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It's not a blindness to do with funding, they always make the link between union backing and Labour policies. I don't know why the link is not made between the Tory party and their backers, as they seem to have more influence than the unions do with Labour.

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Anatoly, I needed your prompt! But I think you're referring to this one:
http://xkcd.com/386/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

'Someone is wrong on the internet'

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I have big problems with the passing of time wrt popular culture. For instance, How Soon Is Now? is closer to Tutti Frutti than it is to today. *howl of despair* xkcd is one of my favourite comics, so even though this relates to films, I'm going to post it here anyway :) http://xkcd.com/891/" ...

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I still haven't been able to find out what the official school leaving age is, whether Labour's rise to 17 in 2013 and then 18 in 2015 has ever come into law. You'd think, even with my modest internet skills, this information would be easy to find. Hi Willow The school leaving age is still 16, but ...

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Thanks for the support.

I'm ok at the moment, and have been (mostly) ok for a long time. It's good to know of somewhere to turn, though, if/when things aren't ok.

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Re school leaving age. It was to be 17 from 2013 and 18 from 2015. I have found references to the original Labour plans but have found nothing about what has happened regarding this since the Coalition came to power. Both the Conservatives and Libdems opposed the policy to raise the leaving age whe...

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Strangely..... Yes but can you guess why? I'm very intrigued now. Is she descended from a gas lighter family? Or a famous actor / actress in the era when stage lights were gas? You're going to tell me something entirely different I know. No that's far too intelligent! Think sport. Just googled (I'm...

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Tom Blenkinsop retweeted ONS ‏@ONS 20m20 minutes ago 50% annual fall in crude oil #prices in January, the biggest on record Is this still due to Saudi Arabia wanting to take out US shale gas extraction enterprise? I'll send another thank you note but really, we've got to stop the fossil fuel binge....

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The Last Leg was very good on tax avoidance last night. Nice to see someone as highly paid as Jonathan Ross coming out against tax avoidance.

You should be able to catch up with it on 4OD.

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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/03/depression-doesnt-make-you-sad-all-the-time" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; This reflects my experience with depression, and the guilt of saying I'm depressed when I'm not lying in bed, incapable of doing anything. Luckily...

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Simon Wren-Lewis on 'The Austerity Con'

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n04/simon-wren ... terity-con" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It's a long read.

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NonOxCol wrote:
Nirvana - Nevermind

Smells like Teen Spirit was on the radio as a golden oldie recently. I can't believe it's over 20 years old, when did that happen?!

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Good afternoon, everyone, and hello to all the newer posters than me! This is from a couple of weeks ago, not sure if it's been picked up before: U.S. Declines to Prosecute News Corp in U.K. Hacking Scandal Justice Department Ends Its Investigation Without Filing Charges http://www.wsj.com/articles/...

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From one of Ernst's posts yesterday. It's a little tittle-tattley that article. If Lucas gets voted out (and a Labour MP voted in), then it will be largely down to the activities of the local council (Green) which has had some fairly well documented issues. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/...

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From one of Ernst's posts yesterday. It's a little tittle-tattley that article. If Lucas gets voted out (and a Labour MP voted in), then it will be largely down to the activities of the local council (Green) which has had some fairly well documented issues. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/d...

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AAW posted this a couple of days ago. Thanks Plaid Wales BBC Wales Politics ‏@WalesPolitics · 2m2 minutes ago Plaid's Green call http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-31018236" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; … Lord Wigley says Welsh people in England should consider vo...

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Third report this week gives the message that the academies programme was conceived on the back of a fag packet with no thought as to the consequences. DfE needs plan to stop repeat of ‘Trojan Horse’, say MPs http://schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-needs-plan-to-stop-repeat-of-trojan-horse-say-mps/ Concerns t...

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Follow your convictions – this could be the end of the politics of fear Syriza, Podemos, the SNP: the neoliberal consensus is collapsing. Forget tactical considerations in May and vote Green for a genuine alternative http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/28/convictions-politics-fear-syr...

