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- Sun 01 May, 2016 6:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 30th April, Sunday 1st May 2016 & Monday 2nd May
- Replies: 423
- Views: 63503
Re: Saturday 30th April, Sunday 1st May 2016 & Monday 2nd Ma
Reason No 587 why I want Plaid Cymru to get utterly marmalised on Thursday; http://www.plaid2016.wales/ygymraeg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I work in the public sector, and this stuff is already creeping in, encouraged to answer phones by saying good morning in Welsh etc...
- Fri 29 Apr, 2016 6:02 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 29th April 2016
- Replies: 153
- Views: 25168
Re: Friday 29th April 2016
I must have missed the arrival of the Welsh Mahdi. What a ludicrous leaflet. It deserves to be roundly mocked. Who do these people think they are?? Not being part of the Welsh language clique I had never heard of "Mab Daragon" and it only confirms my life long view about Plaid, to be blun...
- Fri 29 Apr, 2016 5:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 29th April 2016
- Replies: 153
- Views: 25168
Re: Friday 29th April 2016
Not that I would ever use the R word against certain nationalists, who moi, never?! Just dawdled a bit of time looking at Price's Twitter feed, the usual tripe but good to see a fair amount of debate with those who don't profess to the anointed one line.. He did predictably,when told of a case of fa...
- Fri 29 Apr, 2016 4:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 29th April 2016
- Replies: 153
- Views: 25168
Re: Friday 29th April 2016
Jesus Christ. But this is so atrociously bad, skin crawling I have to agree with a Tory, the "prophetic one" what is it with nationalists eh?! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-36162525" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I must have missed the arrival of the Welsh M...
- Fri 29 Apr, 2016 3:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 29th April 2016
- Replies: 153
- Views: 25168
Re: Friday 29th April 2016
Jesus Christ.
But this is so atrociously bad, skin crawling I have to agree with a Tory, the "prophetic one" what is it with nationalists eh?!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-36162525" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
But this is so atrociously bad, skin crawling I have to agree with a Tory, the "prophetic one" what is it with nationalists eh?!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-36162525" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Fri 29 Apr, 2016 3:15 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 29th April 2016
- Replies: 153
- Views: 25168
Re: Friday 29th April 2016
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/cameron-under-fire-after-branding-government-funded-auschwitz-trips-a-gimmick-7251221.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Nod in the direction to McBride for highlighting this, Livingstone is still an arse of the highest order mind, Sadiq Khan...
- Tue 26 Apr, 2016 11:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 26th April 2016
- Replies: 149
- Views: 22507
Re: Tuesday 26th April 2016
Brian Coleman, ex-Barnet councillor showing his usual lack of class tonight regarding Hillsborough.
Expect nothing more really off him.
Expect nothing more really off him.
- Fri 22 Apr, 2016 8:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 22nd April 2016
- Replies: 143
- Views: 17640
Re: Friday 22nd April 2016
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/04/barack-obama-wants-boris-johnson-prefer-gutter/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Cohen to be polite is rather hit and miss, but I do enjoy when he goes for Johnson's flabby jugular. "The tactics of a coward and the tricks of a fraudst...
- Fri 15 Apr, 2016 10:40 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 15th April 2016
- Replies: 117
- Views: 13465
Re: Friday 15th April 2016
Many a good premise for a programme has been spoilt by that smug, Daily Mail contributing, over exposed while other historians are sidelined prick!Hobiejoe wrote:Watching BBC4 right now, on rock'n'roll. Gawds isn't Dominic Sandbook a complete tit.
- Sat 02 Apr, 2016 12:39 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 1st.April 2016.
- Replies: 181
- Views: 18651
Re: Friday 1st.April 2016.
Briefcase Michael Retweeted Tom Robins @mywifeisjoanie 1h1 hour ago Tom Robins Retweeted Natalie Rowe This could wobble Cameron. Did he know this was going on? Natalie Rowe @RealNatalieRowe https://www.byline.com/column/51/article/950" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; … Her...
- Sat 02 Apr, 2016 12:21 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 1st.April 2016.
- Replies: 181
- Views: 18651
Re: Friday 1st.April 2016.
Sorry for the vulgarity, but didn't Javid look like a little pip squeak when talking to steel workers, that little wank stain Cairns looked even more inconsequential.
- Sat 02 Apr, 2016 12:15 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 1st.April 2016.
- Replies: 181
- Views: 18651
Re: Friday 1st.April 2016.
Allow me to reminisce, in my lifetime, past and recent memory: and around a 25 mile radius of me, well within commuting distance. NCB- 1000s Ford engine plant, Swansea- 1000s Metal Box, Neath- 100s TRW, Resolven- 1000+ Sony, Panasonic, Hitachi- 3000+ The same can apply to all industrial areas, and t...
