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LadyCentauria

John West tuna is not as wildlife friendly as it promised to be. Only 2% of its tuna is caught by 'pole and line', and is 'aggregated' in with the net-catch, which can (and does) catch up dolphin, shark, and turtles, amongst other sea-life. John West is now owned by a Thai company. Sorry this is beh...

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Steve Bell...... http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2015/oct/05/steve-bell-on-george-osborne-and-the-party-of-builders-cartoon?CMP=share_btn_tw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; :lol: :lol: :lol: Newsnight just ended with a montage of Osborne's constant referenc...

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Mornin' all. Well, what charmers the Tax Payers' Alliance are. </sarcasm> I didn't think I could be surprised by anything they come out with but this... words fail me: Mr Wild said the Tories could not wait until a year before the next election to make the necessary cuts to the winter fuel allowance...

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Sky News Newsdesk ‏@SkyNewsBreak 19m19 minutes ago Lord Adonis leaves Labour Party to become crossbench peer - Govt: Former Labour cabinet minister to head National Infrastructure Commission Not sure it's even earthquake significance ... more a tremor? Yeah, Adonis joined the board of HS2 Ltd as a ...

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WATO interview with Justine Greening on the tax credit cuts ... me gnashing teeth. She's just spouting that a 'typical family will be £2,400 a year better off'. That's it ... that's all she's really prepared to say. 'Typical family' - that's really what they are going to hide behind? That and, &quo...

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Alan Travis ‏@alantravis40 2 mins2 minutes ago Texas scheme of investing in probation to cut incarceration rates by 12% behind Gove jail revolution, says Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11909309/The-Texas-prison-experiment-that-inspired-Michael-Gove.html" o...

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WATO interview with Justine Greening on the tax credit cuts ... me gnashing teeth. She's just spouting that a 'typical family will be £2,400 a year better off'. That's it ... that's all she's really prepared to say. 'Typical family' - that's really what they are going to hide behind? That and, &quo...

LadyCentauria

Thanks for tips. And if you want to eat some fresh - take a ripe avocado, cut it in half lengthways, spoon out the stone, slice it each half (while it's in the skin) first lengthways then make lots of slices across (carefully without breaking the skin,) then use the same knife to scoop the slices o...

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Sajid Javid is really crap (and A.N. has been hammering at him) because, amongst other crap he's spouting, he uttered the sentence, "For every Public Sector worker who lost their job, millions more jobs were created by the Private Sector!"

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@ Tubby 's link, above, led me to this: More than half of teachers in England (53%) are thinking of quitting in the next two years, a survey has suggested. The survey, conducted by the National Union of Teachers, found 61% of those wanting to leave blamed workload and 57% desired a better work/life ...

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This is really funny. "Labour's Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, alongside Labour-affiliated trade unions, are urging councils to use their procurement and pension policies to punish both Israel and the UK defence industry," he said. "Separate hard-left campaigns against British def...

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ChrisDean wrote:Signing off now folks, read you all everyday and appreciate all that you write...all food for thought. Take care, much love to you all x

To you, too, @ChrisDean - your posts are always much appreciated.

LadyCentauria

HindleA wrote:Farewell,Denis Healey.

He certainly made it to a great age and was a towering figure of Labour politics for most of, if not, all of my life so far. Fine musician, too. Wasn't he one of the first British politicians to not just take part in but join in with television satirical news-based quizzes?

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i'm convinced that the Tory decision to meet in Manchester is a bit of trolling, just because Labour have 96 out of 96 councillors there :twisted: Suits them for their Northern Powerhouse schtick. First 'City Region' to accept Osborne's devolution-with-elected-mayor deal - even though the enabling/...

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Good morfternoon. SSI (Redcar steel) has put its UK arm into liquidation. Seems now that even the "mothballing" is at risk. Just hearing the news on the BBC. Good afternoon. As I mentioned a couple of days ago I'm an ex-employee of British Steel in the North East with many friends who wor...

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Ms. and Mr.Riots - you are heroes. Thank you. I hope you haven't got so cold/wet/constipated (Mr.R only, obvs) that you suffer unduly. Wales has won - not easily, by any means; and no bonus points - so now we have to hope that England lose to Australia. And I do. Fervently. Our lovely council - hav...

