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1. Frikandel are Belgian or Dutch versions of Frikandellen which are German meatballs or rissoles. 2. Thank you for the photos, Robert. You're really rather good, aren't you? 3. Don't be rude, people. 4. This forum is not supposed to be an advertising site for someones' blog. Stop it. 5. Corbyn - fo...

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Actually - it's no wonder some folks have decided not to post here until it's all over. I can't say I blame them. "Stint" indeed. OED - "To supply a very ungenerous amount of something"; "A fixed or allotted period of work". What he's actually had is ten months of dislo...

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Shami Chakrabarti gets CBE in the Queen's birthday honours in 2007. Not a peep. Shami Chakrabarti gets peerage in PMs leaving honours in 2016. Cue outrage. This woman has served this country for years - see her Wikipedia entry. One of the few people on the list who actually deserves a gong. It would...

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And the DFH award of the day goes to the NEC candidate Luke Akehurst. New Labour brought fresh hope; Jeremy Corbyn has returned us to old despair http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/03/new-labour-brought-hope-jeremy-corbyn-has-brought-despair" onclick="window.open(this.href)...

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With the greatest of respect to all, I do not think there is anyone who posts here regularly who hates or adores either candidate in Labour's leadership contest to any degree - what I am reading, mainly, is posting from people who may tend one way but are aware of the limitations of their favoured c...

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Dear Refitman - It was very nice of you to set up the two new sections for people to post stuff about the two campaigns. Thank you. I thought they were there for people to put up links etc. to policies or whatever. Can't see any so far. People post interesting, uninteresting, funny, and unfunny, pic...

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40,000 applications rejected but no money back?

That's a million pounds in Labour's coffers.

"Now that ain't workin' that's the way to do it
Lemme tell ya them guys ain't dumb...."

Money for nothing.

I hope somebody sues. Disgraceful.

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Thanks for the link to the article on home ownership - this is interesting too. http://www.guardian.com/housing-network/2016/aug/02/overspend-bedroom-tax-glasgow-council-social-housing" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Glasgow spends £8.1 Million on DHPs. The governments' nato...

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yahyah - I agree with you that we shouldn't be sniping at Smith. Nor should we be sniping at Corbyn, each other, Uncle Tom Cobley and all......but I think we should snipe at McTernan because he's a plonker. I mainly agree with Robert and Fedup, in that the PLP have behaved disgracefully (as many of ...

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@Ephie In another controversy on Sunday, Smith’s campaign was forced to apologise for sending automated text messages to Labour members and supporters that arrived in the middle of the night by mistake, infuriating many recipients. A campaign spokesman said: “There was a technical glitch with the s...

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Morning all. Thanks to HindleA for the links on W&B - there's a fair bit of reading there.......DWP statistics are a real mess and have been for some time, IMHO. Every new change seems to end up with significant chunks of information going missing. "Experimental" statistics my arse. I'...

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At 22.00hrs tonight, BBC4 are showing "Cathy Come Home".

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The (Piss) Artist Formerly Known As OGRPPFGTCC is waiting to have his list of people he wants to honour approved. This is taking some time, because as well as bestowing knighthoods on the likes of Fallon and various rich pals, the committee is having to consider lesser gongs for two very important p...

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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 m...

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Re. the Simon Wren-Lewis article - "for those who didn't understand the first post". In this one, he expresses the view that he would like to see the evidence that "...we are rebuilding a mass social democratic party..." This is very reasonable, and as he says, his response reque...

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Jess Phillips MP ‏@jessphillips 4m4 minutes ago While the idea that #WeAreHisMedia is I suppose charming. The Corbyn power on social media has at times meant I've had to call the police Rosie R. ‏@yorkierosie 16s16 seconds ago .@jessphillips You have had some awful abuse, but I defy you to find any...

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If the 172 MPs who don't want Corbyn went to Smith's rally, the crowd would be a bit bigger..... However you choose the photos, it's pretty obvious that there are big crowds at the Corbyn events. As Ohso mentioned, there don't seem to be armies of cult people waving big red banners - I think she's r...

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I think that Corbyn is going to win the leadership contest (again) despite the efforts of his detractors - it would take some pretty drastic skullduggery now to prevent it. I have been struck (again) by the sheer volume of people who turn up to hear him speak. In York yesterday, and in Hull today, h...

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The ridiculously jingoistic and profoundly dense George "Dubya" Bush, when failing to put his case for war, constantly invoked a "you're with us or agin us" rhetoric. This business with Labour reminds me of that. In terms of supporters/followers, both sides are getting progressiv...

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Bankers. RBS is mostly owned by us. RBS/Lloyd's lost £8 Billion in paper losses recently, so the planned sell-off has been postponed. Another 3,000 jobs are to go, on top of tens of thousands already lost since the financial crisis. The CEO, Ross McEwan, received a pay/perks package of £3.8 Million ...

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Apocalypse postponed. Again. All Jeremy Corbyn's fault. Again. Just how low will this man stoop to win a leadership election? Saving the whole world and all its flora and fauna. That's how low. The man is despicable. He's a monster, I tell you! I've said it before and I'll say it again - he is the ...

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I know I ought to sympathise but often find myself wondering how much bullying is really suffered by those who shout loudest. Try walking in my shoes as a prepubescent lad that was regularly beaten up for having a head start on my tan. I also remember my mother finding my five or six year old siste...

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The Socialist Workers' Party claims it has 6,000 members. I have read in several places that it has about 3,500 active members. Momentum claims to have more than 100,000 active members. On 28th.June, labourlist said that Momentum had about 8,000 members. What we know for certain, unlike the groups m...

