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I think I've gone from "not here for a while" to "shouting too much". I'll let you get on with it for a while, I think. Sorry for going on.

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One of the he things I like about this site compared to, say, the Graun, is we at least attempt to address things others have said. Rather than, you know, just dismiss others as trolls or whatever. I wasn't dismissing you for trolling, i was praising your ability to do so when it suits you. Any com...

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Not sure where this idea of "gesture politics" suddenly became so popular from. Suddenly opposing things by opposing them is written off as a gesture. I kind of thought it was, well, politics. It seems a little like anyone actively doing anything someone else doesn't like is a gesture. Wh...

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I'm not sure I like being a Committee Chair. Is it possible to be permanently set to backbencher? It's kind of my natural level... Bob on an orange bra and do a quick line and you should return to the back benches pretty quickly ;-) I dunno. If I do that, I might equally end up as Chancellor of the...

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Whatever else there is to be said against him, Cameron clearly does like the Smiths https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sitAQkQFCBU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; As for Corbyn, he won't be leader in 2020 even if elected. There are only around 20 members of the PLP who would wan...

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I'm not sure I like being a Committee Chair. Is it possible to be permanently set to backbencher? It's kind of my natural level...

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On the EU: firstly, I, for one, feel somewhat differently about it after what happened with Greece. I've always been a qualified supporter of it, but now I can't help but wonder if it's time to need to be reconvinced. If they had a referendum tomorrow, I'd probably vote No - and that's a first for ...

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On the EU: firstly, I, for one, feel somewhat differently about it after what happened with Greece. I've always been a qualified supporter of it, but now I can't help but wonder if it's time to need to be reconvinced. If they had a referendum tomorrow, I'd probably vote No - and that's a first for m...

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I suppose it's better than someone like Cameron pretending to like the Smiths.y. Whatever else there is to be said against him, Cameron clearly does like the Smiths https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sitAQkQFCBU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; As for Corbyn, he won't be leader i...

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What depresses me about the election is that it's being run as an election at all. I'm constantly being asked for 'donations' to the various leader or deputy leader's campaigns, as if plutocracy should determine who is the leader of the labour party - Kinnock "The Labour Party!" /Kinnock ...

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Whilst trying to compose a coherent answer to your question I rambled through subsequent posts. Imagine ? Blimey. That should be enough for anyone. However - I think it's that he has too many loose ends (eg the EU), and I'm not entirely happy about some of his back catalogue. He's not clear on what...

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Downsides of Corbyn? He has some views on foreign policy which I genuinely find somewhat simplistic (if well intentioned in most cases) How could he form a shadow cabinet? Or tame a generally discontented PLP? (that is by no means all his fault btw, but still a real thing) Complete lack of front be...

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Afternoon, all. I've kept a low profile since the election - not only has it been A Funny Few Months, but also The Other Place was over-run with gloating and nonsense. Also, I know my own shouting from and about the left has not always been the same as consensus-building . I'll mouth off about Kend...

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Afternoon, all. I've kept a low profile since the election - not only has it been A Funny Few Months, but also The Other Place was over-run with gloating and nonsense. Also, I know my own shouting from and about the left has not always been the same as consensus-building . I'll mouth off about Kenda...

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It's going to be a l o n g campaign and I've not watched newsnight yet, but seeing tweets like this have knocked 3 stars off Liz Kendall already :( Tom King ‏@tomilo · 13 mins13 minutes ago Liz Kendall says Labour spent too much before the crash. Which doctors and nurses, schools and Surestarts wou...

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If Ummuna or Cooper get the leadership then I'm sure many of us will be asking you what we should do. If that happens, I think that only Farage's resignation will be shorter than my rejoining... Umunna really is a <nerd hat>404 content not found error </nerd hat> in a suit, isn't he? Seriously, tha...

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By the way, I wasn't just venting my "what to do?" despair rhetorically. I genuinely don't know and would value the advice of those around here. mrs. onebuttonmonkey says I should rejoin Labour; I don't know if I've ever felt like I'm about to have less in common with them or less ability ...

