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- Sat 01 Nov, 2014 11:47 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November 2014
- Replies: 180
- Views: 72252
Re: Saturday 1st November 2014
Oh dear... http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/31/conservatives-eu-bill-pressure-contributions ..oh dear, oh dear :rofl: ...and I'm still in the dark as to why Britains' contribution has risen so much since 2010 - ukont.PNG Does anyone know? It's all Labour's fault? :roll: :lol:
- Sat 01 Nov, 2014 11:47 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November 2014
- Replies: 180
- Views: 72252
Re: Saturday 1st November 2014
Oh dear... http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/31/conservatives-eu-bill-pressure-contributions ..oh dear, oh dear :rofl: ...and I'm still in the dark as to why Britains' contribution has risen so much since 2010 - ukont.PNG Does anyone know? I don't actually know but the only change that h...
- Sat 01 Nov, 2014 11:19 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November 2014
- Replies: 180
- Views: 72252
Re: Saturday 1st November 2014
Oh dear...
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... tributions
..oh dear, oh dear
...and I'm still in the dark as to why Britains' contribution has risen so much since 2010 -
Does anyone know?
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... tributions
..oh dear, oh dear
![ROFL :rofl:](./images/smilies/rofl2.gif)
...and I'm still in the dark as to why Britains' contribution has risen so much since 2010 -
Does anyone know?
- Sat 01 Nov, 2014 11:13 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November 2014
- Replies: 180
- Views: 72252
Re: Saturday 1st November 2014
Morning, peeps, Sad to see that Roger Helmet is divorcing his second wife after getting caught visiting massage parlours. And he says gay marriage undermines the sanctity of the institution, right? Also, with reference to Rochester and Strood, what do people think of the idea that Labour are runnin...
- Sat 01 Nov, 2014 11:05 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November 2014
- Replies: 180
- Views: 72252
Re: Saturday 1st November 2014
Morning. This is Nigel Farage's mum. Yes, really. Can see where he gets his oddball 'end of the pier' persona from. More pics of her déshabillé over at the Mail if anyone cares to look. To be fair she was doing it for charity. She'd obviously finished cleaning behind the fridge by this point :lol:....
- Sat 01 Nov, 2014 11:02 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November 2014
- Replies: 180
- Views: 72252
Re: Saturday 1st November 2014
Also, a few links with rebuttal info for anyone undergoing 'Harman/PIE/Labour' trollery...at best, a non-party political issue (and to be clear - abuse is abuse is abuse)... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10950563/Former-chair-of-Paedophile-Information-Exchange-claims-he-hid-material-i...
- Sat 01 Nov, 2014 10:31 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November 2014
- Replies: 180
- Views: 72252
Re: Saturday 1st November 2014
Picked these links up from BTL under the Guardian's editorial on Woolf's resignation. 'Arrest of Alastair Laing and Colin Peters, members of HM Diplomatic Service, in Naples' Date: 1967 Jan 01-1968 Dec 31 This record is closed Closed For 87 years Opening date: 01 January 2056 http://discovery.natio...
- Sat 01 Nov, 2014 10:07 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November 2014
- Replies: 180
- Views: 72252
Re: Saturday 1st November 2014
Morning all. Radical enough for everybody? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29857849" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; This is a really odd one for me - having watched the Commons ride roughshod over common sense and the true 'will of the people' through it's perverse st...
- Fri 31 Oct, 2014 6:42 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st October 2014
- Replies: 185
- Views: 104537
Re: Friday 31st October 2014
This day just keeps getting better and better. I dunno about that Tizme. Another couple of months delay so it puts back the date when anything damaging emerges from it. Not sure that wasn't part of the intention when she was chosen. I don't think so - I'm voting for Dodgy Daves capacity for unremit...
