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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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&...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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'....
- 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-...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...