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George Osborne has said that the Tories will support the “basic human instinct” of parents to provide for their children by ensuring that family homes worth £1m will be taken out of inheritance tax. Immediately brings to mind the charlie brooker comment about Cameron's debate notes and maintaining ...

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Talking of Gove...him and Toady support QPR (although I'd love to know if that's just a coincidence and whether Toady supports them just because Mikey does). 88th minute goal from Fabragas...and QPR lose. Not looking good for them. QPR were robbed & all because of an atrocious kick by Rob Green...

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rebeccariots2 wrote:
ErnstRemarx wrote:
rebeccariots2 wrote:For Ernst:
Ed Balls Visits Bury North.jpg
Is that your PPC with him?
Yup.
Aaah. Feel free to have another Guinness on me.

Thank 'ee kindly - I actually sup San Miguel; Andrew's the Guinness lover, as his ample girth betrays rather unkindly.

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Sounds like fun Ernst! Was WB on the Guinness of the San Miguel? *innocent whistle* Re. Grayling's whereabouts, does this help? Rammy Conservatives ‏@RammyTories · 20h20 hours ago Today we welcomed Chris Grayling, Justice Secretary to #Tottington to support @DavidNuttallMP #BuryNorth Beeky chugger!...

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rebeccariots2 wrote:For Ernst:
Ed Balls Visits Bury North.jpg

Ed Balls ‏@edballsmp 46m46 minutes ago
RT @JamesFrith: Thx to @edballsmp for supporting @SuperJCharity yesterday on visit to Bury North @DawnFidler
Is that your PPC with him?

Yup.

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Had an amusing incident occur yesterday. Myself and Andrew (this year's local candidate) have decided to campaign for extra pedestrian crossings on the main road through the ward, it being a bugger to cross much of the time, particularly peak hours - not much fun if you're taking the kids to school....

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Saw my first and only poster today. Labour in the Erewash seat. V. marginal. Nearby there was a Labour campaign team out canvassing. That seat should be a Lab gain next month. Afternoon all. http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/conlist_c_e.html#Erewash" onclick="window.open(this.href);retur...

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ohsocynical wrote:THE ANDREW MARR SHOW
INTERVIEW:
GEORGE OSBORNE, MP
CHANCELLOR OF THE
EXCHEQUER
APRIL 12th 2015

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/p ... sborne.pdf

It's Marr, Jim, but not as we know it....

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What a load of cock. He might as well post about the efficacy of filling your nostrils with Yorkshire gravy as a method of avoiding earthquakes. What, you mean this is not true? It must be though. I've been filling my nostrils with gravy for years and never experienced an earthquake. Yeah, take you...

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Good work Ernst! RR may have many faults but I don't think she's a snob who'll have you taken out. :D I suspect she's hard-working but not a very good communicator. Then again, when she makes her public pronouncements, she's probably trying to address those people who voted Tory last time and are w...

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Right then, to business. Ephemerid, you maybe pleased to hear that I met Rachel Reeves last night at a social organised for our idiot PPC. I buttonholed her and explained who you and we are, and told her that people don't necessarily trust Labour on social security (the phrase I used, not welfare). ...

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The Hampstead Village idiot has come close to outdoing himself: This may surprise you, but the Tories are delighted with how the campaign is going Politics is a simple game in which people run around the country for five weeks. Then the Tories win http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-20...

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@ pk1 This - That said, there is still time, let’s not forget that in 1992 the Conservatives pretty much junked their whole election campaign blueprint a third of the way in and John Major got out his soap box…. will Cameron take to his trusty stead[sic] to tour the Shires? I'm not sure that there ...

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Oh dear.... Election 2015: Candidate suggested cars be damaged By BBC News (UK) @BBCNews Labour's Ceredigion election candidate apologises "wholeheartedly" for once suggesting Tippex could be thrown over cars displaying English flags. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-wales-32249455...

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I know you're all anxious to get word on the latest so, as I happened upon it as the Guardian website ricocheted about: NicholasB 10m ago 1 2 Populus also have a 2% Labour Lead (31:33:8:16:6). The underlying position (Clipped Weighted Moving Average) seems to be a 1% Labour Lead but the short term ...

