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- Thu 28 Jul, 2016 10:02 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 28 July 2016
- Replies: 223
- Views: 42428
Re: Thursday 28 July 2016
I watched these again . Prefer him, any (fucking) day , to Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMWKJBQsflk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeJQPR0YwnE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; edited -- to amend with 'fucking...
- Thu 28 Jul, 2016 9:58 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 28 July 2016
- Replies: 223
- Views: 42428
Re: Thursday 28 July 2016
Bardo ?
- Thu 28 Jul, 2016 9:57 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 28 July 2016
- Replies: 223
- Views: 42428
Re: Thursday 28 July 2016
I watched these again .
Prefer him, any day , to Smith
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- Thu 28 Jul, 2016 9:08 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 28 July 2016
- Replies: 223
- Views: 42428
Re: Thursday 28 July 2016
Ohso 8.01 I posted his 20 points yesterday, but they were a right ragbag with no detail .
- Thu 28 Jul, 2016 4:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 28 July 2016
- Replies: 223
- Views: 42428
Re: Thursday 28 July 2016
Plenty of this kind of thing in the SNP/Ukip social media world as well of course, but this reflects my perception http://www.newstatesman.com/2016/07/jeremy-corbyn-and-paranoid-style" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (Though the author doesn't know what 'disinterest' means a...
- Thu 28 Jul, 2016 12:03 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 28 July 2016
- Replies: 223
- Views: 42428
Re: Thursday 28 July 2016
(The FT used to let you subscribe for free and get a few freebie articles per month, does it not do that any longer?) I couldn't see an option to do so. Woohoo ! I found my very old Free Registration password , and it still works . In the beginnning it was 30 free reads, then shrank, and I don't kn...
- Thu 28 Jul, 2016 9:34 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 28 July 2016
- Replies: 223
- Views: 42428
Re: Thursday 28 July 2016
This is where the bulk of the PLP went so wrong, first of all in instituting the foul WCA and then in not admitting their error Can you pick up a pen? You are fit for work - and never mind your chemo-induced vomiting, your immuno-suppression, your weakness. Could you "mobilise" for 50 metr...
- Thu 28 Jul, 2016 9:24 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 28 July 2016
- Replies: 223
- Views: 42428
Re: Thursday 28 July 2016
Ephe 8.16-- the simplest way not to post is not to post .
Any concern about absence can be replied to, also very simply.
Now off to see if you've been busy at the G, where we first met years ago, on the Disability threads .
Any concern about absence can be replied to, also very simply.
Now off to see if you've been busy at the G, where we first met years ago, on the Disability threads .
- Thu 28 Jul, 2016 9:01 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 28 July 2016
- Replies: 223
- Views: 42428
Re: Thursday 28 July 2016
Posted upstream by accident . TC2 -- response to your link last night http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/27/corbyn-ally-suggests-labour-could-form-pacts-with-parties-across-left" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; "Lewis is a likable performer and – as might be ex...
- Thu 28 Jul, 2016 8:45 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 28 July 2016
- Replies: 223
- Views: 42428
Re: Thursday 28 July 2016
error post .
- Thu 28 Jul, 2016 8:42 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 28 July 2016
- Replies: 223
- Views: 42428
Re: Thursday 28 July 2016
Hehe, exactly my sentiment, but I didn't want to seem aggressive towards mbc. Back for a few days and I've seen several flounces already.
Back to bizness.
Back to bizness.
- Wed 27 Jul, 2016 2:25 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 27th July 2016
- Replies: 241
- Views: 43240
Re: Wednesday 27th July 2016
I confess to being somewhat surprised that nobody seems interested in Smith's 20 point plan (or anything he said today). That may tell us something of interest of course. Still digesting it, but I didn't feel there was a lot of substance there. I agreed with most of your assessment tbh. ' Wealth ta...
- Wed 27 Jul, 2016 1:56 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 27th July 2016
- Replies: 241
- Views: 43240
Re: Wednesday 27th July 2016
Rebecca -- you missed the analysis of the expenses , see 12.18 post .
