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More on Pauline Cafferkey.... She is charged with having "allowed an incorrect temperature to be recorded" and that she"intended to conceal from Public Health England that you had a temperature higher than 38deg.C". She is also alleged to have not told PHE staff that she had take...

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yahyah wrote:Blimey, that Osborne thing is down right weird.

Correction, yahyah - that thing Osborne is downright weird.

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Ephie - not stocks. or tarring and feathering, how about being made to eat chocolate cake ? I like cake. Far too much. Re, your other post - I have never ever said that I want anyone banned from here, although I am glad that the likes of Rustihappochick aren't around any more. What I object to, and...

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This is for tinyclanger -

There is an exhibition of all things clangerish at the V&A's Museum of Childhood.
You can see bits of it here with other clangery stuff on Twitter - #Clangers

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From last night: Morning all. A frog2 proposition . That anyone proposing that SpinningHugo should be terminally moderated / ie banned , should themselves be publically denounced . There are more than a small ha ...? Oh no, Froggy's croaked! Froggy, are you ok? (Concerned because you finished mid s...

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1. Is John Woodcock ever happy?

2. Corbyn really should do those gigs.

3. Polls don't tell us much and haven't for some time.

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"Headless chicken" headlines guaranteed. Don't grouse, Jonny, old cock. Wear your game face and keep your capon. I'm very disappointed that no-one seems to appreciate my feet in the bath (or feet in Bath) contribution. But I'm not bitter or downhearted . . . . Akshully, Por, I blame you f...

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JonnyT1234 wrote:"Headless chicken" headlines guaranteed.

Don't grouse, Jonny, old cock. Wear your game face and keep your capon.

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Is Simon Danczuk still suspended from the party? I'm not sure he should continue as an MP. He's clearly got some problems. As for Karen, she has the typical recidivism that many abused women have - she just keeps on going back.... Unless it's all a stunt, of course; it's odd that the photos went str...

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Note that the people involved here were formerly performing the role within the public sector then transferred to G4S. The issue wasn't their ability, it was the (yet again) perverse incentives of the target culture that they had been set that was the source of the problem. That is, hit your target...

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JonnyT1234 wrote:He can dance. His music/singing - a matter of taste. His acting. Nothing special but also not so, so terrible that you'd never watch him again.

Hah!

That reminds me of Fred Astaire, who summarised his talents thus - "Can't sing. Can't act. Slightly balding. Can dance a bit".

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Incidentally, this: G4S Public Services needs to be stamped out. There is no way that outsourcing personnel will ever be cheaper than employing them directly except where they are being paid less than they were before or by employing fewer staff. And when budgets are being squeezed we simply can't ...

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Éoin ‏@LabourEoin 2h2 hours ago So far today, there have been 21 newspaper articles attacking Corbyn for not knowing who Ant & Dec were, including 7 from pro-Labour outlets I'm not a supporter but, if the above is correct, I despair. Prepare for an immediate plunge into the Slough of Despond, P...

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The ever-lyrical Eddie Butler, when reciting a little poem for the Six Nations coverage, based it on the size of Wales and stuff that rhymes with same. Footage of deflated fans accompanied the "sighs of Wales" etc. The "thighs of Wales", naturally, belong to George North. As rugb...

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"There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well." (Pliny the Younger, Letters) Well, Pliny me young mate, consider it done! Ah - but..... what I must know is this...

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Over here in Wales beyond the Ditch of Death, UKIP MEP and Assembly Member Nathan Git (no typo) has decided he will "sit as an independent" having decided he doesn't want to be part of the Welsh Assembly's UKIP group. This is very very interesting indeed, as so far he hasn't attended often...

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Ooh Ohso - you're just a pleb like me.

What a relief! I thought I was the only one left after AK's post....

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Re the vexed Jess Phillips question - can I just say something factual here? In her frequent admiring media portrayals, she is routinely described as "working class" - indeed I think some on here have done this. However, the FACTS are that her mother was a senior NHS administrator and her...

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I'm not sure it actually matters all that much who wins this bloody contest, as far as the diehards/factions are concerned. I don't think Momentum is any more sinister than Progress - Momentum is alleged to be actively encouraging the so-called "hard left" to join Labour; nobody knows what...

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I do not think that it is in any way supportive of personal/verbal/sexual/misogynist/whatever abuse to dislike Jess Phillips and her constant self publicising behaviour. I dislike her because of that behaviour. It is ridiculous to say that, were she a supporter of Corbyn, those of us who think she's...

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Article in the G on Jess Phillips and her panic room.

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Jesse Philips on Radio 4 this lunchtime. She said she had locksmiths in and was having her house adapted for safety. I could swear some weeks ago I read she had the locksmiths in and had posted an image on Twitter. She also said on WATO today that she has a panic room built in to her office (I expe...

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I see we have a new Forum rule. You can discuss the Labour leadership election, as long as you do so in Latin ;-) Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. I hate and I love. Why do this, perhaps you ask? I know not, but I feel it and I am in torture. Ca...

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"OH YES HE DID!!!!" "OH NO HE DIDN'T!!!!" Whatever. Bragg says what the Times has written is b/s. Bragg has had whole moments when he has been a total plonker. People can spin (see what I did there?) as much as they like. It's a Murdoch paper, and I do not expect the truth to eme...

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Antidepressants changed my life, so don’t let the scare stories put you off http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/antidepressants-depression-mental-health-scare-stories-dont-let-them-put-you-off-a7192291.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; The stigma that is surrounding ment...

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Billy Bragg on Twitter 3 minutes ago -

"Don't believe the b/s about me in the Times. I'm still supporting Corbyn, just want more talk about devo for England and fair votes for all".

Always a good idea to check sources when they come from Murdochia.

