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LadyCentauria wrote: From AS Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, is addressing the conference now. He has just announced that the Department for Work and Pensions will pilot paying benefits for certain troubled families with pre-paid cards, not cash, to stop families wasting money o...

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Best they get in quick (no, that sounds unfortunate!) Best they get their strike in because one of the grey men speaking today said they will introduce a 50% ballots returned requirement for unions before they can call a strike. And the remit to strike will be time limited, too. If they try to pull...

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Midwives vote to strike. Best they get in quick (no, that sounds unfortunate!) Best they get their strike in because one of the grey men speaking today said they will introduce a 50% ballots returned requirement for unions before they can call a strike. And the remit to strike will be time limited,...

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Of course it should read WEREN'T expecting.

Dammit.

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Quoted from the Telegraph piece (which is still up btw) Mr Redwood told a fringe event about Britain's place in the EU that "the only answer for all concerned is for big business to keep out and not express a corporate view". He added: "If they don't understand that now they will fin...

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You're both very kind. On a personal note, it's off to Cheshire to wish my Sussex dwelling middle brother (smug, converted Tory) happy 54th birthday in the presence of his slightly smug and certainly a little overbearing ex-school header teacher wife, plus possibly previous aforementioned UKIP bro ...

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I don't know the above areas but I encountered similar in the past. There is an underclass of predominantly angry white people, who feel with some justification that nobody cares about them. It is all the fault of the immigrants is racism, straight out of the 30s, but again in some areas they are b...

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You're both very kind. On a personal note, it's off to Cheshire to wish my Sussex dwelling middle brother (smug, converted Tory) happy 54th birthday in the presence of his slightly smug and certainly a little overbearing ex-school header teacher wife, plus possibly previous aforementioned UKIP bro (...

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That H&M blog is very good. Labour needs to up its game in such seats and appeal to what are some of the poorest and most disenfranchised people around. I work hard as a Labour councillor, but I'm always aware that I have to strive to cover every last inch, and that's far more the case for poor...

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That H&M blog is very good. Labour needs to up its game in such seats and appeal to what are some of the poorest and most disenfranchised people around. I work hard as a Labour councillor, but I'm always aware that I have to strive to cover every last inch, and that's far more the case for poore...

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Iain Duncan Smith: a reputation beyond accountability? http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/20540 Worth reading... Hi ohso - yes, that's a very good read and nails it down. The list of directors at IDS' pet think tank is quite terrifying in their removal from reality and the everyday lives of so many - n...

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Mark Reckless, the ex-Conservative MP that defected to Ukip on Saturday, looked to have cancelled a planned walkabout to celebrate his move with leader Nigel Farage after a negative reaction in his Rochester constituency. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/farage-sent-home-from-rochester...

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Ha, ha - I see the Graun has been forced to do a brief article on Ashcroft's polling. I'm pretty appalled at statements like this from a presumably experienced and literate journalist: "The statistics said just 63% of the people who voted Conservative in 2010 are still planning to vote for the ...

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From Ashcroft's latest polling, some illuminating stuff: "Lib Dem voters themselves preferred the prospect of being in coalition again with the Tories (42%) than with Labour (36%)." http://lordashcroftpolls.com/2014/09/liberal-democrat-battleground/" onclick="window.open(this.hr...

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And of Ashcroft's other missive, which I've just started reading, this immediately leapt out at me: "Just over a quarter of those who voted Conservative in 2010 said they would vote for a different party in an election tomorrow. Nearly three quarters of these now support UKIP, with most of the ...

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From Ashcroft's latest polling, some illuminating stuff: "Lib Dem voters themselves preferred the prospect of being in coalition again with the Tories (42%) than with Labour (36%)." http://lordashcroftpolls.com/2014/09/liberal-democrat-battleground/" onclick="window.open(this.hre...

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Re the latest 'sex' scandal. Huffington post has an article saying it was a tabloid 'sting'. No one will argue that it's an underhand thing to do...But if it's true, how stupid of the MP to fall for it. You'd think common sense cause him to be wary especially with the recent nude celebrities hackin...

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I'm highly amused that Grant Shits is trying to tar Reckless as a liar. Coming from him, it sounds like a cross between envy and the sort of spite that ex's have once they've been dumped.

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In alphabetical order... Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out. Broadcast - Haha sound. Cardiacs - A little man and a house and the whole world window. Cocteau Twins - Victorialand. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust. Funkadelic - Free your ass and your mind will follow. Joy Division - Closer...

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Sorry and please forgive. As a "lady" I should't be asked, let alone ask. But: I am interested to know ages of members here - it does affect how one relates to people, ie, what they remember. My name is a slight abbreviation of my name at "the other place", which I coined a litt...

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http://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/nick-ferrari/516253/Nick-Ferrari-Beware-Ed-Miliband-s-promises Even for the Express this seems to have been written by someone who is ten. an unblinking, die-hard minority of the electorate who clearly see us all in the future wearing boiler suits, riding...

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Another thought about prospective MPs. There are plenty of people who are happy to slag off Labour for having trade union sponsored MPs (well actually for having any vestige of a link to ordinary working people), but it shouldn't be forgotten that most trade union MPs have to earn the sponsorship th...

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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/28/how-passion-purged-politics-ordinary-people-labour-conference Veh good. I'd go as far as to say one of the best political articles I've read in a long time. I know the Labour party reasonably well, and can attest that the further up the greasy pole pe...

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Veh good.

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Just added this to Features and Analysis Timeline: Credit crunch to downturn http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7521250.stm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Interesting reading Alistair Darling's "Back from the Brink" has an excellent account of the whole sorry mess. A def...