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The Treasury said its own work presented the most rigorous record of the impact of the government’s policies on households. “Unlike the Treasury’s analysis, the research by LSE Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion does not take into account the effects of changes to the vital public services on ...

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What does this mean. They say the cost is £276bn, and the benefits, tax allowances, etc it would replace cost £272bn (this includes £10bn from scrapping higher rate pension tax relief). If they mean I have to pay tax on my pension contribution (and be taxed again on them when I withdraw the money)....

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It's a great prospect, isn't it? Hopefully the Green Party will maintain their higher profile so that CI is kept on the agenda, and proper costings come out showing that it is indeed affordable. The Swiss will be voting in 2-3 years time on whether to implement a Citizens Income. If they vote yes, ...

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Thanks to WelshIan for the link. That model estimates running costs at £3BN - currently, on top of the total spend on all social security payments of £272BN PA, there is a lot more spending on administration and outsourcing. DWP employs 96,000 people at a cost of more than £2 Billion. A CI would no...

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Good afternoon. David Cameron detected phone hoax when caller apologised for waking him PM said no harm was done and no national security was breached by caller pretending to be GCHQ director [David Cameron said] “ So I quite rapidly asked who is this, to which the answer came it is a hoax call and...

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David Cameron: include Northern Ireland parties too in TV debates PM says good progress has been made in debate negotiations but questions why Northern Ireland parties are missing out http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/26/david-cameron-northern-ireland-parties-tv-debates" onclick=&qu...

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The cost of the benefits, etc this is replacing is £272bn (this includes £10bn from scrapping higher rate pension tax relief). There would also be a scrapping of the personal tax allowance. I'm not sure why its £56 for under 15s, I'd have thought, in terms of cost, that it would be better to leave ...

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On Citizens Income, there is a model here: http://www.citizensincome.org/MoneyforEveryone.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (Appendix 16, it's a Word document.) Age Census Citizen’s Income Cost 2011 per week 0 to 15 11.9 million £56.25 £35 bn 16 to 24 7.5 million £56.25 £2...

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Every other Windows release is good, the others are garbage: 3.1 - good 98 - garbage 98se - good ME - garbage XP - good Vista - garbage 7 - good 8/8.1 - garbage 10 - good? They said that about the Star Trek films and then all of them after First Contact were rubbish (until the reboot). :) I can see...

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Tailor benefits to match local needs and costs, says Citizens Advice charity http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tailor-benefits-to-match-local-needs-and-costs-says-citizens-advice-charity-10000902.html Britain’s welfare system should be radically reformed to allow different rates of bene...

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Ephemerid Reeves should not be congratulating the government on this nonsense - she should be talking, no, shouting, about the missing people. You're right, she shouldn't & she's not. Reeves isn't cheer-leading for recent Tory 'job growth' figures. I posted the truncated message & the rest ...

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Reeves Tweeted congratulations for the drop in unemployment the other day...I [replied] said: Goodness. She didn't believe the DWP figures did she? Worrying. I'm just hoping it's a strategy to keep Labour voters who have also been screaming about 'scroungers' [and there are a lot of them] on board....

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It's politeness gone mad. Doesn't have quite the same feeling of outrage, does it?

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The current legal maximum, AFAIK, is 2%, after which you trigger a local ballot of electors (who'll probably say no) and gain Fat Eric's eternal interest in your council, which he will then probably persecute to the best of his abilities, which I suppose means he'll probably royally screw up, as he...

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Article about sanctions by Patrick Butler. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jan/20/benefits-sanctions-overuse-claimant-numbers-reduce" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Sanctions applied to the sick/disabled and those with caring responsibilities are immoral IMHO. The W...

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https://tompride.wordpress.com/2015/01/20/how-tory-mp-david-morris-shamelessly-lied-to-parliament-in-food-bank-debate/ David Morris MP. Lying in Parliament. There needs to be some sort of sanction for MPs lying to Parliament. There's a petition here: https://www.change.org/p/it-s-entirely-legal-for...

