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Evening all, I appreciate those who responded to me earlier today. I shall try and address those points from different people. It was unfortunate that the so-called “moderate” Labour wing of the party failed to offer a strong alternative against Corbyn during the leadership race, and similarly don’...

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Evening all, I appreciate those who responded to me earlier today. I shall try and address those points from different people. It was unfortunate that the so-called “moderate” Labour wing of the party failed to offer a strong alternative against Corbyn during the leadership race, and similarly don’t...

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Though it is doubtful any Labour other candidate in 2012 would have had a much better chance of beating Boris - the claims you sometimes hear from Blairites that Oona King (Ken's opponent for that nomination) could have done it are little short of risible. Similarly delusional, of course, are those...

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Indeed, this is where Labour needs to be more ruthless and absolutely not apologise for picking a candidate who can win, even if that results in some internal upsets. Better to be in power with the ability to bring social justice to the masses, rather than sniping in opposition. Though it is doubtf...

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Afternoon all, Tim Montgomerie’s piece on Conservative Home is an interesting read. Before the mayoral contest, Goldsmith didn’t murmur a word about Islamic extremists, indeed, he never courted Asian voters as an MP. To see him deliberately target non-Muslim Asian voters, and paint Kahn as a Muslim ...

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Hi all, I’m shocked to discover that my local ward is now controlled by the Lib Dems, with the Conservative guy losing by actually a fair bit. Now, I’ll say this strictly on a local level only, but the Conservatives have done a pretty good job of maintaining the area over the years. The Lib Dem guy...

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I’m astonished that Zac Goldsmith has not been more criticised for deliberately trying to exploit racial tensions between ethnic communities. The hypocrite that is Lynton Crosby never cared about ethnic minorities last year at the general election, but has suddenly become interested in Asian communi...

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Hi all, I’m shocked to discover that my local ward is now controlled by the Lib Dems, with the Conservative guy losing by actually a fair bit. Now, I’ll say this strictly on a local level only, but the Conservatives have done a pretty good job of maintaining the area over the years. The Lib Dem guy ...

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Evening all, Newsnight really must have a shortage of quality guests to speak. We have Ryan Shorthouse, from "Bright Blue", speaking about who marvellous the rise of self-employment is - his specialist area - clearly. :roll: He used setting up a think-tank as an example of going self-emplo...

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Morning all, It was an oxymoron reading today’s Times newspaper this morning. Cameron and co would love you to believe that the living wage (which isn’t really a living wage) is part of a package to help the low-paid. At the same time, Cameron supposedly wants to opt-out of certain EU employment dir...

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Had a quiet day with the family celebrating 40 years, 20 year olds birthday and SiL birthday. Just logged onto twitter and saw this John O'Farrell ‏@mrjohnofarrell · 5h5 hours ago Please take the trouble to learn a few sentences of Romanian. You never know when a UKIP canvasser may come to your doo...

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Evening all, After the alleged comments from Nicola Sturgeon about Miliband, it will be interesting to see if the polls in the coming weeks see a shift and whether they will impact the SNP’s appeal on voting day. Of course, hardline nationalists in Scotland will vote SNP regardless, but to a lot of ...

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If Sturgeon did say that she would prefer five years of David Cameron as PM, it doesn’t surprise me at all. A Tory administration suits the SNP down to the ground. They have pantomime villains in the Tories to heckle, which goes down awfully well in large swathes of Scotland. Contrary to their rheto...

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Morning all, I think the TV debate went better than expected. Julie Etchingham was a good moderator in general, broadly allowing all candidates to speak on their respective positions without anyone droning on for too long. There is one exception, however. When Julie would politely tell Call me Dave ...

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Fantastic - it looks as if the voters are mostly blaming Call me Dave for the chaotic TV debate discussions. Dave has drawn all this unnecessary attention on himself, voters will wonder what Dave has to hide. He will look like a lost cause in a controlled debate, no chance of doing a Bullingdon bull...

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Morning all, David Cameron’s and Downing Street’s stance on the TV debates has gotten absurd. Why should the electorate care if the TV debates take “too much life out of the election campaign”? If Dave finds attending and participating in TV debates too stressful, or he can’t be bothered, I’d sugges...

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Fantastic piece from Campbell, the hysteria from some parts on Labour’s use of pink vans was ridiculous. Miliband simply can’t win with some people; if the vans were white Labour would have been accused of not being original, use pink vans and Labour are accused of being patronising. The outrage di...

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Afternoon all, PinkVanGate, FinkGate, BaldwinGate – why Labour should take heart from Tory press desperation http://www.alastaircampbell.org/blog/2015/02/14/pinkvangate-finkgate-baldwingate-why-labour-should-take-heart-from-tory-press-desperation/ For every day that the media is talking about the co...

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Morning all, Well done to Andy Burnham for refusing to put a figure on how much private sector involvement there would be in the NHS under Labour. Kirsty Walk did sound so incredibly thick on Newsnight yesterday. How difficult is it to understand – NHS is the preferred provider with private sector i...

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Afternoon all, David Cameron pleads with business to save his bacon by giving their workers wage rises and paying the living wage to the lowest paid. David Cameron calls for wage increases in wake of oil price slump Prime minister says growing profits should result in wage rises, as the Tories look ...

