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- Thu 09 Oct, 2014 9:19 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th October 2014 - Dave's bumper birthday
- Replies: 173
- Views: 77661
Re: Thursday 9th October 2014
Tim Farron's sick joke about dealing with molesters/sex offenders on his watch looks even more off colour this morning, particularly as the person accused of cover up wants his job. ''Senior Lib Dem ‘ordered destruction of document on Cyril Smith abuse claims’ Liz Lynne, candidate to become party p...
- Thu 09 Oct, 2014 8:29 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th October 2014 - Dave's bumper birthday
- Replies: 173
- Views: 77661
Re: Thursday 9th October 2014
Has anyone asked Carswell whether he'll have the same attitude to Westminster that his colleagues have for Yurrrrp? http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ukip-branded-laziest-political-party-1936913 https://factcheckeu.org/de/factchecks/show/293/chris-davies ...and I really, really wish someone would...
- Wed 08 Oct, 2014 1:47 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 8th October 2014
- Replies: 184
- Views: 93208
Re: Wednesday 8th October 2014
George Eaton @georgeeaton 52s52 seconds ago Labour reshuffle likely next week, several sources have told me today. Well that should be interesting ..... have to admit to a sneaky little hope that Darling might be waiting in the wings to make a surprise entrance. I don't mind if it's just a bit par...
- Wed 08 Oct, 2014 1:32 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 8th October 2014
- Replies: 184
- Views: 93208
Re: Wednesday 8th October 2014
david bush @Davidbush 19m19 minutes ago #ldconf libdem conference not policed because they still owe £800.000 from last year. The party of financial probity.. pay your bills! :o You'd think, as such masters of negotiation (see 'Rose Garden' :o ), they'd have been able to get some sort of deal wher...
- Wed 08 Oct, 2014 9:42 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 8th October 2014
- Replies: 184
- Views: 93208
Re: Wednesday 8th October 2014
I found this the other day.... http://www.alternet.org/economy/has-neoliberalism-turned-us-all-psychopaths ...and after a bit of digging, found it in the Graun (as it says at Alternet that it's a Graun piece)... http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/29/neoliberalism-economic-system-ethic...
- Wed 08 Oct, 2014 9:22 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 8th October 2014
- Replies: 184
- Views: 93208
Re: Wednesday 8th October 2014
Morning. Am I being unfair to Clegg ? He's voted for his government's policies that have caused so many people anxiety and depression, now we get close to an election he's pushing for more money/targets for mental health ? Bah humbug. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29529877" onclick=&qu...
- Wed 08 Oct, 2014 8:59 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 8th October 2014
- Replies: 184
- Views: 93208
Re: Wednesday 8th October 2014
Morning all. We can all rest easy in our beds. Our Glorious Leader is chairing a meeting of COBRA today Morning all...has anyone been keeping score on how many times he's chaired emergency meetings in Cabinet Office, Briefing Room A? I'm interested to know if it's more than his great hero, Charles ...
- Mon 06 Oct, 2014 8:57 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 6th October 2014
- Replies: 151
- Views: 46012
Re: Monday 6th October 2014
Morning all...and sorry...gone a bit 'link' happy this morning - I found some bits over the w/end but didn't manage to drop them in... This feed is worrying...it looks like state-sponsored racism... https://twitter.com/RMicheleGreen ...and one for the 'drip drip drippety drippers'... http://www.dail...
- Sat 04 Oct, 2014 10:22 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October 2014
- Replies: 337
- Views: 110603
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October 2014
Not sure if these have been linked... http://dpac.uk.net/2014/09/take-part-in-the-boycott-workfare-week-of-action-4-12-october-2014/ http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2014/10/02/edinburgh-leeds-london-brighton-bristol-amsterdam-join-the-week-of-action-against-workfare/ (which has a nice 'Hall of Shame...
- Sat 04 Oct, 2014 10:02 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October 2014
- Replies: 337
- Views: 110603
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October 2014
My hope (which is also where I live, just north of Peterborough) Just north? Stamford is just north of Peterborough, and is nowhere near as pretty as your part of the world; I always fancied moving there just so I could say (as you are) "I live in Hope"! Who said anything about Stamford? ...
- Sat 04 Oct, 2014 9:59 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October 2014
- Replies: 337
- Views: 110603
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October 2014
Snap Yah Yah Crossover posts
- Sat 04 Oct, 2014 9:58 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October 2014
- Replies: 337
- Views: 110603
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October 2014
...and so - back to my favourite soap-box...some interesting reads (as ever, apologies if they've been linked already)... http://hackinginquiry.org/comment/the-times-a-lawyer-some-weasel-words-and-a-non-existent-spectre/ http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/nick-davies-found http://fothom.wordpre...
