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@ephemerid Sorry to hear about your sister. It really is an awful time to be bereaved, whatever the cause of death. All the usual things we rely on to help us through such times have been turned upside down by the lockdown and fear of contagion. I hope you at least are/were able to attend the funer...

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Yes, always good to hear from old comrades (in every sense of that term) Anybody in touch with ohso and yahyah these days? Ohso is active over at Ephe's place. Yahyah I don't know. Would be nice if she dropped in here to show her appreciation of AH, then. I don't know whether she knows yet, AK. We ...

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Hello everyone. I am so sorry to hear about Adrian - he was such a nice man and I'm sure you will all miss him very much. Sending hugs to those who need them. When his wife died, we entered into an email correspondence that went on for some time. We talked about illness a lot, and I told him that wh...

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Hello everyone.

Just popping in to wish you all the very best of the season.

Happy Christmas.

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Good morning, all.

Just a short visit to say thank you for the best wishes, and to let you know I'm back home.
Still very poorly, but grateful for both being in the hospital and being out of it!

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refitman wrote:Morning all.

Good morning to you too, Refitman and all here.

Just popped in to say thank you for your comments on WNTT yesterday.
Much appreciated

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I see. So a post in praise of Tessa Jowell, expressing something I am completely certain she agrees with, is inhumane. I think you're searching for offence to take. Ignorance mistaking itself for virtue. There is a nice quiet board where everyone agrees with one another, and where no disagreeable d...

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Views differ,you could equally argue more important to stay. Indeed, A, you could argue that. As you know, I prefer not to visit very often because I find the way intelligent and pleasant people here are patronised and insulted on a regular basis by just one poster extremely difficult. It makes me ...

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I miss people like Tessa Jowell running the country. No prospect, whatever happens, of them doing so again for decades. I want a government opposed by the Daily Mail and the Morning Star. How fucking dare you use the very serious matter of cancer care to make your snide little digs? You are disgust...

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Hello Nesters!

Just popped in to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year.

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I will concede that this board is not the worst for attempting to make the abuse of women all about the Tories. You can go to another one, where no dissent ever occurs, and it is grim reading over the last few days. You poor little dab, Huge-ego. Maybe, to avoid further emotional trauma, you should...

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Dear Nesters, You appear to be suffering from an infestation of European Green Toad. And not for the first time. Such toads are most definitely Green, and are found all over (pro) Europe. They squat, emanating toxic substances from their warts. Apparently the easiest way to get rid of them is to fre...

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It is the issue of the day, dwarfing everything else. There is another board I know of where more comfortable things are discussed, and where this, the biggest one, is ignored, because uncomfortable. I have pointed out to you on more than one occasion, you arrogant little squirt, that you don't hav...

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Willow - thank you for the reply and your good wishes. Invocation of Article 50 with no exemptions infers leaving the EU and all it's associated agencies - however, it is possible to negotiate some form of inclusion into various EU agencies, and that is not a contradictory position for Labour to hol...

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@Adam @Willow Well why do you think everyone left? Lots of people felt bullied here. Not just me. Willow thanks for replying. You have never been directly aggressive with me, but nor have you EVER that I remember acknowledged that anything I have had to say on Corbyn and Brexit had any validity. Wh...

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And the point about Corbyn is that he very clearly, for a very long time, did not share my view of the EU, so it's very hard to have faith in his ability to represent my point of view. Which is not to say he doesn't represent other people's views or that their views don't deserve being representing...

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Hugo. Don't be a prat all your life. You can take a day off. What I am talking about is not bloody sodding distributional analysis. I am talking about lived experience - including mine. What Labour will do is take some of the fear and shame of being a claimant away by simply doing what I outlined ab...

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Good evening. I would like to try to clear up any confusion about how Labour intends to help the poorest. The Under Occupation Penalty will be abolished. For half a million people, that means an increase in weekly disposable income of at least £12. Benefit sanctions based on jobsearch or workfare tr...

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I agree in principle. But it is a fact that many people have been driven away by Hugo (though, to be fair, not him alone). If he doesn't intend that, that's one thing; if he does it's another. How can we ever know? Either way I have to confess to a feeling of deflation when I return from work to fi...

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and thank you for posting Ephie. One of the things that has made me 'waspish' is what many of us here felt was the elephant in the room - the person/s coming to pick at people on FTN - and at least it has been made explicit now. The hypocrisy of me being scapegoated as a 'fucking bitch' by some peo...

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I'm just fed up with flouncers flouncing out, then coming back here to earn plaudits from their pals elsewhere for taking on people who are on their hate list. Particularly when they need others to turn up to 'back them up'. :lol: And who think they have a right to demand answers. Good evening, yah...

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Hello everyone.

Just popped in to wish you the compliments of the season.

Whatever our differences, I hope we all wish for a better year in 2017.

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Before I log out for good - thank you to Refitman and lovely Paul for keeping this place going for so long. I appreciate it.

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The "LibDems big win" was on a turnout of 28%.

What that suggests is that people are generally pissed off with politics period. And who can blame them?

As for people who have left here, I think the honours are more than even.

Goodbye.

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To be honest, after last night where Smith told barefaced lies about his previous statements on Prevent and negotiating with ISIS - both of which are on video - I find it truly repugnant that anyone would want to vote for him. His smear about Corbyn and anti-semitism and race was probably the most ...