- Fri 01 Apr, 2016 11:49 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 1st.April 2016.
- Replies: 181
- Views: 18651
Re: Friday 1st.April 2016.
http://www.plaid2016.wales/cynllun_trethi_busnes_business_rates_proposals" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Osborne's wet dream, what next, cap council tax, that neat little gimmick that their fellow nationalists have done? Left wing my arse, what's so left wing about starving...
- Fri 01 Apr, 2016 5:40 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 1st.April 2016.
- Replies: 181
- Views: 18651
Re: Friday 1st.April 2016.
Thanks for the replies, very much appreciated!
Truth is, post election I struggled to get my mojo back, it wasn't all about Corbyn.
As the saying goes it wasn't you, it was me.
Truth is, post election I struggled to get my mojo back, it wasn't all about Corbyn.
As the saying goes it wasn't you, it was me.
- Fri 01 Apr, 2016 4:42 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 1st.April 2016.
- Replies: 181
- Views: 18651
Re: Friday 1st.April 2016.
There's a grim inevitably to all this, claims that the government has seen this coming and chose to ignore are bound to have more than a smidgeon of truth, bending over backwards to please a foreign superpower who is using the might of the state to undercut foreign competitors and flood the market w...
- Sat 31 Oct, 2015 6:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 31st October (Halloween) & Sunday 1st November 2015
- Replies: 230
- Views: 43413
Re: Saturday 31st October (Halloween) & Sunday 1st November
Tubby Isaacs wrote:Anyone know where Plaid's extra 1000 doctors are coming from?
From bottles of pop.
- Tue 18 Aug, 2015 1:22 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 18th August 2015
- Replies: 169
- Views: 20061
Re: Tuesday 18th August 2015
Morning. Might give today a miss if we're going to have the now-customary slew of get-Corbyn posts (and I say that as someone still very much thinking of giving Burnham my first preference). It's not as though we've heard any new criticisms in the last month, just the old ones endlessly repackaged ...
- Mon 17 Aug, 2015 9:29 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 17th August 2015
- Replies: 198
- Views: 27741
Re: Monday 17th August 2015
I have no great hopes for Labour in next years Welsh Assembly elections, I honestly expect a few losses, been in power for a while, and that normally ends in some kind of kicking.
- Mon 17 Aug, 2015 9:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 17th August 2015
- Replies: 198
- Views: 27741
Re: Monday 17th August 2015
Much amusement around these parts at the "look at Gordon telling Labour how to win elections, the loser" how my sides ached. Thing is I have heard plenty who didn't rate TB but did rate McBrown, so in his own way he did help win elections. Still amusing to see his one time supporters turn ...
- Fri 14 Aug, 2015 5:02 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 14th August 2015
- Replies: 232
- Views: 34430
Re: Friday 14th August 2015
Pledging to reopen coal mines is enough to make me doubt Corbyn. A populist throwaway pledge, but one that relies on carbon capture and storage to be environmentally acceptable. The technology doesn't exist in a useable form yet. There's plenty of research going on, as there is for fusion, thorium ...
- Fri 14 Aug, 2015 9:48 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 14th August 2015
- Replies: 232
- Views: 34430
Re: Friday 14th August 2015
I'm getting to the point I don't want to vote for any of them. But you know what really winds me fucking up, and to be fair I haven't seen it on here are the "I'm more left wing and ideolically socialist pure than you, and whatever Labour's does I will never vote for it, but it isn't it hysteri...
- Tue 11 Aug, 2015 9:10 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 11th August 2015
- Replies: 122
- Views: 22253
Re: Tuesday 11th August 2015
To think he has the brass neck to moan about second rate politicians.
I give up, clown is beyond parody.
I give up, clown is beyond parody.
- Tue 11 Aug, 2015 8:56 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 11th August 2015
- Replies: 122
- Views: 22253
Re: Tuesday 11th August 2015
Nice history lesson there from Nuttal, I never realised Marxists were that influential?!
You learn something new everyday dontcha?!
You learn something new everyday dontcha?!
- Tue 11 Aug, 2015 1:57 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 11th August 2015
- Replies: 122
- Views: 22253
Re: Tuesday 11th August 2015
Glad I have left twitter, it isn't an indication of what is going on, too much of an echo chamber, must admit I did laugh at Campbell telling Diane Abbot "you're talking crap, and not for the first time". How many times I have thought the same thing?! A few, I tell you.
- Tue 11 Aug, 2015 9:56 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 11th August 2015
- Replies: 122
- Views: 22253
Re: Tuesday 11th August 2015
My opinion, and of course others are available is that Corbyn is a luxury that the Labour Party cannot afford, I do get frightened at the prospect of another Tory government in 2020, and make no mistake I can easily see the privatisation of the NHS on the agenda if that happens, TE is spot on there,...
