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I don't think there is any prospect whatsoever of my persuading anyone here not to vote Corbyn, FWIIW. Corbyn will win easily and there is nothing someone like me can do about it. I think the majority are no longer open to being reasoned with about it.How on earth could anyone expect to persuade th...

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I was going to post this before I got sidetracked with the usual.... (WARNING!!!!!!!! DOES NOT CONTAIN ANYTHING INVOLVING CORBYNSMITHLABOUR) Donald Trump, who about 150 million people (or more) want to be The Leader Of The Free World so that he can build a socking great wall, has now directed nearly...

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Hello. I've been listening to Test Match Special and what fun it has been. Henry Blofeld loves lemon curd, and there has been a green lorry today. Joe Root made 254 making him the third-highest-scoring English batsman. This is the important stuff of life. I think FreedomOfThePress was not having a g...

ephemerid · Re: Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July 2016 Ungreat. Doubleplusungreat. Akshully.

Ungreat.

Doubleplusungreat.

Akshully.

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Bridget Chapman ‏@BridgeeCee @Scriptonite New twist. Labour now barring elected delegates from attending conference. Seem to be applying retrospective freeze date. Bridget Chapman ‏@BridgeeCee Jul 20 @Scriptonite I'm one of the delegates affected. Have paid delegate fee of £116 + paid for hotel in ...

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https://www.buzzfeed.com/jamieross/a-labour-mp-claims-jeremy-corbyn-threatened-to-tell-on-him-t?utm_term=.rqW9Gn1l0w#.xiRdnWx3lK A Labour MP has claimed Jeremy Corbyn threatened to call his dad after he publicly criticised the party leader. Conor McGinn, whose dad, Pat, was a councillor for Irish r...

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This is not good.

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JonnyT1234 wrote:Backstabbing. Failed.
Firing squad. Failed.
Scuttlebutt. Failed.
Tittle tattle. Failed.

Time to deploy the swift boats. (Again.)

It's "stirring" now.

Do keep up!

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Show got his NEC ballot papers today. He's not sure he's going to bother voting. As you all know, I left Labour because I couldn't be doing with the lack of unity all round - and as yayah says, it's getting more polarised by the day. If Smith and Corbyn could only work together - but instead we have...

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JonnyT1234 wrote:
ephemerid wrote:
JonnyT1234 wrote:Solvents not solutions!
Substrates not solvents!
Catalysts not substrates!
Reagents not catalysts!
Solutions not reagents!

You're just being picky now.
Pickly I think.

You knows your onions, dontcha?

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JonnyT1234 wrote:Solvents not solutions!
Substrates not solvents!
Catalysts not substrates!
Reagents not catalysts!
Solutions not reagents!

You're just being picky now.

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Blair's former advisers John McTernan ... will be advising Smith's campaign Corbyn moves straight from uncertain to dead certain to win, in one fell swoop. Why does this man still keep getting work? I don't get it. He was Jim Murphy's Chief of Staff when all Labour seats but one (including Murphy's...

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A solution is a fluid which has stuff dissolved in it. Dead scientific, me. Perhaps we could patent FTN's very own Sloganic Acid Solution - perfect for those pesky soundbites! Just drop your irritant into the Sloganic Acid Solution, and hey presto! Just the thing for cleaning the drains! (Because pl...

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https://www.gov.uk/government/news/decision-making-and-mandatory-reconsideration-new-report Decision making and mandatory reconsideration: new report SSAC Thank you, A. Throughout 2015/16, in all four quarters, the rate of overturned ESA decisions by the Tribunals Service was 58%. For PIP, the aver...

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Thanks to HindleA (again) for the Universal Credit link last night. This "flagship" so-called "reform" was announced in 2010 and has been in the process of implementation for more than four years. It has has five head honchos, seven re-sets, and is now five years behind its origi...

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As of 09:00hrs today, more than 100,000 people have registered as Labour supporters for £25. That's £2.5 Million. On top of the estimated £4 Million in subscriptions since the 2015 GE. Given that all this money has come from people who support Labour - whichever camp/faction/whatever they belong to,...

