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by Lonewolfie
Mon 28 Sep, 2015 10:24 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 28th September 2015
Replies: 142
Views: 24756

Re: Monday 28th September 2015

Good morning. I see Dave still expects us to believe his porkies. He'll be calling himself François Antoine next and claiming he killed the Beast of Gévaudan. Good Morning, Presuming this is a reference to his supposed denial of pig accusation:- http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/27/david...
by Lonewolfie
Mon 28 Sep, 2015 10:09 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 28th September 2015
Replies: 142
Views: 24756

Re: Monday 28th September 2015

It's a bit like the time I heard Clouncy being interviewed by that really nice @jeremyvine before the election....when Murkydochia and the MSM had decided that Mr Ed wouldn't serve the full term (to 2020)....and Clouncy gave a categorical and indisputable statement along the lines of 'no ifs, no but...
by Lonewolfie
Mon 28 Sep, 2015 10:04 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 28th September 2015
Replies: 142
Views: 24756

Re: Monday 28th September 2015

Good Morning, Presuming this is a reference to his supposed denial of pig accusation:- http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/27/david-cameron-denies-lord-ashcroft-allegations-call-me-dave-dead-pig Surely, that's either very careless or very careful wording, and possibly doesn't amount to a d...
by Lonewolfie
Sun 27 Sep, 2015 9:05 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Sat 26 & Sun 27 Sept 2015 - Start of Labour Conference
Replies: 230
Views: 34157

Re: Sat 26 & Sun 27 Sept 2015 - Start of Labour Conference

Not sure if this has been linked before, but, again, an interesting read, if just for the descriptions of hedonism and more... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/what-the-top-tories-really-got-up-to-at-oxford-10517371.html ...given the current attacks on various Labour politicians wrt 'li...
by Lonewolfie
Sun 27 Sep, 2015 8:49 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Sat 26 & Sun 27 Sept 2015 - Start of Labour Conference
Replies: 230
Views: 34157

Re: Sat 26 & Sun 27 Sept 2015 - Start of Labour Conference

Evemornafts.... Congratulations to the Welsh contingent...great game with, for once, something I agree with Gatland about - Wales just wanted it more - but also great shame about the injuries (to both teams) - as my (long-time Scarlet, quite smug with a sore head this am) bro-in-law put it - now bot...
by Lonewolfie
Sat 26 Sep, 2015 10:13 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Sat 26 & Sun 27 Sept 2015 - Start of Labour Conference
Replies: 230
Views: 34157

Re: Sat 26 & Sun 27 Sept 2015 - Start of Labour Conference

Did anyone see the red supermoon ? I woke too late. At 5.30 there was a beautiful dark sky full of stars, free of light pollution to show it at its best, but no moon. Must have been setting behind the hills. First serious ground frost too. Morftereves.... ...adjusts and settles (very battered) tinf...
by Lonewolfie
Fri 25 Sep, 2015 11:03 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 25th.September 2015
Replies: 126
Views: 21386

Re: Friday 25th.September 2015

Drax - Ministers must come clean on whether they are abandoning all efforts to secure investment in clean energy - Lisa Nandy Lisa Nandy MP, Labour’s Shadow Energy Secretary, responding to news that Drax power station has dropped its carbon capture and storage scheme because of Government policy, s...
by Lonewolfie
Fri 25 Sep, 2015 10:50 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 25th.September 2015
Replies: 126
Views: 21386

Re: Friday 25th.September 2015

Evenaftmorn.... So....back to an obsession of mine.... If Pharo and Pyatt are defended by a legal team funded by Murkydochia, who in turn are using the defence that 't'were the higher-up Murkydochians wot dunnit', are they (Newcorpse/Murkydochia) defending themselves against themselves? (With, of co...
by Lonewolfie
Tue 22 Sep, 2015 9:34 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Replies: 159
Views: 27349

Re: Tuesday 22nd September 2015

Evenimorn... Well, where's Corbyn gone? I expected the earth to have stopped turning by now as he's so terribly awful...all the chip-wrappers dedicated to his uturnyflippyfloppyindecisivesecurityriskmarxistleniniststalinisteverythingelseistscruffyness don't seem to be able to find him anymore.....ei...
by Lonewolfie
Mon 21 Sep, 2015 10:35 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 21st September 2015
Replies: 278
Views: 49585

