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Farage hints Carswell could be SACKED after MP tells Ukip leader to stand down NIGEL FARAGE today hinted Ukip bosses could take action after MP Douglas Carswell called on his party leader to step down. http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/627822/Ukip-Nigel-Farage-Douglas-Carswell-leader-MP-put-up...

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Jose Mourinho sacked as Chelsea manager http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34670192" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Poor sod. Right on Christmas too. I wonder how he'll manage. [Insert tongue in cheek smiley here] The potential payoff of £40m may help cushion the blow!

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Jose Mourinho sacked as Chelsea manager http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34670192" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; My favourite tweet on this so far .... Arsenal News ‏@__arsenalnews_ · 20m20 minutes ago Jose Mourinho - Specialist in failure. Needless to say that Tweete...

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Bless 'er, she is a shining example of compassionate conservatism at its best.

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I think this Spiked article on Jess Phillips has been posted before, but one line caught my eye: Julie Burchill, who tips Phillips as a future Labour leader, has described the 34-year-old MP as an ‘overgrown schoolgirl’ and a ‘Mrs Pankhurst meets Tigger in Topshop’. http://www.spiked-online.com/news...

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Panto season, that time of year when Baron Not-so-Hardup makes an appearance. He's behind you ! On no he isn't, etc Neil Kinnock And Peter Mandelson Warn Jeremy Corbyn Over Future Direction Of Labour Party Lord Mandelson told the meeting: "30,000 long term members have left the Labour party, r...

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Martyn Rowson on form: Martin Rowson ‏@MartinRowson · 20m20 minutes ago Right. Back from Noo Yawk & I feel like I'm about a foot & a half to the right of me. Worse, if I tried to write the massively overdue... ...article I promised an editor I'd address on my return, I suspect my head would ...

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When was it Hodges set up his direct debit.... May or June 2015 ? In/out, who gives a damn about what he does other than his Tory paymasters ? He's probably just peed off that he wasn't 'purged', that would have earned him a Telegraph bonus. Jamie Reed, apparently. He thinks we need people like Hav...

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Piece up at the Graun about how Scotland's debt is expected to reach 50bn by 2020. The piece does have the odd dodgy assumption, but you can imagine the response BTL. Take popcorn!!! :popcorn: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/dec/15/scotland-debt-mountain-holyrood-borrowing-could-hit-50bn-by...

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Hodges seriously expect us to believe he has remained a Labour party member all this time? Meaningless posturing, as usual, from Hampstead Village's official Idiot. :lol!:

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Polls. We trust them, don't we? Apparently, we are heading for a Brexit. That's what the latest polls say. OGRPPFGTCC has gambled the future of this country because he wanted to shut up a few Eurosceptic rebels in his own party and get a few votes back from UKIP. As ever, he hasn't though this thro...

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I suspect it's not as binary as either view - it seems that at the official level, the Methodist church was, initially anyway, opposed to radicalism and working class protest, but this changed over time, and a large number of Ministers and lay preachers got involved individually in the labour movem...

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Polls. We trust them, don't we? Apparently, we are heading for a Brexit. That's what the latest polls say. OGRPPFGTCC has gambled the future of this country because he wanted to shut up a few Eurosceptic rebels in his own party and get a few votes back from UKIP. As ever, he hasn't though this thro...

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@Temulkar - It is a matter of established fact that the nascent trade union movement was fostered in no small part by non-conformist churches, especially the Methodists; it is also a matter of established fact that the Liberal Party sponsored some of the first trade union representatives to stand fo...

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Well, well, well .....

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I don't understand why some people decry socialists who were fortunate to have well off backgrounds. Having empathy with, and wanting political change for those less fortunate & outside one's own experience - is that supposed to be a bad thing ? It's just narrative, trying to discredit the pers...

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Her argument lacks authenticity. Harriet Harman offered her a job heading a commission looking at older women in the media & public life if Labour won the election, wonder if she sees less of a career and potential income stream under Corbyn ? Have to admit that thought was running through my h...

