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I rather think that there will be a lot of Tory MPs looking very carefully at the result of Rochester and Strood. If UKIP get in, I would expect a general election before May 2015. My view is that Tories will be spooked if they lose, and start to reason that they will only retain their seats by def...

"An easy Cameron win" I dunno; I liked Miliband's bit about "I lost a couple of paragraphs of my speech; he lost two MPs [Three if you count Brooks Newmark]" Cameron says that is not his view, or the government’s view. He does not need lectures from anyone about looking after di...

Britain Elects ‏@britainelects · 4m4 minutes ago National Opinion Poll (YouGov): LAB - 34% (=) CON - 30% (-1) UKIP - 18% (+1) LDEM - 8% (+1) UKIP's highest ever rating with YouGov, according to The Sun Politics twitter feed. (fucking opinion polls, I can't believe I'm regularly looking at something...

What is to stop the tories/media coming up with new trojan horse stories pre-election? If they do, Tristram will be in a poor position to fend them off, because he has accepted lies as truth and they will denounce him for 'being weak' against radical islam or whatever. To me you can't maintain a co...

This Tweet made me chuckle rosita stefanyszyn retweeted Francesca ‏@FrancescaDykes Aug 17 Just read that 4,153,237 people got married last year, not to cause any trouble but shouldn't that be an even number? Perhaps one of them got the marriage annulled fairly quickly and then married someone else :)

Re: The tory's open primary for Rochester - can someone organise a write-in campaign for 'None of the above'? Or maybe 'Dennis Skinner'? Even 'Mark Reckless' would be fun.

Late to the Party but eager to catch up: In no particular order (except that the first is my best album of all time) and rationed to no more than one album per act REM - Automatic to the People The Beatles - Revolver The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds The Who - Who's Next Shawn Colvin - Fat City Pere Ubu ...

Tonight's YouGov for The Sun

Labour 34%
Con 31%
UKIP 17%
LibDem 7%

mbc1955 wrote:Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This Year's Model (though his best has to be Imperial Bedroom)

I can't believe I didn't include Imperial Bedroom.

Morning All! I'm now unsure what to do about the Pub. I suggested yesterday we might make it Members Only. So far I think one of us says we definitely should. One says we definitely shouldn't ;-) When we originally discussed this on the old site, the decision to make it Members Only was mainly from...

Dave's in deep trouble I reckon. Unsurprisingly, people are rushing to place bets on a Mark Reckless victory in Rochester & Strood at 4/9 ON. Even the Guardian will struggle to portray a UKIP win there as bad for Ed Miliband. No they won't. Whilst the Conservatives had wisely written off their ...

I mentioned last night Carswell's comment that there would be no need for any more new recruits to UKIP to face a by-election - here's the quote… However, in a change of tack, Ukip sources said Mr Carswell will tell his former colleagues in the Commons tea room that they can simply cross the floor a...

Norman Smith BBC tweets "Labour lead reduced by 90%" - yeah, because all of the opposition ganged up on them! This, perhaps is the worrying thing. Although there's been the obvious churn, Labour's voteshare holding (and just rising) means the idea that UKIP are sucking up their voters is w...

Labour's share seems to have dropped by .01 of a percent. Disaster for Miliband.

Edit - either I can't read numbers or the numbers just changed. Increased by 0.8 of a percent. Disaster for Miliband.

Reasoning being the bookies' odds have Labour even more likely to win in Heywood than yesterday, with nobody offering less than 50/1 ON Labour winning. Actually the same is the case for UKIP in Clacton. I know anything can happen, but they look like reasonably certain outcomes don't they? Can you g...

Don't we need some kind of glorious title for this? "Today, we celebrate our independence / Shot heard around the world / etc etc". The telegraph commentariat would not be pleased.

rebeccariots2 wrote:
John Prescott ‏@johnprescott 38s39 seconds ago
Nick Clegg is rubb-ish #ldconf

I'm guessing this is in response to the Al Murray joke that Clegg has, according to tweets I'm seeing, told along the lines of the Scots, Brits etc all being 'ish'.

~~Except the welsh who can just 'sh'.~~

Two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff.

Oi! Demarcation dispute here! If anyone's going to be dispensing drinks around here, it'll be LetSkip or myself. We're professionals, don'tcha know. As to whether Labour should campaign hard, well I think it has to be seen to be fighting, although "seen" and "actually" can be tw...

The guardian always claim that they give particular attention to their ICM polls precisely because they are their polls, and don't report other polls (which have consistently shown bigger Labour leads and even more pitiful LibDem figures) because they aren't theirs. When the Observer's regular polli...

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Does the latest YouGov have Labour ahead in the raw figures, like the last two?

No - unweighted is 483 to 459 out of a sample of 1739, which goes to weighted numbers of 479 to 456.

rebeccariots2 wrote:
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Ian Katz ‏@iankatz1000 39m39 minutes ago
Coming up...Tracey Emin tells @KirstyWark why she'll be voting Tory again in 2015 #newsnight
That got me out of the sitting room super fast.

