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Tish

Re the argument that a Corbyn win will shift the argument to the left regardless of whether he actually becomes PM or not, I was quite taken with this article on the Telegraph finance section by a right winger terrified of just that. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11776925/A-Corbyn-vic...

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Exaro dropped this overnight http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5624/ken-clarke-police-investigate-second-claim-of-indecent-assault" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; No follow up in any of the mainstream media as far as I can see Thanks Tish. The story link doesn't open proper...

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Exaro dropped this overnight

http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5624/ ... nt-assault" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

No follow up in any of the mainstream media as far as I can see

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Even if Corbyn doesn't win, he's changed the tone of the debate, which must be a good thing. I always thought that if Labour lost that would be the end of the left within the party, that we'd have a succession of Blairite modernisers fighting with each other over who could be most like the Tories. T...

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The thing I find infuriating about these "people should only have the children they can afford" articles is that the writers never actually point out what the reality of such a policy would mean. Option 1 - children left homeless or hungry as a punishment for their parents supposed irresp...

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The thing I find infuriating about these "people should only have the children they can afford" articles is that the writers never actually point out what the reality of such a policy would mean. Option 1 - children left homeless or hungry as a punishment for their parents supposed irrespo...

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I've just read Chuka Umunna's statement over at the Guardian Politics Blog. It's actually the most human-being speak I've heard him utter to date. I'm almost impressed. It's very well worded, and he does come across as a bit more human that usual, but I'm still calling bullshit on it. The idea that...

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CU pulled out! Where are my manners, Morning all. Great news. I wonder why? I would hope that it was because something of his "turn-off factor" had filtered through to him and the Labour Party. Room for one more, then . . . . Becouse he's got no support in the wider party and everybody ap...

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Oh god this is horrible. It looks like the LibDems have totally collapsed and their vote has scattered to the wind. I'm baffled as to why anyone who voted LibDem last time would cross to the Tories now, but looking at the Tooting result that seems to be what has happened. Add UKIP eating into the La...

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SNP deputy leader on ITV just now saying exit poll has to be taken with a pinch of salt. They've had a great night, but its best to be cautious. He also said that under no circumstances would the SNP back the Tories, even if they offer them FFA.

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Just back from my day out with the kids, every third street we walked down seemed to have Labour volunteers out and about, knocking own doors, getting people out. We had a "the election is today" leaflet from them this morning, and another one reminding us that the polls close at ten was w...

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My view, and I hope this is not just wishful thinking, is that Labour will do better than the polls predict, both in England and Scotland. That's because so many large groups of people who do not usually vote have been hit hard and deliberately by the coalition. I'm not sure that polling companies ...

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Ed has done a youtube interview with somebody whose channel is I understand, usually dedicated to beauty tips Whether it's Ed or Lucy Powell or David Axelrod or just the campaign in general, I'm impressed with how Ed has found ways in to different audiences outside the usual 'Westminster bubble' me...

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Out of Clegg's red lines are there any that you feel that Miliband wouldn't go along with? He shouldn't go along with the raising of the personal allowance to £12,500 becouse its been proved again and again that it doesn't benefit the worst off, its just an all puropose tax cut for everyone. But I ...

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Thanks for all the responses to what I said earlier, I didn't have a chance to reply as I went out straight after to take my daughter to see Cinderella at the pictures for a Bank Holiday treat. yahyah - you've never said anything to make me feel uncomfortable, don't worry about that. As I said, I th...

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As only an occasional poster (although an avid reader), I've always thought it wise to steer clear of any internal forum drama, but I would like to say that I've never thought of this forum as exclusively Labour. I've flirted with all kinds of hard left parties over the past twenty years, and I've o...

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So Sky's guess - Con 282, Lab 271, SNP 55, LD 17. Which is Labour government with SNP "support". I guess that assumes Labour lose a load of seats to the SNP, Tories and Labour gain a chunk from the Lib Dems. I think that is possible, although I am not hugely confident I worry about sticky...

