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mikems

Re gulls. He just says he will 'deal' with them. I was exaggerating a little, I'm afraid. I know they can be aggressive because they need to feed. Wouldn't it be better to feed them and control their population. The only reason they are here is because of the easy picking to be had, while the sea is...

mikems

I think Miliband is something different for them and they don't quite know how to deal with him. He is intelligent and honest. An unusual combination in politics. Cameron is neither honest or intelligent. Salmond is an adept politician, and an intelligent man. But his political honesty is compromise...

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I haven't really thought much about Labour and the SNP, but if Labour is a minority government, they are still in power, and able to decide the business of parliament Surely they will simply propose bills that the SNP - and Liberals, what's left of 'em - say they support. LIke constitutional convent...

mikems

My local tory's main pitch is that he will kill the city's gull population and deal with the traffic problem by some unspecified solution that has eluded all previous politicians here, tories included. Doesn't mention national policy at all. Don't know where all the money is coming from - it's not a...

mikems

Yes, conditioned is better.

mikems

And just who the hell is the Prime Minister around here? I never know who to cower before nowadays! Talk about unstable government! We've had three different ones in as many weeks.

mikems

I'm afraid I couldn't tolerate watching and hearing Cameron last night, so had the sound down for that bit. Also turned off Milband's interview with Paxman a few seconds after the ludicrous, BNP style question 'is Britain full?', to which there is no sensible answer and which is not a question desi...

mikems

I'm afraid I couldn't tolerate watching and hearing Cameron last night, so had the sound down for that bit. Also turned off Milband's interview with Paxman a few seconds after the ludicrous, BNP style question 'is Britain full?', to which there is no sensible answer and which is not a question desig...

mikems

Romeo Salvitti = a new Shapps alter ego! And what a moniker! (From linked article.)

mikems

How long can share prices remain so high in the face of deflation? It's only QE and the world's footloose capital (with additions of terror and drug money helpfully supplied by your local/global bank and its mates) keeping the whole thing going atm.

mikems

Also, now we have zero inflation, remember that George Osborne claimed our national debts - now vastly increased - would lead to hyper-inflation, that 'bond vigilantes' would hold the UK to ransom and that we would become 'like Greece' and 'bankrupt'.

Not just wrong, hyper-wrong.

mikems

Sending Grant Shapps?!? That should be an absolute bunfight with the youngsters. They will rip him to bits.

mikems

Zero inflation. Cameron claims it is good news that debt is not being eroded and that the value of savings is. Can someone please ask Cameron at what point, when he was drawing up his long term economic plan with his genius chancellor, he came up with the idea of deflation and a global oil price slu...

mikems

From Tom Watson via Change.org

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mikems

Miliband repeated his assertion last week there would be no formal coalition deal with the SNP. “There isn’t going to be a coalition between Labour and the SNP after the election. There’s only one coalition I want: a coalition with working people across Britain to change how our economy works, and ...

mikems

Relating to discussion on cannabis a couple of weeks ago :

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mikems

I don't think people in England care much about Alex Salmond one way or the other, not enough to change their vote...handy of the tories, though, to remind Scottish waverers that voting for Labour is the same as voting SNP! They are such clever people, aren't they? Vastly superior to the rest of us.

mikems

Haven't we been through all this before?

mikems

Five enquiries into the bogus, media/racist inspired 'Trojan Horse' episode.

Zero enquiries into the media/racist fabrications that aimed to demonise Muslims via Trojan Horse.

mikems

Electoral Calculus has similar results for Wirral West and Southampton Itchen. It gives bigger labour leads in some places but is completely at odds with Ashcroft regarding Worcestor, giving Labour a strong lead not found by LA.

mikems

If you haven't seen this Willow, it will cheer you up (and not just you) :

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mikems

You need to draw a distinction between the genetically modified skunk and unmodified cannabis if you are going to say it is harmful. The young lady questioning Ed Miliband made the point that, if it was decriminalised and regulated, access to skunk, which I am perfectly happy to accept is potentiall...

mikems

Well, you are right TE. Stoned people are sometimes not very quick-witted. They may be lost in elevated thoughts of one sort or another. Not a good idea to smoke when you are working. You may be right about it being a long-term thing, but I haven't had that experience myself. I have found that havin...

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My personal take is that it's pretty harmless unless you hammer it hard, but that's because it can like any addictive behaviour (NB: not addiction, per se) lead people into societal and family situations that might be very difficult to navigate. Miliband's answer last night was on the whole not unr...

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Also, on the point of cannabis and its illegality. It's illegality can be thought of as a class issue. Cannabis is mostly smoked by working people, and, since there is no rational explanation for its illegality, one has to presume that other reasons exist. One of them is almost certainly an urge to ...