- Wed 27 Jul, 2016 1:47 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 27th July 2016
- Replies: 241
- Views: 43240
Re: Wednesday 27th July 2016
From a quick shufti at the Live thread " During the Labour leadership campaign last year Corbyn produced a dozen or so policy papers that were reasonably substantial. But since then, in most areas, the party has done almost nothing to develop those proposals, as the tax campaigner Richard Murph...
- Wed 27 Jul, 2016 1:39 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 27th July 2016
- Replies: 241
- Views: 43240
Re: Wednesday 27th July 2016
CitizenJA 10.54 On that c.25% total of lost income growth in the UK The OECD "This may be linked to the growth in jobs with low-hours and intermittent work." You bet ! I've become very tired of politicians quoting or rather parroting headline figures which are so far away from any reality ...
- Wed 27 Jul, 2016 8:38 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 27th July 2016
- Replies: 241
- Views: 43240
Re: Wednesday 27th July 2016
One of the early comments in the article continues the nautical theme
That's twice in one month that I've seen that gemThe naval gazing should end, and the ideology should be the basis, but Labour needs attack dogs, not reasonable people, that is not who we are fighting against.
- Wed 27 Jul, 2016 8:25 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 27th July 2016
- Replies: 241
- Views: 43240
Re: Wednesday 27th July 2016
Morning all Hindle's link from last night -- https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jul/27/uk-joins-greece-at-bottom-of-wage-growth-league-tuc-oecd" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Somewhat of a contradiction to the much-repeated insistence that the UK has been the fastest gr...
- Tue 26 Jul, 2016 11:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 26 July 2016
- Replies: 168
- Views: 26067
Re: Tuesday 26 July 2016
I am sorry but I get really, really pissed off with women such as SNP MP Kirsty Blackman who "has called for the Westminster parliament to adopt a more family-friendly approach after she was censured by Commons authorities for bringing her children to a committee hearing." . Indeed. On my...
- Mon 25 Jul, 2016 11:42 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 25th July 2016
- Replies: 138
- Views: 17715
Re: Monday 25th July 2016
Ian Katz @iankatz1000 4m4 minutes ago .@nicholaswatt says more (junior) shadow ministers expected to unresign when MPs return to Westminster in September #newsnight 0 retweets 0 likes More making themselves look utterly foolish then? :roll: I think a lot of them were talked into it. Told that ther...
- Mon 25 Jul, 2016 11:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 25th July 2016
- Replies: 138
- Views: 17715
Re: Monday 25th July 2016
where did you find that 8% interest one ?ohsocynical wrote:
- Mon 25 Jul, 2016 6:28 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 25th July 2016
- Replies: 138
- Views: 17715
Re: Monday 25th July 2016
From the DMThe spokesperson went on to suggest this could be more than one unresignation - perhaps growing into a deshuffle.
- Mon 25 Jul, 2016 6:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 25th July 2016
- Replies: 138
- Views: 17715
Re: Monday 25th July 2016
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- Mon 25 Jul, 2016 6:13 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 25th July 2016
- Replies: 138
- Views: 17715
Re: Monday 25th July 2016
DPAC, which as an organisation has never backed a political party before, has come out in full support of Corbyn’s leadership bid. In a letter, signed by over 700 people who either live with a disability, are carers, or are supporters of the group, the organisation says: http://www.thecanary.co/201...
- Mon 25 Jul, 2016 9:15 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 25th July 2016
- Replies: 138
- Views: 17715
Re: Monday 25th July 2016
Smith was particularly critical of Corbyn’s performances at shadow cabinet meetings. Asked if she was impressed by him, she said: “No. I wanted to be, I would have liked to be, but I wasn’t. And I wasn’t alone. He was good at giving people their say, but I wanted to see more engagement in the debat...
- Sun 24 Jul, 2016 9:10 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July 2016
- Replies: 267
- Views: 40259
Re: Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July 2016
I've read back over the weekend posts and - honestly - I can't see in any of Hugo's post any personal insults. He holds a different point of view to many here, that's all. Is it provocative to post a different view point to the main stream? Personally I don't think it is. Tolerance is a wonderful w...
