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tinyclanger2 wrote:
PorFavor wrote: Really just a touch of (possibly misplaced) levity
I often misplace levity.

Perhaps that's why I'm such a miserable get.

It is probably down the back of the sofa, whenever I lose anything it usually ends up there.

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Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 7m7 minutes ago According to new @LordAshcroft marginals polls Brenford & Isl Brighton Kemptown Corby Enfield N Halesowen Hove Ipswich Nuneaton LAB gains These are around 30-40 on Labour's target list so enough to make Labour the largest party. Hove is interesting. E...

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Morning all. Re. the comments about Labour not fighting Rochester and Strood seriously; now the writ has been passed campaigning can start properly. Yesterday I joined with other LP members doorstepping in support of Naushabah Khan; her Twitter profile tells you all you need to know, "Southeast...

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The Republic is a good book as well. Have to confess I have never read it, may have to rectify that. It was on the reading list for an OU Humanities degree I started studying for a few years back, but my finances took a nose dive (it was my stint of single parenthood, with heat or eat worries, the ...

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Well I'd have failed him on the grounds that Utopia isn't a Platonic concept, it was coined by Sir Thomas More in the 16th Century ...... And a jolly fine book it is as well. I first read it on a beach in Greece; everybody around me was reading Jilly Cooper or Jeffrey Archer *spit* , I was reading ...

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@Temulkar I've enjoyed thinking about the Greens' manifesto this evening. Thanks for the info. I think what folk may find upsetting is the use of "you" in your posts that feels to me like you are implying that everyone here who supports Labour is a homogeneous mass of zombies incapable of...

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Labour Whips ‏@labourwhips 1m1 minute ago 8 Tory MPs vote not to exempt carers from #BedroomTax: Blackman, Bone, Hollobone, McCartney, Offord, Pritchard, Rees-Mogg & Stevenson Usual suspects. Offord was one of the dissenters last night, he was interrupted by Sir Edward Leigh, hardly a model of ...

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I think they are going to come out fighting with alternatives (as someone said, first the press accused them of no policies...now there are too many :lol: ) but it won't be yet - again, as someone said - if they come out with a good idea now it'll get nicked, announced and sink in the sea of omnish...

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Who was the Tory MP on C4 news who told KGM that there was no money for NHS staff ''don't people understand?'' when asked if that was the case why were tax cuts being promised, apparently he had no answer, just a prolonged period of silence, and these clowns deem to govern us? The name "David ...

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Night PF. Watching the Palestine Debate. a remarkably positive and productive debate (with the exception of one Tory numpty). Powerful speeches, from both sides of the House, in support of the motion from such unexpected sources as Gerald Kaufman and Richard Ottaway; and, as much as I loathe the man...

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Re: the six pledges and passionate leadership Burnham can clearly lead on health. I think Hunt possibly has what it takes to be passionate and articulate on the apprenticeships. I think Ed himself should lead on Green issues. Then there are the two economy ones - wage growth / regional development ...

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Tribalism - I think the complete lack of critical thought in the political/MSM discourse and the shallow 'I've made my mind up and you can't change it' attitude leads to people doing a 'La-la Lansley'. I do have time for Russel Brand, however - when he skewered Paxo in that interview, his only erro...

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Latest Ashcroft National Poll, 10-12 October: CON 28% (-4), LAB 32% (+2), LDEM 8% (+1), UKIP 19%(+2), GRN 5%(-1).

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Pants; I meant giselle. Apologies to both ladies. I remember doing Comic Relief at the Coca Cola call centre; turned around from a call and got Brian Mawhinney's gleaming chops thrust in my face. Literally the stuff nightmares are made of. Saw Mawhinney once, on the junction of Russell Street and C...

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I bought a Peterborough Evening Telegraph last week to see what was being said by/about Stewart Jackson MP where someone had said he was a possible UKIP man. That wouldn't have surprised me at all! What say you Lonewolfie? Did you read the article about £3m energy park cost with Jackson bashing the...

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Morning all. I've just been trying to work out Twitter...I think I'm going to need to wait for Wolflet No2 as she has her finger on the pulse and will be able to explain in a way I might understand :oops: The reason is this... https://twitter.com/OwenJones84 I used to quite respect his output - one...

