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- Sat 18 Apr, 2020 9:42 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th April 2020
- Replies: 91
- Views: 21942
Re: Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th April 2020
@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...
- Sat 18 Apr, 2020 8:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th April 2020
- Replies: 91
- Views: 21942
Re: Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th April 2020
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 ...
- Sat 18 Apr, 2020 9:56 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th April 2020
- Replies: 91
- Views: 21942
Re: Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th April 2020
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...
- Mon 24 Dec, 2018 11:30 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 24th December 2018 - Christmas Eve.
- Replies: 58
- Views: 12021
Re: Monday 24th December 2018 - Christmas Eve.
Hello everyone.
Just popping in to wish you all the very best of the season.
Happy Christmas.
Just popping in to wish you all the very best of the season.
Happy Christmas.
- Wed 21 Mar, 2018 8:19 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 21st March 2018
- Replies: 47
- Views: 11070
Re: Wednesday 21st March 2018
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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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!
)
- Tue 27 Feb, 2018 7:43 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 27th February 2018
- Replies: 72
- Views: 12259
Re: Tuesday 27th February 2018
Good morning to you too, Refitman and all here.refitman wrote:Morning all.
Just popped in to say thank you for your comments on WNTT yesterday.
Much appreciated
- Thu 25 Jan, 2018 7:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th January 2018
- Replies: 122
- Views: 31552
Re: Thursday 25th January 2018
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...
- Thu 25 Jan, 2018 7:12 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th January 2018
- Replies: 122
- Views: 31552
Re: Thursday 25th January 2018
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 ...
- Thu 25 Jan, 2018 6:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th January 2018
- Replies: 122
- Views: 31552
Re: Thursday 25th January 2018
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...
- Sun 24 Dec, 2017 8:07 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 23rd to Wednesday 27th December 2017
- Replies: 365
- Views: 68783
Re: Saturday 23rd to Wednesday 27th December 2017
Hello Nesters!
Just popped in to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year.
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Just popped in to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year.
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- Wed 01 Nov, 2017 12:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 1st November 2017
- Replies: 122
- Views: 36448
Re: Wednesday 1st November 2017
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...
- Mon 25 Sep, 2017 5:15 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 25th September 2017
- Replies: 200
- Views: 63900
Re: Monday 25th September 2017
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...
- Tue 25 Jul, 2017 3:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 15 July 2017
- Replies: 242
- Views: 112744
Re: Tuesday 15 July 2017
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...
- Thu 13 Jul, 2017 10:52 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 13th July 2017
- Replies: 105
- Views: 44186
Re: Thursday 13th July 2017
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...
- Thu 13 Jul, 2017 9:48 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 13th July 2017
- Replies: 105
- Views: 44186
Re: Thursday 13th July 2017
@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...
- Thu 13 Jul, 2017 9:16 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 13th July 2017
- Replies: 105
- Views: 44186
Re: Thursday 13th July 2017
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...
- Wed 07 Jun, 2017 9:56 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 7th June 2017
- Replies: 141
- Views: 55902
Re: Wednesday 7th June 2017
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...
- Wed 07 Jun, 2017 8:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 7th June 2017
- Replies: 141
- Views: 55902
Re: Wednesday 7th June 2017
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...
- Wed 03 May, 2017 7:23 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 3rd May 2017
- Replies: 147
- Views: 47362
Re: Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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...
- Wed 25 Jan, 2017 6:55 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 25th January 2017
- Replies: 236
- Views: 58016
Re: Wednesday 25th January 2017
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...
- Wed 25 Jan, 2017 5:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 25th January 2017
- Replies: 236
- Views: 58016
Re: Wednesday 25th January 2017
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...
- Sat 24 Dec, 2016 3:08 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Christmas Weekend. Sat 24th - Tues 27th December
- Replies: 150
- Views: 39064
Re: Christmas Weekend. Sat 24th - Tues 27th December
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.
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.
- Fri 09 Sep, 2016 6:55 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 9th September 2016
- Replies: 99
- Views: 31781
Re: Friday 9th September 2016
Before I log out for good - thank you to Refitman and lovely Paul for keeping this place going for so long. I appreciate it.
- Fri 09 Sep, 2016 6:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 9th September 2016
- Replies: 99
- Views: 31781
Re: Friday 9th September 2016
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.
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.
- Fri 09 Sep, 2016 12:49 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 9th September 2016
- Replies: 99
- Views: 31781
Re: Friday 9th September 2016
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 ...
- Fri 02 Sep, 2016 5:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 2nd September 2016
- Replies: 131
- Views: 33331
Re: Friday 2nd September 2016
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...
- Mon 29 Aug, 2016 11:19 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank holiday weekend: 27th, 28th & 29th August
- Replies: 124
- Views: 31330
Re: Bank holiday weekend: 27th, 28th & 29th August
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...
- Tue 23 Aug, 2016 3:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd August 2016
- Replies: 196
- Views: 48066
Re: Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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...