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Morning all, I find David Cameron’s resistance to televised election debates ridiculous and hypocritical. This is a man who repeatedly pushed for the debates when in opposition; he was banking on wiping the floor with Gordon Brown because the latter was politically finished, and Dave’s PR fluff woul...

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re: above I read the Torygraph article, let's start with the basics, if the ethnic minority vote is leaving Labour, where is it going? UKIP - unlikely. Lib Dems - very unlikely. Tory - apparently not. Green - as unlikely as lib Dems. So presumably it is going to the we aren't going to vote bucket. ...

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Afternoon all, I hope you all have a fabulous Christmas and a smashing 2015. This article on the Telegraph caught my eye, “Labour's crucial ethnic minority vote set to collapse” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband/11294984/Labours-crucial-ethnic-minority-vote-set-to-collapse.html&qu...

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Imo, if immigration from the EU is too high it's because economic growth on the continent is stagnant. Merkel and the ECB need to get their fingers out and channel Keynes. Labour's proposed reforms are necessary but not sufficient. I absolutely agree with you. Perhaps the strongest reason for incre...

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TheGrimSqueaker wrote:Just when I think Susie Boniface aka The Fleet Street Fox only does clickbait a la Orr she goes and writes something like this!

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That is fantastic!

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Did anyone catch Question Time on Thursday? There was a single mother who said she worked but people on out-of-work benefits receive more than her net pay. There were two aspects that irked me about this. Firstly, why did the BBC pick that question considering it had no relevance to this week’s proc...

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Morning all, It has been interesting to see David Cameron’s proposals for toughening his stance against EU migrants yesterday. Most of it was of course a load of irrelevant hot air. David Cameron knows this deep down, that most EU migrants arrive in the UK to work without any social security whatsoe...

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I don't drive, have never lived in a household with a car and live with someone who doesn't drive and grew up in a household without a car and whilst I totally respect the absolute necessity in a good number of cases for all sorts of reasons, I also think that for a lot of people the necessity of c...

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It will be interesting to see the National Audit Office's "assessment" of Universal Credit tomorrow. The following exchange between a Tory backbencher and IDS is so telling of how well scrutinised policies are under this administration: "Philip Hollobone, a Conservative, asks what ev...

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I don't drive, have never lived in a household with a car and live with someone who doesn't drive and grew up in a household without a car and whilst I totally respect the absolute necessity in a good number of cases for all sorts of reasons, I also think that for a lot of people the necessity of c...

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It will be interesting to see the National Audit Office's "assessment" of Universal Credit tomorrow. The following exchange between a Tory backbencher and IDS is so telling of how well scrutinised policies are under this administration: "Philip Hollobone, a Conservative, asks what evi...

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Afternoon all, I feel no guilt about being a motorist at all. Nor should you ! I'd love the option of being a non-car driver but alas my walking inability prevents me as does my breathing inability. Some of us cannot cope without our cars & others need to accept that as a fact, not as a choice. ...

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The only issue I have with this is the need for more Engineers? Really, where are they going to work? Rolls Royce just announced layoffs, Marconi - gone, Rover - gone, BAE looking iffy. We seem to have very few engineering companies. So what the UK needs is more Engineering companies first, then mo...

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Miliband's dividing line with the Tories on workers' rights http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/11/milibands-dividing-line-tories-workers-rights" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Question: Are the Tories officially on record as saying they will do all of those things? A...

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Miliband's dividing line with the Tories on workers' rights http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/11/milibands-dividing-line-tories-workers-rights" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Question: Are the Tories officially on record as saying they will do all of those things? A...

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Miliband's dividing line with the Tories on workers' rights http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/11/milibands-dividing-line-tories-workers-rights" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; By adopting this stance, Miliband has carved a potent dividing line with the Conservatives....

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An ok summary from McBride on the current financial chaos, bit muted in his criticism of Osborne, there again he is taking the Mail's shilling so he has to be.. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2798689/shares-eurozone-fears-ebola-big-bet-chancellor-waspish-analysis-gordon-brown-s-ex-spin-doc...

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Afternoon all, Reading Dominic Lawson’s piece in the Sunday Times frustrates me, he wrote about Fraud’s comments on the minimum wage. Just like that Tory audience on Question Time, he conveniently made critics of Fraud the enemies and insinuated like Fraud was some sort of innocent saint. Lawson’s m...

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Don't worry too much Sticky99, polls confirm that a large majority don't agree with Fraud. Hi Anatoly, that is encouraging to hear. What concerned me was some of the Twitter reaction and some letters from Times readers. The letters a couple of days ago were almost treating Fraud as some sort of vic...

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I was amused to see Call me Dave trying to wriggling out of the leader debates. This was a man who eagerly pushed for the leader debates in 2010, because he thought he would wipe the floor with Gordon Brown and Cleggy. Dave thought his big shiny face and PR fluff would entice voters. That didn’t hap...

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Don't worry too much Sticky99, polls confirm that a large majority don't agree with Fraud. Hi Anatoly, that is encouraging to hear. What concerned me was some of the Twitter reaction and some letters from Times readers. The letters a couple of days ago were almost treating Fraud as some sort of vic...

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Morning all, There I was watching Question Time this week and like others, was pretty appalled what I heard about Lord Fraud’s comments about disabled people. Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised by a Tory area and their Tory voters, like many areas in the South East, but hearing the debate one could ha...

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