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I don't get that argument, the fact that someone grew up in a secure comfortable home could just as easily convince that person that it is a good thing to do all they can to help others not as fortunate. Seems to be the main argument used against the likes of Tristram Hunt! :P To be honest, does an...

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But can you not also say that what the point being made is that left-wing organisations are jumped on but the right-wing ones are deemed acceptable - neither side is right but I am a bit concerned by Labour MPs being involved with neoconservative organisations such as this Why is this not jumped on...

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RedTyneside ‏@RedTyneside 16 hrs16 hours ago Where's the outrage about right-wing #scab and #Tory toff @TristramHuntMP attending Henry Jackson Society functions? Curiosity caused me to post this...Here's the link to their webpage. http://henryjacksonsociety.org/" onclick="window.open(this...

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I would have Ed back tomorrow, tbh :) Yup. In a heartbeat, even. Agreed. He'd have made a good, morally centred PM. Would he want the leadership again though ? Being undermined by so many in his own party , ferocious Murdoch and media attacks, his family background lied about. A nasty couple of yea...

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yahyah wrote:Richardson is the Kipper who calls the NHS the 'biggest waste of money in the UK'

Let us hope for his sake he never has to use A & E then.

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Who was the Labour MP ? Emily/Emma Reynolds yahyah. She got owned despite Naughtie's constant haranguing of the STW guy. I heard this interview as well and was really irritated by Jim Naughtie. I thought Emma Reynolds was terrible. After it was pointed out to her that her accusations were false and...

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ephemerid wrote:It's also not unreasonable to want to know who is behind all the other factions, too.
Progress, Labour First, Compass, Socialist Campaign Group, Tribune, Open Labour.......

Absobleedinglutely.

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If Momentum are slick, and tightly organised, that will be used against them as showing they are dictatorial and hard left. If they are laid back and let things emerge, as grass roots things often do, they will be criticised for being shambolic and disorganised. Point is, they are slick & tight...

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Mary Creagh ‏@MaryCreaghMP 2m2 minutes ago Looking for stop the war blog saying ISIS embody spirit of international brigades?cached version here. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HoT_n6U4xHYJ:stopwar.org.uk/index.php/news/ground-hogday-as-uk-parliament-joins-syria-war-declaring-...

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Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump · 44m44 minutes ago Thank you to respected columnist Katie Hopkins of Daily http://Mail.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; for her powerful writing on the U.K.'s Muslim problems. To borrow from Douglas Adams: Ah, this is obviously some str...

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Good morfternoon. 11.01am 11:01 In a written ministerial statement Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, has announced that, as universal credit (UC) gets rolled out over the next five years, some council jobs will go. That is because councils currently administer housing benefit, but...

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Andrew Sparrow's verdict on Osborne's performance AT PMQs "It served as a reminder that doing PMQs is actually much harder than it looks and that David Cameron, who has now had 10 years’ practice, is a hard act to follow" A hard act to follow ? i can't work out if this is praise for Camer...

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What a unique PMQs, George was actually able to focus (even if he appeared to be talking through his arse).

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Andrew's blog is about Blair saying Corbyn's turned Labour into a fringe protest movement. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2015/dec/09/blair-says-labours-tragedy-is-that-corbyn-has-turned-it-into-fringe-protest-movement-politics-live" onclick="window.open(this.href);return f...

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MPs vote to reject giving 16 and 17-year-olds the vote in the EU referendum MPs have voted to reject giving 16 and 17-year-olds a vote in the EU referendum by 303 votes to 253 - a majority of 50. The amendment passed by the House of Lords saying there should be votes at 16 in that referendum has no...

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For a straight talking, unbiased, unspun view without any hidden agenda I always turn to rt.com. ;) Purge? Corbyn’s Momentum group to exclude socialists Content of article doesn't quite live up to headline though. https://www.rt.com/uk/325090-momentum-purge-far-left/ Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corb...

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'Classy' piece of 'journalism' on pages 2 & 3 of today's Sun from Toby Young; can be summarised as "if you are brown then f*** off". How that rag doesn't get prosecuted for incitement to hatred is beyond me, it is almost as if they have some of the police in their pocket ........ :P h...

