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I think that there should be some sort of cut-off point - a "freeze date" - but 6 months? The last time this applied (as mentioned in the judgement) it was in the autumn of 2010 and had something to do with BAME candidates; the period was 6 weeks. Many people joined in good faith between t...

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Ciaran Jenkins (Channel 4) Tweeted this -
"Court of Appeal orders 5 Labour members to pay £30,000 costs within 28 days"

John McTernan, in response -
"LOL"

Disgraceful little man.

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Full judgment here: https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/evangelou-v-mcnicol-appeal-judgment-20160812.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Thanks. So full members, who have paid their subscriptions from any date after 12th.January 2016, cannot vote in the ...

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This is Post No.7 on Page 2.

I have nothing to say.

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This is good from Natalie Bloomer - and is very much what we expected (and what I predicted in the W&B section here some time ago....) http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2016/08/12/how-the-dwp-stacks-the-odds-against-benefit-claimants" onclick="window.open(this.href);return fal...

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yahyah - and others interested in politics over the Ditch Of Death that is Offa's Dyke..... Nathan "two-jobs" Git had a care business with his mum, registered in Ynys Mon but operating in Hull. Despite paying peanuts to his Filipino and Eastern European workforce who were put up in bunkhou...

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I'm too much of a lady to ask the age old question. Just hope it isn't too windy up there. Scotland that is, not up the kilt. I would just say that not being Scottish, and having agreed to wear the kilt, that I should have the right to ignore certain other of the 'traditions'! It will of course be ...

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HindleA wrote:Tobacco rolling with one hand competition.

I can do that. Gissa job.

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Ladies and gentlemen! I give you - the Food Olympics! 1. The Spaghetti Time Trials - large bowl of spaghetti in red sauce, 30cm from mouth, to be eaten with a fork only. You will be disqualified if you get any red sauce anywhere, slurp or suck, or fail to finish your spaghetti before bedtime. 2. The...

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HindleA wrote:Lovely place Fiji -Bula

I'm just getting my hair done.12 hours later approaching midnight,it was done.

"Done", A?

Done to a turn, done to a crisp, or just, like, done for?

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http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/atos-nurse-struck-off-over-pip-assessment-lies/ Atos nurse struck off over PIP assessment lies I am disgusted by members of the profession of which I was so proud working for the likes of Atos and Maximus. It goes against everything I was taught, it's not good p...

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Yay! The GB men are through to the rugby sevens final!

They get Fiji. Oooer.....

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http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/atos-nurse-struck-off-over-pip-assessment-lies/ Atos nurse struck off over PIP assessment lies I am disgusted by members of the profession of which I was so proud working for the likes of Atos and Maximus. It goes against everything I was taught, it's not good p...

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Show says thank you for the birthday wishes. He also says you may not have cake. It's all for him. (He ate 3 onion bhajis. Oink) However, I have some nice fruity Welsh cakes in the tin, and I'll be making a lemon drizzle cake at the weekend. You can have some of that instead. Who like chocolate cake...

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Ohso, you are a very naughty girl. Mind you, one of the not-very-good-at-rowing Greeks is just divine. I don't care if he's not-very-good-at-rowing. He's BEAUTIFUL!!!!! :heart: Just think about way back when, when they competed in the nuddy. :shock: :lol: Although I can think of some sports where i...

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Professor Alexis Jay has been appointed to chair the child abuse enquiry after Judge Lowell Goddard resigned. Jay has no legal qualifications, but a lot of experience in the field and chaired the Rotherham enquiry. This has already cost £18 Million so far - perhaps now, at long last, something might...

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Jess Phillips is an eejit. She claims she contacted both Corbyn and someone in his office (who she calls, with no sense of irony, "lovely") by text. Twice. So she sends two text messages and seriously thinks this is the way to get a party leader to "do something"? Someone mention...

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ohsocynical wrote:For Ephie.

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Ohso, you are a very naughty girl.

Mind you, one of the not-very-good-at-rowing Greeks is just divine.
I don't care if he's not-very-good-at-rowing. He's BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

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Michael Rosen ‏@MichaelRosenYes Lawyer acting for Ian McNicol has basically told judge that client (McNicol) can do what he wants. That certainly does seem to be the attitude of certain people involved in all this :) It does - and that's what bothers me. In theory, on the grounds that I am currentl...

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On another subject - it's Show's birthday today!

There's chocolate cake for tea (with cream for him).
He is dining this evening on homemade chicken curry with lots of trimmings.

He is, I have to say, lucky to have me.

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Willow - I take your point, and the rulebook should be clearer. However - what the NEC appears to be saying is that they have a right to apply an arbitrary retrospective freeze; this affects 130,000 people, many of whom may well have joined long before the latest leadership election was announced on...

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1. Are you fed up with tory austerity and sleaze? Would you like a party that represents lots of different views? Join our party, pay £3.92 a month, and you will be part of the team and able to vote in leadership elections. 2. If you like the leader who was elected last time by a stonking great majo...

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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/11/right-to-buy-reform-urged-as-council-leaders-fear-for-social-housing?CMP=share_btn_tw Right-to-buy reform urged as council leaders fear for social housing Figures show that replacements for homes sold under the right-to-buy scheme fell by 27% last yea...

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yahyah - thank you for the cartoon.

Chanel was a strange woman. But she made fabulous clothes.

