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by letsskiptotheleft
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: 63498

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Fri 29 Apr, 2016 6:02 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 29th April 2016
Replies: 153
Views: 25166

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Fri 29 Apr, 2016 5:01 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 29th April 2016
Replies: 153
Views: 25166

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Fri 29 Apr, 2016 4:16 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 29th April 2016
Replies: 153
Views: 25166

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Fri 29 Apr, 2016 3:51 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 29th April 2016
Replies: 153
Views: 25166

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;
by letsskiptotheleft
Fri 29 Apr, 2016 3:15 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 29th April 2016
Replies: 153
Views: 25166

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Tue 26 Apr, 2016 11:18 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 26th April 2016
Replies: 149
Views: 22501

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.
by letsskiptotheleft
Fri 22 Apr, 2016 8:36 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 22nd April 2016
Replies: 143
Views: 17637

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Fri 15 Apr, 2016 10:40 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 15th April 2016
Replies: 117
Views: 13463

Re: Friday 15th April 2016

Hobiejoe wrote:Watching BBC4 right now, on rock'n'roll. Gawds isn't Dominic Sandbook a complete tit.
Many a good premise for a programme has been spoilt by that smug, Daily Mail contributing, over exposed while other historians are sidelined prick!
by letsskiptotheleft
Sat 02 Apr, 2016 12:39 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 1st.April 2016.
Replies: 181
Views: 18647

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Sat 02 Apr, 2016 12:21 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 1st.April 2016.
Replies: 181
Views: 18647

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.
by letsskiptotheleft
Sat 02 Apr, 2016 12:15 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 1st.April 2016.
Replies: 181
Views: 18647

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Fri 01 Apr, 2016 11:49 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 1st.April 2016.
Replies: 181
Views: 18647

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Fri 01 Apr, 2016 5:40 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 1st.April 2016.
Replies: 181
Views: 18647

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. :hug:
by letsskiptotheleft
Fri 01 Apr, 2016 4:42 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 1st.April 2016.
Replies: 181
Views: 18647

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Sat 31 Oct, 2015 6:52 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 31st October (Halloween) & Sunday 1st November 2015
Replies: 230
Views: 43390

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.
by letsskiptotheleft
Tue 18 Aug, 2015 1:22 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 18th August 2015
Replies: 169
Views: 20058

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 ...
by letsskiptotheleft
Mon 17 Aug, 2015 9:29 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 17th August 2015
Replies: 198
Views: 27728

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.
by letsskiptotheleft
Mon 17 Aug, 2015 9:17 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 17th August 2015
Replies: 198
Views: 27728

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 ...
by letsskiptotheleft
Fri 14 Aug, 2015 5:02 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 14th August 2015
Replies: 232
Views: 34426

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 ...
by letsskiptotheleft
Fri 14 Aug, 2015 9:48 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 14th August 2015
Replies: 232
Views: 34426

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Tue 11 Aug, 2015 9:10 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 11th August 2015
Replies: 122
Views: 22247

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.
by letsskiptotheleft
Tue 11 Aug, 2015 8:56 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 11th August 2015
Replies: 122
Views: 22247

Re: Tuesday 11th August 2015

Nice history lesson there from Nuttal, I never realised Marxists were that influential?!


You learn something new everyday dontcha?!
by letsskiptotheleft
Tue 11 Aug, 2015 1:57 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 11th August 2015
Replies: 122
Views: 22247

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.
by letsskiptotheleft
Tue 11 Aug, 2015 9:56 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 11th August 2015
Replies: 122
Views: 22247

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,...
by letsskiptotheleft
Mon 10 Aug, 2015 6:55 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 10th August 2015
Replies: 136
Views: 22779

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Mon 10 Aug, 2015 4:24 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 10th August 2015
Replies: 136
Views: 22779

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.
by letsskiptotheleft
Mon 10 Aug, 2015 3:16 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 10th August 2015
Replies: 136
Views: 22779

Re: Monday 10th August 2015

War criminal, blah, blah, blah!
by letsskiptotheleft
Sat 08 Aug, 2015 8:40 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Weekend Edition - Saturday/Sunday 8th/9th August
Replies: 218
Views: 28275

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Thu 06 Aug, 2015 2:31 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 6th August 2015
Replies: 64
Views: 12533

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Mon 27 Jul, 2015 6:30 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 27th July 2015
Replies: 102
Views: 15826

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Sat 25 Jul, 2015 3:06 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday, July 25th - Sunday, July 26th 2015
Replies: 109
Views: 16345

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 ...
by letsskiptotheleft
Sat 25 Jul, 2015 3:02 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday, July 25th - Sunday, July 26th 2015
Replies: 109
Views: 16345

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Sat 25 Jul, 2015 2:53 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday, July 25th - Sunday, July 26th 2015
Replies: 109
Views: 16345

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Sat 25 Jul, 2015 2:49 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday, July 25th - Sunday, July 26th 2015
Replies: 109
Views: 16345

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Sat 25 Jul, 2015 2:37 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday, July 25th - Sunday, July 26th 2015
Replies: 109
Views: 16345

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.
by letsskiptotheleft
Fri 03 Jul, 2015 10:11 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 3rd July 2015
Replies: 104
Views: 20626

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Fri 03 Jul, 2015 9:05 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 3rd July 2015
Replies: 104
Views: 20626

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Thu 02 Jul, 2015 9:07 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 2nd July 2015
Replies: 107
Views: 21190

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.
by letsskiptotheleft
Thu 02 Jul, 2015 2:29 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 2nd July 2015
Replies: 107
Views: 21190

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Wed 24 Jun, 2015 7:16 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wenesday 24th June 2015
Replies: 71
Views: 16557

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
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.
by letsskiptotheleft
Fri 12 Jun, 2015 9:44 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 12th June 2015
Replies: 78
Views: 18813

Re: Friday 12th June 2015

Quite fancy a trip to France next summer...
by letsskiptotheleft
Fri 12 Jun, 2015 4:57 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 12th June 2015
Replies: 78
Views: 18813

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Fri 12 Jun, 2015 4:07 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 12th June 2015
Replies: 78
Views: 18813

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...
by letsskiptotheleft
Fri 12 Jun, 2015 3:17 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 12th June 2015
Replies: 78
Views: 18813

Re: Friday 12th June 2015

RebeccaR, have you had an email from Welsh Labour regarding July 5th?
by letsskiptotheleft
Fri 12 Jun, 2015 11:02 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 12th June 2015
Replies: 78
Views: 18813

Re: Friday 12th June 2015

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Great news from Tower Hamlets - start of the fightback?

Steady on now, Anatoly!
by letsskiptotheleft
Fri 12 Jun, 2015 10:26 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 12th June 2015
Replies: 78
Views: 18813

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.
by letsskiptotheleft
Tue 02 Jun, 2015 6:56 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 2nd June
Replies: 82
Views: 14698

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.
by letsskiptotheleft
Mon 01 Jun, 2015 6:47 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 1st June 2015
Replies: 126
Views: 22819

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 ...