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A view of at least one Momentum meeting, attended by the Shadow Chancellor no less. Linked at the Guardian, so they at least consider it noteworthy. Be warned it is hosted on Con home. http://www.conservativehome.com/leftwatch/2015/12/my-evening-with-mcdonnell-and-momentum-and-yes-its-all-about-des...

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'Classy' piece of 'journalism' on pages 2 & 3 of today's Sun from Toby Young; can be summarised as "if you are brown then f*** off". How that rag doesn't get prosecuted for incitement to hatred is beyond me, it is almost as if they have some of the police in their pocket ........ :P ht...

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Willow904 wrote:........A comfort blanket for the political journalist that is unsure of what comes next, perhaps. .......

I always find it easiest to work from the premise that the Graun no longer employs anybody worthy to call themselves "journalist".

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They knew this would happen - HOC Library Nov 2014 ; Central Government spending on flood defences will reduce in real terms over the spending review period. The new funding arrangements seek to encourage more local investment in flood defences, so that schemes that might not be funded nationally m...

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Doubt he needs the cash TL (he is reputed to be worth about $300 m), he is probably just bored. Had the 'pleasure' of meeting him once (a signing session for the Thomas The Tank Engine books) ......ennui is, I believe, the word that best described his attitude.

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TobyLatimer wrote:Off topic, I had a sigh when i read this. Money no object & running out of things to spend it on. I would want Ringo included at that price.

Ooh no. You know the old joke, Ringo was not even the best drummer in the Beatles!!

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AnatolyKasparov wrote:I see that Cameron did away with PMQs on Wednesday, mind - maybe a sign he's not enjoying the Jez approach too much?

He ducked it whenever he could with Ed as well let us not forget (Jezza is not the first person to turn OGRFG that delightful shade of puce).

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<sigh> Hoped the knives might be put away for a few days at least. No one (hopefully) wants to gag Kevan Jones, he should be free to put across constructive views or concerns about such important issues, but using words like 'his incompetence' about Corbyn just inflames things and helps Labour's en...

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RobertSnozers wrote:
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gilsey wrote:Good luck Ohso, best wishes to Mr.
Is Quorn any good?
Mo Farah is paid to say so, and he is an official National Treasure.

Good luck with all of that Ohso.
Fixed that for you

I'm sure he does it for free, simply because he believes in it so much.

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gilsey wrote:Good luck Ohso, best wishes to Mr.
Is Quorn any good?

Mo Farah says so, and he is an official National Treasure.

Good luck with all of that Ohso.

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HindleA wrote:On the other hand,UKIP have a point about postal votes,I did wonder why their is only one candidate on the ballot,with the "x" already placed,personally delivered with a mini bus ferrying people to the postbox,I just thought they were being helpful,silly me.

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yahyah wrote:If a divided Labour can win against the nasty UKIP onslaught, what can it do if we all get behind the elected leader ?

Think how much nicer this country would already be if we'd done that over the last few years and had won in May.

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I know we are supposed to give Corbyn time, but I genuinely wonder how much control he really has, whether he is increasingly becoming the plaything of the mob that wants to destroy the Party. I'm not sure about 'plaything'... I don't think he is influenced by these small groups or vocal individual...

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-mps-who-backed-syria-air-strikes-hit-back-after-jeremy-corbyn-supporters-threaten-deselection-a6758656.html The 66 Labour MPs were 'named and shamed' by Left Unity, a separate anti-austerity political party which has recently considered joining f...

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Apparently, overnight, we've been successfully bombing Isil's oilfields. Genuine question (I know next to nothing about military hardware and so on) - Are oilfields so difficult to find and pinpoint? If they aren't, why couldn't somebody else have struck them earlier? There seems to be a lot of str...

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A few things. Yes, the Tornados (and also Buccaneers, much better low-level aircraft than Tornados) started out flying at low level in Gulf War 1 but proved too vulnerable to small-arms fire, so they switched to medium-level, pretty much negating that advantage over the US forces etc. For low-level...

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