Re: Monday 21st September 2015

This one speaks for itself: https://twitter.com/kayeadams/status/645870314929397760" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Not because it might be libellous, but because it's - hey - just another sex scandal. And yet none of the other stuff is newsworthy either. But a story about ...
by Lonewolfie
Mon 21 Sep, 2015 10:16 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 21st September 2015
Replies: 278
Views: 49585

Re: Monday 21st September 2015

This one speaks for itself: https://twitter.com/kayeadams/status/645870314929397760" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Not because it might be libellous, but because it's - hey - just another sex scandal. And yet none of the other stuff is newsworthy either. But a story about ...
by Lonewolfie
Mon 21 Sep, 2015 10:04 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 21st September 2015
Replies: 278
Views: 49585

Re: Monday 21st September 2015

Morfingtons...and blimey....not quite sure where to start.... From last week - Corbyn the 'security risk'.....yet No 10 state he has been invited to join the 'Privy' Council (although, as Corbyn stated on Newsnight, he hasn't actually received any official notification from Dungwart* Dave (OGRFG, TC...
by Lonewolfie
Mon 14 Sep, 2015 9:36 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 14th September 2015
Replies: 286
Views: 48434

Re: Monday 14th September 2015

Clarke is talking about the 'moderates' working out their own economic plan as an alternative to present to that of the elected leader and his shadow chancellor. Evenimorntinoon all... Yep - I heard that too - that'll be ex-Cambridge, ex-MP and ex-Blairchum Charles Clarke - for once though, I found...
by Lonewolfie
Sat 12 Sep, 2015 10:06 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 12th September
Replies: 390
Views: 58363

Re: Saturday 12th September

Morftereveninoon all... Firstly, my contribution to the 'Return to the Post-War Consensus' picnic (or at the very least, a recognition that many many people have never had the wool pulled over their eyes with regard to the theft of public assets, the destruction of functioning efficient public servi...
by Lonewolfie
Sat 05 Sep, 2015 10:14 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Weekend Edition - Saturday/Sunday 5th/6th September
Replies: 326
Views: 40514

Re: Weekend Edition - Saturday/Sunday 5th/6th September

Aftevenimorn all... Firstly....an apology for my tone and general clouncing funtery the other day....and posing questions without the grace to come back and respond :oops: When I linked to the 'Arts' piece in the maybenotquitesonazigraph, I was particularly interested in these points (rather than th...
by Lonewolfie
Thu 03 Sep, 2015 10:04 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 3rd September 2015
Replies: 252
Views: 33446

Re: Thursday 3rd September 2015

BTW - just signed petition....96,625 so far....
by Lonewolfie
Thu 03 Sep, 2015 10:02 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 3rd September 2015
Replies: 252
Views: 33446

Re: Thursday 3rd September 2015

& I think we can firmly dispense with any notion that FTN is any way too pro-Corbyn. Yesterday's posts show that. Am not going to 'flounce' out at having to read through post after post picking apart his every utterance and telling us the world will end if he wins. Just hope to see those so ang...
by Lonewolfie
Fri 28 Aug, 2015 11:17 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 28th August 2015
Replies: 115
Views: 17562

Re: Friday 28th August 2015

Noting LW post above, and each to their own - I thought this was worthy of some consideration. If Labour really wanted to win and change things, they would be trying to attract the 35%+ of voters who don't vote, rather than lamely following the MSM script and kowtowing to the Tory Hegemony to pick ...
by Lonewolfie
Fri 28 Aug, 2015 9:22 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 28th August 2015
Replies: 115
Views: 17562

Re: Friday 28th August 2015

I have now voted in the Leadership Election....and I confirm that I am probably one of the 'dreaming entryist-fantasists'....following quite a lot of soul searching, I cast my votes thus... 1) Corbyn - Jaw-jaw is far better than war war, the stance on disability (supported by WOW petition etc), not ...
by Lonewolfie
Fri 28 Aug, 2015 8:41 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 28th August 2015
Replies: 115
Views: 17562