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Well.

Back to the old routine, seems we couldn't have just one day without a ruckus.

"Sharon" - @ephemerid213

Nighty night all.

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Rio!

D'oh of the day (so far) - Chris Boardman commentating on the women's time trials: "She's good at going uphill. She's also good at going down hills. You need that in an event like this".

Er, yes. You do.

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And this on Brexit is superb https://flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2016/08/10/brexit-enough-david-brent-this-is-serious/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Yes it is good. In my dim and distant past I understood all about customs clearances and checks on non-EU exports. Wo...

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"ephemerid" Breaking News!!!!!!! Exclusive!!!!!! "Jess Phillips has revelation! The Daily Bleat can reveal Jess has finally understood that her job is to represent her constituents! Wearing a matelot-striped top and blood-red lipstick, she told our reporter that her new mission is to...

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Morning, Stephen. Breaking News!!!!!!! Exclusive!!!!!! "Jess Phillips has revelation! The Daily Bleat can reveal Jess has finally understood that her job is to represent her constituents! Wearing a matelot-striped top and blood-red lipstick, she told our reporter that her new mission is to be q...

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HindleA wrote:Labour mention ,different context get out clause.

It's not really working for you, is it?

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Best I ever managed was fifth in the 100m freestyle in the Aberdeenshire School Championship of 1973 freestyle.Qualifying consisted of not drowning.That there were only five in it didn't stop my celebrations. Great stuff, A. Not drowning is a not inconsiderable benefit whilst swimming, I find. I wa...

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Joined-up government: Item 67,350. Or something. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/10/teenagers-isolated-idle-youth-clubs-services-closed?CMP=share_btn_tw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; After the (expected by all except the government) failure of the Troubled Fami...

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Good morning! Michael Phelps - 21 Olympic gold medals. That's an astonishing achievement. There was an interesting, if brief, discussion about his struggles with alcohol on the BBC during the commentary yesterday - Mark Foster said that high-level sport is quite an addictive thing, and when top athl...

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Frances Ryan has a new article http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/09/biased-fit-fir-work-tests-poorer-disabled-people" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Government data from 300 LAs from 2007 to 2015 was analysed, and the findings are that people claiming sickness or d...

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Good to see you Ohso.

And that post is a cracker....

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Played a bit of cricket in a Sunday League for a few weeks because they were short of players.Interesting experience in vaguelly putting your bat somewhere where you think the ball will arrive more in self preservation than purposeful stroke.I was good in the field and running about a bit usually a...

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Oh. Still on about the uselessness/nastiness/whatever of Labour politicians, I see. I've been watching the swimming. Helen Skelton is driving me INSANE. Just put Mark Foster in his trunks and leave him to get on with it, please. The rugby sevens have been fun too; the rowing's going well, and the fa...

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https://twitter.com/PolhomeEditor/status/762986869609095168 Start deselecting MP's & watch our party die :( edit: no idea why the image didn't load but regardless, here's what the tweet by Kevin Schofield, said: New Labour NEC member Rhea Wolfson says there needs to be "a conversation"...

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Thanks yahyah - sadly, I expect it to be a short visit. It saddens me to see the repeated attacks on people like Hugo. Whatever people think of where he sits on the left-right scale, he used to be a party member & is now one of many lost to the party. Doubtless there will be people thinking tha...

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yahyah wrote:
mbc1955 wrote:Hebrews 13:8
Blimey, has Hugo developed a halo ?

No chance.

He can't even develop an argument....

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mbc1955 wrote:Hebrews 13:8

Lovely!

"......the same yesterday, today, and forever....."

:lol!:

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Bored with Labour's shenanigans. So I'm concentrating on the "Troubled Families Programme" - which, as anyone who knows anything about Louise Casey will not be surprised to discover, is a resounding failure in the same mould as her rough sleepers unit (fail, with lies on top), anti-social ...

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Cripes!

Having been in the national swimming squad (many moons ago) I must have been a Goddess.

Actually, I am still a Goddess, though I hide it well......

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mbc1955 was right earlier on.

Here we are, after a day of the usual schtick from ORCT, and lo! the thread is all about him yet again.

It's keeping me away, frankly.

Laters.

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Not only did Mr.Justice Higginbottom agree that the members should be allowed to vote, he also judged that people who had already paid ordinary membership dues should not have been expected to pay an additional £25 in order to secure that vote and should be refunded.

Good.

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Well, that didn't take long.

Shame that the request of our lovely moderators/admin had such little effect.

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https://www.byline.com/column/11/article/1177 We did this over the weekend, thanks. When you're posting links, could you please post the title (if nothing else so we can avoid seeing material we've already been over) and preferably give an idea of what the article is about. Now then, Robert, don't ...

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I am inclined to agree with the following - 1. We ALL need to wind our necks in at times, actually, and we could ALL be a little less precious. That includes me and anyone who the cap fits. 2. Robert makes the point that all this stuff about the bill was a year ago. I thought I understood this stuff...

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Oh stop this. Please.

It's bad enough when ORCT starts - don't need you two at it as well.

Play nice.

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tinyclanger2 wrote:
HindleA wrote:I know every street in Liverpool.It's in Kensington,just off West Derby Road.

I lived in Balmoral,just off Prescot Road,before that Kremlin .
Yes Andrea. We understand.

But........I've never been to Liverpool!

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