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Good morning all. Seems the chickietroll felt compelled to post on one of the other threads. It followed me around on CIF for a while on topics related to social security. I'm aware that TGS had a similar problem with another one. I wonder - should we ban them, ignore them, or what? I'm inclined to...

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Some 'trolls' can serve a useful purpose, making us look at things afresh; Notso, while terminally pedantic and unwilling ever to concede when he'd got it wrong, was one such. But second rate, frankly none too bright trolls - Rusty and his many sockpuppets for example - serve no real purpose except ...

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yep, Rusty was correct, you think everyone is him. LOL. Best to stay on the meds. Bless. You really do need to remember to change the 'voice' you know, you make it far too obvious. But then, you need a basic level of intelligence to manage that That "bridge" is a 4 bedroom house...... A 4...

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Scurrying off back to your bridge ~~Rusty~~ Chickie? Probably best, a battle of wits really is not your forte, unarmed as you are.

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I wonder - should we ban them, ignore them, or what? I'm inclined to think they'll be back under different names if we ban them; I'm not sure what the answer is. I could do without these morons, personally. Personally I think we should ban them, for the simple reason that they aren't even very good...

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I'll speak for Mr Rustinpeace if I may. While drinking a glass of water? :lol: And, blimey, not only can you not spell properly but you are unable to master the simple formatting of this forum. Whatever they are paying you .... well, you need to give some of it back. Who wants to master formatting ...

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A piece on why Gove's promise to scrap the Human Rights Act may not be as easy as he suggests.

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/may ... ens-speech

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I'll speak for Mr Rustinpeace if I may.

While drinking a glass of water?

And, blimey, not only can you not spell properly but you are unable to master the simple formatting of this forum. Whatever they are paying you .... well, you need to give some of it back.

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Morning Dan, morning all.

Interesting piece Over There by Tristram Hunt.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... stram-hunt

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A lot of us seem to be uneasy about the way the leadership election and future direction of the Labour party might go ... I know I am. I've just had a long chat with my sister who I haven't spoken to since the fateful election results. To cut to the chase she is pretty dismayed at all the names / p...

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There's a gremlin in this 'ere machine this eveningternooniewhatnot. It's called Rusty (on account of headless chicken forgetting itself) and it's desperate for attention. It can't troll us over there so it's come over here instead. It's bored too, as it keeps saying it wants us to watch some benef...

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Unfortunately we're all out of colonies to send a new governor to. I'm strongly of the opinion that South Georgia is very much in need of a permanent representative of HMG. Especially now that the Southern Ocean winter is setting in. Yeah but no but yeah but Hobiejoe..... Can the Falklands (pop. 2,...

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yahyah wrote:Louise Mensch is unhappy about Pickles.

I'm with her on that one. Never did understand why they put them in all the burgers.

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AS has the new shadow cabinet - no real surprises Chris Leslie as Shadow Chancellor and Hilary Benn as Shadow Foriegn Sec. Leader of the Opposition and Acting Leader of the Labour Party Harriet Harman MP Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Chris Leslie MP Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn MP Shad...

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Blimey, didn't realise she was Greg Davies' partner. If Dave gives her any grief I suspect her 6' 8" tall ol' man could set him straight!!

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Blimey, I appear to be monopolising things at the moment. Any road up .....

Charlotte Church is impressing me more and more by the day!!

https://charlottesayshmmm.wordpress.com ... rl-myself/

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By the way, I wasn't just venting my "what to do?" despair rhetorically. I genuinely don't know and would value the advice of those around here. mrs. onebuttonmonkey says I should rejoin Labour; I don't know if I've ever felt like I'm about to have less in common with them or less ability...

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Still comes out with the guff about "aspiration" though - a bit disappointing tbh. It was "identity" stuff which really did for Labour this time round - both sides of the border. Care to say a little more on that, AK? Fairly simple, innit. Crosby and the captive Tory press playe...

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....... swinging welfare cuts .....

A product of Thatcher's education system, obviously.

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RogerOThornhill wrote:IIRC HappyChickie was the simpering sycophant that used to follow Rusty around making "Oh you're so clever Mr rustinpeace" inanities. No surprise that it followed him over here to have a good gloat.

Classy...

Join the dots Rog. Rusty likes the sound of his own voice so much ......

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Worth a read https://blog.lboro.ac.uk/general-election/media-coverage-of-the-2015-campaign-report-4/ Well those of us thinking that the influence of the press - print and TV might be waning - probably need to think again after looking at that. It's very stark. There's one instance where the amount ...

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I'm not keen on making replies to Tweets on the FTN account because it would be me, not FTN collectively answering. Occasinally I can think of something to say that echoes the general feeling on here. But a lot of the time I can't. The WOWPetition team cover things in shifts in a similar way, and a...

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TechnicalEphemera wrote:Oh and whoever wins get AC back in charge of media messaging and put in a local machine to access disengaged voters.....

Amen to that. I know Campbell has more baggage than Heathrow's Terminal Five but I suspect Thursday's result could have been very different with him on board.

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danesclose wrote:
pk1 wrote:Oh joy, Priti Patel has replaced the Mouth of Mersey as Employment Minister.........
And Amber Rudd is Energy Secretary

Is it just me or .......

When I was at school studying physics we used amber rods to generate static electricity. Is this a subtle joke on OGRFG's part?

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The blog is a good idea **BUT** before embarking on that, shouldn't there be some attention paid to the FTN twitter a/c ? Sometimes it can go for days with no activity on it at all. Paul has just said he's going to be away for a bit, attending to other stuff; Ernst too is pre-occupied; Ohso tends t...

