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"That is nothing to do with professionalism, what it does have to do with is a population that is going through the roof chiefly because of open-door immigration and the fact that the M4 is not as navigable as it used to be." http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-30370570" onclic...

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Good Afternoon Farage fails to turn up at UKIP bash in Wales on Saturday night. It goes without saying the cause of the problem is according to him "That is nothing to do with professionalism, what it does have to do with is a population that is going through the roof chiefly because of open-do...

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The recently devolved railway franchise is likely to be run on a not for profit model*, a Welsh Government minister has announced, already there are squeals of anguish from Conservatives. Preventing private businesses from running Welsh railways is another example of Labour's ideological aversion t...

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Good Evening
Just picked this up.

Peter Jukes ‏@peterjukes 2m2 minutes ago
BREAKING: @johnsweeneyroar says the Attorney General wrote to BBC Panorama twice trying to stop Mazher Mahmood documentary

Now why in the world would the Attorney General need to be involved?

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Good Afternoon I see Lord Ashcroft has reissued the polling figures for that recent very dodgy looking Doncaster North poll which was headlined as Ed Miliband in danger if Conservatives voted tactically for UKIP. Now it is apparent that was never the case and the revised figures show Ed with a 29% l...

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Only one poll, but do not like this, a bit. http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/11/why-labour-losing-tories-ultra-marginal-stockton-south" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Wharton is one of my Portillo moments, hopefully. I wouldn't worry about it. Mike Smithson just po...

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Only one poll, but do not like this, a bit. http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/11/why-labour-losing-tories-ultra-marginal-stockton-south" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Wharton is one of my Portillo moments, hopefully. Although not good I think 'Portillo Moment' stil...

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Loved this twitter reply by John Prescott. AndrewSparrow ‏@AndrewSparrow 13m13 minutes ago My PMQs verdict - http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2014/nov/19/ukips-mark-reckless-suggests-eu-migrants-should-be-sent-home-reaction-politics-live-blog#block-546c8e50e4b0d3c858736caa" onclick...

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Peter Jukes ‏@peterjukes 3m3 minutes ago (Possibly) BREAKING: Coulson set to be released from prison on tag next week: wonder how much of his memoirs he's written. #HACKINGTRIAL So out after less than 5 months of an 18 month sentence. Quelle Surprise! Quite rightly so, surely? Absolutely, if the sa...

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Peter Jukes ‏@peterjukes 3m3 minutes ago
(Possibly) BREAKING: Coulson set to be released from prison on tag next week: wonder how much of his memoirs he's written. #HACKINGTRIAL

So out after less than 5 months of an 18 month sentence. Quelle Surprise!

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StephenDolan wrote:
AnatolyKasparov wrote:I am very partial to steak and kidney pudding - oh dear
Damn, me too. Right where's my purple tie gone....

Hollands of Baxenden only please, not Pukka!

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Morning all. Tories lead by 1 point on Yougov: Latest YouGov / The Sun results 13th November - Con 33%, ( +1 ) Lab 32%, ( -3 ) LD 8%, ( +1 ) UKIP 15%; (no change) APP -22 ( +3 ) Good Afternoon I know it is not only reasonable but proper to weight results but Mike Smithson is questioning this partic...

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Live Statement from NTSB re Virgin Spaceship Crash: Vehicle Group are documenting the spread of spaceship wreckage, the Systems and Data Groups are collecting data from 6 cameras on the ship, 6 more data collectors, ground based cameras and data recorders so are gaining possession of more informati...

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I've always liked Maureen Lipman but have gone right off her.
She will not support Labour any more because of Ed Miliband' s support for a Palestinian state. Never would have thought that of her.
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Andy Burnham is the obvious front runner. I like the Eagle sisters. But we're back in "the wrong . . . " territory, so perhaps not! Umunna, imo. Burnham's tainted as Brown's Treasury Secretary and Mid-Staffs (both wrongly) and has apologised to so many people over the years he's mooted to...

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Oh you mean Soccer, that game played by highly paid foreigners who roll around the floor like they have been murdered if somebody so much sneezes at them.

Ah yes, Soccer the name given to a game played and enjoyed by the rest of the world by a non-footballing nation.
I'd better duck again!

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Thank you all muchly for the happy returns. The irony is - would you believe it - I'm sitting here putting off doing the preparation for sorting out my f****ing tax return. Oh well, I've just finished preparing dinner...son#s on his way back from the NFL at Wembley...we think it was his team that w...

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I just (accidentally) watched two contrasting interviews on Sunday Politics The Environment Sec Liz Truss gave as close to a car crash interview as possible and showed ,imo, that she has absolutely no grasp of her brief and was unable to answer direct questions even when posed to her 4 or 5 times. C...

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Hi PF Thanks for asking. We are at my Son and Daughter in L's house in deepest rural Gloucestershire (one bus a week to Cheltenham on a Tuesday) for the next month or two. My wife has just had the metalwork in her knee removed (following the fracture she suffered in Slovenia in March 2013) at Traffo...

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Morning All! Beat Refitman to it today ;-) Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 58m58 minutes ago Latest YouGov/Sun poll CON 31%, LAB 33%, LD 7%, UKIP 15%, GRN 6% So UKIP down 4 from heights of last week Last night I got mu first YouGov voting intention poll for over six months, in fact the first since the ...