- Sat 04 Oct, 2014 9:41 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October 2014
- Replies: 337
- Views: 110603
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October 2014
There was a bit of traffic yesterday around Ivan Cameron...so, like a scratched record, I'll link these again... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2094805/Why-does-David-Cameron-insist-disability-cuts-sickened-party.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/disabled-charity-that-he...
- Sat 04 Oct, 2014 9:32 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October 2014
- Replies: 337
- Views: 110603
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th October 2014
From yesterday.... "AngryAsWell I'm convinced it will be a Labour landslide 51A I wish I was convinced, I live in hope of the electorate saying "no" to more austerity whilst not ever punishing the real culprits but I have to say, I have never seen Labour so unelectable. No-one likes E...
- Tue 30 Sep, 2014 9:51 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 30th September 2014
- Replies: 186
- Views: 70276
Re: Tuesday 30th September 2014
sht30091.JPG ...don't worry - Fat Eric's got the little list...he started in 2011 with 120,000 families... http://www.local.gov.uk/localism/-/journal_content/56/10180/3491811/ARTICLE ...and it all went very well... http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/25/problem-families-department-for-commu...
- Mon 29 Sep, 2014 8:23 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 29th September 2014
- Replies: 270
- Views: 99896
Re: Monday 29th September 2014
Morning all... http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/ "But good of Murdoch to let us know he’s scared shitless of having a Government in Westminster that may not be keen on doing his bidding." Apologies if it's been linked before but....apparently even ol' Uncle Rupert is having second thought...
- Fri 26 Sep, 2014 8:11 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 26th September 2014
- Replies: 157
- Views: 60381
Re: Friday 26th September 2014
When you are denounced as racist by the father of one of the victims, you clearly are racist. UKIP are the gutter, the idea that a PR based electoral system would give this lot the power to dictate the government (as well as a large number of MPs) is rapidly becoming a convincing argument for the a...
- Thu 25 Sep, 2014 11:10 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th September 2014
- Replies: 174
- Views: 66608
Re: Thursday 25th September 2014
@LoneWolfie The one phrase that sticks in my mind [or should that be craw] from the eighties was 'Golden boys of the city' and reading about their lavish lifestyles and how young they were. On my reckoning, they're in their fifties now, probably in top positions in the city. No wonder we've been ro...
- Thu 25 Sep, 2014 9:17 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th September 2014
- Replies: 174
- Views: 66608
Re: Thursday 25th September 2014
Morning all... I feel a bit embarrassed that all I manage to do is come in here waffle briefly and incoherently when others can express things so much more eloquently :oops: so a massive thank you to everyone for being here :clap: I saw a link last night for a TUC rally in Birmingham on the 29th so ...
- Tue 23 Sep, 2014 9:56 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd September 2014
- Replies: 228
- Views: 89879
Re: Tuesday 23rd September 2014
Uber-Yessers? Are they the same as cybernats? :?: Say what you like about that campaign, but previous to that demonstration (and the subsequent reporting of it (by other news organisations)) Douglas Alexander was getting his own personal ranting space on BBC News. After that demo the BBC would at l...
- Tue 23 Sep, 2014 9:20 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd September 2014
- Replies: 228
- Views: 89879
Re: Tuesday 23rd September 2014
Morning all. BBC Breakfast first item on local South West news "Labour party delegates are defending Ed Miliband today" :fire: :wall: Maybe we should take a leaf out of the uber-Yessers strategy book and demonstrate outside the BBC & Guardian buildings :x Uber-Yessers? Are they the sa...
- Tue 23 Sep, 2014 8:52 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd September 2014
- Replies: 228
- Views: 89879
Re: Tuesday 23rd September 2014
Morning all. BBC Breakfast first item on local South West news "Labour party delegates are defending Ed Miliband today" :fire: :wall: Morning all...on the same theme...BBC 10 o'clock news last night...began by trailing what Ed 'might' say in his speech about the NHS and a 'Mansion' tax, f...
- Mon 22 Sep, 2014 8:47 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 22nd September
- Replies: 150
- Views: 56565
Re: Monday 22nd September
Ah, Ed Balls followed by Nick Robinson, because we can't possibly understand the words that Balls says ourselves I'm not sure it's because we can't understand it...I think it's more because it needs to be twisted, obfuscated and seen from the 'correct' political perspective. I dropped into R4 this ...
