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Oh - the BBC have just mentioned it (GOLTEP) very fleetingly.

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I notice that the BBC News24 programme is sedulously avoiding mentioning George Osborne's long-term economic plan triumph. I had rather hoped that they were bucking up their ideas.

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Good afternoon. Now is the moment, I feel, to wish everyone here (lurkers included) a Merry Christmas. Enjoy it, survive it, whatever. And stay safe and warm. (I'm not off anywhere - I just wanted to be in time to catch anyone who might be.) I've just made one of my fairly paltry donations to Labour...

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citizenJA wrote:
rebeccariots2 wrote:OMG. CiF's gone Beta today. Hideous.
What more needs be said - nothing - there it is.

Alan Rusbridger's picked a good time to spend more time with his piano, hasn't he?

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DonutHingeParty wrote:Instead of ambulances, stroke victims will now be sent the contents of a muddy puddle in a jar. The puddle has been driven through by an ambulance and thereby retains the memory of an ambulance, which is thought to be enough to get the patient to the hospital.

Ha! Hilarious! Thanks.

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Oh dear...The Guardian has gone fully Beta. Seemed to go offline for a while so must have been re-doing itself (technical term). It's a blooming mess over there, I couldn't get the site to load at all for about half an hour earlier. Now I can get certain pages but the comments won't load I've just ...

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Toby Latimer wrote:With hindsight it was probably not a good idea to send Nick round to the nursing home to cheer the old folks up
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Ha! More "woe, woe, woe" than "ho, ho, ho" for one and all there, then.

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Top bantz! Look at those woeful early morning numbers. Basically nobody is using Johnson's cable car to commute. https://853blog.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/image-1.png Yes - I saw that yesterday and had a hollow laugh. Let's hope that his water cannon (is the plural of cannon with an "s"...

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I see that the Labour poll lead increase article has now disappeared from the Guardian's front page (so far as I can tell). I should have done a link to it when I had the chance so that I could keep going back to it for a quick bask. Bumboils.

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@refitman

Thank you!

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Re Arthur Thackeray (Ukip) - This is from November of this year - Top Ukip aide linked to race hate groups and has BOASTED of taking part in far-right demonstrations (Mirror) http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/top-ukip-aide-linked-race-4720146 There's more if you're in a "Googly" mood.

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Good morning. Yes, I know it's been done but . . . Labour races into seven-point lead as ratings for Nigel Farage show sharp fall Observer/Opinium poll puts Labour on 36%, with the Tories on 29% and Ukip down three points to 16% (Guardian - my emphasis) Well, that's Christmas sorted for me, then.

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Ukip tells members: ‘Don’t go on Twitter’ Nigel Farage’s party moves to ban unauthorised use of Ukip logo after embarrassing string of gaffes A spokesman for Ukip said the move had been made, in part, because imposters were using the Ukip logo on racist social media accounts in order to embarrass t...

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Don't know where that came from. An outbreak of recurrent bumboils. Not good.

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Bumboils.

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@AngryAsWell

That's the one! Thank you.

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Bumboils.

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Ok - try this. Courtesy of the of the old turn it off then switch it back on again manoeuvre.

Panic Saturday: 13 million Brits will s ... in poverty

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Which it didn't . . .

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Good afternoon. Panic Saturday: 13 million Brits will spend £1.2bn – while 13 million others across the country will spend this Christmas in poverty (Independent) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/two-nations-13m-brits-will-spend-12bn-on-panic-saturday-but-13m-others-across-the-country-...

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Whilst we're on the subject of Nigel Farage, here's a good article that exposes some of the many, er, chinks in his armour: 10 diktats from Brussels that are ruining life in Britain From lowering energy bills to stopping toxic chemicals poisoning the environment, here are just some of the ways we’re...

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And she's back. Thanks to Stephen Dolan and to Dan Dan the Refitman for helping me get back in. I think I've killed my computer and I'm going to cry but anyhow, Dragon Dictate is helping me through so here I am on, an iPod, catching up with everybody's posts. Yay :dance: And yes I have changed the ...

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Whew!!!! I bet you all thought I'd died... :lol: :lol: :lol: Had a fatal error on the computer. Hadn't used it for a couple of days, and then when I did, it gave up the ghost. No idea what caused it. I had to wait until I could get a memory gadget. [That cost!] Plugged it in early yesterday evening...

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Any word yet on Ohsocynical?

