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[Actually wishing I was striking an ice berg right now. Can't believe I'm actually wanting for summer to up sticks and bugger off for once] Don't complain. The weather forecast for here for yesterday and today was no rain, sunny, temperatures in the high 20s. What we got was rain and cloud yesterda...

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RoT (when you're back). Something for you: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1487" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; A recent survey by U.C. Berkeley found that 95% of all graduate students feel overwhelmed, and over 67% have felt seriously depressed at some point in their...

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I do wonder whether Nick Gibb thinks about what he's saying sometimes. New grammar schools will 'go beyond' comprehensives in 'intensity' and 'curriculum', says schools minister Nick Gibb https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/new-grammar-schools-will-go-beyond-comprehensives-intensity-...

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Afternoon folks, from the undevolved North East. Here's an apparently Unironic quote from the leader of Sunderland City Council: Since the referendum in June, Sunderland and others in our region are also concerned about uncertainties over EU regional funding and guarantees from Government that these...

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Afternoon folks,
And Happy Birthday to Roger. I hope you enjoy the cake as much as i have the map link. There go all my jobs for the day.
And 78% northern. Must have been the time spent in Cricklewood.

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StephenDolan wrote:
citizenJA wrote:I love a pink beret
I prefer a raspberry beret.

Surely a Ras Beret?

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Definitely discrimination, also there's been research reported about obesity not necessarily being due to lifestyle, but related to bacteria in gut. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/anti-biotics-in-junk-food-cause-obesity-by-killing-good-gut-bacteria-a6900086....

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I don't see how this would save nhs money, unless people opt for private treatment, it's just delaying treatment, so overal they'll be same throughput, except possibly with added cost if patients health deteriorates. So either this is just a cover for trying to improve long term health(and it's eit...

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Afternoon folks,
Financial mismanagement in a Free School? Well, I'm shocked.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor ... e-11816689" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Either I've overdone the beer, or something is borked. There's a gorilla at the bottom of every post.

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Silly arse http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/14707575.__39_I_don__39_t_consider_myself_wealthy_quot___says___138_000_a_year_Jeremy_Corbyn/?ref=twtrec" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Assuming the quote is accurate, (a big assumption nowadays), I agree. It's horrific to ...

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Morning folks. From Tamasin Caves piece about cirporate lobbying in the Tories. Just for contrast, Jeremy Corbyn has few mates in the commercial lobbying business (union and NGO lobbyists, yes. Corporate lobbyists-for-hire, no). None of them are Corbynites (by contrast, there are tonnes of Blairites...

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'kin melting

Move here. Mrs 55 had the fire on this afternoon.

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@55DN "Old Rusty" is neither thought provoking nor funny - just a tiresome right wing WUM who delights in seeing divisions on here and taking screenshots for his and his equally rabid chum's amusement. Don't believe me? This is from this very afternoon... https://twitter.com/rustinpeace00...

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Okay. YahYah, PK, Angryaswell. CJA. You win. I'll leave the site. I'm sick to death of your sanctimonious, spiteful, snide remarks. I've tried blocking you but I can't stomach you any longer. If the future of Labour depends on voters such as yourself you're welcome to it. And God help the country. ...

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Non political post. A very mixed year in the garden. Brassicas almost completely destroyed by pests, but beets thriving. Great crops of courgette, radish, spring onions, mange tout and the best tomato crop ever. Lettuce almost all bolted for some reason. Apples and plums looking great, a bunch of sw...

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Okay. YahYah, PK, Angryaswell. CJA. You win. I'll leave the site. I'm sick to death of your sanctimonious, spiteful, snide remarks. I've tried blocking you but I can't stomach you any longer. If the future of Labour depends on voters such as yourself you're welcome to it. And God help the country. ...

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Dressage. *sigh*. I know there's some horsey folk here, but it's bollocks. There ought to be a separate performing art olympics for horse dancing, gymnastics, synchronised grinning. Chuck in opera and ballet and all the other stuff that can't be quantified and it would make a good alternative watch ...

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Plan for cement factories in London Olympic park causes uproar Thousands object to proposals to site cement and concrete plants on parkland left as legacy from 2012 Games (Guardian) Some legacy. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/aug/11/olympic-park-london-plan-cement-concrete-plants-causes-u...

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Crest Academy, an E-Act sponsored outfit, ruins kids chances of university by teaching the wrong standard. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/aug/11/sixth-formers-neasden-london-fear-losing-university-places-after-assessment-error" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Sta...

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Crest Academy, an E-Act sponsored outfit, ruins kids chances of university by teaching the wrong standard. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/aug/11/sixth-formers-neasden-london-fear-losing-university-places-after-assessment-error" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Stan...

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Afternoon folks, In the spirit with today's request, I'm ignoring he who must not be named as well as the beardy one. Instead, some local news. Boy 1, having graduated, has gone looking for pavements of gold in that London. Sad, but inevitable I suppose. On the upside, he's going to be able to pop i...

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'Silent' phone calls really boil my piss. Second, is 'No caller ID' phone calls, as you can't vet them or block them. So the posh boy from Owen Smiths campaign scored a massive own goal today.

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It would help to try and distance the emotion from the actual politics. Not easy though. Read a policy that Smith has proposed and think 'do I like the sound of that', 'will it work', 'does/would Corbyn agree with that', even 'would voters like that ?'. If your mind is full of 'he's a xxxx' you won...