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Afternoon. I would like to ask anyone here, or elsewhere for that matter, who comes out with the phrase 'what Corbyn should have said' (or words to that effect) to put themselves forward and become elected as an mp.Then,having done that,win a clear mandate as party leader,maybe approximately 60% of...

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And a jolly Happy Birthday to @PaulRutherford8, should you look in today! ... Otherwise, we'll just eat all the cake ourselves

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@rr2 & Mr. Riots: Thank you for what you do - and for the reports from the field.

to you both and to all those out there!

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Oh, just remembered that the Conservative Party's web-page on their timetable for electing a candidate for London Mayor did say that they'd announce the winner of their Open Primary election by the end of September, didn't it? (Although it was non-specific on the question of when voting would close ...

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Sorry, didn't mean to snap. The question was not about party policy it was about whether as PM, Corbyn would sanction a nuclear strike. Every PM has this choice, and every PM has to decide in advance whether or not to sanction a return strike. We don't know what any PM decided, but we haven't had a...

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May be of interest, Leon Rosselson, "I heard it on the radio" Questions why we need nuclear deterrent when e.g. Switzerland doesn't http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3F2YpuQUo5I Also topical, "Whoever invented the fishfinger" http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru7d2uhvzuI&itct=CBMQpDAY...

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Hmmm, is TE above *really* saying above that JC is unelectable as PM because he refuses to press a button that would incinerate millions? I thought anyway that the whole point of nuclear deterrence was exactly that - the weapons exist precisely so that they should *not* be used. No I am saying he i...

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I learnt this song, I Want To Have A Little Bomb Like You , when I was six - along with the guitar accompaniment, when my guitar was probably still bigger than me. My (now late) father had the record this is taken from (The Edinburgh Folk Festival, 1964 - reissued in 1969) and bought me a book of pr...

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Dunno who's typing the BBC News' on-screen headlines but just had a giggle at someone typing as I do, a lot of the time. I'm not alone! Hurrah!. Their headline said: Cars: China boosts tacx cuts My brain frequently instructs my fingers to do that sort of thing when I'm sort of drifting (and befour I...

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I don't know whether or not anyone's posted it but here is Kerry McCarthy's (DEFRA) speech to Conference. I think most of us will find it pleasing:
http://press.labour.org.uk/post/1301239 ... rty-annual

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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-fit-note-a-guide-for-patients-and-employees#history Updated guidance for fit notes "If you are fit for work you do not need a fit note" WORK BASTARDS IT IS GOOD FOR YOU ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE NOT FIT https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/...

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Goodnight, @cJA - dream sweetly and waken refreshed

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From tomorrow it will be illegal to light up in cars with children. But it's all a farce because...
POLICE VOW TO IGNORE NEW LAW ON SMOKING

(Daily Mail front page for Wednesday 30th Oct 2015)
http://www.scoopnest.com/user/SkyNews/6 ... 2120576000

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ohsocynical wrote:
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In Portugal, binmen were on strike, so people left their rubbish outside the banks.

Good on the Portuguese

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I've just been watching a repeat of Owen Smith's conference speech on BBC parliament. Easily the best speaker I've seen so far, by a large margin. Good he's got the shadow DWP brief. I'd agree, from the speeches I've heard so far (although none have disappointed.) I haven't heard today's yet as I h...

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Hope SeeingClearly is alright. I don't think she's posted recently. And I wonder how ErnstRemax is doing? I guess he'd have been having a field day with the new direction Labour is taking. Heartily seconded. I hope that Ernst would be pleased with the recipé I've been working with since OGRPFG info...

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almost off topic, but:- https://mobile.twitter.com/LonelyBeagle2/status/648529788970344448?p=v Beagle2 @ LonelyBeagle2 This salty water is all very well but it makes an awful cuppa. #bringmehome 9:08 AM - 28 Sep 2015 :mrgreen: Mwahaha! Quite so. Would need an incredibly efficient desalination plant...