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There is no vacancy for deputy leader. Perhaps unfortunately. There was no vacancy for leader, either. Labour had a leader. Two people have challenged his leadership. Now we have another contest a year after the last one. Labour has a deputy leader. Perhaps someone could challenge him. Why not? It ...

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If I may say so the discussion on here right now is of top quality and nobody should feel they should stop ;-) Agreed. I am particularly grateful to fedup - that was a brilliant post. "It's my democracy too" - Amen to that! This current Labour contest has thrown up some very interesting t...

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Repeat because it is today at 14.30 http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/public-accounts-committee/news-parliament-2015/universal-credit-progress-review-evidence-16-17/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Universal Credit's progress examine...

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Memo to FTN: we have been "banging on" about Labour/Corbyn since June 25. To be fair, Lord High Chief Seether, on days when we've tried not to it just sort of....happened...... So I'm going to say this, bearing in mind it might encourage some more seething.... Owen Smith is a very capable...

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I have done a really really stupid thing - I got my Greenwoods mixed up! See, this is what happens when you try to be as competent as the chickencoup. Apologies. Margaret Greenwood still supports Corbyn as does her CLP. Lilian (LILIAN< Ephe!!!!)Greenwood's speech makes a few points that are interest...

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Another lesson to be learnt. Don't launch a coup if you can't manage to carry it off, and if you do then find a better candidate than Eagle. Indeed. Astonishing that having launched the coup, which had clearly been planned for some time (so much so that the plans were published in the media weeks b...

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It would appear that, in the same way we had "spontaneous" resignations from the Shadow Cabinet, we are now getting a daily bulletin from one of those ex-shadow ministers on why they had to go and why they were unsupported and why Corbyn is crap. How many will there be today, I wonder? Jun...

ephemerid · Re: Tuesday 19 July 2016 Hello TC.

Hello TC.

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I am watching Panorama - "Angry America"

It is very very scary.

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One of the things in my CBT therapy for anxiety is learning not to imagine you know what other people think/feel/mean without concrete facts. It isn't easy, but there is a good reason for trying to do it. One of the sayings in AA meetings is that we compare our insides with other peoples' outsides....

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To be fair, I think the people who are getting hot under the collar about Smith saying he's "normal" are being a bit silly. One of the things about social media that drives me bananas is the way some people (yes, Ms.J.Phillips, I'm looking at you) seem to look for things to get outraged ab...

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Have the LibDems ever been known to rule out anything (except pay and limousines, of course)? I've said it before and will no doubt say it again - I cannot see what the LibDems would gain from courting the authoritarian, pro-war wing of Labour, or even how they could exist in the same party. Just a...

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Competence Item No. 673! From Politics Home and being reported elsewhere..... There was a hustings at lunchtime in which all three Labour Party leadership candidates pitched their thing to MPs and peers. There is to be a ballot among them, and the result will be announced at 6pm on Wednesday evening...

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JonnyT1234 wrote:
HindleA wrote:Better half was braver than me,I rarely reveal as much as my legs unless everybody else does and then pretend they are not mine,she went a bit further....
Hopefully not as far as Mrs Danzcuk?

Which one?

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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Continuity Labour is an anagram of 'Unity Out Blair Con'

Boo! I, nutty liar, con.

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Paul Lewis "DWP confirms 0905 that it does not know who is to be Pensions Minister. It will be up to Secof State Damian Green who takes which brief." Mordaunt/Hinds -guess Also not confirmed Disabled-Caroline Nokes/Richard Harrington Scary. Not knowing anything about Nokes or Harrington, ...

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Morning ephemerid yes for clarity it was another member, not ephemerid, who flagged a post yesterday. This happens very rarely and so as an untrained, volunteer admin I responded to it. Thank you, Paul. "As an untrained VOLUNTEER admin...." That's the thing - you and Refitman are running ...

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I read somewhere that the brick went through a window onto a shared stairwell, possibly facing into a ginnell [think that's the right word, a small alley], not a window of Eagle's office per se, and that the building is shared by more than half a dozen organisations. It is an area where petty vanda...