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Seeingclearly is right - and I am pleased not only that she is here and well enough to post, but also that her sentiments echo mine and others. I have said plenty on the subject of SH and his relentless derailing of threads and general tediousness; people's posts can be ignored, but once the nasty t...

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I've been popping in to see what you're all up to from time to time, and am unsurprised to find the board subject to more nonsense from ORCT. It is not Corbyn who has damaged or is damaging the Labour Party. It is a core of self-obsessed and entitled MPs and the NEC that's doing that. In May 2015, t...

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What an unpleasant place this is today. The links may be misleading and we can just calmly sort it out. I've not investigated the links, if they're wrong, the friends we have here will admit they're wrong. Are we really sure about these links? Have we alternative documentation? Let's just figure ou...

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What an unpleasant place this is today.

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Owen - "We need to listen to the members". Yes. And what they said last year, by a stonking majority, is that they wanted Corbyn for leader. This is the problem - the members spoke, and the heirarchy didn't listen. They're not listening now. And now there are murmurings from Labour MPs tha...

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AAW - when you are queuing at the food bank with hungry kids, the notion of "a Labour party that's electable" doesn't mean much either. The labour movement in this country began with the Industrial Revolution and the likes of the Tolpuddle martyrs - and it changed things. It took another h...

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just been sent a PM by a member here accusing me of appalling behaviour today......oops! I am sorry if I offended anyone but am not apologising for anything I posted to be honest - I thought some people have been here to be disruptive and have said so. It is a bit of a shame as I thought today was ...

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Eph.You are seeing it one way I do not,equally cja,the most undeserving person imagineable was treated appallingly,my judgement is based on my code of decency and nothing else,no better or worse than anybody elses.You clearly took one side and apportioned blame publically.Needless to say I do think...

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Sorry I don't need lectures as to how to behave from anyone. No, you don't. But some could look at how they have been lately and have a little think about it. It seems to me that what's going on out there in the big bad world is affecting us all, and on this board at times there seems to be a colle...

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Well done. Bloody well done. All of you. In 1936, Dale Carnegie published "How to win friends and influence people". Perhaps some of you should read it. howsillyofme - sending you a PM. The rest - I'm taking another break. Just for once, it's not SH's shenanigans that have led to it. pk1 a...

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I am disinclined to pop into the Corbyn/Smith threads because they're about Corbyn/Smith. There's quite enough of that here. Twitter is good for some things. There's a brilliant picture of the Christ the Redeemer statue, overlooking Rio, with his arms up in a "Mo". Class. I'm off to do som...

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Here we go again. Too boring.

Have a nice day.

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pk1 wrote:Blimey, there are times when this place rivals twitter for crap. It's rapidly becoming meme central.

Not really.

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I am watching Olympic canoeing.

Those men have AWESOME shoulders.

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I'm a DWP call handler and have no time to care about your disability claim. https://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2016/aug/20/work-pensions-disability-claim-call-handler-benefits-dwp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Thanks, Toby. I wonder if the person who wrot...

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Morning, howsilly. Elliott rightly gives caveats - but I think he under-estimates what the longer-term impact could be. We have no idea what might happen - plus, of course, we as yet have no idea what the actual Brexit plan is, do we? The 1.4% rise in retail sales in July sits alongside an increase ...

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Morning all. BBC News website - 47% of all households claiming Housing Benefit are in work; the amount of HB paid to private landlords is £9.3 Billion. In 2006, £4.6 Billion was spent on HB for private rentals - the figure has more than doubled in ten years. This comes from a National Housing Federa...

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Thanks to Refitman for okaying this for the Daily thread. No matter how hard you listen it’s impossible to hear the Blairite wing of Labour. They have shut up shop. The Progress website looks like it’s being maintained by interns, while there are no official Progress events being held until the day...

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I think this all has to be decided and discussed but as with all these type of questions there is a kneejerk response on the side of the status quo because any debate is considered 'weakness' or 'cowardice' - this is at the same time as we have seen a massive reduction in our general military capab...

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I'm not particularly enthusiastic about Corbyn or Owen, but appreciate their policies, even if there's little difference between them. My main complaint with Labour leadership is that there's a perceived lack of talent available. Everyone seems to be looking for a perfect candidate, while all possi...

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Anecdotal and just a snap-shot, but: I've spoken to quite a few people, young and older, re the Labour Party leadership contest. Whilst none of them are wildly enthused by Owen Smith they're all wildly un enthusiastic about Jeremy Corbyn (some have always felt that way). But no-one I know who was p...

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JonnyT1234 wrote:
yahyah wrote:Why should Hugo be banned ?
Why bother is a more pertinent question. Given his form at the graun he'd just be back as Trotsky's Crusty Toenail or something within a few hours anyway.

LegalBeagle? Judge Dreadful? CircumbendibusAeternum?

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Ephie - not stocks. or tarring and feathering, how about being made to eat chocolate cake ? I like cake. Far too much. Re, your other post - I have never ever said that I want anyone banned from here, although I am glad that the likes of Rustihappochick aren't around any more. What I object to, and...

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http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/pip-computer-system-crashes-again-twice/ PIP computer system crashes again… twice Thanks, A. It's all pretty shocking. What really bothers me is the fact that the helpline is run by Serco - all new PIP claims are dealt with by Serco. Back in 2012, Serco was in d...

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AnatolyKasparov wrote:Who, exactly, has been calling for SH to be banned? Just asking........

Someone who has left. I know this because he emailed me off piste. And no, I won't say who it is.

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