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Steve Coogan stars in the last Labour PB, to go out tomorrow:

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I like it, direct, simple and from the heart.

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Good night all. Looking forward to finding out who the Labour endorsement will be from tomorrow. Would rather it was Michael Sheen than Russell Brand tbh. Perhaps it will be a famous and beloved (of Scots) Scot? Goodnight, yahyah. I think it would be hilarious if it was Caroline Lucas 8-) :geek: I ...

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I'm going to spend Thusday out and about with the children, as their school is being used as a polling station. I figure swimming, trip to the library, lunch in Sainsburys and then the park should take my mind off it for the day. Then once they've gone to bed, maybe some horror films so I can try no...

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Meanwhile here's Boris Johnson and his minders being slightly less successful with the ladies, Labour candidate Rupa Huq found herself manhandled away when she tried to have a discussion with the loveable rogue while he was campaigning in London http://www.scoopnest.com/user/BBCNews/5942593015412695...

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Morning all!

You probably all saw this on Twitter last night, but if not, my favourite Milifan video so far:

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Apols for the early morning Bonnie Tyler

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Patrick Wintour ‏@patrickwintour 22m22 minutes ago The June welfare "summer reading paper" from Iain Duncan Smith to the Quad clearly says it comes after a request from the Prime Minister. steve hawkes ‏@steve_hawkes 14m14 minutes ago .. @patrickwintour Simon Hughes "This isn't new n...

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Just watched the Brand interview, then saw this posted underneath "ChirrupForScience 3 minutes ago · Shared publicly I genuinely didn't care enough to vote and I absolutely wasn't going to vote, but I think Ed Miliband has won me over. The Labour manifesto seems pretty good, and the mere fact t...

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The press mewling over Brand is ridiculous. The idea that there is something inherently wrong about being interviewed by Brand, when politicians of all parties line up to go on dross like This Morning or The One Show, and Cameron even signed up for that toe chewingly awful interview with Heat Magazi...

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This is a bit random in regard to what's been posted so far this morning, but I was just wondering, does anyone know what all this talk of English only taxes and EVEL, and the attempts to argue that the SNP shouldn't be allowed to have a part in any new government is having in Wales? The Tories cle...

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Here's an interesting article from Owen Jones on the DUP, and how they are a far more alarming prospect to have in government than the SNP. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/24/snp-dup-democratic-unionist-party-government-tories-anti-scottish-coalition-homophobic" onclick="...

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This is a bit random in regard to what's been posted so far this morning, but I was just wondering, does anyone know what all this talk of English only taxes and EVEL, and the attempts to argue that the SNP shouldn't be allowed to have a part in any new government is having in Wales? The Tories clea...

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I love this, the Torys are apparently trying to pretend that they were deliberately excluded from tonight's debate. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/16/leaders-debate-cameron-not-invited-criticism" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I guess the "we're above this...

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I thought that Farage would come across as the big winner tonight, being the only party of the right while the rest fought amongst themselves for the vote of the left, but he kind of tanked! That bit where he started shouting at the audience and accusing the BBC of a stitch up was just embarrassing....

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This article is a fucking disgrace from the Indy. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/the-one-photo-that-summed-up-the-whole-90minute-bbc-leaders-debate-10183353.html How strange. That is totally not the picture that is trending on social media, the one posted here of Stur...

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I've only just finished watching the debate, what with children and their tea, and their requests for stories, but I thought Ed stormed it. Apart from the last question on coalitions, which turned into a bit of a shoutfest, I thought he came across as the only sensible option. Nicola Sturgeoun wasn'...

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Just had a look at this story on the Mail, the thrilled tone of the article contrasts totally with the comments below. Every single one is negative, pretty much split between the "where are people supposed to live in the future" argument and the "why should housing association tenants...

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That housing association policy is likely to alianate as many voters as it attracts. When the original right to buy came in in the 80s it was popular because so many people lived in council houses and could benefit from it. But nowadays, when in most places its impossible to get a social rent place ...