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From the Observer, regarding Brooks Nomark: "Newmark, who studied at Harvard and Oxford, is on the board of the Harvard Alumni Association and co-founded Women2Win, which encourages women into politics and public service. He has written several papers on government debt, including Simply Red: t...

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Marr was disgraceful this morning. I was struck by how easy a time he gave Cameron, allowing him to sloganise and propagandise to his heart's content. No difficult questioning, instant acceptance of anything Cameron said. No incredulity regarding the latest plan to further cut benefits for the worst...

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@Ernst - any thoughts ? will she be good for Labour? (and Tottington) Cllr Tamoor Tariq ‏@TamoorT · 4 mins Pleased @TottingtonJude will be the prospective local election candidate for Redvales in May 2015! She'll be ace! Christ, I'm surprised you're following! Yes. She's good. She's very, very good...

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So, are the Guardian going to come out for kippers? Point-scoring not pint-sinking at Ukip conference As energy and conviction drains from main political conferences, some of it is flowing into Nigel Farage’s ragged insurgency http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/26/point-scoring-ukip-confe...

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PorFavor wrote:Goodnight, everyone.

And - thank you.

Goodnight PF, it's a pleasure to mod here and to try to make t'interwebs a slightly nicer place to be. Sleep well, wke up energised and have a marvelous weekend. And that extends to all FTNers, and our (non spammy) guests....

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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:
PorFavor wrote:Goodnight, everyone.

And - thank you.
Maybe Refitman and Ernst could rustle up Goodnight button next

You're havin' a fuckin' laugh mate.

Were we UKIP I'm sure I could sort out a belming button.

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There is a way to directly link the 'Thanks' button to the posts they were clicked on. I will have a look when I get home. Dan - I think it's the ACP under .mods, "List thanks in post". I can enable it now and set the max figure for thanks from 10 to about 40-50. Was that what you were th...

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ohsocynical wrote:Looking at Who's Online, do we have a couple more spammers hanging around?

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If genuine, then apologies.

Oh dear, I appear to have deleted them.

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Agree. It's a much-missed facility. I used to (mis)use the thanks button here as a "recommend" substitute (and for other purposes - a sort of catch-all) but I don't think it was ideal as a "recommend" substitute. 'Thank' is better than nothing, but it doesn't allow that direct l...

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John Rentoul retweeted Isabel Hardman ‏@IsabelHardman · 36s In a press briefing after his speech, Farage conceded that the party wasn't going to win in Heywood. Post with that and other lines shortly Fingers crossed... I expect them to poll well in H&M, perhaps come second. Did I mention that t...

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I try not be too partisan, I like to think I realise there are numbskulls aplenty on Labour's benches too. I also try to realise that not every area in the country is like mine, working class, where now people travel to work rather than it being on their doorstep. In short there are different demog...

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As someone who's permanently banned from the Graun's comments system, none of what I've read above comes as any great surprise. I've been sadly nodding my head in agreement at each new post. When I was banned (or, rather, had my ability to comment 'suspended' as they so euphemistically termed it), I...

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Temulkar wrote:Morning, I see we have a spammer again today.

Not now we don't...

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Well, for once, I get to say good night to everyone. My wife grew up in New Zealand, and she tells me that the Kiwi in his nightgown used to shuffle round his (cartoon) house at NZ bedtime (which I presume from her relating was about 10pm) pulling plugs out of the wall prior to donning a night cap a...

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Britain Elects is tweeting a ComRes poll: Best party on the cost of living (ComRes): LAB - 28% CON - 19% UKIP - 9% LDEM - 5% (DK) - 39% Best party to manage the NHS (ComRes): LAB - 29% CON - 20% UKIP - 9% LDEM - 7% (DK) - 35% Best party on housing (ComRes): LAB - 28% CON - 18% UKIP - 8% LDEM - 5% (...

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Rather partisan piece from Michael Crick, not many ''impartial'' commentators even pretend these days do they? http://blogs.channel4.com/michael-crick-on-politics/ukip-win-byelection-labour/4403" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Like Ernst's and AAW's view on this? My first i...

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A good read - though I've not strayed BTL yet (I just know what it'll be like there...):

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Harry Leslie Smith's speech about illness during the twenties reminded me of my mum. When she was 64 she had a massive heart attack...The doctors asked her if she'd ever been diagnosed with rheumatic fever as a child because her heart showed signs of it. She told them she was eighteen the very firs...

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I'm probably off to Heywood & Middleton in the next day or two. Apparently, UKIP are busing in people from all over Lincolnshire and Surrey to try to swing it. I can't see it happening, but we've been asked to help and as the neighbouring constituency, it would be very rude not to. I presume tha...

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Night PF. Dear Mr Button Monkey ....... I suspect the issues we have with each other is frustration and a lack of understanding of each other's position. What you've put into words this afternoon makes great sense, not really much I disagree with in there; but ....... I didn’t mean to say there’s n...

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Afternoon. As some of you may know, I lurk here but seldom post. Having noticed myself being discussed, though, I wanted to stand up for my good name (ha ha) – more honestly, I wanted to say a couple of things. Not because I’ve a problem if we disagree (or even if we don’t always have a high opinio...

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I apologise for my language earlier, but basically that does it. The Graun is officially dead to me. I had been largely boycotting the paper since I stopped commenting, but somehow I always thought things would get better and I would go back. I now know that was foolish, there is no way back and it...

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Apols to FO for deleting the duplicate thread - one of you had to go!

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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/22/labour-discovering-how-tough-deliver-political-fizz-miliband-fragmented-groups" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I'm not usually one for Polly Toynbee's version of the world, as something generally goes astray between her th...

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