- Fri 31 Oct, 2014 3:15 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st October 2014
- Replies: 185
- Views: 104537
Re: Friday 31st October 2014
Another for the list...I've lost count now...
http://inforrm.wordpress.com/2014/10/31 ... urt-hears/
http://inforrm.wordpress.com/2014/10/31 ... urt-hears/
- Fri 31 Oct, 2014 2:03 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st October 2014
- Replies: 185
- Views: 104537
Re: Friday 31st October 2014
Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB · 49m 49 minutes ago A failure to win S Yorkshire PCC by-election is bad news for UKIP given background & effort it's put in. Surely some mistake - I thought only one person was allowed to have 'bad news'? I think Dodgy Dave may have crossed some sort of line wrt his ...
- Fri 31 Oct, 2014 10:34 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st October 2014
- Replies: 185
- Views: 104537
Re: Friday 31st October 2014
Morning, the Landslide Log is waiting at the top of the jam in anticipation of the blockage being cleared next Spring, I understand the otters on hand to start the un jamming process. In the meantime, it's things like this that make me wish interest rates shoot up over night back to the all time hi...
- Fri 31 Oct, 2014 10:23 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st October 2014
- Replies: 185
- Views: 104537
Re: Friday 31st October 2014
You can't wash your hands in a buffalo...I'll get my coat...
- Fri 31 Oct, 2014 10:22 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st October 2014
- Replies: 185
- Views: 104537
Re: Friday 31st October 2014
Also, on reading last nights boards, there seemed to be a 'short joke' (not GrantMichaelSebastian - that would be insensitive) competition...one of my favourites is....
What's the difference between a buffalo and a bison?
What's the difference between a buffalo and a bison?
- Fri 31 Oct, 2014 10:15 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st October 2014
- Replies: 185
- Views: 104537
Re: Friday 31st October 2014
here in Hope (just north of Peterborough) we subscribe to the AngryAsWell School Of Thought - landslide for Labour, a la Atlee circa 1945. Okay, this is freaky now. How many people on FTN have at one stage lived near Peterborough? I lived there for about from 2000 to 2006. Although I remember the f...
- Fri 31 Oct, 2014 9:20 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st October 2014
- Replies: 185
- Views: 104537
Re: Friday 31st October 2014
Morning. I'm not sure if the SNP figures are necessarily good for the Coalition. If it came down to it, I'd love me know o think that the SNP would rather support Ed than Cameron (poll idea for You gov there) and I can't see the UK going for a version of EV4EL which precludes Scottish MPs from choo...
- Fri 31 Oct, 2014 9:13 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st October 2014
- Replies: 185
- Views: 104537
Re: Friday 31st October 2014
Abuse victims 'want Woolf to quit' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29844612 Go. Just go. Lots of comment around about there being a conspiracy to keep it all quiet....I believe(TM) it's just another example of Dipshit Daves cluster-fracking-omnishambolic incompetence. There's also a fair bit ...
- Fri 31 Oct, 2014 9:04 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st October 2014
- Replies: 185
- Views: 104537
Re: Friday 31st October 2014
Morning. I'm not sure if the SNP figures are necessarily good for the Coalition. If it came down to it, I'd love me know o think that the SNP would rather support Ed than Cameron (poll idea for You gov there) and I can't see the UK going for a version of EV4EL which precludes Scottish MPs from choo...
- Thu 30 Oct, 2014 10:27 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 30th October 2014
- Replies: 95
- Views: 57348
Re: Thursday 30th October 2014
It's all gone very quiet on the CSA Inquiry...yesterdays' deadline of 12 noon for Woolf to respond to the letter from the HASC came and went with not so much as a murmur...it's become the thing that no-one will talk about (no MSM coverage at all today, it seems)...but of course, the cat is out of th...
- Thu 30 Oct, 2014 10:08 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 30th October 2014
- Replies: 95
- Views: 57348
Re: Thursday 30th October 2014
Two thoughts on this - I really hope it becomes something lethally damaging to Dodgy Daves' career - but I rather doubt it....and, sharing a cell with Coulson? They definitely won't be supporting each other with the 'we didn't do nuffink wrong, it wos them big boys wot told us to' - no no no - absol...
