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Recall byelection petiton for Peter Bone MP to close at 5pm

Vote early, vote often.

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You can't have both? I expect there's a queue of economists wanting to explain why he's talking rubbish.

Otoh, with the tories we can't have either.

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Good morning.

I see the Daily Mail's supporting Labour now

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Good morning.

If you thought the BBC platforming Kate Andrews was bad

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No credit is due, because why should I want to know her opinion? The BBC have never explained. Listening to her is worse than listening to the BBC's beloved vox pops, some random geezer stopped in the street to have their two penn'orth on a subject of which they have no knowledge or understanding. T...

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I usually have a lot of time for Sam Freedman but this is way off the mark. I've barely seen any personal attacks on Kate Andrews, just a lot of people questioning why she's been so ubiquitous on the BBC for years and why they've repeatedly failed to inform their audience of her background. Not tha...

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Good morning. Rishi's reverse midas touch strikes again. A council in one of the wealthiest parts of the UK has warned it faces potential bankruptcy due to the “devastating” impact of cancelling the northern leg of HS2. Leaders of Cheshire East council in north-west England said the authority had sp...

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Chris Dillow's blog CENTRIST UTOPIANISM Conclusion Human kind cannot bear very much reality, so we retreat into dreams. Centrists and rightists are just as prone to do this as the left. The problem is that they get to inflict their dreams onto the rest of us. Amen to that. Another extract The notion...

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Not quite sure why everyone seems to be so surprised by the Israeli Ambassador saying a two-state solution was now dead given she slapped down the Board of Deputies over this issue three years ago. Quite. And that's the Board of Deputies , who many of the rest of us already find too extreme. 'Quite...

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Mask off? Where've they been.

Tzipi Hotovely is utterly vile and makes no secret of it.

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Leaving Las Vegas is horrible, and not because of Cage drinking himself to death.

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Shane MacGowan's funeral was quite something, surely he'd never have imagined it would be live-streamed on the BBC, with the President in the front row.

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I wonder who dropped out of qt, the person who drafted in Monbiot at the last minute will probably not be asked to do it again.

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Good morning. Thanks for the QT review, sky. I wonder if the Labour powers-that-be had a word with Dodds, to be a bit more animated after her previous showing. Unfortunately there's sfa in the Labour prospectus to be enthusiastic about and it showed. As for Monbiot It was hard to disagree with anyth...

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RIP Benjamin Zephaniah.

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In his LBC interview this morning Chris Heaton-Harris, the Northern Ireland secretary, played down the significance of Robert Jenrick’s resignation last night as immigration minister over the Rwanda bill. He said: I don’t think it’s as big a story as is being made. I generally don’t like anybody re...

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I wonder how widely it'll be reported.

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Tim Stanley as well, yesterday. Leopards, faces.

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We are not amazed.

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'the voice of a handful of cranks'

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McTernan's got out of the right (left) side of the bed today though. James Meadway @meadwaj Starting the week agreeing with ex Blair adviser @johnmcternan : “Keir Starmer’s praise of Margaret Thatcher in the Sunday Telegraph… wins over no wavering voters but risks losing the goodwill of a wide range...

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McFadden insisted that Starmer was paying tribute to her effectiveness, not her policies.

Sure he was.

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AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Sat 02 Dec, 2023 2:43 pm Snowing here today, though it isn't settling too much.

Did that change? Serious in Kendal & Ambleside apparently, plenty of stranded day-trippers I expect.

Just f***ing freezing here.

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We knew that from the beginning, when she did that embarrassing scripted Q&A with Johnson. Yes-woman.

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Good morning.

Thanks for the QT review, sky.
For me, Layla Moran couldn't outweigh McVey & Neil so I didn't watch at all, you've confirmed that was the right decision.
Of course irl Moran is worth at least 100 of the two of them combined.

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Good morning.

Any Succession fans here, I haven't watched much of it but I know what he means.

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Sky'sGoneOut wrote: ↑Sat 25 Nov, 2023 1:26 pm Anyone else got ice? My birdbath is frozen and there's still crunchy frost where the sun hasn't got to it. Looks like Winter has arrived a little early.

A bit icy here this am, and we had a few minutes of snow.

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Peter Apps @PeteApps "A senior source in the Labour leader's office stressed that Labour's fiscal rules were more important than any policy." We are not being given the chance to vote for investment, only who can better manage underinvestment. Remember, the state built social housing, the...

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Good morning.

Oh look, Labour are disappointing us again.

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Be nice if he'd thought of that before the referendum.

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Hard not to conclude that the tories have worked out that Labour won't push back on any of this, thereby setting them* up for a pretty disastrous 5 years.

Go on Starmer & Reeves, surprise us.

* and us

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Rishi Sunak’s personal ratings fall almost as short as his trouser legs. Like it. "Mr Hunt is, by the narrowest of tiny margins, still on course to meet his (poorly designed) fiscal rule that debt as a fraction of national income should be falling in the last year of the forecast period. In re...

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• Tax burden will be highest level since Second World War History of recent tory govts tells us that they tend to cut income tax, which benefits the pensioners, and raise NI, which doesn't affect them. But it seems the cut will apply from January, not April. This is possible for NI but not for inco...

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Not really. This is the start of an interesting thread, as with everything Israel/Palestine related, no way to know the truth. Can't see an unroll at present. https://twitter.com/MouinRabbani/status/1727165394904137940 https://twitter.com/MouinRabbani/status/1727165530539454963 Includes the line &qu...

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Good morning. John Glen finding a mechanism to try and ration that [the winter fuel payment] is very difficult because our HMRC system will look at household incomes. These are the sorts of mechanics of government you’ve got to look at. Is it better if we spent more of that money on child poverty? I...

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Nearly 884,000 internally displaced persons are sheltering in 154 UNRWA installations across all five governorates of the Gaza Strip, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees announced on Sunday.

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But disbelieve them when they're telling us the truth.

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Apparently Hamas HQ is in Khan Younis now.

It seems we're supposed to believe the Israeli govt/IDF when they're lying to us.

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I think we should stop listening to Sue Ellen. Has she heard of habeus corpus?

Those arriving here illegally must be detained
Legal challenges to detention must be excluded to avoid burdening the courts, making it clear that detention is mandated until removal.

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RogerOThornhill wrote: ↑Fri 17 Nov, 2023 8:48 am Morning.

From the former head of the Government Legal Service.

He's done a piece for the Institute for Govt.

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org. ... k-response

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I have a problem with them not realising they are utterly powerless to prevent it. If every single Labour councillor and party member resigned "in disgust at Starmer" tomorrow, it would not save the life of a single Gazan child. The letter specifically says they that they know nothing wou...

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Jess Phillips tho? That'll be a sight for sore eyes.

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Sunak just isn't very good at politics.

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I think Labour were clear for once, they wouldn't implement it.

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Leave the ECHR, you say? The principle of non-refoulement is therefore given effect not only by the ECHR but also by other international conventions to which the United Kingdom is party. It is a core principle of international law, to which the United Kingdom government has repeatedly committed itse...

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