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Lonewolfie

Morning all. Morning. Fallon, get told. "The chairman of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly said Argentina remained the greatest threat to security, not the Labour leader." Fallon reaffirms commitment to defend Falkland Islands - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35593095" onclick=...

Lonewolfie

...can I just ask, as well....if, as is my understanding and most commentators seem to say, the relationship between Britain and Europe is complicated, deep and serious, why it is that the entire MSM focus is on 'restricting Child Benefit', as though that, as a standalone issue, will address all the...

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Morfterning all... So...it seems Jess Phillips has decided to use her not inconsiderable 'rent-a-gob' talents to attack the right target...(to be clear - I'm not necessarily for or against Ms Phillips, just a bit unsettled by her use of language in some instances)... Labour MP Jess Phillips has accu...

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Apparently Natalie McGarry has apologies to JK Rowling. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/jk-rowling-receives-apology-from-snps-natalie-mcgarry-after-being-accused-of-supporting-misogynist-a6840411.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Having seen a bit of that exchan...

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Morfters....I know - I'm obsessed...but a boy can dream, can't he?... Is this a sign of another potential meltdown/issue for Murkydochian control of the western power structures? (From what I read I'm not so sure about 'Megyn Kellys' 'incisive' questioning, but hey-ho) Donald Trump would be the firs...

Lonewolfie

Chris Bryant comments on the 'bunch of migrants'....

Chris Bryant Reminds David Cameron His Cabinet Are Children Of 'Bunch Of Migrants'

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016/01 ... 97614.html

ttfn

Lonewolfie

Harley wrote:
citizenJA wrote:
rebeccariots2 wrote:I wanna smack George Osborne every time I hear him say 'I wanna'.

Who does he think he is ... one of the Spice Girls?
I wish he were a Spice Girl.
Sneery Spice ?

Sniffy Spice ?

Snooty Spice?

Snowy Spice?

Septumgone Spice?

Lonewolfie

BBC QT is being held just south east of Hope (just north of Peterborough) in Stamford School hall - some people (local media) seem a bit disgruntled - they don't seem to have very many locals attending, which surprises me, considering quite how Tory much of Stamford is. I had a little look at the 'a...

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Morfterning all... ...so Uncle Rupert's not happy about the Google 'sweetheart' deal?...but what's this?... “Further research reveals that Mr Murdoch's main British holding company, Newscorp Investments, has paid no net corporation tax within these shores over the past 11 years. This is despite accu...

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John McDonnell MP ‏@johnmcdonnellMP 8m8 minutes ago Pleased to announce the launch of my new economics lecture and seminar series this morning http://www.theneweconomics.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I think I'm going to have to report McDonnell to the Trading Standar...

Lonewolfie

Morning all. What a ghastly start to the week. Cameron smarming away on Radio 4 - swivelling away from admitting that cuts to the funds for teaching ESOL make a mockery of the new regulations that make speaking English compulsory for immigrants and then ... insisting the junior doctors strike is po...

Lonewolfie

Morfternoon.... So then... Was The Sun Hacking Phones? How many claims are we talking about? “The 16 claims are due to go to trial in April. The court heard that there are another 25 claimants in addition to this 16 … The court heard that five new defence witnesses have come forward with phone-hacki...

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Morfters...hoping (as ever) to be back later...but wasn't sure if anyone had picked this up... On Wednesday 13th January the DBC is holding a ‘mass lobby’ in Parliament. On this day close to 150 disabled people will be coming to Parliament to meet their MPs and talk to them about cuts proposed under...

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Joe Haines ; " Labour will lose the next general election if Jeremy Corbyn is still its leader, and lose it by a substantial margin. A distrusted and unloved Conservative Party will win something resembling a landslide victory. No ifs or buts, as David Cameron might say: that is the plain, unp...

Lonewolfie

Re political bias at the BBC. When I watch local BBC news, such as Points West, I've not noticed any particular change in the way political stories are covered, or any of the bias apparent in the main BBC political team's reporting. When a political issue has been debated on local news, representat...

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Morfterbubble aftereveingtons all... As ever, have been lurking but not able to write in such a way as to add anything to the excellent discussions on here...and sometimes, as a £3 Corbynista* it can be a bit tricky (just in the sense that I know some of the things I might say might be taken the wro...