- Sun 24 Jul, 2016 11:29 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July 2016
- Replies: 267
- Views: 40259
Re: Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July 2016
Just catching up on yesterday's news, and Corbyn's speech, as we were out most of yesterday. This MEN report is great http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/jeremy-corbyn-launches-labour-leadership-11656041#ICID=sharebar_twitter" onclick="window.open(this.href...
- Sat 23 Jul, 2016 8:09 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July 2016
- Replies: 267
- Views: 40259
Re: Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July 2016
** I wonder what BoJo had to say ? have you not seen it? "If, as seems very likely, this is another terrorist incident, then I think once again that we have a global phenomenon now and a global sickness that we have to tackle both at the source – in the areas where the cancer is being incubate...
- Sat 23 Jul, 2016 6:38 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July 2016
- Replies: 267
- Views: 40259
Re: Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July 2016
Re Munich... Hoping the link works. https://www.facebook.com/JeremyCorbynMP/videos/10154406712148872/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; The statement bears repeating here. Last night, at the beginning of the weekend when people look forward to enjoying time off, spending it w...
- Sat 23 Jul, 2016 6:25 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July 2016
- Replies: 267
- Views: 40259
Re: Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July 2016
Oh good grief Charlie Brown ! :smack: You are aware there are some deeply disturbed people that get their rocks off by abusively trolling women via Twitter? What ? Okay, I give up. It struck me as bizarre that JC should be credited with some special power over deeply disturbed people .
- Sat 23 Jul, 2016 1:26 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July 2016
- Replies: 267
- Views: 40259
Re: Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July 2016
Good Morning All. :popcorn: Owen Smith is not a very nice man,IMHO.Watch out,he might sue me. Here’s why Owen Smith really shouldn’t kick up a fuss about bullying Source: http://voxpoliticalonline.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Thanks for the Mike Sivier link . More co...
- Sat 23 Jul, 2016 12:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July 2016
- Replies: 267
- Views: 40259
Re: Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July 2016
Good Morning All. :popcorn: Owen Smith is not a very nice man,IMHO.Watch out,he might sue me. Here’s why Owen Smith really shouldn’t kick up a fuss about bullying Source: http://voxpoliticalonline.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Thanks for the Mike Sivier link . More co...
- Sat 23 Jul, 2016 10:00 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July 2016
- Replies: 267
- Views: 40259
Re: Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July 2016
Looked at Richard Murphy first thing this morning, he covers the ground quite well http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2016/07/22/what-happens-to-labour-now/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; his BTL comment -- What I do know is that Jeremy et al are hopeless managers at almost...
- Thu 21 Jul, 2016 11:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 21st July 2016
- Replies: 223
- Views: 37426
Re: Thursday 21st July 2016
Welcome to France !refitman wrote:Have a good time Chris.ChrisDean wrote:In a few hours time I will be heading down to Plymouth for the early crossing to Roscoff.
Haven't been to France for about 14 years, feeling very excited.
- Thu 21 Jul, 2016 9:52 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 21st July 2016
- Replies: 223
- Views: 37426
Re: Thursday 21st July 2016
UKIP wants PR too .
- Tue 19 Jul, 2016 10:47 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 19 July 2016
- Replies: 218
- Views: 32103
Re: Tuesday 19 July 2016
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- Tue 19 Jul, 2016 10:27 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 19 July 2016
- Replies: 218
- Views: 32103
Re: Tuesday 19 July 2016
Sorry if mentioned before:- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/19/people-with-disabilities-treated-like-second-class-citizens-says-watchdog?CMP=share_btn_tw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; People with disabilities treated like second-class citizens, says watchdog ...
- Tue 19 Jul, 2016 10:11 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 19 July 2016
- Replies: 218
- Views: 32103
Re: Tuesday 19 July 2016
Fourthed !
- Tue 19 Jul, 2016 2:32 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 19 July 2016
- Replies: 218
- Views: 32103
Re: Tuesday 19 July 2016
http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com My Corbyn Dilemma from Chris Dillow Similar to what's been going round my head. Thanks for the link Maeght. The real problem seems to be that Labour cannot bring forward someone who combines the views members want and can work as an effective team leader. Whe...