- Mon 10 Aug, 2015 6:55 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 10th August 2015
- Replies: 136
- Views: 22789
Re: Monday 10th August 2015
Mmm...I asked my husband if he remembered him, and he said Mr No Passion used to go into a cafe near The Spread Eagle pub off Oxford St. Probably had a double portion of egg, beans, sausage and chips. Those were the days, never sure if an IRA bomb wouldn't blow you up on your way to work. :lol: I'm...
- Mon 10 Aug, 2015 4:24 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 10th August 2015
- Replies: 136
- Views: 22789
Re: Monday 10th August 2015
Lack of substance hasn't done Cameron any harm.
There again he got lucky with the SNP playing the role of Labours bogey-man.
There again he got lucky with the SNP playing the role of Labours bogey-man.
- Mon 10 Aug, 2015 3:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 10th August 2015
- Replies: 136
- Views: 22789
Re: Monday 10th August 2015
War criminal, blah, blah, blah!SpinningHugo wrote:http://www.alastaircampbell.org/blog/20 ... f-he-wins/
- Sat 08 Aug, 2015 8:40 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend Edition - Saturday/Sunday 8th/9th August
- Replies: 218
- Views: 28282
Re: Weekend Edition - Saturday/Sunday 8th/9th August
Refuse to jump in the Corbyn bandwagon, I've scoffed at uncosted policies that other parties have been able to get away with, I'd be a hypocrite to support a man who promises the same for Labour. I've read a whole lot of shit lately, this reassessing of Labours record in power, and yes I am aware of...
- Thu 06 Aug, 2015 2:31 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 6th August 2015
- Replies: 64
- Views: 12534
Re: Thursday 6th August 2015
I followed the link through to young Theo's own website and read some of his other articles. I can't make him out, to be honest. Good morfternoon, everyone. I did the same after you said that - I was expecting a fanatical free-market evangelist, but what little I saw was rather more nuanced. He's d...
- Mon 27 Jul, 2015 6:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 27th July 2015
- Replies: 102
- Views: 15835
Re: Monday 27th July 2015
I don't know who will ultimately win the leadership campaign, what I do know is Labour scared of it's own shadow at the moment, every minor blip is blown up to gigantic proportions, every bollock dropped by Harman evidence of a party unsure of it's identity. Every candidate apart from Corbyn has bee...
- Sat 25 Jul, 2015 3:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday, July 25th - Sunday, July 26th 2015
- Replies: 109
- Views: 16346
Re: Saturday, July 25th - Sunday, July 26th 2015
Shame Mhairi Black, as a "young person" wasn't more concerned about cuts to Scotland's FE budget, not everyone can go to Uni, almost everyone tho can go and learn something in a FE college. SNP make me puke, preach left wing politics while handing out universal freebies to the comfortable ...
- Sat 25 Jul, 2015 3:02 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday, July 25th - Sunday, July 26th 2015
- Replies: 109
- Views: 16346
Re: Saturday, July 25th - Sunday, July 26th 2015
Mark Ferguson seems to be putting in a sterling effort for LeicesterLiz? Strategic communications doesn't seem to be his strong point, there again he hasn't that much to work with. Hi Skippy! If constituency party nominations are anything to go by, Kendall could do as badly as Tony Benn in 1988. Al...
- Sat 25 Jul, 2015 2:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday, July 25th - Sunday, July 26th 2015
- Replies: 109
- Views: 16346
Re: Saturday, July 25th - Sunday, July 26th 2015
Mark Ferguson seems to be putting in a sterling effort for LeicesterLiz? Strategic communications doesn't seem to be his strong point, there again he hasn't that much to work with. Hello there. Been missing you. Although I did think of you when I saw that Wales had come first in twitter swearing ab...
- Sat 25 Jul, 2015 2:49 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday, July 25th - Sunday, July 26th 2015
- Replies: 109
- Views: 16346
Re: Saturday, July 25th - Sunday, July 26th 2015
Mark Ferguson seems to be putting in a sterling effort for LeicesterLiz? Strategic communications doesn't seem to be his strong point, there again he hasn't that much to work with. I have to admit I am pretty shocked how poor and tone deaf her campaign has been. And whilst Ferguson came in for a fa...
- Sat 25 Jul, 2015 2:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday, July 25th - Sunday, July 26th 2015
- Replies: 109
- Views: 16346
Re: Saturday, July 25th - Sunday, July 26th 2015
Mark Ferguson seems to be putting in a sterling effort for LeicesterLiz?
Strategic communications doesn't seem to be his strong point, there again he hasn't that much to work with.
Strategic communications doesn't seem to be his strong point, there again he hasn't that much to work with.