Re: Friday 28th August 2015

Never watched it in my life tbh yahyah, I only knew of that item as I follow Jayne Linney on twitter, who mentioned it - so i thought i would take a peep. I have suspicions that the 'Kipper in that piece isn't all they claim him to be, he must be an actor. No one could be that stupid surely? You ha...
by Lonewolfie
Tue 18 Aug, 2015 9:46 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 18th August 2015
Replies: 169
Views: 20108

Re: Tuesday 18th August 2015

Good morfingtinoons afterbubbles.... I've been staying away, partly to avoid the constant anti-Corbynist derision ....and partly because I've been getting very damp under canvas on the Isle of Purbeck. To be clear....again....I am (I believe (TM) ) precisely the sort of voter Labour should be trying...
by Lonewolfie
Fri 31 Jul, 2015 10:14 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 31st.July
Replies: 112
Views: 14371

Re: Friday 31st.July

Ephemeris What is the evidence for the grey votes loss of power? The over 65s is easily the fastest growing demographic. Don't confuse the enthusiasm of a handful of young activists, too young to remember 83, with the electorate. What is interesting is how much emphasis you place on Corbyn providin...
by Lonewolfie
Fri 31 Jul, 2015 10:11 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 31st.July
Replies: 112
Views: 14371

Re: Friday 31st.July

@SpinningHugo - I see. So you are proposing some kind of revolution to overturn the state, thereby rendering the Tory majority in Parliament irrelevant? That, Hugo, depends on your definition of 'revolution'...and I'm not so sure I propose 'overturning the state'....however, rendering the Tories irr...
by Lonewolfie
Thu 30 Jul, 2015 9:29 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 30th July 2015
Replies: 106
Views: 14562

Re: Thursday 30th July 2015

I agree with Harris that the rise of Corbyn is the same phenomenon as the rise of Ukip and the SNP. This is, without doubt, exciting for a journalist. Rather less good if you want, say, a Labour majority government. All are the triumph of unreason. So you believe (TM) that Corbyn is some sort of Mu...
by Lonewolfie
Thu 30 Jul, 2015 8:50 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 30th July 2015
Replies: 106
Views: 14562

Re: Thursday 30th July 2015

Morevetinoon afterbubbles all... Hoping to drop in later on, but wanted to put in a quick comment about Ms Kendall....I had (again) the misfortune of being within earshot of THE REAL JEREMY VINE yesterday lunchtime....where, following last weeks absolutely marvelous piece on 'Tories for Corbyn'...re...
by Lonewolfie
Fri 24 Jul, 2015 9:48 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 24th July 2015
Replies: 60
Views: 9960

Re: Friday 24th July 2015

Morning. Have been trying to follow these links: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bedroom-tax-eviction-angry-scenes-6126067?ICID=FB_mirror_main" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/bereaved-mother-teenage-daughter-evicted-9717102&...
by Lonewolfie
Fri 24 Jul, 2015 9:38 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 24th July 2015
Replies: 60
Views: 9960

Re: Friday 24th July 2015

Moreveternoon.... I really don't know what to say about this...I just find it very unsettling that the DWP need to employ someone (who, by the way he writes, has no experience of what he speaks other than what he's 'learnt' at yoo-nee) to 'make the team aware of who their users are'... https://dwpdi...
by Lonewolfie
Thu 23 Jul, 2015 9:46 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 23rd July 2015
Replies: 93
Views: 13264

Re: Thursday 23rd July 2015

Morfternoon all... With all of the 'Labour in crisis/disarray/useless/can't get elected unless they suck the bile-filled Murkydochian tentacles and prostrate themselves on the altar of vapid Blairite-Thatcherlite voodooconomics', here's the actual response from the rebels who voted against the Bill ...
by Lonewolfie
Sat 18 Jul, 2015 11:34 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday, July 18th - Sunday, July 19th 2015
Replies: 200
Views: 29029

Re: Saturday, July 18th - Sunday, July 19th 2015

Aftmoreve all... Not sure if anyone's linked to this site before - found it through Twitter yesterday - so apologies if it's been seen and is known...it's quite a long piece (as they all seem to be) but by f***ety b******s, they make a lot of sense....and it does clarify the current 'extreme' nature...
by Lonewolfie
Fri 17 Jul, 2015 10:29 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 17th July 2015
Replies: 131
Views: 17371