- Tue 19 Jul, 2016 2:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 19 July 2016
- Replies: 218
- Views: 32103
Re: Tuesday 19 July 2016
Have a great holiday How Silly. Our wildlife visits have been nine bats in the house, including one in my husband's t shirt as he put it on, and a frog in my gardening clogs. The frog nearly got squashed but thankfully feet have lots of nerves in them so I responded before it got squashed. It's nea...
- Tue 19 Jul, 2016 11:41 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 19 July 2016
- Replies: 218
- Views: 32103
Re: Tuesday 19 July 2016
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/brexit-protest-proeu-campaigners-hope-one-million-people-will-join-march-a3293811.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Article 50 is already "paused" . What are the bookmakers quoting on 'not this year', 'not next year', 'nev...
- Tue 19 Jul, 2016 9:20 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 19 July 2016
- Replies: 218
- Views: 32103
Re: Tuesday 19 July 2016
TC2 5.52am 's quote Brits in Italy receive sympathetic looks as concerned locals seek to understand how UK voters could have made such a drastic choice. The same for Brits in France . When it was still fresh, some local people were as much in visible shock as many of us . All were very solicitous to...
- Sun 17 Jul, 2016 11:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th July 2016
- Replies: 324
- Views: 60417
Re: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th July 2016
Example: even I was impressed when Corbyn and McDonnell persuaded the best leftwing economists to advise them. I should have known better. “Danny” Blanchflower told me that all he ever heard was “Jeremy is against austerity”. Good, Blanchflower replied, but what policies should we pursue? Answer ca...
- Sun 17 Jul, 2016 10:54 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th July 2016
- Replies: 324
- Views: 60417
Re: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th July 2016
Example: even I was impressed when Corbyn and McDonnell persuaded the best leftwing economists to advise them. I should have known better. “Danny” Blanchflower told me that all he ever heard was “Jeremy is against austerity”. Good, Blanchflower replied, but what policies should we pursue? Answer ca...
- Sun 17 Jul, 2016 12:17 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th July 2016
- Replies: 324
- Views: 60417
Re: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th July 2016
I hate to repeat myself, but does anyone still believe this Labour party ought to be kept together? Yes, its still doable and worth doing. All that really needs to happen is for the PLP to be made more representative of the unions and membership. Not a piece of cake, but far from impossible either....
- Sat 16 Jul, 2016 11:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th July 2016
- Replies: 324
- Views: 60417
Re: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th July 2016
Jesus wept .JonnyT1234 wrote:Operation Inept just became Operation Even More Inept.
Angela is a little bit thick , but that Smith is worse, a really ambitious and extremely slimy sod .
I believe he was once even to the right of Blair, but has been covering his tracks ever since ...
- Sat 16 Jul, 2016 6:36 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 15th July 2016
- Replies: 173
- Views: 24591
Re: Friday 15th July 2016
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/15/wealths-grip-on-the-levers-of-power Comments on Montbiot's billionaires piece. Perhaps we should focus on campaigning for change - across the political spectrum rather than continuing with the same mad status quo. One clear example is how the Tories i...
- Fri 15 Jul, 2016 10:08 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 15th July 2016
- Replies: 173
- Views: 24591
Re: Friday 15th July 2016
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/15/applause-for-david-cameron-left-me-thoroughly-confused" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; As a foreigner living in the UK since 1991 I have soaked up many British traditions and habits. I do, however, need somebody to explain to ...
- Fri 15 Jul, 2016 12:00 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 15th July 2016
- Replies: 173
- Views: 24591
Re: Friday 15th July 2016
David Davis still in la la land. Davis said the government’s “first order of business” will be to begin negotiations with the aim of striking trade deals with non-EU countries such as the United States and China within two years. This would give Britain a free trade area “almost twice the size of t...
- Fri 15 Jul, 2016 12:10 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 14th July 2016
- Replies: 345
- Views: 44414
Re: Thursday 14th July 2016
Nicky Morgan's last shameless act ?HindleA wrote:http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/go ... -travesty/
Government’s response to Equality Act report is ‘disgusting travesty’
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- Thu 14 Jul, 2016 3:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 14th July 2016
- Replies: 345
- Views: 44414
Re: Thursday 14th July 2016
DWP Damian Green Willow !
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