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With regard to the vote on the Charter of Responsibility, Danny Alexander makes it clear that Labour did not vote for £30 billion of cuts, Labour voted to clear the structural deficit in the required timeframe. As has been noted previously, Labour's plan is completely different to the Conservative ...

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Ham face is off to the USA for a photo-op with Obama. Must be an election due :toss: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-cameron-to-seek-us-help-over-terrorists-use-of-facebook-and-twitter-9978680.html Yes, because Facebook and Twitter are the communication tool of choice for terror...

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With regard to the vote on the Charter of Responsibility, Danny Alexander makes it clear that Labour did not vote for £30 billion of cuts, Labour voted to clear the structural deficit in the required timeframe. As has been noted previously, Labour's plan is completely different to the Conservative p...

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Ham face is off to the USA for a photo-op with Obama. Must be an election due :toss: David Cameron will today urge the American Government to force US-based Facebook and Twitter to take tougher action against terrorists using social media to hatch plots. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politic...

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Good afternoon everyone George Osborne on Tuesday (Charter for Budget Responsibility): Mr Osborne: What we have done is cut the deficit by a half. We have neither gone faster than we said we were going to go, nor gone slower than we said we were going to go. We have stuck to our spending plans when ...

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Finding quite a lot of people who don't know if they are registered to vote when we are out on the doorsteps locally. And - as you would expect - it seems to be those who have had to move recently, the insecure renters, who are mostly saying this. They don't seem to be a group the Tories and Lib De...

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Iain Dale @IainDale · 18h 18 hours ago New Blog by me: General Election Predictions 38: Wales - Dyfed: This is the thirty-eighth in a series of blogp... http://bit.ly/143fYiK" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; 3. Ceredigion 2010 Result: Conservative: 4421 (11.6%) Labour: 2210 ...

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David Davies (aka the stupid one called David Davies) has excelled himself this time. Heat's off Nigel. http://www.david-daviesmp.co.uk/news/paris-attacks-show-need-scrap-human-rights-act" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Haven't seen Iain Dale's predictions for Monmouth, but...

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Happy New Year everyone! This talk of the election TV debates reminded me of the Bite the Ballot Leaders Live interviews. David Cameron still hasn't confirmed a date: http://bitetheballot.co.uk/leaders-live/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I've emailed them to see if he's go...

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letsskiptotheleft wrote:Sorry for language, ok I am not, but she winds me up a treat, neighbouring constituency, she'd rather talk about Iraq and being Blair's poodle than what goes on under her nose..

I deleted all the swearing out of my post before pressing submit - it took a while.

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Clwyd is shocking, and so was the decision to reselect her, though Labour's insistence on her constituency being an AWS didn't help, a right shitstorm was stirred up... End result, CLP not giving a shit about what those above wanted and voted for someone most wanted to see the back of. Evening all....

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Can I nominate George Monbiot for best contributor? As a bonus, you can read him without visiting the Guardian: http://www.monbiot.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I would like to nominate this from Owen Hatherley for best article: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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James O'Brien retweeted audioBoom @audioBoom · 1h 1 hour ago #News Great news! The man who told @LBC he was too poor to eat has been offered a job. We love news like this! http://bit.ly/1zPHR8j Whooo hoooo. I really hope it all goes well for him. What a welcome bit of good news. Good news indeed! W...

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George Eaton @georgeeaton · 1h 1 hour ago Lib Dem MP tells me party would be prepared to prop up the Tories if they win more votes but fewer seats than Labour http://bit.ly/1yRtJgx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; George Eaton @georgeeaton · 2h 2 hours ago Behind the bluster...

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Iain Duncan Smith has promised to respond positively to a Church of England-backed report on the spread of food banks in the UK, saying he was looking at how sanctioned claimants that lose jobseeker’s allowance need not lose housing benefit as well. The work and pensions secretary told MPs: “We wan...

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I've been trying to find some quality data & analysis regarding the general topic of UK workers not having the right skills to fill jobs in the UK. Does anyone have information for me? This is interesting, but I'm not sure it answers your question! Skills Supply and Demand in Europe 2010-2020, ...

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