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rebeccariots2 wrote:
Paul Waugh retweeted
Tamara Cohen ‏@tamcohen 9m9 minutes ago
Protestors shouting 'shame on you' at Clegg
Anyone know what this is about?

Isn't that just an everyday occurrence for Clegg now, wherever he goes, whoever he sees?

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The bit I have put in bold should especially please Roger: Setting up a national primary childcare service The Tories have let down working families by scrapping the legal requirement to provide after-school or breakfast clubs and allowing numbers to fall with only half of parents able to find suit...

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Just seen this from last night, posted by diGriz: "Sky Press Preview, Drip Girl left on chairs in hospital for five hours in tomorrow's Sun. Nothing to link yet but it's damning. [Edit] Due to no free beds, the woman on a drip-feed is draped over three chairs (seemingly in a waiting room) at As...

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Here's an article from Robert Peston looking at how Ed Miliband is looking to junk the past 35 years of economic orthodoxy, and how that makes him more of a Thatcher than a Foot (in terms of radicalism anyway). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32233887" onclick="window.open(this.href);re...

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Here's something to cheer us up, according the the Indy Labour are on course to win over 300 seats, and will therefore be free to tell the SNP where to stick their Full Fiscal Autonomy. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/general-election-2015-tories-switch-to-campaign-pla...

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will shut up now :shock: thanks for listening. Careful Tiny, you'll get a host of Nat online stalkers if you carry on like that. (Am not entirely joking seeing the way some of them behave]. On such matters, Liberal handmaiden Caron Lindsay has been forced to make a weasel apology on trying to out s...

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Here's something to cheer us up, according the the Indy Labour are on course to win over 300 seats, and will therefore be free to tell the SNP where to stick their Full Fiscal Autonomy. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/general-election-2015-tories-switch-to-campaign-plan...

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Owen Jones has pointed out on Twitter that "stabbed in the back" is a fairly well known anti Semitic meme. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; He's getting a lot of "oh woe, how could you sink so low as to sugge...

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mummikins retweeted Tim Shipman ‏@ShippersUnbound 52 mins52 minutes ag0 EXC: Nigel Farage tells Sunday Times six more Tory MPs set to defect to Ukip if Cameron tries another coalition with Lib Dems. How on earth would that work? They'd be elected as Tory and then switch to UKIP a week later? Or we'...

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Am kinda hoping it does get linked to the Lib Dems. Anything that finally showed up what a sanctimonious, two faced bunch of cheats they are would surely be another nail in their coffin. Yeah, memo genuine and leaked by Lib Dems would be best result. It also seems the most likely option. As everyon...

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Is there hope for the Guardian? No, if this is anything to go by. http://www.theguardian.com/discussion/p/4785q" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; And if your wondering why that headline makes no sense, its becouse it said "Three Women Against Four Public Schoolboys"...

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So this Cameron and Miliband only non-debate, do we know who goes 'first'? Does it matter? Cameron's input is probably already scripted. One of my concerns is Cameron going second and attempting to attack Miliband's statements without the 'adjudicator' stepping in. Maybe they should make Cameron si...

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I'm really please that Ed Miliband has decided to take part in the second debate with the smaller parties, I've always thought that the real battle for Labour now is not to take voters off the Tories (I would have thought that the 30% who've stuck with them so far are unlikely to change their mind ...

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I'm really please that Ed Miliband has decided to take part in the second debate with the smaller parties, I've always thought that the real battle for Labour now is not to take voters off the Tories (I would have thought that the 30% who've stuck with them so far are unlikely to change their mind n...

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I've just pinched this verbaitum from Andrew Sparrow's blog, as it's by Tim Montgomerie in the Times so can't be linked to, but I thought it was really interesting: "At a recent Downing Street meeting there was a lively discussion about fine-tuning the Tories’ message on the economy. One partic...

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Sorry for the rant. I think my exasperation with idealistic young people who won't vote Labour because, you know, "Iraq" has been simmering under the surface for a while. If you want to be that idealistic you're gonna have to go live on an island somewhere in the South Pacific and shun th...

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