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Good morning. 1. Thank you to lovely Paul and Refitman for the work they do running this site for us all. 2. I have never reported a post here since the forum was founded, and didn't do so yesterday. 3. I made a comment in response to jonny, have misread nothing, and I'm not "worked up". 4...

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I don't know whether say thank you to Lovely Paul and whoever asked for a comment to be removed or not! Sometimes I think it's better to leave the comment there as it demonstrates the mindset of the person who posted it. That's why I very rarely report people on CIF and have never reported anyone he...

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Yay! GB is in the Davis Cup semi-finals! (Pumps fists, rolls eyes, points fingers, refuses to sit still - might as well be Room 101'd for a sheep as a lamb....) AAW - lovely to see you here. Please stay! The business about Ms.Debbonnaire sounds very bad, although Corbyn's office said that she had n...

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Liza Van Zyl, a disability rights activist has made this statement: ‘Owen Smith needs to be challenged robustly on his position on the Work Capability Assessment and on his commitment to disabled people’s rights. I was a Labour Party activist who had no choice but to resign from the party after a v...

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ohsocynical wrote:
tinyclanger2 wrote:For example: what has Theresa May ever done to suggest she will be a good PM?
Ummmmmm -----

Oh come on, Ohso!

She wears fabulous shoes and Roland Mouret frocks. She's AMAAAAAZING!!!!!!!!!

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Yay! GB is in the Davis Cup semi-finals! (Pumps fists, rolls eyes, points fingers, refuses to sit still - might as well be Room 101'd for a sheep as a lamb....) AAW - lovely to see you here. Please stay! The business about Ms.Debbonnaire sounds very bad, although Corbyn's office said that she had no...

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I suppose Sunday's the appropriate day for the smell of burning martyrs... I've got some kindling if it's any use...... This is your first warning, citizen - you have used language which could be interpreted by the faux-outraged centre rightists as bullying and twisted to look as though you actuall...

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mbc1955 wrote:I suppose Sunday's the appropriate day for the smell of burning martyrs...

I've got some kindling if it's any use......

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[Deleted by Paul on request of another member] Ewwww. Taste of sick in my throat. Vile. Actually, first they came for the disabled, the sick, the "useless eaters". They forced them to work for their subsistence, then took it away bit by by bit until many of them starved. The ones that wer...

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I'm almost reaching the point where I'll settle for anyone who is defined by what they want to happen - as distinct from what they don't want. That's a government, not an opposition. Anyone remember how much fuss was made about Ed not having any policies? Right up to the GE campaign? Moaning galore...

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Thanks for explaining all that Ephie. Politics is dead complicated though so maybe I shouldn't get to vote ever. Is there a test for people like me? it's terrible if people like me can have an equal say to real people who understand how things should work Well, my dear, you should be guided by what...

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Morning all Just thought I'd double check where we are with the Labour party leadership contest to make sure I understand how party democracy works. There's a leadership challenge, although that didn't really need to happen if the leader, elected by the majority of the party membership had just lis...

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danesclose wrote:
SpinningHugo wrote:Time to purge those MPs who don't reflect the people's will eh?

No more Ed Miliband then.

Every cloud.
You'd rather we followed the lead of McTiernan as quoted above, then?

I'd rather we just ignored obvious concern trolling.

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I don't know if Ephie is still here,her name is below but it might have been a bit ago,or she's fallen asleep with computer/lap top or just deliberately avoiding commenting or gone into a trance like state,Variety of reasonable explanations like that. Hellooooooo!!!!!!!!! Yesterday, dearest A and l...

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No I am fucked off as the most fucked off person could ever be and then some,so I'm not putting some posh fucking gear on I am afraid,and I cannot dance,the last time somebody joined me thinking I was,I was having a seizure,so screw that.Apologies for language but if you are going to swear you migh...

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I think the plan is mutual McCarthyism,presumably until there is only one person left who is automatically made leader,a bit extreme granted.Of course that is on the assumption they will vote for themselves,after deciding if it will be a secret ballot or not. . Start a new party, A. Or let's just h...

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