- Thu 30 Oct, 2014 9:26 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 30th October 2014
- Replies: 95
- Views: 57348
Re: Thursday 30th October 2014
Phew hopefully this will settle nerves for Labour supporters. Not BTL at the Guardian. Some formerly sensible posters are now firmly on the "sack Ed and everything will be alright" bandwagon, apparently blissfully unaware that that bandwagon has been driven by the Conservatives ever since...
- Thu 30 Oct, 2014 9:06 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 30th October 2014
- Replies: 95
- Views: 57348
Re: Thursday 30th October 2014
I have to say, Norman Baker did quite well on Today, talking about the Home Office drugs report. Also, Justin Webb did a nice turn driving a wedge between the coalition parties. I heard that as well....following on from last weeks' ' we really need urgently to have a massive re-organisation of the ...
- Wed 29 Oct, 2014 7:50 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29th October 2014
- Replies: 104
- Views: 44007
Re: Wednesday 29th October 2014
Not sure if this was picked up as well...
http://ukchildabuseinquiry.blogspot.co. ... ns-of.html
...Labour MP uses Parliamentary Privilege to link a certain ex-Home Secretary with 'improper conduct with children'.
http://ukchildabuseinquiry.blogspot.co. ... ns-of.html
...Labour MP uses Parliamentary Privilege to link a certain ex-Home Secretary with 'improper conduct with children'.
- Wed 29 Oct, 2014 7:39 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29th October 2014
- Replies: 104
- Views: 44007
Re: Wednesday 29th October 2014
Morning. Link to the WH debate on PIP Harper with the repeated guff about "other benefits are available" and "backdated".Delays harm,sometimes irretrievably so,it is not just income.All the problems totally foreseeable and repeatedly warned about -the unnecessary face to face me...
- Wed 29 Oct, 2014 7:20 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29th October 2014
- Replies: 104
- Views: 44007
Re: Wednesday 29th October 2014
Morning all...and - is it me? Can anyone else spot a difference in these two reports? 'Charles Napier acquitted of sex abuse charge' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29804431 NAPIER:HALF BROTHER OF TORY MP TO ADMIT CHILD SEX OFFENCES http://courtnewsuk.co.uk/newsgallery/?public_id=38789 ...and it seems ...
- Tue 28 Oct, 2014 9:43 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 28th October 2014
- Replies: 131
- Views: 46434
Re: Tuesday 28th October 2014
On Parliament TV this pm...amendment to introduce Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse... http://mandatenow.org.uk/hol-debate-28-10-14-amendment-to-s-43-serious-crimes-bill-to-introduce-mrca-credible-child-protection-in-ras/ Labour support the principle but haven't produced a policy yet...and the Tori...
- Tue 28 Oct, 2014 7:58 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 28th October 2014
- Replies: 131
- Views: 46434
Re: Tuesday 28th October 2014
Morning all... OK - polls - according to all the latest (and going back some time, to when UKIP changed overnight from 'fruitcakes and loons' to 'serious political operators'), the British people are now swallowers of (and have been converted to) the Ultra-Neo-conmens bile - from a healthy 55-60% le...
- Mon 27 Oct, 2014 8:44 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 27th October 2014
- Replies: 224
- Views: 88780
Re: Monday 27th October 2014
Almost 2 years ago to the week...OGRFG might regret giving this interview (given what has come to pass since)...
http://www.theguardian.com/society/vide ... are_btn_tw
http://www.theguardian.com/society/vide ... are_btn_tw
- Mon 27 Oct, 2014 8:12 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 27th October 2014
- Replies: 224
- Views: 88780
Re: Monday 27th October 2014
Morning all... camcarl.PNG ooof.PNG Once again, bringing the name 'Wolfie' into disrespect...I really don't think they'd want me at one of their soirees' though :fight: :fight: :fight: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2808000/Bizarre-bid-gag-MoS-Home-Office-Newspaper-warned-reported-new-press...