Re: Friday 17th July 2015

I wonder if this Tory MP has ever pondered the same for people who lose their jobs, become sick or have to care for disabled relatives, or are forced to pay the bedroom tax ? 'I never expected to be watching the pennies at my age and yet this is what I have to' - meet the Tory minister whose £67k s...
by Lonewolfie
Fri 17 Jul, 2015 10:23 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 17th July 2015
Replies: 131
Views: 17371

Re: Friday 17th July 2015

... I don't really want a Commons made up of poshos and Trots, and so we have to pay. I would have said extremists rather than Trots, though. It's not really about the Commons though (IMHO) - the executive, who are now making the rules, are most definitely 'poshos' - where are the 'Trots'? Dennis S...
by Lonewolfie
Fri 17 Jul, 2015 10:18 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 17th July 2015
Replies: 131
Views: 17371

Re: Friday 17th July 2015

Morfternoon afterbubbles all... MPs pay....as we know, the 'expense account' process was brought in by Thatcher, specifically so that MPs would be able to increase their income in line with international standards without the 'embarrassment' of a 'wage increase'...which was deemed to be 'unpopular'....
by Lonewolfie
Wed 15 Jul, 2015 9:40 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 15th July 2015
Replies: 100
Views: 14143

Re: Wednesday 15th July 2015

Moaning from my wing of the party reaching feverish levels. The best, as usual, is Hopi Sen http://hopisen.com/2015/one-step-beyond/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; More irritable versions of the same thing http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/john-mcternan/2015/07/labour-has-lost-...
by Lonewolfie
Tue 14 Jul, 2015 10:50 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 14th July 2015
Replies: 106
Views: 13806

Re: Tuesday 14th July 2015

Foxhunting vote dropped amid threat of Tory defeat to SNP - live With Nicola Sturgeon telling SNP MPs to vote down foxhunting changes, David Cameron looks set to delay the debate until English Votes for English Laws approved. Latest developments here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/1173780...
by Lonewolfie
Tue 14 Jul, 2015 9:39 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 14th July 2015
Replies: 106
Views: 13806

Re: Tuesday 14th July 2015

norman smith ‏@BBCNormanS 1h1 hour ago Scotland's First Minister @NicolaSturgeon says there has been "over whelming support" from people in England for SNP to vote on fox hunting And Wales Norman, don't forget Wales. I sent all the SNP MPs an email of thanks last night. I asked them to gi...
by Lonewolfie
Tue 14 Jul, 2015 9:16 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 14th July 2015
Replies: 106
Views: 13806

Re: Tuesday 14th July 2015

This is a bit of a long read and was first published in 2009....but there's definitely no conspiracy anywhere at all... The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity...
by Lonewolfie
Tue 14 Jul, 2015 7:56 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 14th July 2015
Replies: 106
Views: 13806

Re: Tuesday 14th July 2015

Morfterning all... Apologies if this has been linked, but for all fans of Yanis The Great....and not a good look for the alleged 'economists' that are pretending to 'run the Euro/world'.... ' HL: You’ve said creditors objected to you because “I try and talk economics in the Eurogroup, which nobody d...
by Lonewolfie
Fri 10 Jul, 2015 10:16 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 10th July 2015
Replies: 114
Views: 15655

Re: Friday 10th July 2015

What on earth is a 'studio' school? Here you go. http://studioschoolstrust.org/node/3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; The Studio School is a new concept in education, which seeks to address the growing gap between the skills and knowledge that young people require to succee...
by Lonewolfie
Sun 05 Jul, 2015 8:13 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th July 2015
Replies: 168
Views: 36657

Re: Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th July 2015

A big part of the problem is the Newspaper Review on both BBC and Sky. That sets the tabloid agenda which the news programs then follow. BBC in particular simply don't seem to have journalists or reporters any more, just presenters who build their program around right wing paper's headlines without...
by Lonewolfie
Thu 02 Jul, 2015 9:20 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 2nd July 2015
Replies: 107
Views: 21212

Re: Thursday 2nd July 2015

...and, wrt Odious IDS (nod to Rowson) and the Credit Card, I just don't know who to believe :o But they sparked a furious spat, with the politician accusing Ipsa of making a mistake and the watchdog standing by its assertion. http://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/national/ids-in-debt-row-with-watch...
by Lonewolfie
Thu 02 Jul, 2015 8:48 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 2nd July 2015
Replies: 107
Views: 21212

