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Re: Chips...

I can't be arsed. I like them just about cooked and very soggy

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@ AngryAsWell Quote: 3 times fried chips Oooh-er. Sounds as if they were trying a bit of cordon-bleau and got it wrong. The best chefs: Boil the chips briefly. Take them out, dry them. Using a mixture of oil and beef dripping, Fry them briefly. Take out allow to drain. Leave for a while, Pop them b...

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@Ephermerid: If the agreement is now null and void, in theory so is the result of the referendum - if it is not conducted as agreed, it's wrong. Cameron and the rest of them have, by making all these promises while the voting is in progress, interfered with the conduct of the referendum and that is ...

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http://dbfamilylaw.wordpress.com/2014/0 ... f-on-bias/

Interesting!

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@Refitman:

Thanks

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@Ernst:

That's Heywood.

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Sounds like my kind of town

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... er-up.html

YahYah, have you seen this?

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Found this. Hadn't kept the link so I hope you will forgive me for printing it in full...So much foul, polluted water under the bridge in such a short time it takes your breath away. Campaigners in Whitehall point out that George Osborne is ignoring the 'elephant in the room' – tax havens. The Briti...

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Re Crosby:

Found it!

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... ton-crosby

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Crosby, July 2013. : "Tories ought to get rid of him anyway. He's no idea how to campaign in a way that doesn't make UKIP look like the answer. That is a great quote, use it lots when winding up Tory trolls. Re: Crosby. Ages ago I read about him at a Tory Party Fundraiser when he'd not long ta...

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Morning yahyah and all. Yahyah, this probably won't lighten your mood - sorry. Revealed: New boss of investigation into VIP child abuse claims is linked to Leon Brittan: The Mail On Sunday exposes family friendship of SECOND inquiry chief with the ex-MP accused of abuse file cover-up http://www.dai...

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Gordon Brown's article in the New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/opini ... share&_r=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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PorFavor wrote:Goodnight, everyone.

Night PF

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http://industrialreporter.wordpress.com/2014/09/06/konp-press-release-keep-our-nhs-public-welcomes-march4nhs-to-london-warning-cameron-the-tories-risk-loosing-election-if-nhs-privatisation-continues/ Big turnout for the Save the NHS march which started in Jarrow. And lots of disgust that the BBC an...

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Aimlessly following incidental links as you do on a Saturday afternoon, I came across this beauty... http://insidecroydon.com/2014/09/03/tory-leader-fisher-is-caught-red-handed-with-10000-pay-hike/ Well done that local paper. What makes me think they don't like the Tories :clap: Should have added. ...

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Aimlessly following incidental links as you do on a Saturday afternoon, I came across this beauty... http://insidecroydon.com/2014/09/03/tory-leader-fisher-is-caught-red-handed-with-10000-pay-hike/ Well done that local paper. What makes me think they don't like the Tories :clap: Should have added. ...

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Ukip claims "mass exodus" of Tory party members http://www.clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk/news/clacton_frinton_news/11450013.Ukip_claims__mass_exodus__of_Tory_party_members/?ref=var_0 Another interesting link! I have no doubt this is true. And it's appalling. The local Tories are going to...

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Aimlessly following incidental links as you do on a Saturday afternoon, I came across this beauty...

http://insidecroydon.com/2014/09/03/tor ... -pay-hike/

Well done that local paper. What makes me think they don't like the Tories

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refitman wrote:
ohsocynical wrote:Is anyone else following the DWP Twitter feed? If so is it the genuine article, because if it is, it's absolutely disgraceful....
Unfortunately it is the official twitter account.

Right. In that case it's time I turned my bad temper onto a deserving cause.

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Is anyone else following the DWP Twitter feed? If so is it the genuine article, because if it is, it's absolutely disgraceful....

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I am so relieved I don't have to deal with bureaucracy too much these days, and when I do it takes all my willpower and then some to stay polite.

We are turning into a nation of angry people and once you've hit that point, it's hard to go back.

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I am fuming. My granddaughter has just started senior school. I was talking to my son today. He said it's cost nearly two hundred pounds to get her uniform, and on top of that they've had to shell out £23 for use of a locker at school for a year. It's a private company that runs it. My d-in-law had ...

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LadyCentauria wrote:Thanks, @yahyah and @refitman! Pleasure to meet you two, too

A belated welcome from me too

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Welfare claimants to get attitude tests, employment minister reveals New interviews will see whether benefits claimants are psychologically prepared to work, Esther McVey reveals http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11078359/Welfare-claimants-to-get-attitude-tests-employment-minister-reveals.ht...

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Italy flights cancelled due to strike Ryanair and EasyJet cancelling flights on Saturday as disruption caused by strike by air traffic controllers in Italy http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/05/italy-flights-cancelled-ryanair-easyjet Hope this doesn't muck up Roger's holiday flight. :o Mig...

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Good job we've lots of money sloshing around to spend on vanity schemes eh? Government forced to rethink £1.2m three bed house bought for free school http://academiesweek.co.uk/government-forced-to-rethink-1-2m-three-bed-house-bought-for-free-school/ A £1.2m “historic residence”, purchased for a ne...