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Oh, and by the way - much as I don't like this or agree with the reasons why - Ed did cost some votes. Around here, where a LibDem held his seat, Ed Balls lost his and so forth, I've heard a lot of people saying they didn't like him. People who say they're not party-affiliated found a reason not to...

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Meanwhile, in farce corner:

Nigel Farage withdraws his resignation as Ukip leader after members demand he stays

Nigel Farage’s resignation as Ukip leader did not last long. The party has just sent out this statement from Steve Crowther, the Ukip chairman.

I just give up.

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Oh, and by the way - much as I don't like this or agree with the reasons why - Ed did cost some votes. Around here, where a LibDem held his seat, Ed Balls lost his and so forth, I've heard a lot of people saying they didn't like him. People who say they're not party-affiliated found a reason not to ...

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Fuck. We're screwed. Yeah, I agree with this. The Labour right shouting 'you can't blame the press or the voters' is delusional bullshit. Whoever is in charge, a Labour party that wants to change anything will be shat on over and over again, and the fact is the only time Labour win is when Murdoch ...

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@ onebuttonmonkey Thanks for that. (We'll always have the Edit button . . . won't we?) Shhhh. They might hear you :lol: :lol: :lol: First they came for the edi... oh bugger, it's gone already. Erm... Damn. In other news, everyone here might enjoy this from the Daily Mash: Miliband nasty bad man htt...

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Afternoon all. I was expecting the papers to be furious and demented as polling day approached, but it really has been something to witness the intensity and staggering toxicity of bile they've been flinging. Here we are in a democracy where the press is deliberately and manipulatively substituting ...

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Iain Martin ‏@iainmartin1 10m10 minutes ago The nutty Nat anti-Labour demo in Glasgow is bizarre. They are demonstrating against a party they want to put in power next week. I know these protestors aren't representative of all the SNP ... or I seriously hope they're not ... but the tweets I've now ...

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I don't know, you tell me? It was an ambush question, yes he should have answered it better, but you've had 24 hours to come up with an answer and still can't. That question was unanswerable. It is an integral part of the Big Lie and, you're right, that boil should have been lanced years ago; but f...

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But having and using leverage does not equal having anyone else's interests at heart Neither does it mean they don't. We are in a ludicrous situation where the rest of the country is using the SNP as the kind of football they've used Westminster as, when it suited them. If the people of Scotland ch...

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But having and using leverage does not equal having anyone else's interests at heart Neither does it mean they don't. We are in a ludicrous situation where the rest of the country is using the SNP as the kind of football they've used Westminster as, when it suited them. If the people of Scotland ch...

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Isn't the point not whether he convinced her but whether he sounded convincing to everyone else? I don't know, you tell me? It was an ambush question, yes he should have answered it better, but you've had 24 hours to come up with an answer and still can't. That question was unanswerable. It is an i...

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Is there a good answer to a question like that? If you intend to win an election, yes. Or a good way of not answering it. So I don't disagree that the Tories setting the agenda by appearing to place it in ordinary people's mouths is disingenuous - she does dispute this, by the way, whether that's w...

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There are screen shots of her on BBC programmes. I said in the other place that whether or not the person asking the question is all that they seem is no excuse for not having a better answer. That's the real problem here. Is there a good answer to a question like that? If you intend to win an elec...

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Catherine Shuttleworth is the Director of Get Savvy Marketing Ltd so I doubt very much that she & the BBC Breakfast lady are one & the same. http://companycheck.co.uk/company/05822434/GET-SAVVY-MARKETING-LIMITED/directors-secretaries" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ...

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greg.jpg So here's the idiotic, patronising, contemptuous bullshit that passes for campaigning from the LibDems round my way. I've contacted the MP, Greg Mulholland, to ask him about his record - so far, no reply. Still, who wants to think about that when we've got the same lies we told in 2010 to ...

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AK, I don't think that is true. As soon as the Lib Dems went into coalition the tone of the Graun changed. You know as well as me that there are lots and lots of stupid people writing for the Graun who dislike the compromises government brought and wanted a leftie alternative. The kind of fool who ...