- Sun 26 Oct, 2014 10:00 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th October 2014
- Replies: 230
- Views: 84821
Re: Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th October 2014
Record number of people working for low pay - 5.2 million, up 250,000 in the last year. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/26/record-number-of-britons-in-low-paid-jobs-says-thinktank?CMP=twt_gu "Being low paid – and getting stuck there for years on end – creates not only immediate fi...
- Sat 25 Oct, 2014 10:07 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th October 2014
- Replies: 230
- Views: 84821
Re: Saturday 25th October 2014
Anyone able to translate this from a Cif comment please ? Can't work out whether it is complimentary or critical of Alex Salmond. ''Lost Alex Salmond? Naw chance, he's no awa tae bide awa.'' "Alec Salmond gone (as in out of public eye)? No chance, he's not going to go off and twiddle his thumb...
- Sat 25 Oct, 2014 9:54 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th October 2014
- Replies: 230
- Views: 84821
Re: Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th October 2014
Morning all...some members of the CSA Inquiry panel have links to various existing aspects of the enquiry... https://childsexualabuseinquiry.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Letter-Moira-Gibb-to-Home-Secretary-21.10.14.pdf ...that's Gerald Malone, PPS to Brittan from 85-87 and then... h...
- Fri 24 Oct, 2014 9:12 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 24th October 2014
- Replies: 147
- Views: 67717
Re: Friday 24th October 2014
I'm not necessarily a supporter of the religious, but in this case, it's nice to see that something that happened nearly 20 years ago can still end in ignominy for my favourite Australian-American-Scotsman...shame it's not more widely reported, but I guess it's not news like EBOLA BE SCARED EBOLA WO...
- Fri 24 Oct, 2014 9:05 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 24th October 2014
- Replies: 147
- Views: 67717
Re: Friday 24th October 2014
Pleased to see the good people of Liverpool tell it like it is to Mark Harper on QT last night. Special thanks to the young hospital doctor who asked the NHS question - lousy answers from Louise de Bours (get rid of CQC - is she mad? no need to answer) and Mark Harper - who insists there are fewer ...
- Fri 24 Oct, 2014 8:16 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 24th October 2014
- Replies: 147
- Views: 67717
Re: Friday 24th October 2014
Morning all...another 'alternative reality' day I assume. I could have sworn that the NHS had a massive re-organisation not long ago...or perhaps not? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29726934 Really, I'm not sure how to think about this...angry doesn't really cover it but I find the impotence of fe...
- Thu 23 Oct, 2014 8:19 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 23rd October 2014
- Replies: 134
- Views: 53009
Re: Thursday 23rd October 2014
That's why I come here - the high standard of 'well thought out and erudite' commentletsskiptotheleft wrote:Go **** yourself Jeremy Hunt. You lying ****! Apols for such a well thought out and erudite comment. But the sight of the snivelling gobshite, yes another one, this early in the morning is too much.
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- Thu 23 Oct, 2014 8:00 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 23rd October 2014
- Replies: 134
- Views: 53009
Re: Thursday 23rd October 2014
Just remind me...why was the News of the World closed down again? http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/reporters-email-said-can-i-bung-%C2%A3250-policeman-and-%C2%A3250-soldier-sun-six-trial-told http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/i-phoned-newspaper-because-i-thought-everything-was-happening-was-wrong-prison-of...
- Thu 23 Oct, 2014 7:50 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 23rd October 2014
- Replies: 134
- Views: 53009
Re: Thursday 23rd October 2014
Morning all...
It's not going to go away...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pi ... se-4489164
...poll at a a still very healthy 95% for Woolf to resign/stand down.
It's not going to go away...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pi ... se-4489164
...poll at a a still very healthy 95% for Woolf to resign/stand down.
- Wed 22 Oct, 2014 12:02 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
- Replies: 181
- Views: 74902
- Wed 22 Oct, 2014 11:57 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
- Replies: 181
- Views: 74902
Re: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Bl***y (hot fiery place believed in by some people) - I'm spending far too much time in here today!