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Afternoon folks, Sitting in the very hot sun here with a cold beer, having spent the day gardening for the in laws. Regarding the leadership, I'm continually reminded of Benn, ( the real one we used to get, not the plastic knock-offs we have to put up with now). Personalities aren't what matters, i...

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Afternoon folks, Sitting in the very hot sun here with a cold beer, having spent the day gardening for the in laws. Regarding the leadership, I'm continually reminded of Benn, ( the real one we used to get, not the plastic knock-offs we have to put up with now). Personalities aren't what matters, it...

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I was asleep at 02.30 this morning, unusually for me as insomnia is a constant thing in my life, when I got a text message. It was from the Owen Smith campaign. At 02.30 in the morning. I gather from Twitter that a few people have had these untimely messages. I would like to know where they got my ...

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90+2 mins: Nope, there's the whistle and United beat Galatasaray 5-2 with what was a fantastic second half performance http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/manchester-united-vs-galatasaray-live-latest-score-updates-zlatan-ibrahimovic-a7164141.html" onclick="window.op...

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Dear Member, I continue to receive a large number of letters about current events in our Party. I have tried to make my own views clear in previous emails, but I accept that events have now moved on since I last wrote. I apologise for the standard nature of this reply and please feel free to get bac...

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Afternoon folks, I worked for a while for a head who had terrible presentational skills. He was boring, had a monotonous voice, and, more trivially, was obese and quite ugly. However, he had a tremendous vision for education and a lifelong determination to put his ideas into effect. He succeeded in ...

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On hearing Owen Smith speak of patriotism this morning I imagined him draped in the Union Jack with his toy sub in the bath, pressing his big red button. Not a pretty sight. It seems my memory is not what it was... it was of course accompanied by the National Anthem. If that's a euphemism, it's a n...

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I've just been asked to vote for the NEC members, and the only one I recognised was Eddy Izzard. Anyone know anything about the rest?

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Evening folks, The eldest son, having graduated, went on the ferry from North Shields a fortnight ago with his feckless, aimless and equally dirty mates, to have an interrailing trip. Amsterdam for a few days (no idea what the attraction was there, as they know nothing about art or flowers), then to...

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Blair has a lot on his conscience. But why is their no criticism of the soldiers who sign up to kill ? Without them there would be no war. The willing recruits who buy the macho myth about 'our heroes', and sign up, are the ones who fire the weapons. I know a lot of kids who have gone into the army...

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<edit> Morning folks,

The wheels keep falling off the LongTemEcocomicPlan.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36684452" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Watching Alastair Campbell on the ITV news last night (bluster, bullying, repeatedly shouting "He can't do the job", without any supporting evidence), made me take more seriously some of the motivations of the PLP. Margaret Becketts onion-powered performance on R5 confirmed it for me. The ...

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And it seems Steve Bell is playing the same tune.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... emy-corbyn" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Evening folks, I've a huge amount of admiration for you lot, for the amount of detail you put in your posts and the depth of your political awareness (whether you are agreeing with each other or not). How you manage it, I don't know. I graduated in the early 80's, and went into teaching a year later...

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Dear Member, I wanted to write to you following the EU referendum and the subsequent issues that have emerged from this. The overall decision to vote ‘Leave’ by the United Kingdom last Thursday will have significant repercussions across a wide range of issues and for a long time into the future. Hav...

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We should now give Roy Hodgson the Prime Minister's job - at least we know he has experience of taking us out of Europe

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Mr Ohso is trying to watch the Spain Italy match. I was too, but I'm laughing too much. It's driving him mad. I do love the British sense of humour. https://twitter.com/jimwaterson/status/747421186297053184?lang=en-gb" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Please don't tell us the...

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I blame the thick North East,indeed it serves them right if catastrophe strikes,that'll teach 'em-even if they didn't vote the correct way,they most have done something wrong in a previous life-the Hoddlean Kharmic Principle of just retribution-let us in turn justify our superiority,after all we DI...

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I blame the thick North East,indeed it serves them right if catastrophe strikes,that'll teach 'em-even if they didn't vote the correct way,they most have done something wrong in a previous life-the Hoddlean Kharmic Principle of just retribution-let us in turn justify our superiority,after all we DI...

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ohsocynical wrote:Shlomo Anker
‏@Hapoel4

if you are a Labour member, use this form to contact the party to defend Corbyn. takes 2mins

http://www.labour.org.uk/page/s/membership-contact-form" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …

Done.

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Don't know why that double posted.

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Vis a vis: no confidence vote in Corbyn. What are the agitators in the PLP going to do if he wins? If he doesn't, who will they replace him with that will simultaneously appeal to the liberal, socially democratic minded Scottish and Londoners, and the isolationist, xenophobic working classes of the...

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refitman wrote:Morning all. Not what I wanted to wake up to.

Quite.
I think Thursday's thread is still live, unlike my hope for the future.

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Just woke up. Oh dear. Think I'll go back to sleep.

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Voters stuck at Waterloo station The storms have brought Waterloo station to a standstill, potentially affecting thousands of passengers who may not have voted. The station is a major hub for people commuting from outside London many of whom would likely have left in the morning too early to vote. ...

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Voted for the second time today (proxy for costsentre#1). Very busy there at 0830 then wandered into town to collect new specs. Besieged by "Remain" canvassers and 7th Day Adventists, but not a sign of a "Brexiters". I hope that's significant. On that online voting intentions map...

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