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Morning. Boris not a shoe-in for Uxbridge ? Local paper quotes a Tory there as saying “Boris is not at all a shoe-in and he’s got a real fight on his hands now. David Simmonds is very popular around here, and Uxbridge’s kind of guy. We don’t go in for flashy and we’ve never been interested in celeb...

Good morning. Labour lead at 4 points on Yougov:

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 4th Sept -

Con 32%, (-1)
Lab 36%, (no change)
LD 7%, (no change)
UKIP 16%; (+2)

APP -25 (-2)

Is there a "thumbs up" button lurking in the back room? I keep seeing posts I want to acknowledge but don't have anything to add to the discussion, a clicky thumb would fill the gap nicely :) (I've accidentally almost "reported" a few as the report button is where the old thumb ...

Sorry about that, may have broken the forum for a second there. All good now.

Tubby Isaacs wrote:Cameron's also copped it from non-lefty Ian Botham in the very prestigious MCC Spirit of Cricket lecture.

Apparently Beefy went to a reception at Number 10, where Cameron agreed with him on school sports.

He's not done anything since.

Beefy has beef with Beefy?

Morning all. Labour lead still 3 points on Yougov:

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 3rd Sept -

Con 33%, (+1)
Lab 36%, (+1)
LD 7%, (-1)
UKIP 14%; (-1)

APP -23 (+1)

pk1 wrote:Is it just me or do the links no longer open in a separate tab ?

I'm sure I remember refitman saying he had reset it so they did.

It appears to be links that have

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around them. I have removed the button for now, until I can work out if I can fix it.

Sky, got it working. Same as before.
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Morning all. Labour lead at 3 points on Youogv:

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 2nd Sept -

Con 32%, (-2)
Lab 35%, (no change)
LD 8%, (+1)
UKIP 15%; (+1)

APP -24 (-1)

TechnicalEmphemera, bet you are a wow at a party! Well it's been a wonderful experience shared with other Labour supporters, Unforgettable! I will be logging out now, never to return, many thanks! Well, that was exciting whilst it lasted, I guess. Should I delete this folks, or should I leave it he...

frightful_oik wrote:Will there be PMQs tomorrow?

It is, according to the calendar on parliament.co.uk

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 30s
Clapton (sic.) by-election date fixed for October 9th

That's Call-me's birthday. What a present that'll be.

Morning all. Labour lead at 1 point on Yougov:

Latest YouGov / Sunday Times results 1st September -

Con 34%, (+2)
Lab 35%, (-1)
LD 7%, (no change)
UKIP 14%; (-2)

APP -23 (+2)

Ah, I see why Dominic Grieve was shuffled out (from AS): Dominic Grieve, the Conservative former attorney general, says he is concerned about plans to stop jihadists returning to the UK. That would not only be against international law; it would be against common law too. It is much better to prosec...

Hmm, we appear to be having DNS issues, causing people not to be able to connect to the site. I am looking at it (around my day job). Please bear with us. Ah, it seems to have been an issue with GoDaddy (our hosting company) themselves, affecting lots of sites, not just ours: http://www.theregister...

Hmm, we appear to be having DNS issues, causing people not to be able to connect to the site. I am looking at it (around my day job). Please bear with us.

Morning all.

AngryAsWell wrote:I've just put some links up in Features and Analysis - not sure if right place - mods please feel free to move 'um

I've made "Policy Matters" again and moved them there. Thanks for the links.

giselle97 wrote:Do I owe anyone money for this site please?

Nope. Wasn't expensive to set up. If we ever meet, you can buy me a pint.

Hot from the torygraph..... :shock: 'Superior’ private health is a myth Just because you have paid directly, your private health care us not better than that offered by the NHS However, following a freedom of information request to the Care Quality Commission, figures released last week showed that...

Morning all. Has anyone worked out Carswell's position on the Bedroom Tax yet? He voted for it, and against any exemptions for carers etc (http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/11621/douglas_carswell/clacton" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;). However Ukip's official line is agains...

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:Isn't this nice?

Thank's for the invite, I knew you all loved me.

Hi Sky, good to see you.

Good piece by Owen Jones, over at the Graun: It's socialism for the rich and capitalism for the rest of us in Britain Who are the real scroungers? Free-marketeers decry 'big government' yet the City and big business benefit hugely from the state – from bailouts to the billions made from privatisatio...