...but...legal challenge launched over CSA Inquiry Chair...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29719090
...but...legal challenge launched over CSA Inquiry Chair...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29719090
- Wed 22 Oct, 2014 11:53 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
- Replies: 181
- Views: 74902
Re: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
There's a first time for everything. This morning it seems to be for me agreeing with something Nadine Dorries says .... Nadine Dorries MP @NadineDorriesMP · 4m 4 minutes ago There may be nine people on the enquirey, but the lead must have full public and victim confidence - Fiona Woolf no longer h...
- Wed 22 Oct, 2014 11:38 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
- Replies: 181
- Views: 74902
Re: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Somebody pinch me...I must be dreaming....1st piece on Radio 2 news...fleeing foreign prisoners, fault of current Government :o even thought they've spent £1Bn and recruited 10 times the original number of staff to deal with the issue (incompetence much?)...2nd piece...increasing pressure on Woolf ...
- Wed 22 Oct, 2014 11:09 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
- Replies: 181
- Views: 74902
Re: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Somebody pinch me...I must be dreaming....1st piece on Radio 2 news...fleeing foreign prisoners, fault of current Government :o even thought they've spent £1Bn and recruited 10 times the original number of staff to deal with the issue (incompetence much?)...2nd piece...increasing pressure on Woolf t...
- Wed 22 Oct, 2014 10:33 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
- Replies: 181
- Views: 74902
Re: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
...but...PFI was then, is now and always will be a con trick - if they'd used the same process for the funding of hospitals that was used for Quantitative Easing (you know - the £375 Billion created out of thin air, from the Magic Money Tree, to 'strengthen' the banks and enable them to socialise t...
- Wed 22 Oct, 2014 10:12 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
- Replies: 181
- Views: 74902
Re: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Just put this in to IPSO...I'm not holding my breath ' Clause 1 (Accuracy) This complaint is wider ranging than just this article. This publication is now running daily articles accusing the NHS in Wales of a large number of problems under the banner headline - 'Labours Welsh NHS shame'. The Daily M...
- Wed 22 Oct, 2014 9:39 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
- Replies: 181
- Views: 74902
Re: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Burnham/Labour will have to call a moratorium on all this when they take charge - it's going to take quite some sorting out - but surely it is indefensible on any level of medical philosophy that a 'diagnosis' has a financial inducement? Absolutely. I don't recall an instance before when an actual ...
- Wed 22 Oct, 2014 9:35 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
- Replies: 181
- Views: 74902
Re: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Nearly every week our local paper has letters from English tourists thanking our local NHS services and Aberystwyth hospital for the care they, or their relatives, received when taken ill on holiday in Ceredigion. If they read the Mail now, they must be wondering how they managed to crawl out of th...
- Wed 22 Oct, 2014 9:19 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
- Replies: 181
- Views: 74902
Re: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
More... Guy Opperman (Hexham) (Con): Hexham hospital is outstanding but was built under a very expensive Tony Blair PFI. Does the Minister welcome the fact that Northumbria NHS trust is the first in the country to buy out the PFI and put it into public ownership, thereby putting millions more into ...
- Wed 22 Oct, 2014 9:11 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
- Replies: 181
- Views: 74902
Re: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
NHS dementia plan to give GPs cash for diagnoses criticised as ‘ethical travesty’ NHS condemned as ‘odious’ after introducing scheme whereby GPs given £55 each time they identify the disease in a patient http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/22/nhs-dementia-diagnoses-gps-patients-criticised D...
- Wed 22 Oct, 2014 9:05 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
- Replies: 181
- Views: 74902
Re: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
...on Woolf again - she stated yesterday that she 'doesn't know any Freemasons'...so she didn't then, and doesn't now, know her predecessor as lord Mayor...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Gifford
'Gifford, a Freemason,[6]'
...never met him, no idea who he is![Surprised :o](./images/smilies/icon_e_surprised.gif)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Gifford
'Gifford, a Freemason,[6]'
...never met him, no idea who he is
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