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Stop trying to delegitimise,belittle others people,situation and views,cheers. Not a fucking game to all of us. statement. It most certainly isn't a game. Which is why anecdotes that are contrary to the overwhelming evidence need to be challenged. If we want to effect change in a democracy we need ...

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Its not mandatory for a leader to resign IMMEDIATELY after losing an election, both Foot and Kinnock carried on for a bit. He will be challenged immediately, even if he tries to hang on. The size of the defeat is going to be immense, and the anger and fury palpable. Pointing to a few percentage poi...

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To be fair,I am sure someone whose syringe driver has stopped working at home prioritises the fact that someone finds out they had their tonsils out when they were seven over any inconvenience over any pain/sickness caused by informational/contact delays. A, there has been almost no info on patient...

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Willow IIRC the rationale for keeping XP was that a lot of very expensive hardware that was otherwise still serviceable would need to go if XP was ditched. It is the failure to patch that is the issue. I am assuming that Microsoft does still have a team they use for various international large IT co...

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Of course patient data isn't accessed It's how the malware attack works, all data is put into an encrypted lock-down Email is regularly used to exchange patient data, scans test results, interdepartmental communication etc., isn't it a matter of what data was gathered before the encrypted lock down...

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Theresa May seems to think (or is at pains to keep saying) that the NHS having not been specifically targeted is some sort of mitigating factor. For negligence? We have had, so far, no news from patients caught up in this, or anyone who might have suffered long term damage as a result. I hope there...

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I'd guess most of you are deliberately avoiding the LBC May phone-in, Ferrari is truly ghastly, but it's worth dipping in to just for May's body language when she's not answering questions from the public. Gurning and squirming with embarrassment. Her megalomania must be off the scale to balance he...

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The NHS attack (which probably wasn't actually aimed at the NHS) should be a wake up call to any government that the head in the sand approach to IT security has to end and central government is going to have to spend real money on properly patched and supported software. This stuff springs from th...

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On the matter of age in politics. Restricting age at the upper end would lead to a general lowering of age in what is considered the "right" age for MPs. I am all for young talent, but can also see that Parliament needs to be made up of a representative cross section of the population. We ...

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There are a few cases where Labour MPs have stayed on for ages because the local party couldn't agree on a successor. The late Syd Bidwell in Southall was one, Ann Clywd may be a contemporary example. As is Roger Godsiff (71 next month) But you can't generalise about these things - Paul Flynn may n...

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There are a few cases where Labour MPs have stayed on for ages because the local party couldn't agree on a successor. The late Syd Bidwell in Southall was one, Ann Clywd may be a contemporary example. As is Roger Godsiff (71 next month) But you can't generalise about these things - Paul Flynn may n...

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If Labour get bashed it will largely be because the Conservative party and their supporters have put huge amiunts of money and influence behind their efforts to remain in power by obscuring what they are really doing by claiming that Labour caused it all. It is a familiar pattern if you have observe...

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I certainly wouldn't claim that bigotry and prejudice have been eliminated from the world. But, if you think racism, sexism and homophobia in Britain are as bad now as in, say, 1975, we'll have to disagree. Not everything gets worse. Social attitudes of tolerance seem to me to have improved. The bi...

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My apologies if overposting, but Hugos incessantly negative posting re: the only real alternative to the manipulative, undemocratic, rights abusing party in power. It is one thing to post about any shortcomings of opposition, it is quite another when they take action that might help to alleviate, to...

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And I disagree that Labour is 'never going to do that again'. There is plenty of evidence that in fact the Labour movement and its ideals are still a very vital part of this nations make up.

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I certainly wouldn't claim that bigotry and prejudice have been eliminated from the world. But, if you think racism, sexism and homophobia in Britain are as bad now as in, say, 1975, we'll have to disagree. Not everything gets worse. Social attitudes of tolerance seem to me to have improved. The bi...

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To be clear, the minimum wage or its odd cousin that Osborne introduced, which I have forgotten the name of as few seem to be using it, means very little in a climate of zero hours contracts, highly mobile work where workers are expected to foot the bill for transport and delivery of various service...

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So a country that voted for Brexit and supports a Government in 2015 who proposed reducing spending to a level not seen since the 30s and is carrying on privatizing everything it can whilst cutting payments to the poor and disabled is not moving things to the right? Oh and the rise of acceptable na...

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Labour shouldn't be looking at the 'centre' as it is now. The centre is far to the right of where it was before 2010! Labour policies are left of centre.....compared to 2017 definitions. Compared to 97 they aren't particularly I don't think this is true, really. Things haven't all moved to the righ...

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Fuck all to do.with the wing thing,the now lauded had horrendous eugenicistic/rascist views. Have to say reading of IDS comment on low value, low skill 'unwanted' people, put me right back into eugenicist/racist territory, actually isn't that what we have now co existing with what we assume to be r...

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HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... until-2022

Theresa May pledges above-inflation rise in defence spending until '22

Of course she does, the logical thing to do, innit.

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Big non-Brexit prediction for post election. If May gets desired result. Vouchers and a widening definition of 'benefits'. See UC.

Add to lists of reasons not to undermine Labour. (All iterations, but especially current.)

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AK, 'very real concerns' can arouse a lot of different reactions. Same cause, different conclusions. Freedom of movement for many already an issue under discussion for several years, as have none. Involuntary house arrest now a rapidly materialising reality, some advocate retrofitting wheelchairs, s...

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Isn't there something in our national anthem or something about "scatter our enemies" ? Except that this time round we are the enemy. Mostly non-Brexit loving, centre left thinking people who value human rights, etc., etc. WE are now painted as the enemy. All of us, not just corbynites, it...

