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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:How about the Greens? Are they left wing in your scheme?

No the Greens are not left wing.

They are an environmental party, people who confuse them with socialists are wrong.

Some of their policies are left wing, but understandably their priority is planet not people.

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I'm suspicious. Cameron offers unfunded tax cuts to bribe the electorate (or hopefully not). The Lib Dems say there's no way they can work with Miliband, then say there will have to be income tax rises in the next Parliament. Anyone see a lovely Rose Garden compromise here? Cameron promises tax cut...

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A possible explanation here is that YouGov (I think uniquely amongst major pollsters now) counts *all* those who express a voting preference. So the Tories may have picked up some "soft" support following their conference, but it doesn't survive "certainty to vote" filters? Ashc...

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Clueless BT 4G network concept turns out to be clueless..... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/telecoms/11142047/BT-mobile-network-hit-by-technical-hurdles.html There is a reason mobile networks are designed very differently to WiFi networks. There are two re...

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Bloody hell, that article about Labour's plan unravelling has brought tout the usual bunch of liars. Rochdale A&E closing in 2011 was on Labour's watch apparently. Unfortunately the poster - calling himself FactualEvidence (sic) - can't bring himself to admit that he was wrong. Oh, and rusty's ...

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tinyclanger2 wrote:But they are still scum.

Oh yes, there are peer reviewed papers that prove it.

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Patrick Wintour ‏@patrickwintour 2m2 minutes ago Lib Dems defining largest party as one with most votes, not seats, makes coalition 2.0 with DC easier. http://gu.com/p/426yv/tw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; via @guardian Complete scum. The lot of them. Can I just point ou...

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Off topic - and non political. Is there another game on the planet as hard to watch at a stadium than Baseball? A typical game lasts 9 innings and takes 3-4 hours. The problem is that when teams are all square after 9 they play until one team is ahead at the end of a set of innings. Last night in a ...

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So, no big Labour campaign after that week of rubbish from the Tories? Not good enough. There are times I think that Labour have a masterplan, don't be unduly worried, but then I see no fight back, when one is needed i wonder, Osborne's and Cameron's speech should be attacked like a terrier going f...

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Peter Preston ‏@PJPrest 22m22 minutes ago Just scanning Gdn reader comments on LibDem leader wondering sadly where all the hate and forgetfulness come from http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/03/editorial-liberal-democrat-conference" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ...

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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100288608/ed-miliband-is-toast-and-he-has-been-for-a-long-time/ DFH salivates over David Cameron's "barnstorming conference speech". Basically DFH says Cameron will win because the polls are wrong. The lib dem vote will rise and the UKIP vote wi...

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If it's in the Beacons, no worries, I live there, I'm not scared of sheep. ;) Which makes you braver than my horse. Aahh but make sure your horse isn't faking. I had a really naughty boy once, he would pretend to be scared of something if I was riding him, something else if someone else was riding ...

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Hi 51A and other newcomers (proper ones, not those selling knock off DVDs or cosmetics or whatever it is they do), very nice to have you on board. Apologies for the silliness today. NickRobinson is not really Nick Robinson, it was me, sorry. I don't usually sock puppet myself I'm shocked. I don't b...

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Gosh, thanks for all the responses. I can't access at work so I have no idea what happens here or at the Graun daytime. Feel a bit silly and over-sensitive now. :) Don't sweat it. You've passed the first part of the initiation; the next bit is the email from the mods telling you the co-ordinates of...

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I'm pleased that we've got new posters here - rather than the spambots we've been getting - but I get a horrible feeling that the political antennae of the newest posters isn't quite as sharply developed as some of the more established contributors. I think it is difficult for some of us Newbies: F...

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This has nothing to do with politics. We've had to take one of the dogs to the vets today ... weeing in her bed at night and drinking an awful lot. (Think she'll be OK - not clear what it is yet - but we're hoping it's not serious and we won't be taking an incontinent dog with us when we do our ver...

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Sunny Hundal ‏@sunny_hundal · 3 mins3 minutes ago God. ISIS have released a video beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning. Identify US hostage Peter Kassig as next. (via @rcallimachi) Bad people do bad things. In my view the only way to deal with this is ignore it and move on. Mexican drug car...

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AngryAsWell wrote:Express and Mail celebrate the end of Human Rights, humanity despairs

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Not for the first time - the Mail speaks. Hurrah for the Blackshirts.

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refitman wrote:
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Osborne - business to speak up about markets. Redwood - business to shut up about Europe. WTF.

So if you are a business wanting to talk about European markets do you step up or shut up? Very confusing.

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Can somebody tweet

Osborne - business to speak up about markets. Redwood - business to shut up about Europe. WTF.

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Fair play to Grayling, he has just killed off the left wing protest vote at the GE and moved it back into a Labour tactical vote.

Vote Labour or lose your human rights - a fairly clear dividing line between the parties.

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What happened to Labour's "rapid rebuttal" strategy (re the Conservative Conference)? I haven't seen much of it in evidence - unless there's just the (usual) dearth of coverage in the press. A bit of aggressive but accurate "rudeness" might alter that situation. If Dominic Griev...

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Look if I don't watch question time because it is wankery (and I am a political junkie) then I would suggest very few people do. The number of floating voters who watch it likely to be zero. Turn it off, Tigers @ Orioles is a cracking game. Just struck me as rather stupid comment to make by an audi...

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Fair point. I have nearly identical sporting tastes to Weird Ed Miliband. He just follows the wrong team. My son emailed me and asked me for the password to BT sport as he wanted to watch the very same game... It is a great game 2-3 top of 3rd. It helps that the ground is absolutely tiny. If the ba...