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I am getting increasingly irritated by MSM reporting of NHS failures. Much of the reporting - including the BBC - states X target has not been met/whatever; and only later is it mentioned that this is in England only. Over here in Wales, across the Ditch Of Death, things are actually improving (albe...

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yahyah wrote:

That's not a huge surprise - though the language is a bit hyperbolic ("momentous"!!!!!)

The CLP nominations in Scotland generally are supportive of Smith, according to the @CLPNominations maps.

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yahyah wrote:Morning Ephie. Hope you've got the sun that far east. Two sunny mornings in a row here...summer may have arrived.

Yes - it's just lovely!

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Yahyah - the person behind the "Labour Tomorrow" parody account has 'fessed up that he/she was having a bit of fun - all the Tweets are direct quotes from real Blairites and SPADs. The actual organisation "Labour Tomorrow" is real, though - and real Blairites are behind it as the...

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So nobody joined "because of Blair" during Labour's previous membership surge? And why is it only people like me on social media who ask questions like this, not our brilliantly objective and insightful BBC journalists?? Corbyn has taken unprecedented action by not standing down upon rece...

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Re. John Invalid Inverdale - he's an eejit. I cannot understand why he still has a job. He was OK as the anchor for rugby, but he's hopeless at everything else. He was doing the rowing commentary with Sir Steve Redgrave and when Mahe Drysdale won the sculls he was butting in to the point that Sir St...

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NHS General Practitioners are self-employed as individuals but funded collectively by the taxpayer. GP funding from central NHS coffers is practice-based; ie. the practice is paid per patient at about £135 per patient per year. Some Practices get a lot more than that; some less. That is supposed to ...

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Also "almost politics"..... "Labour Tomorrow" was registered at Companies House in April by Nicola Murphy (Chris Leslies' wife) with David Blunkett and Brenda Dean joining in June as directors. "Labour Tomorrow" has a Twitter account which states that it will be "u...

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Almost politics..... Well done Andy Murray for pointing out to the BBC that he isn't in fact the first person to win two olympic golds for tennis. Unsurprisingly, both Serena and Venus Williams have achieved this. Indeed. In a way, I can't help feeling a bit "meh" about millionaire profes...

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tinyclanger2 wrote:M&S
Pants and ready meals. It's visionary.

It is.

More meals, bigger pants.

Clever stuff.

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I've seen a lot of Olympics. Watched in Black and white. Remember Munich when the Israeli athletes were killed. Would have loved the coverage we get now... Wonder if I'll be around for Tokyo? First one I remember is Mexico 68 - distinct memory of there being a round-up show at breakfast time. Odd t...

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Well. BBC Breaking News Verified account ‏@BBCBreaking Labour members abandon legal challenge against rules which stop new supporters voting in leadership contest So, can people get back to discussing the issues, opposing the government, and stop trying to make the party look like it's trying to se...

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tinyclanger2 wrote:Did anyone hear Paula's latest cogitations on water? I had the sound switched off ...

I know that Paula Radcliffe is great etc.etc.etc. but she could actually whinge for Britain.

Sometimes I just want to shake her....

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ohsocynical wrote:I hope HindleA is watching the Marathon and taking tips....

I suspect he's eating a Marathon whilst hayving a fayg.

I know I do.

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Diary of a Noilly Prat enthusiast turned Olympic Althete Day 1 Caught up on the Olympic events from yesterday. Thought earnestly about going to the gym. Made cup of tea. If I were you, I'd have a piece of cake with your cuppa. After all, if you went to the gym and actually did some exercise whilst ...

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This is very funny, in a vicious sort of way.....
sciscomedia.co.uk/mcternan-errand-boy-celebrated-onanist/

The mastermind behind Murphy's failures with Scottish Labour and Julia Gillard's lacklustre campaigns - described in the article as "the Roy Chubby Brown of TV political punditry".

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This latest blog from Joe Halewood is worth a read - speye.wordpress.com/2016/08/13/no-job-no-house-begins-7-november/ He has included the chart that was posted here the other day; he also estimates how many families will be affected by the HB cut. Some families with children in which the parent/s c...

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tinyclanger2 wrote:Inspired by post above, am considering changing name to tinygrass

Nooo!!!!!

You'd have to do dreaming instead of seething.

And you seethe so well.......

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Nominations for JC so far are 255, with those for OS at 49. So that's 304 CLPs out of about 650. There's a Twitter a/c which is collating & mapping results as they come in - @CLPNominations. If you compare their earlier maps with one showing constituencies by political party, most of the early ...

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Yahyah - re your last question: dunno. There's bound to be a big gap, I suspect. On Philip Hammond's announcement, read the small print. What is actually going to happen is this - the EU will continue to fund projects is it already committed to for another 2 years; the UK will pay 1 more year of cre...

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Our Olympic cyclists are just amazing. Well done, all! Tristram Hunt's CLP has declared for Corbyn, having voted for Cooper last time. Current status is 85% of CLPs in total have voted, with Corbyn getting 66% of the vote. That's 304 CLPs which have made nominations; 255 for Corbyn and 45 for Smith....

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What we need here is an Argument Clinic, as demonstrated by Monty Python's Flying CirrrrCUSS!!!!!! in 1972. You can have a full one-off argument, or you can take a course. It's one pound for a five-minute argument, or eight pounds for a course of ten. Alternatively, you can have a very very long arg...

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TobyLatimer wrote:Thats a kind of mod btw for those not in our secret society.

"Gorts"?

GORTS???????

Sounds like one of them communicable diseases, that does.

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Jonny and Roger - yes. I started the thread that day and asked if, just once, we could leave the subject of Smith/Corbyn alone for the day. It was a request, not an order. I'm in no position to tell people what to do. It was just an idea for us to have a bit of a break. (It didn't last long anyway!)...

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