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Owen Jones has pointed out on Twitter that "stabbed in the back" is a fairly well known anti Semitic meme. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; He's getting a lot of "oh woe, how could you sink so low as to sugg...

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Prime minister David Cameron meets six-year-old Lucy Howarth on the campaign trail at Sacred Heart primary school in Westhoughton, near Bolton , on Wednesday. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Far be it from me to be trivial (and bear in mind that if I had any friends, some of them would almost certai...

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Plaid are whinging on Twitter that it is Labour that have dragged up the old article that's put Plaid's candidate here in hot water. Their candidate complained, in what he himself now calls 'high octane' language, about some English incomers being racist BNP gun toters. But it was the local paper, ...

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PorFavor wrote:@ErnstRemarx

Thank you for the O'Brien link.

No probs; only polite.

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Some good shots of Dave's Cornwall rally... http://linkis.com/www.mirror.co.uk/usv/DRvLM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; An excellent expose of the ham faced piss trumpet's methods. Christ, if Miliband tried that trick it would be front page news. Keep retweeting this stuff...

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Don't forget there will be Council elections in some areas as well as the GE. Although we have little chance of unseating our Conservative MP, it's looking promising for Labour gains on our Tory locked council... A point worth stressing. In many areas, the MP may be Tory, but surprise, surprise, it...

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I am nowhere near as pessimistic. Of course *some* people - quite a large number - still uncritically consume what the MSM feeds them, but it is way down on what it used to be. Not only is newspaper circulation, in particular, massively less than what it was - but surveys repeatedly show people far...

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LOL, I have upset a Nat on UKPR by calling them separatists ! Oh dear.......:lol: If they don't think they are separatists they really need to get with the program. And yet, many of them pretend to be socialists, when that's the exact opposite of what their stance is. I never cease to be amazed. If...

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LOL, I have upset a Nat on UKPR by calling them separatists ! Oh dear.......:lol: You're living right. Let's just put this straight: you can't be a nationalist and a socialist. Socialism is internationalist in nature, and anybody who tries to argue otherwise is talking out of their arse. If people ...

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And Nicky Morgan's going to make a Very Important Speech on education tomorrow... Really? I guess that letter to the Mail from 80 HTs telling Labour not to reverse anything is just a pure coincidence that it'll appear on the same day. Oh yes. I'm sure it's a completely unexpected and total surprise...

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At Twitter via the Guardian. — Fraser Nelson (@FraserNelson) April 7, 2015 Never thought I’d be so pleased to hear a swing voter say she has now decided to go for Labour. Tonight’s Scottish debate has been superb. What have the aliens done with the real Fraser Nelson? At the risk of inviting brickb...

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Barry Sheerman ‏@BarrySheerman 7m7 minutes ago Can we have Michael Gove on every night ? He so clearly represents the bilious nasty true DNA of the Tory party! @BBCNewsnight He was dreadful apparently - sticking up for the non doms and floundering over the Big Society. Must be that special media kn...

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Apparently I can't call someone who came out with the "NHS run for the people who work in it" a moron. Why ever not? It's up there with 'long term economic plan' and 'Labour encouraged immigration to get more votes' and 'NHS safe in our hands' as a piece of breathtakingly mendacious bollo...

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rebeccariots2 wrote:
Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB · 51s 51 seconds ago
LAB moves to 2% lead with YouGov
CON 33%, LAB 35%, LD 8%, UKIP 14%, GRN 5%

Forgive me for saying it, but according to the 35%ists, doesn't that indicate a Labour majority?

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This brought a smile to my face. No precis needed.

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-4a ... SRN25PpyZU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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It's very odd to see yourself on telly. Very odd... Indeed - there's some vid footage of me in council speechifying to the assembled horde, and what I thought was a sage and witty delivery of killer points and acute and pointed humour looks in retrospect like a very poor actor struggling with an ev...

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Hello, my duck. Yes I'd like to see the onebuttonmonkey video, too. I meant to hunt it down to watch on TV. Here it is: https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/o-brien" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; OBM was telling us all he was on today's show so surely he would have no objection t...

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I'm tempted to watch that. BTW - and to ensure maximum exposure to OBM - I can tell you that he done good on ITV yesterday with a fairly spirited and lively (and of course intelligent) showing. Assuming OBM gives permission, I'll post the the URL to the show in question. OBM - can you let me know y...