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Not sure that the idea of frying your brains with pot is anything more than an urban myth or a means of taking the mickey out of mates. There is no scientific evidence for it, as far as I am aware. There is some evidence that cannabis can delay the onset of dementia, and that it reduces the risk of ...

mikems

'doing large amounts of the stuff makes you stupid.'

ahem...not in my experience.

mikems

Is Cameron really going to do one of those Free Speech session? I don't think it will go well if he does.

mikems

What happened to Europe's social democratic parties? At about the same time - mid to late 1990s - they all became right-wing, pro-market, pro-capital parties. The PS, PSOE, Labour, SPD, all the same, as if it was coordinated.

mikems

I see Robert Peston has a programme tonight about France. The synopsis the BBC gives is dreadful. It might as well be written by any tory troll, so full of nonsense it is and so completely informed by dull, politically biased stupidity about France Hollande did not promise to introduce higher public...

mikems

The Independent is an untrustworthy rag run by someone who should never have been allowed within a million miles of a national title like that. Not a fit and proper person.

Having Keynes as their lead makes a change. It is usually 'PUTIN!!!!' or 'MUSLIMS!!!!!', just like in the Star or Scum.

mikems

I'm glad England have messed it up. The way they treated Cook was a disgrace and destabilised the side in a search for easy answers to the problem of not being bothered much by one day cricket for years and years.

mikems

No, but I suspect Blair's fandom is more about PR than anything else. Briefed by Campbell who is a real fan.

mikems

I mean, as I write I am watching a stream of VfR Aalen v. Greuther Furth. I doubt Cameron is.

mikems

Possibly, Anatoly, but that would have little effect on Cameron's sincerity, I would say. He is simply not a football supporter, as far as I can tell. Neither is Blair. They both pretend to be though.

mikems

The main effect of David Miliband being elected would have been splits in the party. That's why the Tories lament his failure so much. Instead, say what you like, apart from the Blairite rump, the party is united.

mikems

Cameron's 'support' for Villa is pure sham. He says that he supports them only because one of Charles' sons is known also to pretend to support them.

mikems

Well Alphege was a saint and there is a Saint Alphege's (Catholic) church on the south side of Bath, right next to his constituency so he may have some personal connections with it. But he can have no excuses for Anselm.

mikems

Knifed in the back, stabbed in the back. That was Hitler's explanation for Germany's defeat in the first world war : The JEWS had 'knifed' Germany in the back. Similarly, Miliband, who looks weird and whose father 'hated Britiain', has 'knifed his brother' in the back. I don't think the Heil is unaw...

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Tory trolls are desperate to distract attention from Cameron's refusal of a head to head debate. Hence the frantic nonsense, the incessant tedious point making, the absurd interpretations and assertions...all refusing to look directly at that central fact. Sad it has come to that here. I hope it won...

mikems

If Cameron won't do the all leaders debate, Miliband will be even more keen to do them to highlight that fact. If you think the British people will see Dave's absence as a problem for Miliband, you don't understand the British people.

mikems

Of course Miliband wants the debates so that he can stand next to someone who looks Prime Ministerial on an equal footing. That's because the British people will admire anyone standing near Cameron, obvs. They will see him in the same room as the mighty Dave and, full of bitter envy at his luck and ...

mikems

'I would be amazed if he did any such thing. the tactical reason is the same as that Cameron has for refusing to debate Miliband: it puts them on an equal footing.' Well, that is bullshit, isn't it? The 'tactical reason' Cameron has for not debating is not 'being on an equal footing' with Miliband, ...

mikems

Blimey! Busy morning already reporting some idiotic troll called 'SpellingMistake' at the G.

These tories are so see-through, aren't they? I'm sure everyone here will agree.

mikems

The thing the Morning Star lacks online is a daily politics blog. The sort of thing many here would like FTN to become...Just a thought.

mikems

Re : student loans. I'm one of he unlucky ones who has had their loans flogged off to a loan company and they most certainly do refer to credit ratings agencies. The Student Loan Company never did this, but the law itself apparently allowed for it and these new holders of the debt are interpreting t...

mikems

The defence secretary has a dangerously unhinged world view in my opinion.

mikems

The thing about tories is that though their behaviour can be loathsome and despicable they are also victims of our class system, forced to assume their roles down the generations as we are. Marx said that capitalists lived in a gilded cage, forced by their system into their soulless activity and rep...

mikems

Re: deflation being a good thing. What else can they say? The story seems to be that cheap oil is good because it will help the real productive economy. And it might, but if people expect prices to drop even further, they might also put off investing and buying. One thing sure to tip the balance int...

mikems

More cognitive dissonance on the (far)right. That hack works for a rag that promotes intolerance and unfairness in many areas of life. It supports a party that wants to institutionalise injustice on the basis of nationality, race and religion.

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