Re: Thursday 2nd July 2015

Aftevenimorn all... Returning to the Greek 'debt'....perhaps someone could point this chap to the indiegogo page.... A Saudi billionaire has announced one of the biggest philanthropic gestures in history, promising to donate all his $32bn (£20bn) wealth to charity over the coming years. http://www.t...
by Lonewolfie
Wed 01 Jul, 2015 8:40 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 1st July 2015
Replies: 116
Views: 23189

Re: Wednesday 1st July 2015

Morafterneve all... An assessment by the four children’s commissioners of the UK, the first full-scale review for seven years, called on the government to reconsider its deep welfare cuts, voiced “serious concerns” about children being denied access to justice in the courts, and called on ministers ...
by Lonewolfie
Thu 25 Jun, 2015 10:30 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 25th June 2015
Replies: 100
Views: 22988

Re: Thursday 25th June 2015

Oh look.....the 'Green Investment Bank' is going to be sold off to private investors... Mr Javid, who will address the GIB's annual review event in London on Thursday, is set to say the bank "has shown that investment in green technologies can be a profitable business. The challenge now is to b...
by Lonewolfie
Thu 25 Jun, 2015 8:33 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 25th June 2015
Replies: 100
Views: 22988

Re: Thursday 25th June 2015

Evemoraftinoon all... Music paper does actual real journalism shock horror ('cos no-one else is bothering?)...although the tide of international opinion (based on facts and evidence) seems to be turning against it, just as TCBBAC and his Monsters of Murkydochia open the floodgates to fracking in Bri...
by Lonewolfie
Wed 17 Jun, 2015 8:39 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wenesday 17th June 2015
Replies: 78
Views: 19681

Re: Wenesday 17th June 2015

https://brianbackblog.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/liz-kendall/ Mafterevenoons... I had a read through that from last nights link from RR2....and really? A 'socialist Marxist' who agrees that 'wealth creators' are 'big business'? Not in any understanding of socialism or Marxism (or fractional reserve b...
by Lonewolfie
Wed 10 Jun, 2015 9:33 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 10th June 2015
Replies: 77
Views: 14286

Re: Wednesday 10th June 2015

Margaret Thatcher’s policies of privatisation, light-touch regulation and low income tax failed to boost growth, according to a new study that casts doubt on the merits of free market economies. In a wide-ranging analysis of Britain’s performance in the decades before and after 1979, economists at ...
by Lonewolfie
Wed 10 Jun, 2015 8:59 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 10th June 2015
Replies: 77
Views: 14286

Re: Wednesday 10th June 2015

Nadine Dorries faces challenge after general election smear campaign allegations http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nadine-dorries-faces-challenge-after-general-election-smear-campaign-allegations-10308790.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Nadine Dorries is fa...
by Lonewolfie
Wed 10 Jun, 2015 8:57 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 10th June 2015
Replies: 77
Views: 14286

Re: Wednesday 10th June 2015

John Mann ‏@JohnMannMP 11m11 minutes ago I am tabling a question to George Osborne today. Did he balance the books in 2010, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15? Has he explained/clarified this yet.... PAC chair Margaret Hodge said it was "hard to understand why the government debt and deficit highlighted in th...
by Lonewolfie
Wed 10 Jun, 2015 8:51 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 10th June 2015
Replies: 77
Views: 14286

Re: Wednesday 10th June 2015

Morfternoon all... I thought for a moment I wasn't going to get in here this morning - tried to log in with 'caps lock' on...and worried that I might not get the correct 'first' name for Gidiot Jeffrey George - but it wasn't a trick question :lol: I'm seeing an awful lot of 'how/why Labour lost the ...
by Lonewolfie
Mon 08 Jun, 2015 10:06 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 8th June 2015
Replies: 141
Views: 24143

Re: Monday 8th June 2015

The other key story this morning is Cameron appearing to have already decided he is going to campaign for In re the EU - despite no details of his renegotiation yet he is insisting it will be successful - and ban his ministers from campaigning against him. He seems to be banking on the assumption t...