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7.30pm tonight on ITV The first of five films painting intimate portraits of the party leaders in the run up to the election. Tom Bradby spends time at Number 10 with David Cameron and his family. also at 9pm on BBC News channel is a Newsbeat programme where 100 young people aged 18-24 are discussi...

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@ diGriz I've been meaning to say this for some time now . . . When I look at your picture\avatar thingy, I always see a side-on image of a black and white duck. It took time for me to realise that it was something different but, even now, the duck is the first thing I see and I have to crank my br...

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Ha ha ha. Afer months on end of having the easiest possible ride from the meeja, Farrago now claims it's biased against UKIP. So nothing to do with a motley collection of misfit councillors and PPCs who seem to manage to out-idiot each other on an almost daily basis? http://www.independent.co.uk/new...

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pk1 wrote:Is there a way of stopping a 'vine' on a web page ?

Looking at the vine of Bennett arriving in Manc on the AS blog is making me nauseous & I just want to be able to make the page stand still.

Jeremy Vine?

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Just to let you know - Ed was worth it according to MsRemarx. She went in with the leader of the council, no questions asked, and, yes, the event was packed. I later met a fellow councillor who was previously a David M. fan, and she reckoned that Ed Miliband's the real thing, and that the event was...

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Just to let you know - Ed was worth it according to MsRemarx. She went in with the leader of the council, no questions asked, and, yes, the event was packed. I later met a fellow councillor who was previously a David M. fan, and she reckoned that Ed Miliband's the real thing, and that the event was ...

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Time for a gripe. Miliband's rocking up to Bury today, and apparently the event is so oversubscribed that only disciples of the idiot PPC get to go, rather than the people who kept the flag flying and the party alive in the darkest days of 2010. Nice to know where you stand. Full council last night...

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pk1 wrote:Doncaster Councils response to the ZHC allegations:

Exactly Bury Council's stance on ZHCs. We have employees who cn run with 2-3-4 ZHCs, to fill out their working time to their satisfaction, and none of them are tied in exclusively to us. That's how ZHCs can and should be used.

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Time for a gripe. Miliband's rocking up to Bury today, and apparently the event is so oversubscribed that only disciples of the idiot PPC get to go, rather than the people who kept the flag flying and the party alive in the darkest days of 2010. Nice to know where you stand. Full council last night ...

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PFY, #SignaTories was a good 'un, I would have gone with that one on Twitter but for the #100Sociopaths hashtag. In other news ..... I won't link to it either, but I guess people will be less than surprised to hear that Havisham Hodges has called it for the Tories for the third day running!! I'm lo...

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Quick message to Paul (the Tyke). This adopted Lancastrian got all the leaflets and targeted mail out, despite hail storms and freezing temperatures (didn't even wear my furry Russian hat).

So, nah nah, nayaah naaaah...!

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http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/economics-and-finance/general-election-2015-how-did-ids-do Duncan Smith was the first secretary of state with responsibility for welfare ever to be appointed to the job actually to have a proper background in the subject. He arrived in Whitehall with a clear vision...

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My favourite Americanism is Mr Ohso when he doesn't believe someone. He says, 'Oh yeah. My ass is a bloater and we aint got fish for tea.' I've ever been quite sure that it makes complete sense but I always get the drift. And: 'Yes sure. And you can kiss my ass in Time Square.' Oh, I get that one. ...

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It's been a very funny day. Mr Ohso went to see the doctor today. He'd had to wait a week for an appointment and only a locum available. Our doctor has two practices in Bracknell so we are always asked which one we want to attend. And we always say the nearest. So, Mr Ohso turned up only to be told...

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Hmm. Just had the mother of all hail storms - the stuff coming practically horizontally - with matching high winds as the sky suddenly went horribly dark. Well, that was 5 minutes ago. Sun's out now and the wind's mostly dropped. God only knows what it'll be doing in 10 minutes time. No canvassing ...

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I suppose if pushed most have a particular MP they want to see fall on May 7th, someone who you will actively seek out, apart from the usual suspects, mine is, and I may have mentioned it once or twice is Alun Cairns, a midget of a politician which matches his physical statue, if that sounds shorti...

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