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It was obvious the Graun was going to back Labour, and has been for a few months Corrected ;) AK, I don't think that is true. As soon as the Lib Dems went into coalition the tone of the Graun changed. You know as well as me that there are lots and lots of stupid people writing for the Graun who dis...

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The Guardian's backing... Labour.

I'm gobsmacked.

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I know people dislike this about politics, but one of the key political skills is to be able not to answer any question asked. Whilst I agree, Hugo, that this is one of the "key political skills", it shouldn't be - diplomacy with people is one thing, but there is a huge gap between being ...

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So here's how the election campaign seems to have gone to me today: 1) Tories astroturf a letter (in a way and get it planted on the front page of a national newspaper 2) Press runs reports that Cameron now seems more sincere This Tory campaign really is the worst I've ever witnessed. Why aren't the...

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I needed to read something good & James Meek's article just posted was excellent. 'Who will protect, provide, shelter, build?' Why privatisation is the key to the election For a century, left and right in Britain believed in universal access to education, health and housing. The Thatcher era ch...

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Guess what? Old Boris has responded wonderfully to his besting on Marr with this little gem: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband/11564637/Miliband-could-savage-our-cities-faster-than-any-bomb.html To recap, then: this morning, the Mail and May saying that an SNP/Labour coalition is...

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Guess what? Old Boris has responded wonderfully to his besting on Marr with this little gem: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband/11564637/Miliband-could-savage-our-cities-faster-than-any-bomb.html To recap, then: this morning, the Mail and May saying that an SNP/Labour coalition is ...

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There's a genuine question of whether he's really all that bothered, isn't there? I mean he clearly would not object at all to being PM; probably think it's his by rights. But I've always got the feeling he can't be arsed enough to actually do enough to make it happen. So they'd be swapping "D...

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Edit: double post removed. Connection shenanigans, I'm afraid.

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tinyclanger2 wrote:If Murdoch hates the British Establishment so much that he wants to destroy it, why does he not side with us against them?

Because he hasn't finished using them to help him milk us of all our money yet.

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@ onebuttonmonkey Oh, yes. Certainly Boris Johnson's popularity is much over-stated, especially by the press. And what popularity he has is mainly concentrated in the London area, and I'm not sure that that translates into being "politically" popular, either. I do sometimes wonder whether...

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Watching the clip of Miliband vs. Johnson, and it was very, very telling. Something that lept out at me while watching it (possibly because of all of Cameron's idiotic guff about how fake and inauthentic Miliband is - if only we were all sincere enough to forget which football team we are pretending...

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Tim Montgomerie ن ✔@montie Tory MPs somewhat down on @BorisJohnson's #Marr performance, one telling me: If he wants top job he needs more precision, less bluster 1:02 PM - 26 Apr 2015 Yeah - good luck with that. Boris Johnson is in a difficult position. He's built his public persona on the bluster ...

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OBM, posted at the other place: michaelsylvain 2h ago 57 58 Theresa May's Daily Mail Diary. Sunday, 26th April. 7:00 - Woke up. Got out of bed. Stubbed my toe. I blame Alex Salmond. 7:15 - Started making a cup of tea. What are the chances of being able to make some tea if Labour are dependent on th...

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Seeing as the Tory election campaign has completely and utterly jumped the shark, here's Theresa May's Daily Mail Diary, or: The SNP Ate My Hamster

http://onebuttonmonkey.com/obm/2015/4/2 ... diary.html

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ErnstRemarx wrote:I'm sorry I've not been around for a while. I have some pressing issues that have detained me. Please bear with me and I will come as and when I can. I will probably lurk more than post for a while. Wish me well.

All the best, Ernst.

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Afternoon. I'd missed Cameron's Idiotic Lincoln Bypass SNP Threat gambit, so thanks for that - it's beyond absurd, isn't it? It does make for an excellent punchline. So I've I tidied up a couple of today's earlier rants, added your excellent "what chance of that happening if Labour is dependen...

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