- Sun 21 Sep, 2014 10:53 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st September 2014
- Replies: 255
- Views: 79458
Re: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st September 2014
It seems that Andrew Mitchell wasn't quite the poor victim of malicious police officers that some of his friends have been desperate to portray him as. According to lawyers for The Sun he had a history of abusing the police officers who were meant to be protecting him. http://www.independent.co.uk/...
- Thu 18 Sep, 2014 9:20 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th September 2014
- Replies: 341
- Views: 109717
Re: Thursday 18th September 2014
Good Morning all Big day today - and exciting.....trying to work out how to stay up for the results without being more useless than normal tomorrow My guess for today is 53-47 in favour of No To give my view on Spacedome's question: My view is simple - the responsibility of Central Government is to...
- Thu 18 Sep, 2014 9:11 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th September 2014
- Replies: 341
- Views: 109717
Re: Thursday 18th September 2014
Morning all...and apologies for the clunky effort at responding to a post from yesterday... Ernst Remarx wrote: cm23.JPG Tory Blur was a Murkydochian stooge (and still is - http://rt.com/usa/bohemian-blair-powell-guccifer-811/ - make no mistake - tin-foil hat or no, the Bohemian Grove exists, as do ...
- Wed 17 Sep, 2014 11:27 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 17th September 2014
- Replies: 124
- Views: 45528
Re: Wednesday 17th September 2014
Strange how this doesn't seem to be getting any media coverage.... http://dpac.uk.net/2014/09/tory-partry-conference-protest-and-festival/ Well, the BBC contrived to avoid saying anything about a 50000+ NHS march right by the Conference hall last year (Norman Smith embarrassing himself mightily on ...
- Wed 17 Sep, 2014 10:21 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 17th September 2014
- Replies: 124
- Views: 45528
Re: Wednesday 17th September 2014
Strange how this doesn't seem to be getting any media coverage....
http://dpac.uk.net/2014/09/tory-partry- ... -festival/
http://dpac.uk.net/2014/09/tory-partry- ... -festival/
- Wed 17 Sep, 2014 10:13 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 17th September 2014
- Replies: 124
- Views: 45528
Re: Wednesday 17th September 2014
Any views on why the Scottish Sun hasn't come out for Yes ? Uncle Rupert suddenly getting cold feet when he saw the 'extreme greens' (perhaps some sort of turbo-charged Brussels Sprout) and 'far-left socialists' (Is that you, Tommy Sheridan? Why wouldn't Uncle Rupert want to work with you I wonder?...
- Sat 13 Sep, 2014 9:30 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th September 2014
- Replies: 350
- Views: 127656
Re: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th September 2014
Morning! Just been catching up with last night's posts. Some really insightful stuff on the Indy Ref. Well of course I can't vote, but after some ephemerid inspired flirtation with Yes in my imagined vote I'm now back in the No camp. I'm worried that ordinary Scots are being lured by a vision of a ...
- Tue 09 Sep, 2014 11:38 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th September 2014
- Replies: 110
- Views: 48561
Re: Tuesday 9th September 2014
MY EYES! :shock: 'kin Ada...my eyes too (and surely his majority is so small as to be inverse? In that he hasn't got one?) On my normal obsession of Murkydochia, not sure if this has been linked... http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/08/ex-notw-deputy-features-editors-trial-phone-hacking-ch...
- Tue 09 Sep, 2014 9:17 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th September 2014
- Replies: 110
- Views: 48561
Re: Tuesday 9th September 2014
Sorry. MY EYES! :shock: 'kin Ada...my eyes too (and surely his majority is so small as to be inverse? In that he hasn't got one?) On my normal obsession of Murkydochia, not sure if this has been linked... http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/08/ex-notw-deputy-features-editors-trial-phone-hac...
- Mon 08 Sep, 2014 10:42 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 8th September 2014
- Replies: 117
- Views: 50982
Re: Monday 8th September 2014
Nick Clegg @nick_clegg 4m On my way to launch the LD pre-manifesto this morning with policies designed to create a #StrongerEconomy and a #FairerSociety Ooh, can't wait. 'Pre-manifesto' - that's telling us that these proposals have even less weight and commitment than their real manifesto I guess....
- Thu 04 Sep, 2014 11:29 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 4th September 2014
- Replies: 121
- Views: 50298
Re: Thursday 4th September 2014
No problem. Mind you, I'm not saying they won't try and pass some "emergency" legislation, wouldn't put anything past them; they would be daft if they did try though, as I suspect that might be the spark that sets off the powder keg. Morning all...and a belated thank you to Pfy/Refitman e...