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Ashcroft poll just out

Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 5m5 minutes ago
The @LordAshcroft National Phone poll has the Greens ahead of the LDs
CON 28%, LAB 31%, LD 7%, UKIP 18% GRN 8%

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I don't know if anyone picked up this ComRes poll about EU working rules published at weekend. Of those Conservative voters polled and asked if they agreed with statement 'All citizens of other EU countries should have the right to work and live in the UK. AGREE 33% DISAGREE 51% but when asked if 'B...

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Now something completely different! I note that First Group have lost the Scotrail rail franchise and it's been awarded to a state controlled company. Unfortunately it's a Dutch state controlled company Abelio who already run England's most subsidised rail franchise Northern Rail. A great article in...

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Lord Ashcroft ‏@LordAshcroft · 12 secs13 seconds ago Heywood & Middleton poll (Survation): LAB - 50% UKIP - 31% CON - 13% LDEM - 4% IIRC the Tories have doubled their vote. Then again hasn't Labours gone up as well? Share in the last election: 2010 Share LAB 40.11% CON 27.16% LIB 22.71% OTH 7.3...

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For Info General Election 2010: Heywood and Middleton[7] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Co-op Jim Dobbin 18,499 40.1 −8.2 Conservative Mike Holly 12,528 27.2 +5.4 Liberal Democrat Wera Hobhouse 10,474 22.7 +2.5 BNP Peter Greenwood 3,239 7.0 +2.6 UKIP Victoria Cecil 1,215 2.6 +0.7 Independent Chri...

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No surprise the yougov poll shows Conservatives 1% ahead (35 to 34) but the Survation Poll (headlined by the Sun on Heywood & Middleton by-election as showing UKIP tripling their share but forgetting to say Labour up 10% on 2010 result) so massive swing from CONS & LIBDEMS to Labour if corre...

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I notice that our new EU commissioner has an impressive grasp of his portfolio! One of the sceptics was Philippe Lamberts, a Belgian Green MEP, who told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that “behind his charm there was apparently little knowledge of the subject matter at hand”. “It is not about knowing...

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Don't councils have the right to make a compulsory purchase under certain circumstances? In Ireland that can be done with derelict properties, don't know about the UK. In the village where I grew up, a row of 18th century cottages were allowed to fall into ruin so the owner could develop the land, ...

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Good Morning When I get depressed about whether Labour will win in 7+ months Mike Smithson tweets something to bring me back together. Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 2m REMINDER FROM OUTSIDE WESTMINSTER BUBBLE: To win GE2015 LAB needs to suffer less seepage to UKIP than CON and retain current LD switch...

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I note that Vivienne Westwood (London resident, born in Derbyshire) has urged Scots to vote YES on Thursday because she says Speaking during her Red label 2015 show at London Fashion Week, she said she was ''very unpatriotic about England because it is being completely ruined''. http://www.bbc.co.uk...

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I'd have thought it was pretty obvious that if the vote is Yes, then that makes Scotland a foreign country, and the Beeb won't let anyone but UK license payers watch their programmes. A good example is BBC America where they won't show anything that involves UK licence payers money too deeply. I th...

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Right, but why couldn't all sides agree that Scotland and rUK could carry on being treated as the same market? It could happen I suspect as the BBC provide services for the Channel Islands and IOM and sell the license in both areas despite the CI are not part of EU. However if Scottish insist on a ...

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Don't know much about broadcasting rights. Virtually all Sky programmes are available clearly throughout Europe if you have a dish, a Sky box and a Sky subscription. However Sky will not sell you a subscription unless you are living in the UK or Ireland because of 'broadcasting rights'. Provide a U...

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Not sure really. I saw an article on EU entry for Scotland that said the EU would just treat it as already in because that was simplest. I disagree with that because at least some countries wouldn't want it. But with the BBC, I can't see any bar to Scotland just staying in the existing framework. I...

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During my winter break in Portugal at the beginning of the year there was consternation among British visitors and ex-pats because the BBC re-aligned their satellite beam resulting in loss of coverage to most of western Europe. It was reported in the press that the reasons were that it was unfair o...

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I'd have thought it was pretty obvious that if the vote is Yes, then that makes Scotland a foreign country, and the Beeb won't let anyone but UK license payers watch their programmes. A good example is BBC America where they won't show anything that involves UK licence payers money too deeply. They...

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I've just one of those not-real-poll-thingies on YouGov. The question - if you could vote in the Clacton bye-election how would you vote? So far - LDs/other/wouldn't vote/don't knows - all at 5% UKIP - 20%, Tory 21%, Labour 25% Obviously the responses come from anywhere and do not reflect what the ...

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Good Morning You would think that even Populus themselves would be asking questions about their ridiculous polling figures. No body can take their Friday figures seriously apart from CIF's Nick! Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 8m LAB back in the lead with Populus online - which had CON ahead on Friday. ...

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TheGrimSqueaker wrote:As they say, you'd need a heart of stone not to laugh!

@refitman, I'm guessing that one won't be part of the Five Polls either?

Bet this will be though!

Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 7m
CON takes lead in today's Populus online poll
Lab 34 (-4), Con 35 (+3), LD 8 (=), UKIP 13 (-2)

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Is it alright to ask forum tech questions here or better to have a separate thread ? Am trying to download an avatar from my computer pics but all my own photos seem to be too 'big'. Not pixel size but file size. For example the one I want to use from my digital camera is 1.47MB, the maximum allowe...

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