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Morning all. I've just been trying to work out Twitter...I think I'm going to need to wait for Wolflet No2 as she has her finger on the pulse and will be able to explain in a way I might understand :oops: The reason is this... https://twitter.com/OwenJones84 I used to quite respect his output - one ...

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Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB · 3m3 minutes ago
LAB moves to 7% lead with Opinium for Observer
Lab 35 (+1)
Con 28 (-4)
Ukip 17 (n/c)
LDs 9 (+2)
GRN 4.

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Oh here we go. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/anger-grows-within-labour-over-forced-palestinian-vote-9788395.html Bunch of Z listers the lot of them. If they don't turn up sack the lot and replace them with charismatic MPs. None of them would be missed, and none of them have a ...

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Night PF Should FTN retweet this? Dr Éoin Clarke ‏@LabourEoin 9h9 hours ago Ed Miliband has ordered Labour MPs to vote to recognise the State of Palestine in Monday's vote. Retweet if you think he made right call... Belfast, Belfast During my heated conversation on Twitter this morning, I was told t...

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I have long thought Ferguson is a Compassite (and with a similar hand wringing tendency to Neal Lawson) He not infrequently criticises the party leadership from a leftist standpoint (not something the others you mention do) You may be right, but I largely dismissed him and LL as an irrelevance some...

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Mark Ferguson on how everything Labour is doing is wrong......*sigh* http://labourlist.org/2014/10/if-this-doesnt-wake-labour-up-to-our-problems-what-will/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I have an idea for him - why not stop kicking at the Labour party & instead, get b...

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FFS, Sky News has just shown Ed's speech in H&M. He apparently made it clear beforehand that he didn't have time to take questions from journalists but that didn't stop that Kieran Jenkins from C4 (who I recall was guilty of some seriously bad reporting recently re Labour but I don't remember w...

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It is easily forgotten that Labour have actually lost a seat in a by-election earlier in this parliament, with a massive swing against them. But I don't recall this degree of hysteria even then? UKIP have become the new LibDems, using many of the same tricks and appealing to the same type of "...

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As good a summary of last night's H & M result as I have seen this morning (Ally Fogg was saying something similar, but not as well). The Labour playbook for defensive byelections is to focus on solid promises (those who have promised to vote Labour, and have voted in the past) and not stir the ...

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Oh not him too :roll: Perfectly in keeping. I've never understood the faith some of you place in Sparrow, he has a track record for digging at Labour & remaining curiously tight lipped on Coalition issues (I've needled him several times about his continued silence on matters IDS, so I expect he...

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Night PF, That piece by Bev is spot on. We really need to stop the infighting and concentrate on what is really happening; that doesn't mean we can't debate, or express disappointment if Labour aren't being as radical as we would like, but doing Lynton's work for him helps nobody but the Tories. Spe...

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Seeing as the Guardian's Beta has made their comment system virtually unusable, and seeing as some of you have previously said far too kind things about my Thursday BBCQT rants, I hope you don't mind the self-promoting indulgence of me posting a link to it here: http://onebuttonmonkey.com/obm/2014/...

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Seeing as the Guardian's Beta has made their comment system virtually unusable, and seeing as some of you have previously said far too kind things about my Thursday BBCQT rants, I hope you don't mind the self-promoting indulgence of me posting a link to it here: http://onebuttonmonkey.com/obm/2014/...

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yahyah wrote:Most depressing to find out that UKIP have a youth wing.

Well, as somebody has to it may as well be me ......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Mg6Gfh9Co

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Does anyone here know if there is any post poll-closure coverage (radio, TV) of the by-election(s), please? Yes, I know, bone idle, me . . . . Two and a half hours of Andrew Neil apparently! :sick: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lbpp6" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Something a little lighter, and one I have been watching develop on Twitter; CCHQ have been caught out lying (again) compounding their original stupidity by forgetting that t'internet means that it is harder to hide your tracks these days. http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/tory-hq-pants-on-...

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Something a little lighter, and one I have been watching develop on Twitter; CCHQ have been caught out lying (again) compounding their original stupidity by forgetting that t'internet means that it is harder to hide your tracks these days. http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/tory-hq-pants-on-f...