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Ephe, thanks for starting this. Good points everybody. RS a blog is a cracking idea, so many ideas here from such talented people, we should look at spreading the message wider. The fact that the sockpuppet saw the need to visit us twice is indicative of some degree of influence already; and if that...

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I keep trying to make light of it but totally agree, NonOxCol. Putting it mildly, I'm actually quite fearful for the country. As someone pointed out yesterday, Labour and the Libdems outnumber the Tories in the House of Lords. Hopefully some of the crossbenchers are quite sensible too. We may not b...

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Alastair Campbell ✔@campbellclaret I see the arguments for quick leadership election but we will regret it @HarrietHarman is safe pair of hands. We need ideas debate Alastair Campbell ✔@campbellclaret The new MPs in particular should say at PLP meeting it is not yet about Who leads but why we lost ...

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Swarthlander wrote:Simon Danczuk wants to be leader.

Will Carswell object .... oh, you mean of the Labour Party? Delusional t**t.

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File this one under "Alanis Morissette, this is ironic". Last night the BAFTA TV Awards were announced. The Leading Actor award was won by Jason Watkins for his portrayal of Christopher Jefferies in The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies , which also picked up the best mini-series award...

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The right wing press are door stepping David Miliband and he will make a statement later in the day. He isn't an MP. Does anyone know whether Labour leader has to be an MP or are they just trying to wind people up ? He has to be an MP but can be if a safe seat suddenly comes up. Apparently he is to...

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File this one under "Alanis Morissette, this is ironic". Last night the BAFTA TV Awards were announced. The Leading Actor award was won by Jason Watkins for his portrayal of Christopher Jefferies in The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies , which also picked up the best mini-series award;...

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It's just another :toss: that got lost. :sick: Another one? What gives you that strange idea. ;-) My thoughts on the BBC were a little incoherent, stream of consciousness stuff really but I just think we need to think before doing something hasty. As it stands at the moment I don't use them for any...

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Oh look, a visit from a clone. Meh!

One more thing before I go, I too left CIF because of the complete and utter rubbish many of you posted.

Nope, you got your arse kicked off because the rules say no multi-Ids and no returnees, and you infringed both rules.

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@Swarthlander I used to defend the BBC, it has many arms that used to defend honesty and truth but alas, it's time for the BBC to go. It's now a corrupt state propaganda service and it has no purpose other than spread unquestioned untruths and government press bile. I cannot defend it any more. I go...

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Morning all.

Very good piece by Dan Jarvis in LabourList. Sets out the problems rather better than Chuka imo.

http://labourlist.org/2015/05/im-ready- ... as-leader/

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AAW, pk1 and Ephe. Thank you.

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Speaking of Tessa ..... Tessa Jowell ‏@TessaJowell Tessa Jowell retweeted GeorgeMonbiot Rubbish. Labour wins when we appeal to everybody. Country rejected us, should be no-one we don't seek to win back GeorgeMonbiot @GeorgeMonbiot The voters #Labour needs to reclaim are not those who have gone to th...

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Our new Justice Secretary, hope Khan or Keir Starmer, if fast tracked smgrind him into the ground. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/11595776/Michael-Gove-new-Justice-Secretary-wanted-to-bring-back-hanging.html Sadiq is apparently still thinking about running for London Mayor. I...

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I hope we're not going to get a new direction, message and leader mostly based on what is fed back from southern English constituencies and the voices given most prominence by the media though ... that's part of my fear now. There are probably very different responses from across the country ... th...

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PorFavor wrote:@TheGrimSqueaker

Ha! I think Dignitas beckons, after all.

Edited to actually write the bloody post!

No, but some people might be finding out what hospital food tastes like .... not you, I hasten to add.

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I hope we're not going to get a new direction, message and leader mostly based on what is fed back from southern English constituencies and the voices given most prominence by the media though ... that's part of my fear now. There are probably very different responses from across the country ... th...

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Tiz, who the fuck was saying anybody had to bow & scrape to the Labour Party, because it sure as hell wasn't me.

But forget it, none of it fucking matters now anyway.

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Paul Waugh ‏@paulwaugh 2m2 minutes ago If Tristram Hunt is indeed going for the leadership, as it sounded like it on #Murnaghan, that’s a big prob for Chuka FFS. These people need to get out of London a bit. To be fair to Hunt he does have a good feel for the regions; it was his area of speciality ...

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I told you so brings no satisfaction though does it. No satisfaction, but I do have a righteous anger which is helping to clarify how I feel on some things. I'm sorry, will probably duck out like Spacedone. Will not learn to love the loony left and will not try and pretend I do. Please don't. As wi...

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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/10/liberal-emocrats-clash-over-serious-mistakes-in-election-strategy Hallelujah. A bit of common sense emerging? Just hope it lasts through to the next election and doesn't vanish in ridiculous headline lines of attack as per the norm. I've been thinking...

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Hello everyone, I haven't been here for a few days because frankly I've been too angry to write anything constructive that wouldn't upset a few people and that's just not who I am so best that I keep my opinions to myself for a time. I'm also too depressed to even want to think about politics right...

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Meanwhile, the Green party’s only MP is proposing that progressive parties work together in future to beat Conservative candidates rather than splitting the votes in key seats. Caroline Lucas, who was re-elected for Brighton Pavilion, said she was backing the move after witnessing progressive polit...

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