- Fri 03 Jul, 2015 10:11 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 3rd July 2015
- Replies: 104
- Views: 20628
Re: Friday 3rd July 2015
No body can't say they weren't warned! http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/03/inheritance-tax-giveaway-welfare-cuts-budget-conservatives-george-osborne" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; And to think, there are those on our 'side' who vilified Ed Balls, he didn't get mu...
- Fri 03 Jul, 2015 9:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 3rd July 2015
- Replies: 104
- Views: 20628
Re: Friday 3rd July 2015
I had a brief moment of unmitigated joy the day Labour regained Cardiff, taking over from a Lib Dem/Plaid coalition, since then there has been constant tales of factions and in-fighting, just what's needed in the run-up to the Assembly elections eh?! http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/card...
- Thu 02 Jul, 2015 9:07 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd July 2015
- Replies: 107
- Views: 21192
Re: Thursday 2nd July 2015
I'd like to do away with 'coasting' politicians, luckily for such individuals, there's enough fools out there to re-elect them.
- Thu 02 Jul, 2015 2:29 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd July 2015
- Replies: 107
- Views: 21192
Re: Thursday 2nd July 2015
Did anyone else watch it? If so any opinions? I caught the summing up from the four candidates. I thought Cooper was good. Thought Burnham was awful to start with, but then he seemed to get into his stride and was pretty convincing towards the end. Kendall just told me what to do (choose someone yo...
- Wed 24 Jun, 2015 7:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wenesday 24th June 2015
- Replies: 71
- Views: 16560
Re: Wenesday 24th June 2015
I woke up this morning to a WTF string of expletives, in the week that 12 billion worth of cuts are being soft soaped to the social security budget, the bulk affecting the working and fucking skint it was heartening to hear, via sychophantic BBC journos that Buck House is in need of 150 million quid...
- Mon 22 Jun, 2015 3:57 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 22nd June 2015
- Replies: 108
- Views: 25561
Re: Monday 22nd June 2015
I don't know, you avoid newspaper sites, and the news of course, for reason already mentioned, when you do look you are subjected to images of dogs and cats in cages awaiting death for a meat festival.
There are some countries whom I wouldn't care if they were wiped off the face of the earth.
There are some countries whom I wouldn't care if they were wiped off the face of the earth.
- Fri 12 Jun, 2015 9:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 12th June 2015
- Replies: 78
- Views: 18821
Re: Friday 12th June 2015
Quite fancy a trip to France next summer...
- Fri 12 Jun, 2015 4:57 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 12th June 2015
- Replies: 78
- Views: 18821
Re: Friday 12th June 2015
RebeccaR, have you had an email from Welsh Labour regarding July 5th? Just got it. Seems our 'local' hustings are to be in Cardiff not Swansea as we were initially told. Says everything to me. Swansea was doable - not sure about Cardiff and also not sure how useful it will be as the audience and qu...
- Fri 12 Jun, 2015 4:07 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 12th June 2015
- Replies: 78
- Views: 18821
Re: Friday 12th June 2015
Hello, Skippy. Nice to see back. Gardening leave Tubbs, only thing I am fighting at the moment. I can't link as I am on my phone, but has anyone read Campbell's latest, it's a long meandering read that bored me at times, something that hasn't happened before. But the crux is that if the next leader...
- Fri 12 Jun, 2015 3:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 12th June 2015
- Replies: 78
- Views: 18821
Re: Friday 12th June 2015
RebeccaR, have you had an email from Welsh Labour regarding July 5th?
- Fri 12 Jun, 2015 11:02 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 12th June 2015
- Replies: 78
- Views: 18821
Re: Friday 12th June 2015
AnatolyKasparov wrote:Great news from Tower Hamlets - start of the fightback?
Steady on now, Anatoly!
- Fri 12 Jun, 2015 10:26 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 12th June 2015
- Replies: 78
- Views: 18821
Re: Friday 12th June 2015
NonOxCol wrote:Morning.
F*** the IPCC.
Message ends.
Indeed, and the reasoning doesn't wash either, too long ago, what bollocks.
- Tue 02 Jun, 2015 6:56 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 2nd June
- Replies: 82
- Views: 14705
Re: Tuesday 2nd June
Aye, whatever problems he had he handled them with humility. He wasn't short on self deprecation either. A young child too, which makes it all the more sadder.
- Mon 01 Jun, 2015 6:47 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 1st June 2015
- Replies: 126
- Views: 22829
Re: Monday 1st June 2015
I don't know if this has been linked yet, as usual, apologies if it has, to me though it sums up the ridiculousness and frustration of politics in this country at the moment, Michael Sheen is sublime at the moment, if ever you want to give up the day job Mike, and in darkness, Port Talbot is a dead ...