Can we play Tracey Emin interview Bingo? I'm having

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I can't do five. I can't do a top twenty, I just can't. Five films Animal Crackers - it was my first Marx Brothers' film. It's very stagey (it was a stage play before it was a film) but it's still wonderful - it gives them the most fantastic introductions, it has some brilliant Harpo/Chico and Chico...

Hook: Peter Pan grew up but not really but I could share Robin Williams with my kids and Tinkerbell came along, Smee, the Lost Boys, we were all there in our generations, what a brilliant idea! I first saw Robin Williams in Mork & Mindy then forgot about that for decades then I saw his "Li...

Join me next week on 'let's make no fucking sense' when I'll be waxing an owl.

I know it's probably been linked, but worth it anyway. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/01/banksy-mural-clacton-racist" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; My opinion of Banksy continues to climb. That mural was witty and apposite, its removal by the Tory local c...

ErnstRemarx wrote:. I shall be honoured to meet you (I'm reading Pride and Prejudice at the moment).

If I were to be there (and I won't be) I would rip your noble head from your shoulders and feast upon your insides. (I'm reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies at the moment).

Just like higher rate taxpayers got the benefit from the rise to £10,000 too. In fact I think there was a study saying that higher rate taxpayers made the most from that particular wheeze. I thought there was supposed to be a claw back to stop those on the higher rate from benefitting. The value of...

Nick Robinson ‏@bbcnickrobinson 38m38 minutes ago Cameron's speech = classic Tory Coke - sound money, tax cuts, a fight with Europe. The question - has Britain got the taste for it? His slightly more interesting quote from Daily Politics on BBC was BBC political editor Nick Robinson says the speech...

Cameron sums up what the Conservatives have to offer - full employment

My arse.

UK factory growth hits 17-month low Britain’s factory sector has also suffered a bad September, with growth slowing sharply. The manufacturing PMI, which measures how hundreds of UK firms performed last month, has fallen to 51.6, from 52.2 in August. That shows the weakest growth since April 2013, ...

45, for another week or so.

On defections - one name regularly mentioned is Tory MEP Daniel Hannan, who has been insisting that he has no intention of jumping ship - one reason why this might well be true is that, if he were to follow the (right and proper) now-established precedent of resigning his seat to refight it, wouldn'...

Richard Barnes, former conservative Deputy Mayor of London, defects to UKIP - Standard Article

YouGov

Labour 36%
Con 31%
UKIP 16%
LibDem 7%

Envy & Other Sins - We Leave At Dawn. I saw them play in the cellars of a local club along with three other bands, when the musicians for the night outnumbered the punters by about three to one but the bands all still went for it and everyone enjoyed themselves. They set up with fairy lights an...

Our Year 7 kids have been given homework by their spanish teacher to greet 10 teachers in spanish and get them to sign their planners as evidence, so I am surrounded by 11 year olds shouting 'Hola!'. I went to see one of the other spanish teachers today to ask her to teach me something filthy but su...

Lots on the progress of Plan A/B/Whatever in the Guardian's Business Blog “August’s public finances data suggest that deficit reduction remains a grindingly slow process. “The chances of the Chancellor enjoying a fiscal windfall from the strong economic recovery in time for the Autumn Statement are ...

If there were any doubt about what the Guardian thinks of Miliband, here is the first item on their politics page this morning. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2014/sep/23/ed-miliband-phrase-generator" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I look forward to thei...

Good piece by Will Hutton in the Observer - After the Scottish referendum – David Cameron's cynical attempt to manipulate the constitution

If the government do ram through something as dumb as their backbenchers seem to be salivating for, it will be the end of a united England within a decade or two, never mind a United Kingdom. I'm very much in favour of investigating, consulting and planning for UK of nations and regions, but a gerry...

It would be good if Labour stepped up with something comprehensive and long term here - a 2020 project for a constitutional convention on regionalism, federalism, PR, a written constitution ... you can't fuck about piecemeal with major constitutional reform. If a deadline for a wide ranging decision...

It's my name. Edited to add - previous usernames in a wide range of other places include Crash, No!, random, 45rpm, mercury rising (there is a reason, I can't remember what it is, but it's nothing at all to do with either Sting or Bruce Willis), the purple, adlad and the vinyl countdown. I have had...

It's my name.

The government's mind set on further devolution and so on is clear from it's earlier actions on lobbying - moving with effortless ease from 'there is a real problem with lobbying' to 'we have to cut charities and unions out of political influence'. They're a bunch of self-serving shits. I suspect La...

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Impossible topic. An attempt in absolutely no particular order, and I'll be livid with myself for what I've forgotten within minutes… Aztec Camera - High Land Hard Rain The Wannadies - Bagsy Me The Specials - The Specials Marvin Gaye - That's The Way Love Is (liberated from my uncle as part of 'the...

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