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Appalling, what a bunch of jobsworths. BTW the "café down the road" offered as an alternative is roughly 100 yards away and a fairly busy access road has to be negotiated too, not a walk in the park for somebody with cerebral palsy. * I realize it is not the done thing to wish bad things ...

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Political Scrapbook ‏@PSbook 4m4 minutes ago NEW → Disabled woman forced to wet herself in Jobcentre after staff deny toilet access http://politicalscrapbook.net/2014/10/disabled-woman-wet-herself-in-jobcentre-denied-toilet-access/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; … Appallin...

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You can't get better than 33/1 ON Labour winning in Heywood & Middleton. The same bookies have UKIP at 8/1 So not impossible but I'm not losing sleep ;-) I've just got a weird feeling - not good Remember my "Send Kate and whatshisname up to Scotland and announce she's expecting" The V...

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Re: lefty comedians. The best and certainly the most acerbic of the ones I've seen has to be Stewart Lee. If you haven't heard it, his riff on Paul Nuttall of the UKIPs is excellent "bloody Beaker People, comin' over 'ere, with their bloody beakers! What's wrong with cuppin' your 'ands to drin...

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There are times when Tom Watson irritates me, but then he'll tweet something like this & I can forgive all: I've just donated to a good cause in Sheffield: https://yoomee.nationbuilder.com/crowdfund Speaking of Twitter, Al Murray is not overly amused about Claggie trying to nick his routine (an...

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There are times when Tom Watson irritates me, but then he'll tweet something like this & I can forgive all: I've just donated to a good cause in Sheffield: https://yoomee.nationbuilder.com/crowdfund Speaking of Twitter, Al Murray is not overly amused about Claggie trying to nick his routine (and...

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I'm sure people have seen this one before, but it never gets old imo ....

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The situation with the Kurds at the moment reminds me somewhat of the Warsaw Rising. With the Turks playing the Red Army. An apposite and terrifying analogy. I have a new mantra: F*** geopolitics. That is a little unfair on the Red Army. At the Warsaw uprising they had no air cover, and were at the...

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Afternoon.Lib Dems vote to keep the bedroom tax.Wilful ignorance. Afternoon! What!? I thought their members had voted to abolish it at the last two conferences? Do you think they now imagine that the Andrew George bill goes far enough? That is, if it gets any further than it already has done... The...

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Bit of an odd link, but thought it might cheer people up a little. After the Pride Of Britain Award ceremony, held last night at the Dorchester Hotel, a certain politician found himself very much in demand with the ladies, all wanting a 'selfie' with him; not bad for somebody "weird looking&quo...

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yahyah wrote:Rustinpeace is crowing about it on Andrew's blog.

Of course he is, that is his job after all. Has Nicky decided these are his five polls?

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I'm fond of professing my internationalism on the Politics thread, but can be quite patriotic when it comes to the arts ;-) So here are my five favourite British films: Kes (reminding us of loads of other great Ken Loach films) Naked (ditto for Mike Leigh) Trainspotting Withnail and I (to lift the ...

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TechnicalEphemera wrote:In other news Twin Peaks is finally going to get a sequel.

Expect another ending that is at best open.

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio ... ong-enough

A damn fine cherry pie added to my shopping list for tomorrow now!

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OK, this is a representative list only not a definitive top 5, mainly because it depends on my mood day to day. So here we go ...... A Matter Of Life And Death : I love anything by Powell and Pressburger, but especially this one and Colonel Blimp. No coincidence that both feature Roger Livesey who w...

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I find it interesting following our discussions about Labour's response to the Tory Conference being much stronger on social media than others that the on-line Populus poll is showing strong Labour leads. Good point. Most old folk like me rarely look at social media so we're not getting Labour's me...

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Bloody hell, that article about Labour's plan unravelling has brought tout the usual bunch of liars. Rochdale A&E closing in 2011 was on Labour's watch apparently. Unfortunately the poster - calling himself FactualEvidence (sic) - can't bring himself to admit that he was wrong. Oh, and rusty's ...

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For the Genesis/Gabriel appreciation society :wink: Did anyone see the BBC Two documentary, earlier? (Saturday 9pm) and now available on iPlayer, followed by a TOPT2 special. It was v. good and left me brimful of memories. Genesis:Together and Apart (First shown Oct 4th 2014) A feature-length docum...

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