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Just reading about the meetings Osborne had with Murdoch. There are so many questions one might ask about what sort of leverage may be involved in getting the Tories to wallop the BBC or be helpful with BSkyb deals. Not that they need much persuasion. Convicted hacking criminal Coulson, earlier in ...

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Mor(fters)ning all... Re Lucy Allan and the 'employment' and the target of her vitriol, I'm sure I heard on the tapes something alluding to the 'employment contract', where Allan stated the 'employee' had no sickness rights and hadn't been employed for a year, so there would be no pay for the absenc...

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Peter Jukes ‏@peterjukes 6h6 hours ago Meanwhile the number of young journalists in prominent positions who are alumi of tiny YBF is quite remarkable. More anon Who on earth would have guessed our press is stuffed with right wingers ? Shocked I tell ya. 'cough'....British American Project for the S...

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Evenimorn all... Today I am mostly a link monkey... Mr Ethicals' had a result (well - a small victory anyway).... mre0143.PNG Full text of the letter here http://fscc.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/FCA00050-FD-final-03-12-15.pdf ...so then, as we know, HSBC are not averse to 'shenanigans' and may be abou...

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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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Hilary Benn: "I share the concerns about possible civilian casualties. But unlike Daesh, we don't act with the intent to harm them" Isn't that casuistry ? Yes, it is - OED: "The use of clever but unsound reasoning, especially with regard to moral questions; sophistry". So he sha...

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Doesn't deselection happen when a term of office is coming to a close, and then you either get reselected or deselected? That is my understanding, it isnt the same as being sacked. If so then isn't it just saying, no matter how aggressive the tone, don't expect us to select you next time. Reminds m...

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Hasn't it always been part of the process for people to contact their MPs ? How are we supposed to know whether to vote for them in general elections if we are supposed to ignore how they've voted/acted while our MP ? Maybe Kuessenberg would like it all to be kept secret ? As much as I hate to admi...

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Letter from Tom Watson, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, to the Prime Minister, seeking clarity on two questions ahead of a vote on Syrian military action "...It is incumbent upon you as the Prime Minister to listen and engage with colleagues and to answer the legitimate questions I have rai...

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Morning all. Glad to hear Benn ignoring the goading from Nick Robinson to trash Corbyn. Not so sure about the I'm voting for, though I don't know what it is exactly I'm voting for position though. Thank you for putting it like that - this has been troubling me for a while - we're regularly assaulte...

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Can we have a straw poll about whipped/free vote ? My feeling is for a free vote. I think such a serious matter should be one of conscience. I'm for the free vote...now that every commentator and their dogs (apart from a tiny minority) have come out to say at the very least, Clouncys' plan doesn't ...

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Last week there was a bit of discussion wrt the press, and whether they follow the public or whether the public follow them.... The real power of newspapers comes in their ability to ‘frame’ news. This is the process by which a newspaper selects a story for publication, interprets it, and reports it...

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Aftermorneve... I picked this up last week but forgot to link to here (thought it might bring a little smile ;) )... The Daily Mail columnist was part of a panel at Brunel University debating whether the welfare state had a place in 2015 as part of the institution's 50th anniversary celebrations. Bu...

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Aftmorninooneve... By way of 'anecdotals', I thought an early BBC news bulletin yesterday was quite interesting....running order something like this... 1) Labour SC split over Corbyn not supporting air strikes - hairy snuff, the story they've been programmed to run all week 2) Tory MPs spending the ...

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Mmmm....Have just opened the link sent in the email. It asks for your name, but not your Labour membership number. I presumed you would have to authenticate your membership to submit your view. Morfters all.....hope to be back later, but just to let you know, as a '£3 Corbynista' I also received th...

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Meanwhile, in other news...(and apologies - just a quick visit so thanks to (mostly) all and as ever with Twitter screenshot, read from the bottom up)...

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...now....anyone seen a squirrel anywhere?...and where's the 'f' in sulphur?

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Corbyncoherence...

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Questions put to the Clouncy Funt, to be answered before any commitment can be given....but he's absolutely uselessunelectablerubbishflipfloppyuselessnotaleader...natch.

Really ttfn this time

Lonewolfie

Mind you Corbyn's response is even worse (which really is falling at a low hurdle). He needs to make his mind up, is he saying we need troops on the ground to end the war, or is he saying troops on the ground need to be ruled out. What he has said is incoherent. And I really wish he would stop sayi...