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Audience at political debate show talking about lack of political engagement.......:roll: Look if I don't watch question time because it is wankery (and I am a political junkie) then I would suggest very few people do. The number of floating voters who watch it likely to be zero. Turn it off, Tiger...

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Audience at political debate show talking about lack of political engagement.......:roll: Look if I don't watch question time because it is wankery (and I am a political junkie) then I would suggest very few people do. The number of floating voters who watch it likely to be zero. Turn it off, Tiger...

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Temulkar wrote:Is Northampton full of idiots?

It is a bit of an odd place. Not sure if it is full of idiots though.

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Share in the last election: 2010 Share LAB 40.11% CON 27.16% LIB 22.71% OTH 7.39% UKIP 2.63% http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/conlist_f_k.html#HeywoodandMiddleton" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I was thinking of the last constituency poll, which I think had the Tories on...

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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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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 corr...

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AngryAsWell wrote: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?

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Here's the link http://jackofkent.com/2014/10/exclusive-tory-proposals-for-bill-of-rights/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; oh apparently it's embargoed. Does that mean I should delete the quote? Or are we like him OK? This got me "People who do not fulfil their respons...

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And to cheer everybody up a little

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... conference

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Tubby Isaacs wrote:Not a member, but looks v interesting.

Credit Rating (S&P) says EU referendum biggest threat to rating, and seems unconcerned by Labour spending £28bn a year more.

Very good spot PK.

Can somebody tweet the link to Sparrow and for a laugh Owen Jones.

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Did I mention I'm off to see Ed tomorrow? How 8-) is that ... Tell him to replace Ed Balls with Alastair Darling, and to hammer Cameron on uncosted tax cuts and his track record of lies on the NHS. Other than that tell him to keep going, he is a decent man with a reasonable plan. Tell him that you ...

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AngryAsWell wrote:Did I mention I'm off to see Ed tomorrow? How is that ...

Tell him to replace Ed Balls with Alastair Darling, and to hammer Cameron on uncosted tax cuts and his track record of lies on the NHS.

Other than that tell him to keep going, he is a decent man with a reasonable plan.

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Faisal Islam ‏@faisalislam 8m8 minutes ago So I think I just heard @benatipsosmori saying to adam "if Cameron doesn't get a poll lead after this he's stuffed I damn well hope so! But it comes down to policies and the ComRes results on policies are awful for the Tories. So even if they get a po...

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Paul Mason reckons today's speech makes things tricky for Labour because it covered Labours issues. Don't they want him on those issues? Yes they do, Labour would happily take an election fought on the NHS and the cost of living. Cameron has zero credibility on both ( and it doesn't matter how many...

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Still, it remains to be seen how the big circulation Tory papers play it. If it is rapturous joy over "FREE MONEY" - as was the case after the Budget this year - then Tory HQ will feel the gambit has worked. For now..... They will love it and praise it as the most statesman like speech ev...

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Can we tweet Andrew Marr that link.

With something pithy like.

"This is how you are supposed to ask questions of ministers"

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Nick Sutton ‏@suttonnick 1m1 minute ago Govt plans "pretty extraordinary levels of spending cuts" even before tax giveaways - Paul Johnson of @TheIFS #wato ]] Which is why Balls should only have matched them for 1 year. I've been told he did 2 years. Can anyone confirm? One year, not two....

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Thanks to George Eaton for this: ''Osborne on Brown in 2008: If he doesn't explain how it is going to be paid for it isn't a tax cut, it is a complete con'' I reckon by the end of the day that speech will have come apart at the seams? The press pack will praise it to the rafters, but it is empty wa...

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That happened a fair bit, yes. I'm aware that that happened in certain periods of history - but in (say) the 1970s? I'd have thought that the sheer scale of the job would be a limiter. It must have had to be very targeted, surely (in both cases, actually - in the first because it was easier to targ...

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Interesting take on why the Tories are in trouble. http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/09/once-upon-a-time-david-cameron-had-a-story-to-tell-he-needs-to-remember-it-and-tell-it-again/ It is one thing to accept the need for further and faster and deeper cuts in public spending; it is quite...

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This is an amusing but superficial article from Harris.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... mentpage=1

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Disabled Tory Party member pens furious letter to Cameron and Co http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/disabled-tory-party-member-pens-4354236 I feel desperately sorry for this lady's plight and can understand her being taken in by Dave using his little boy Ivan as bait in 2010, but I have this nigg...

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Oh look Beta has its own twitter feed.

https://mobile.twitter.com/GuardianBeta

Maybe we should tweet them.

Congrats on murdering Sparrows blog with your hopeless interface

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DFH reckons Cameron must confront elements in his party tomorrow the same way Neil Kinnock did in 1985, I remember that speech, I was 17 at the time, even now it is electrifying to watch, Kinnock had guts, Cameron doesn't, he will cede more and more to people who will never be happy. Cameron hasn't...

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What did we do before the internet? Open everyone's letters? This always baffles me. Well a lot more people had jobs, because everything took so much longer to do. Knowledge tended to reside with individuals who knew stuff. Where I worked we had shelves of journals and technical publications. You h...

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Morning all. Caught Cameron being interviewed by Naughtie. Enjoyed the question of how upset he would be if we left the EU. You could sense the discomfort at having to say he's pro EU given his anti EU rhetoric. I missed it. Did he ask how 7 day GP services would be paid for? No. He said it would c...

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