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Don't think anyone's mentioned this. ITV do a regular Welsh poll. They are calling it a Corbyn bounce. Fieldwork carried out 21-24th September Westminster polling Labour 42% (+5) Conservative: 26% (-2) UKIP: 16% (+1) Plaid Cymru: 10% (-2) Liberal Democrats: 5% (+1) Greens: 2% (-1) Welsh Assembly La...

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I won't sue Ashcroft over 'Pig-gate' because I'm too busy running the country, says David Cameron http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3251500/PM-breaks-silence-pig-claims-deny-happened-suggest-public-straight-Lord-Ashcroft-s-reasons-writing-book.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);r...

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Blimey, someone just posted this on Andrew's blog. pegidafront 3m ago . . . Blimey, indeed! (I've cut that person's actual words and imagine/hope they'll be disappearing from the Graun before too long!) Deeply saddening that people can hold such xenophobic and racist views - if they really do and w...

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Earlier this month we asked readers to take part in our poll to discover how many of Jeremy Corbyn's policies they agree with. Now see the results. http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/jeremy-corbyns-policies-backed-getreading-10146051 Interesting. Check out rent control, educati...

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@ PF : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan and: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Beauterne @ Rebecca : I hope your GSD will soon cheer up again - and that she'll deign to visit the vet, today, to have her stitches looked at. Plus, I can't remember who mentioned it but, yes, ...

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Well, that was well worth getting warmly wrapped up and going to sit/stand around, at the end of the square, in the cold cold air. The skies were crystal clear to give us, even here in leafy South-West London, a host of brilliant stars, nebulae, planets, and galaxies, along with that stunning moon a...

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Mail says Labour's launching a 'tax war' on the middle-classes. The DT has the same. http://i61.tinypic.com/o5x2s9.jpg You don't think they just simply made it up and would have come to the same conclusion whatever Corbyn or McDonnell said? I think they hastily searched for Piketty+tax and cobbled ...

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Half the papers are claiming Corbyn 'lost first battle' over Trident, although the Graun doesn't. Mail says Labour's launching a 'tax war' on the middle-classes. Daily Star says we're in for a two week heatwave. Yippee!

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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/27/labour-moderates-warn-corbyn-party-must-be-clear-on-key-policie Some of these people need to take a good hard look at themselves! Full URL: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/27/labour-moderates-warn-corbyn-party-must-be-clear-on-key-policies

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Chris Bryant's speech , recap : People are fond of quoting that ours is the Mother of all Parliaments but the truth is that our democracy is broken. Cameron had only 24% in GE but is pushing through policies that weren't even in their manifesto. Government Ministers regularly refuse to defend their ...

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& the headline on the Guardian: Labour conference decides to duck debate on Trident - Politics live Makes it sound like the Labour conference is a single entity that has made a decision to 'duck' the debate. Why is every decision that is arrived at democratically is somehow cast as sinister or ...

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The issue of Trident (Defence) will not be debated at this Labour Conference after failing to get enough votes in either the CLP or Affiliated sections of voting. Housing, NHS, Austerity & Public Services, Mental Health, and (oh bugger, I'll have to check!) four other things Employment Rights, E...

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Gosh, Chris Bryant's come right out of his shell with fire and power and passion! Good speech!

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From Andrew Sparrow's blog. The Conservatives have issued a response to Jeremy Corbyn’s interview. This is from Sajid Javid, the business secretary. The Labour leader confirmed that he would weaken our defences by scrapping our independent nuclear deterrent and that he would damage our economy by p...

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Fear thee not, utopiandreams. I'm too respectful of books to go crossing out and writing in. My corrections, notes, and updates, go onto paper and just get slipped in. Not about to start going through my library on account of 'sulfur' - it'd take too bloody long

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In fact it should be "sulfur" not "sulphur" http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v1/n5/full/nchem.301.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Well, honestly! The official nomenclature body could have written to me to let me know because now I'm going to have...

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Jamie RossVerified account ‏@JamieRoss7 4h4 hours ago A man at UKIP conference tells me a friend of his in Tesco told him the real UK population is 90m. "They can tell from food sales," he says. Jamie RossVerified account ‏@JamieRoss7 4h4 hours ago Five out of five people I've asked at th...

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