- Tue 23 Aug, 2016 3:02 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd August 2016
- Replies: 196
- Views: 48066
Re: Tuesday 23rd August 2016
What an unpleasant place this is today.
- Tue 23 Aug, 2016 11:09 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Owen Smith leadership
- Replies: 151
- Views: 24215
Re: Owen Smith leadership
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...
- Tue 23 Aug, 2016 7:27 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Owen Smith leadership
- Replies: 151
- Views: 24215
Re: Owen Smith leadership
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...
- Sun 21 Aug, 2016 7:04 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend Edition - Sat.20th.August/Sun.21st.August 2016
- Replies: 291
- Views: 60843
Re: Weekend Edition - Sat.20th.August/Sun.21st.August 2016
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 ...
- Sun 21 Aug, 2016 5:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend Edition - Sat.20th.August/Sun.21st.August 2016
- Replies: 291
- Views: 60843
Re: Weekend Edition - Sat.20th.August/Sun.21st.August 2016
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...
- Sun 21 Aug, 2016 4:04 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend Edition - Sat.20th.August/Sun.21st.August 2016
- Replies: 291
- Views: 60843
Re: Weekend Edition - Sat.20th.August/Sun.21st.August 2016
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...
- Sun 21 Aug, 2016 3:42 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend Edition - Sat.20th.August/Sun.21st.August 2016
- Replies: 291
- Views: 60843
Re: Weekend Edition - Sat.20th.August/Sun.21st.August 2016
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...
- Sun 21 Aug, 2016 11:42 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend Edition - Sat.20th.August/Sun.21st.August 2016
- Replies: 291
- Views: 60843
Re: Weekend Edition - Sat.20th.August/Sun.21st.August 2016
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...
- Sun 21 Aug, 2016 11:33 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend Edition - Sat.20th.August/Sun.21st.August 2016
- Replies: 291
- Views: 60843
Re: Weekend Edition - Sat.20th.August/Sun.21st.August 2016
Here we go again. Too boring.
Have a nice day.
Have a nice day.
- Sun 21 Aug, 2016 11:32 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend Edition - Sat.20th.August/Sun.21st.August 2016
- Replies: 291
- Views: 60843
Re: Weekend Edition - Sat.20th.August/Sun.21st.August 2016
Not really.pk1 wrote:Blimey, there are times when this place rivals twitter for crap. It's rapidly becoming meme central.
- Sat 20 Aug, 2016 1:27 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend Edition - Sat.20th.August/Sun.21st.August 2016
- Replies: 291
- Views: 60843
Re: Weekend Edition - Sat.20th.August/Sun.21st.August 2016
I am watching Olympic canoeing.
Those men have AWESOME shoulders.
Those men have AWESOME shoulders.
- Sat 20 Aug, 2016 10:53 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend Edition - Sat.20th.August/Sun.21st.August 2016
- Replies: 291
- Views: 60843
Re: Weekend Edition - Sat.20th.August/Sun.21st.August 2016
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...
- Sat 20 Aug, 2016 10:16 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend Edition - Sat.20th.August/Sun.21st.August 2016
- Replies: 291
- Views: 60843
Re: Weekend Edition - Sat.20th.August/Sun.21st.August 2016
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 ...
- Sat 20 Aug, 2016 8:59 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend Edition - Sat.20th.August/Sun.21st.August 2016
- Replies: 291
- Views: 60843
Weekend Edition - Sat.20th.August/Sun.21st.August 2016
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...
- Fri 19 Aug, 2016 7:09 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 19th August 2016
- Replies: 105
- Views: 25235
Re: Friday 19th August 2016
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...
- Fri 19 Aug, 2016 7:08 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 19th August 2016
- Replies: 105
- Views: 25235
Re: Friday 19th August 2016
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...
- Fri 19 Aug, 2016 5:39 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 19th August 2016
- Replies: 105
- Views: 25235
Re: Friday 19th August 2016
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...
- Fri 19 Aug, 2016 2:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 19th August 2016
- Replies: 105
- Views: 25235
Re: Friday 19th August 2016
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...
- Fri 19 Aug, 2016 1:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 19th August 2016
- Replies: 105
- Views: 25235
Re: Friday 19th August 2016
JonnyT1234 wrote: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.yahyah wrote:Why should Hugo be banned ?
LegalBeagle? Judge Dreadful? CircumbendibusAeternum?
- Fri 19 Aug, 2016 11:55 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 19th August 2016
- Replies: 105
- Views: 25235
Re: Friday 19th August 2016
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...
- Fri 19 Aug, 2016 11:52 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 19th August 2016
- Replies: 105
- Views: 25235
Re: Friday 19th August 2016
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...
- Fri 19 Aug, 2016 11:32 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 19th August 2016
- Replies: 105
- Views: 25235
Re: Friday 19th August 2016
Someone who has left. I know this because he emailed me off piste. And no, I won't say who it is.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Who, exactly, has been calling for SH to be banned? Just asking........