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rebeccariots2 wrote:
norman smith @BBCNormanS · 4m 4 minutes ago
Labour lose Commons motion opposing #bedroomtax 266 v 298

Oh. That's Christmas ruined for the big-hearted LibDems, then. And they tried so hard . . . .

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I've just noticed that I'm still Chief Whip. I'm touched. I'd have thought that by now I'd have been demoted - possibly even to the level of Guardian Political Editor.

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Anyone know if Ohso is OK? Think I haven't seen her on FTN for a few days now ... I was just wondering about her well-being, too. Good afternoon, everyone. I'm being rather non-contributory here of late - for various reasons - but I'm following your posts so far as is possible. I'm rather reliant o...

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I posted a comment earlier in which I referred to a post that I had stumbled (and anything that I glean from over there is always by accident these days - it's such a jumble and impossible to navigate so "what you see is what you get" is very true so far as I'm concerned) across over at t...

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I posted a comment earlier in which I referred to a post that I had stumbled (and anything that I glean from over there is always by accident these days - it's such a jumble and impossible to navigate so "what you see is what you get" is very true so far as I'm concerned) across over at th...

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I like watching Nick Clegg squirm as much as the next man, but did anyone else think Harriet Harman pushed the "women" thing a bit too much? However - I've just stumbled upon this comment, over at the Guardian's Andrew Sparrow blog, and am thinking that the poster, neuronmaker , makes a v...

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After yesterday's news from the US, does anybody out there still think the Labour party picked "the wrong brother" as leader? I've long maintained that Iraq would come back to haunt David Miliband and that his associations thereto (amongst many other things) would be toxic for the Labour ...

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Rob Merrick @Rob_Merrick · 8m 8 minutes ago No Government minister willing to talk to #wato about devastating picture of hungry Britain in #FeedingBritain report.... The World at One @BBCWorldatOne · 12m 12 minutes ago We asked Downing St, Cabinet Office & Department for Work and Pensions for a...

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Good afternoon. Coaliton's NewBuy housing scheme is a 95 per cent failure, official figures reveal A coalition plan to get 100,000 people on to the property ladder by helping them buy new-build properties has actually helped just over 5,000 individuals, official figures have revealed. Labour said it...

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Goodnight, everyone.

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I learned something new about my Linux operating system & software in the posting of the 2014 Miliband Family Merry Christmas photo posted above. I'm grateful. Please enjoy. Do share - I use Linux and it's a closed book to me. I just press the buttons (often the wrong ones - but I refuse to eng...

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@tinyclanger

Thank you! But you left it just that little too late to avoid my having to go to the enormous effort of finding it (from your last link) for myself. Not good enough!!! (Seriously - thanks again.)

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tinyclanger2 wrote:http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/seaso ... 05663.html

Seasons greetings from santa clegg

(note how much more normal the Camerons look compared to the Milibands)

Yes. The Milibands just look really weird en famille, don't they?

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Add stupid to my last post. I'm too lazy to do it myself. Obvs.

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http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/seasons-greetings-from-santa-clegg-patriotic-pm-and-glittering-milibands-9905663.html Seasons greetings from santa clegg (note how much more normal the Camerons look compared to the Milibands) :lol: I know I'm biased but isn't the pic of the Milibands just lovely? ...

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Good morning. I meant to post this (below) yesterday but managed not to. Still, better late than never, I suppose. I like William Keegan, as I believe I might have let slip before. George Osborne has snared his party in its own austerity trap The deficit has not been eliminated. Depressed living sta...

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Well, finished moving the last of my stuff and am now fully moved into my new house. Just relaxing with a beer and the rugby. Also catching up with all the great posts today. Great stuff. I moved in here over a year ago and still haven't finished unpacking. In fact, today I discovered that the cat ...

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Bumper crop of council by-elections yesterday - mostly very decent for Labour save for an (expected) loss in Melton DC. In particular, a very interesting result in Scotland - Labour hold a marginal ward in Midlothian with a swing against the Nats. Review will be up in the usual place later today :)...

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Thought I'd cheer you all up with this - Fracking risk compared to thalidomide and asbestos in Walport report Historic innovations that have been adopted too hastily with grave unforeseen impacts provide cautionary examples for potential side effects of fracking, says report by government’s chief sc...

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Just hearing on BBC News24 that, a year on, some Somerset flood victims are still unable to return to their homes. I was wondering just the other day how things were going there.

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