TheGrimSqueaker wrote:As they say, you'd need a heart of stone not to laugh!

@refitman, I'm guessing that one won't be part of the Five Polls either?

Morning all. Labour lead at 3 points on Yougov:

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 28th August -

Con 33%, (-1)
Lab 36%, (+1)
LD 7%, (no change)
UKIP 13%; (-1)

APP -23 (+1)

The thought of watching them knocking lumps out of each other all the way to May is delightful. Since the boundaries changed I don't know that there's any chance of a Labour MP (Harwich was Labour from 1997 to 2005) but if they split the rightwing vote down the middle then maybe, just maybe... If L...

RogerOThornhill wrote:Incidentally, whoever has the Twitter account, can they put the link to my article above on Laura McInerney's tweet?

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Is that possible?

Roger, sent Laura the link.

Morning all. Labour lead at 1 point on Yougov:

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 27th August -

Con 34%, (+1)
Lab 35%, (-2)
LD 7%, (-1)
UKIP 14%; (+1)

APP -24 (-3)

Also, the forum style may be jumping about a bit as I try to find a nice one. Speaking of which, thoughts on this one? Preferred it as it was before. Sorry. (Appreciate all you are doing muchly.) Yes, me too. I just looked for the Quote button and it's tiny! Fair-do's. Changed it back. Will keep lo...

Also, the forum style may be jumping about a bit as I try to find a nice one.

Speaking of which, thoughts on this one?

Just to let everyone know, I have installed a mobile theme for the site. You can switch to/from it via a link at the bottom of each page: mobile.png It should remember your choice from session to session. Straw poll. Does anybody want a mobile theme? I hate it, and to be honest the site doesn't see...

Just to let everyone know, I have installed a mobile theme for the site. You can switch to/from it via a link at the bottom of each page: mobile.png It should remember your choice from session to session. Edit to add: We also have the favicon back (the one in the URL bar/bookmark/tab). Am still work...

Usual lack of response from any of those involved with Cure :roll: It reminds me though - I understand that moving everything across is a mammoth task & in some sense, of little value but please can a special case be made for moving the 'members only' stuff in its entirety ? The work we put int...

Ian Birrell is an arse. That is all.

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Morning all. Labour lead at 4 points on Yougov:

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 26th August -

Con 33%, (-1)
Lab 37%, (+1)
LD 8%, (no change)
UKIP 13%; (-1)

APP -21 (no change)

Hello all. As you may have noticed, all our custom smilies are back

Also, the URL2 that does the blue links is there. Talking of links, they will now open in a new page/tab (only for new posts, it's not retroactive).

TechnicalEphemera wrote:Seems stable on EE, not sure it works from Virgin Media yet.

From experience, I wouldn't expect anything less from VM

Happy Birthday AAW ! Site looks good. Dan's mentioned elsewhere he'll be tweaking the display a bit, is it possible to tone down the colour differences between different user posts ? My middle aged eyes find it easier to read if the background colour is consistent. No worries if it can't be changed...

AngryAsWell wrote:Morning all
Well this looks good - thank you for getting it together - hugs
Cold wet and miserable here today - and my birthday.
Off to read the papers, catch ya laters

Happy Birthday AAW (you should have had it on Sunday, it was nice and sunny then

)

Morning all.

TechnicalEphemera wrote:Update:Looking at Q&A in other areas this may be a 48 hour thing before everything propagates everywhere.

Didn't think to look at that

The old site is open for business again. Will leave it until at least Friday before starting to lock things.

Ohh, so we're all here now eh? Hmm, Looks okay, but why is it Tory blue? :o Some of the emoticons appear to be missing, and I know that it's not the most important thing, but what's the deal with only being able to upload an avatar that's only a 6 KiB (whatever that means in English)? I like to cha...

I'm having real problems with accessing this new site. Totally hit and miss - with the miss happening far more often than the hit. So please keep open some way of us communicating with FTNers when we are unable to log in / get this site up. I guess I'm saying we will need the old site - simply to l...

diGriz wrote:Any way to make links open in a different tab automatically?

There is, but it's a whole 'thing'. I will sort it soon-ish.

Thought this would be useful to have separate entries for major topics like Un/Employment Debt/Deficit Inflation Benefit Statistics NHS Please post facts, graphs, links to statistics sites, troll busting info. Maybe best to keep comment other than factual information, corrections or straight analysi...

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