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It was announced last week that he would be doing this - before the Russia/Turkey spat queered the pitch a bit further. Here we go....36 pages (which I don't have time to read - thankfully the grown ups in Parliament will have time (and hopefully enough grown-ups left to take a decision based on fa...

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moron [mawr-on, mohr-] Spell Syllables Word Origin noun 1. Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to Congress. 2. Psychology. (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) a person of borderline intelligence ...

Lonewolfie

Morning all. According to the BBC, Cameron is going to the HoC today to make the case for bombing Syria, but is not planning to call a vote at this stage. Why today? Has Osborne's statement unraveled so quickly that they need a distraction? It was announced last week that he would be doing this - b...

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...but...but...it's much better than that - not only do we have special ordnance that isolates the 'turrurrists' and misses the oppressed (and innocent) women and children forced to live under the brutal IS regime, but we will also have £12Bn worth of jet fighters to go on aircraft carriers we have...

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...but...but...it's much better than that - not only do we have special ordnance that isolates the 'turrurrists' and misses the oppressed (and innocent) women and children forced to live under the brutal IS regime, but we will also have £12Bn worth of jet fighters to go on aircraft carriers we have...

Lonewolfie

''A source told the Sunday Times that MPs will be asked: 'Do you want to be Churchill or Chamberlain?'' Hard not to despair if that is true. To compare the situation regarding Germany then and what is happening in Syria and the Middle East & Africa now ? So dropping a few bombs is now "Chu...

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Good morning all. Can anyone who heard Fallon on Today confirm that he said we have some sort of magic bomb which only kills combatants, not civilians? ...but...but...it's much better than that - not only do we have special ordnance that isolates the 'turrurrists' and misses the oppressed (and inno...

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Afterevenimorn.... Apologies if this has been linked already....just a short piece, but some respite from the 'Calamity Corbyn' shiny squirrelisms... Here is something the media isn't telling you: Jeremy Corbyn's poll numbers are a lot better than Ed Miliband's http://uk.businessinsider.com/jeremy-c...

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On the subject and Clouncy Funt and his journey towards becoming a 'great wartime leader'.... So far, he is surely a 'reverse Midas'...in that everything he touches turns to sh1t (can anyone honestly (even a Tory) find anything that he's done that has actually worked?...or hasn't fallen to pieces wi...

Lonewolfie

Here's the full sentence Blunkett used: "I want sane, sensible people to do something counter-intuitive and join the Labour Party" I'm doing what I'm complaining of others doing :( It's just so frustrating though. I was unfortunate enough to hear that as well...but for me the crowning glo...

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Speaking of Corbyn....not sure if this is a particularly smart move, but I'm very impressed by the thinking of this 18 yr old....gives me Hope :D “I’ve been a Corbyn supporter even when he was an obscure rebellious backbencher and he’s a man with a lot to offer British politics,” Horsfield told Buzz...

Lonewolfie

Top of the morning to you, Lonewolfie, great post. I see they also trying to reignite the deprived young/privileged old poop again, too. Someone posted a Pensioners probably list which I only matched the 'got a university education', bit, and I had to wait till I was 43 for that! My brothers lot go...

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Kevin Maguire Retweeted Jason Beattie ‏@JBeattieMirror 3m3 minutes ago Number not contributing to pension due to low income, not working or being in education rose from 38% in 2010/12 to 50% in 2014/15 @ONS Doesn't that just tell you everything about the state of the UK's low wage economy... ...and...

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Evenaftermorntinoon all....have been lurking for a while as I'm still trying to come to terms with a Leader of HMs Opposition who is anti-austerity, anti-war etc etc...very strange :shock: ...on the Idiot Dipped in S**t...for me, jumping out of the interview was this bit... His father's most valuabl...

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Morfters...as ever, hoping to be back later....but for now, it seems the Rochdale MP might be in a bit of bother.... Former Rochdale Borough Council leader, Councillor Colin Lambert has confirmed that he has instructed his lawyers to commence legal action against Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk and his fo...

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Aftmoreveninoon... EXCLUSIVE — FAKE SHEIK CHARGED The decision follows a Scotland Yard investigation — Operation Silverhawk — and comes after the aborted trial of singer Tulisa Contostavlos in July 2014. The singer’s prosecution followed a Sun on Sunday sting in June 2013. After an elaborate operati...

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