Eve...

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8C0Mi5CYAAX84U.jpg Clegg's local Lib Dems using Ashcroft's polling to bar chart Labour as contenders in Sheffield Hallam. So, let me get this straight. This is the Party Leader's consitutuency, the Deputy Prime Minister. And the electionerring consists of: 'Don't let La...

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Iain Dale @IainDale · 13h 13 hours ago Rather hilariously, Caroline Lucas thinks she should represent the Greens in one of the TV debates. #GreenPowerGrab Iain Dale @IainDale · 13h 13 hours ago @xCllrAnnMarie She. Is. Not. The. Leader. What part of that is so difficult to understand? These are &quo...

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Just got in but haven't caught up yet, Schapps/Green on LBC squirming when asked if Ed was photoshopped to look chunkier. (I seriously suspect he knew and was responsible) Of course despite signing off on it he had no clue.

Sorry if mentioned, give me 20 mins to catch up.

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gilsey wrote:diGriz, I hope you're right.

I probably won't be.

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A new low for the Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband/11362893/Ed-Miliband-Nothing-Ive-ever-said-in-PMQs-has-added-to-human-knowledge.html Ed's statement is both amusing, light hearted and quite normal. But I detect a fifth column in the editorial team, that is a crackin...

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You've got me going now Citizen. As a kid I used to love - and I mean luuurrvvve - Walnut Whips - remember them? I'm sure if I had one now I would realise how disgustingly inferior all its ingredients and the finished product were ... but then they symbolized a real treat (we were very poor). They ...

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Right, important stuff. The great Cadbury Creme Egg scandal. Just tried one, utterly crap a truly horrid experience with a hideous aftertaste. After many years of eating them I will never touch another one. (my bold) Yep! The hideous after taste is the result of degrading the fondant egg chocolate ...

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Had a message from TGS. He says he was fed up biting his tongue and is touched at our concern. But then he always was touched :-) He said the last bit too. It's only the internet, we're all adults looking for debate. The only time you need to bite your tongue here is posting when very grumpy regard...

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Just look at the earth shattering observations my MP makes. :roll: @DrPhillipLeeMP says Energy is fundamentally important to the health of our nation and our futures #bigenergydebate Breathing is is fundamentally important to the health of our bodies and our futures #sayingnothingunderstandinglessp...

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Ed Balls asked on LBC if he'd debate Osborne. He offered a very eager yes. He seemed hungry for it.

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Sun tweets "quite striking numbers in our YouGov poll tonight" due any time now. 2 point tory lead and "Labour at 5 year low as greens surge" headline con 32 lab 30 ukip 15 green 10 libdem 8 Multiple edits to post, bad form, but put those figures into UK Polling report's basic p...

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I am that rare oddity, a person that thinks Milband is a positive attribute for the Labour party! No, not that rare at all, it's just that you don't work for the MSM. There are quite a lot of us. Aw come on, give me some credit - a paid up member, regular activist, and candidate for another party -...

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Hi all by the way.

Quick question;

There's been a lot of mention in the Mainstream Media about the rise of anti-Semitism of late, when will they stop chasing this pointless story and return to the regular critiques of that weird-looking Miliband and his passion for bacon sandwiches?

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Sorry, this is @Tizme, my browser is making it very difficult for me to edit in post so I can't quote. You ask what makes us think Labour will be different next time after 13 years following the neoliberal agenda. It's one thing, really - Ed Miliband. There's a reason the neoliberal Blairite dinosa...

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Guido Fawkes ‏@GuidoFawkes 34 mins34 minutes ago Karen Danczuk To Quit Being Labour Councillor http://order-order.com/2015/01/19/karen-danczuk-to-quit-being-labour-councollor/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; … I see there is speculation BTL that this is to pave the way for ...

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Hadn't seen this from the other day. Reverse ferret barely does it justice. Announced via a letter from Nick Gibb to exam boards. Boo, Tony Blair, contempt of Parliament! https://news.tes.co.uk/b/news/2015/01/16/igcses-would-have-encouraged-quot-race-to-the-bottom-quot-say-ministers.aspx" oncl...

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Councils rely on local 'street champions' to pick up litter, prune hedges and grit minor roads as funds run out http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/councils-rely-on-local-street-champions-to-pick-up-litter-prune-hedges-and-grit-minor-roads-as-funds-run-out-9985738.html ... In Oxfordshire,...

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Off topic but I'm toying with buying voice recognition software. I think it needs to be an English system, having had problems with a US based app in the past I loaned my memory stick with all my writing on it to my granddaugher as she was 'desperate' for one for a piece of homework, and I'm not li...

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Off topic but I'm toying with buying voice recognition software. I think it needs to be an English system, having had problems with a US based app in the past I loaned my memory stick with all my writing on it to my granddaugher as she was 'desperate' for one for a piece of homework, and I'm not li...

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Sorry if posted but this had a few moments that made me smile.

Could Nick Clegg lose his Sheffield seat in May general election?
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... l-election

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Happy new year folks. A very interesting one on its way.

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Britain's Green Party surge
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/featur ... 36479.html

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Hi guys. Just want to wish you all a peaceful Christmas.

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After David Cameron, the Conservative Party is stuffed One of David Cameron’s great unacknowledged achievements is that he has managed – just – to keep the Conservative Party in one piece http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/11310542/After-David-Cameron-the-Conservative-Party-is-st...

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