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Italy flights cancelled due to strike
Ryanair and EasyJet cancelling flights on Saturday as disruption caused by strike by air traffic controllers in Italy

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014 ... ir-easyjet

Hope this doesn't muck up Roger's holiday flight.

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Vince Cable ‏@vincecable 4h Absolutely delighted that the bill from Lib Dem @AndrewGeorgeLD to fix the Tories' bedroom tax has passed thanks to Lib Dem and Labour MPs Why does that make me want to scream 'pass the sick bag mother' at the top of my voice? He's been getting a pasting on Twitter. 8-)

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Bloody Charles Kennedy on Twitter saying it was all down to the the LibDems. I reminded him who'd enabled it in the first place. And I wasn't the only one. [I was polite though, because he doesn't come across as one of Cleggy's brown nosers ]

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I was going to post a reasoned reply, but costcentre2 just hoyed his school blazer over (two days usage) for me to repair. Fortunately, I did Home Ec at my comp back in the '70s, unlike Mrs55 who went to a posh school. She knows the difference between the pluperfect and preterite tenses, but can't ...

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Martin Rowson ‏@MartinRowson 7m In other news, my prophesy during Dave's Desperation Reshuffle that little Michael Gove would be a catastrophic Chief Whip has come to pass Martin Rowson ‏@MartinRowson 6m ..if the alternative was defying & therefore pissing Govey off. Once more Cameron reveals h...

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Still a big beast of a politician, I'd have Brown back tomorrow. http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/09/gordon-brown-has-bared-socialist-soul-he-hid-prime-minister" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I briefly read earlier that Brown gave a brilliant speech. Quite like hi...

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From Twitter:

ExaroNews ‏@ExaroNews 5h
Fiona Woolf’s background is not as an expert on #childsexabuse, but in energy markets. She is a magistrate and ex-president of Law Society

Haven't read any approvals for May's choice yet. Is this another Tory cock-up?

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A bit late but happy birthday Roger. Have a lovely time but hurry back. We shall miss you!

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Has anyone any idea how the LibDems, who attended voted? Going to find an old saucepan and that can be used as a spittoon as I read the list. Not seen a full list but, according to the BBC, Vince Cable and Simon Hughes voted for the Bill!! I wonder if that's time called on the coalition. Funny how ...

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Patrick Wintour ‏@patrickwintour 15m
Hundreds of foreign reporters left stranded in Nato summit site car park for 2 hours. Worst run summit ever attended. Well done Dave.

Oops, he didn't use G4S did he?

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http://www.bracknellnews.co.uk/news/bracknell/articles/2014/08/23/103090-flightpath-experiment-spells-more-noise-overhead/ Flightpath experiment spells more noise overhead We're used to Jets going over, but 3,000 ft? They've been trying out the flight paths already and last week were roaring across...

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Not having been too involved with the Scottish referendum debate one thing has struck me: Tories don't seem to be very involved with the campaign. I know they're reviled in Scotland, but it's going to rebound badly on them if it's yes. You'd think they would try to counteract the Dave effect. Unless...

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PorFavor wrote:Goodnight, everyone.

Night PF

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Been busy of late, have lurked and had the news on but missing general chat. Is it me or has it become more evident of late that Cameron is way out of his depth on all matters? He always has been but I think he's made so many blunders that our news media is finally catching on. Or rather are unable...

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Scottish Independence: Nigel Farage accuses Alex Salmond of ‘stirring up excessive nationalism’ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/scottish-independence/scottish-independence-nigel-farage-accuses-alex-salmond-of-stirring-up-excessive-nationalism-9711666.html It feels increasingly like I'm living i...

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http://4bitnews.com/uk/scotland-votes-y ... on-within/

Check this out.

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PorFavor wrote:Goodnight, everyone.

Night PF

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Oh, what a night! Mark your calender now for the Lib Dem disco Just when you thought conference season couldn’t get any more exciting, the Lib Dems unveil plans for what will surely be an evening to remember http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/03/liberal-democrat-disco-party-conferenc...

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Plans unveiled for new academy in West Reading

http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/local-news/plans-unveiled-new-academy-west-7713224

And here's another.

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There has got to be some kind of electoral law against this kind of thing surely? https://twitter.com/WomenDefyUKIP/status/506900917409812480" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; And it'll get worse. Hopefully there are decent people that were tempted to vote UKIP and will be pu...

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If you go down to the woods today…
Forest privatisation

http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back&

They are out and out utter bastards!

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TheGrimSqueaker wrote:
refitman wrote:
PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 30s
Clapton (sic.) by-election date fixed for October 9th
That's Call-me's birthday. What a present that'll be.
Call-Me has a birthday? I always thought Tories reproduced through binary fission.

Nah. That's way too complicated.

Amoebas.

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Picked up this little snippet on Twitter.

Lib Dem folk say their pre manifesto stretches to 80 pages and contains more than 300 policies

Over kill or what

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Education Funding Agency postpones work on Highridge site in Caversham after agreeing to scout out new locations for the Heights free school http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2014/09/01/103292-education-funding-agency-postpones-work-on-highridge-site-in-caversham-after-agreein...

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