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For those mooting tea based transfusions. Watch out for those wily tea producing nations who are based in the regions who have just signalled no deal for at least six years after brexit. Your life sustaining drug of choice could become scarce. And unreasonably pricy.

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A Labour town councillor, but one who had voted for Brexit and was highly supportive of measures to control immigration, Gabbitas was critical of his own party’s current leadership, adding: “Labour have got no chance with Corbyn being in charge. That man wants us to go back 40 or 50 years when we w...

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To be honest I think the results are as much to do with UKIP liberating people back into a primal unpleasantness that had been at least somewhat restricted by earlier decency, as with whether Jezza is shit or not. Thanks for that concession. At least it makes sense. And acknowledges that Britain ha...

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On a day like today you might think that is trivial, I have no idea where you get that from. I don't think that in any way at all. You say it went away in the 70s, No. I said it found expression in the conservative party at the end of the 70s, as UKIP's poisonous ideas are finding expression in the...

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Happy to exchange pedantries. ;) You mean the latent tendencies within the tory party and their supporters has gone mainstream? It never wasn't there..... but these days anyone can say anything, no constraints on anything left. Well yes and no. I don't disagree with you, but I meant that a lot of U...

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Ukips wiped out. That is good. And this is still true, locals are not a good guide of national vote https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/05/01/why-local-elections-are-not-useful-indicators-nati/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; They haven't been wiped out, they've just gone underg...

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In other news... Poor pupils with same SATs as richer peers do worse in grammar schools test http://schoolsweek.co.uk/poor-pupils-with-same-sats-as-richer-peers-do-worse-in-grammar-schools-test/ Poorer pupils with the same SATs score as their wealthier peers are much less likely to pass the 11-plus...

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Ukips wiped out. That is good. And this is still true, locals are not a good guide of national vote https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/05/01/why-local-elections-are-not-useful-indicators-nati/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; They haven't been wiped out, they've just gone underg...

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HindleA wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05 ... k-reveals/

"documents reveal that the number of NHS patients waiting longer than 18 weeks for surgery is forecast to double in two years."

8 months here. "Urgent."

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Apologies, as you see got here a bit late for the main action. Rare foray into spring sunshine yesterday. And will be included in the ballot t/m come hell or high water.

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@howsilly sent you a PM as Lenny has gone missing. He never arrived here. I suspect the worst. Probably took a wrong turn at Glapwell and is now packing shirts for Sports Direct at Shirebrook without a feather to his name. He has been out on manoeuvres, lets just say the Maymobile is looking a bit...

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tinyclanger2 wrote:Johnson - Midwich Cuckoos
May - Dr Who and the Daleks

Others?

Not the same genre but I'll raise you - Dementor

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http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/theresa-may-european-politicians-general-election-trumps-playbook-a7716166.html True, she may be consciously following the Donald Trump playbook instead. That dictates that, when in a tight corner, you calculatedly attack the media or make up some half-baked cons...

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Goodbye, Saxa. Sad to pass on the news of the passing of this great musician. He was still going strong a couple of days ago and present at a local gig. A Brummie through and through, and a genuinely lovely and unforgettable man. There will be many stories shared on the morrow, as people celebrate h...

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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/02/man-who-campaigned-against-cut-in-widowed-parents-allowance-dies Man who campaigned against cut in widowed parent's allowance dies Father of two’s death weeks after changes came into force means his family is entitled to £50,000 less than if he had di...

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HindleA wrote:Not wheelchair accessible

Looks likes a portaloo with pretensions to me.

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I'm watching Sayeeda Warsi on BBC2's "The Daily Politics". She's coming across as quite reasonable. What worries me is that the Conservative Party is now stampeding so far towards the authoritarian far right that maybe I'm just viewing her skewed through that lens. Setting aside that worr...

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AnatolyKasparov wrote:In further light relief, Paul "4 per cent" Nuttall has apparently compared himself to Mahatma Gandhi

I'd love to see him in a dhoti.
Especially on a day like today.

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Afternoon all. Back from an all morning meeting at school. Toby Young‏Verified account @toadmeister 23m23 minutes ago More The Public Accounts Committee report is Labour propaganda, pure and simple Should the CEO of a so-called "politically independent charity" get so wound up about a rep...

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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/26/old-disabled-people-homecare-micro-providers-somerset Older people want to be cared for at home. Micro-providers are the answer A scheme in rural Somerset has plugged the social care gap for 700 people and could be a model for the rest of the UK Inter...

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The Public Accounts Committee report, Local support for people with a learning disability, says greater focus is needed on measuring outcomes and improvements to quality of life. Money must follow patients to pay for support in the community "However, more needs to be done to address known bar...

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'a long-term solution' ? Don't even joke. For some of us it seems to be here already. I am thinking of disposing of net curtains altogether. Not always a lack of income for many, you understand. Care being far more than that. Especially their version. It is a bigger issue than most people think.

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HindleA wrote:They haven't ducked the issue,they've made it worse.

In terms of being in crisis, they have created it.

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Afternoon, folks, Taking great pleasure in the misfortune/sadness in others with a particular penchant for targeted deliberate kicking when known down -first two words,is the action of a grade one arse. Speaking of arses, did anyone listen to the outrageous interview on R5L a few minutes ago? BBC h...

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Like removing a plaster, one quick shock, though painful, may be better than the slow drawn out agony we had been going through. Sticking plaster not what is needed, the whole country is like a festering sore. It doesn't need covering up. The antithesis of 'making things better'. So what about the ...

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HindleA wrote:Quick but brutal,now sunny,clear.

Sudden sleety prelude here. With thunder.
Very very dark.

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