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Earlier this month, the LSE published their research on newspaper articles about Jeremy Corbyn. 75% of the coverage misrepresented him and what he is reported as saying. Now, mediareform.org.uk have published their research on television and online news reports. The BBC TV news was the most unbalan...

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This is very important! Those of you familiar with my stuff here and elsewhere about the WCA, the Unum-inspired (and paid for) "research" done by Mansel Aylward on behalf of DWP, and the already discredited bio-psych-social model warped beyond recognition by Aylward and his pals, might be ...

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Hi all What is all this focus on who people supported in the past and their legitimacy to join Labour I remember a nonentity called Shawn Woodward. Was elected as a Tory ( I assume he voted for himself), decided he wanted to join Labour and then was parachuted into a safe seat! Indeed. But then I h...

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Earlier this month, the LSE published their research on newspaper articles about Jeremy Corbyn. 75% of the coverage misrepresented him and what he is reported as saying. Now, mediareform.org.uk have published their research on television and online news reports. The BBC TV news was the most unbalanc...

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Shawcroft suspension was in 2015 for her continued support of Lutfer Rahman. The image sent to Jess Philips was of a woman's body implaed on a spike & on which the sender had superimposed Jess's face. Surely nobody could endorse this revolting behaviour, regardless of what you might think of he...

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Forgive me if I'm wrong but doesn't Barry Smith shout a lot about household cleaning materials? IT'S BARRY SCOTT!!!!!!!!!!!! Sadly, the new Cillit Bang ads no longer feature the fabulous Barry Scott (a.k.a. actor Neil Burgess). He has been replaced by a model. This is absolute pants. I love Barry. ...

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I look at the Daily Heil so that you don't have to......and as usual I can't get the links to work. One for Roger - Katharine Birbalsingh shows us yet again what a super head she is..... children whose parents get behind with lunch money have "lunch isolation" imposed on them, made to sit ...

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This is how the revised benefit cap will affect claimants - from Autumn of this year. London - single down from £350PW to £296.35PW (£53.65 cut); couples with/without children down from £500PW to £442.31 PW (£57.69cut) Elsewhere - single down from £350PW to £257.69PW (£92.31 cut); couples as above d...

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Am going to speak my mind: I get mildly irritated every single time someone says they're not going to post here. Why not just not post? That's a very good question - I can't speak for anyone else, but this is my answer, tc. This forum was set up originally as a "haven" from CIFs highhande...

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I do not think that it is right to express a person's wish to disengage from this forum as "flouncing". For those who do, I suppose I must be an occasional flouncer. Obviously, I don't see it that way. Over some time, and usually whenever Labour or the left generally is in some sort of cri...

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Good Morrow, chaps and chapesses. Warrior Queen? Deffo. I've got a chariot and everything. And followers. They have to walk, mind. Hindle, I will blister you with invective should you refer to me as a fishwife again. I'm a Queen and can say what I like. Re, exercise. Millions of aeons ago, I swam fo...

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mbc1955 - this.

Have a hug.

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Here are a few policies - some look familiar.... Make companies publish equal pay audits; ban zero-hour contracts; abolish employment tribunal fees; unfair dismissal rights from day one. Work towards free childcare for all; introduce a full living wage (£10/hour at current rates). Abolish the bedro...

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Here are a few policies - some look familiar.... Make companies publish equal pay audits; ban zero-hour contracts; abolish employment tribunal fees; unfair dismissal rights from day one. Work towards free childcare for all; introduce a full living wage (£10/hour at current rates). Abolish the bedroo...

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And - as the atmosphere here remains a bit tetchy I'll bugger off again, I think.

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Just thought I'd pop in to say that Owen Smith's 20-point plan has nothing of substance for millions of people. Nothing on tax credits (claimed by 4.5 million people, 80% of whom have children); nothing on ESA (2.5 million people); DLA/PIP (3 million people); nothing on the WCA and PIP assessments; ...

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Yahyah - your post made perfect sense to me. As I am occasionally prone to ****ing outbursts, I'm having a few days off from here. Again. Not because of what you said, but because of how I feel. Despite several attempts to engage our resident concern troll Spinny McSnideface in actual real discussio...

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Morning, ephe. Not that I can't sleep but have been out and about since 4. Don't ask. Anyway just turned telly on for the morning news and there it is the Beeb going on about that very same office. Well I'm calling it office, intimidation and denials was their slant. Who to believe? Just looked bac...

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Can't sleep. While I wait for the medicine to work, I took a little lookie at this - http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/23/corbyn-aide-accused-illegal-entry-mps-office" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; What a piece of nonsense it is too. Seema Malhotra, who resigned ...

ephemerid · Re: Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July 2016 Goodnight all.

Goodnight all.

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You are number 6 BALLS. (Great big white bouncing ones, obvs, no other kind here, no no no siree.....) Be seeing you You're a card, Mr.Snozers, and no mistake. Show and I once spent a weekend in the castle hotel at Portmeirion. It was some conference do when he was in some outdoor events national t...

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Dear PorFavor - We are all - all of us I tell you! - unworthy of these magisterial visitations. What we must do now is wallow in our unworthiness and know our place. Dear HindleA - Upon my soul, Sir! You have been promoted, haven't you? Your Agent Number has gone up by 25,000. Impressed, I am. You ...

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Dear PorFavor - We are all - all of us I tell you! - unworthy of these magisterial visitations. What we must do now is wallow in our unworthiness and know our place. Dear HindleA - Upon my soul, Sir! You have been promoted, haven't you? Your Agent Number has gone up by 25,000. Impressed, I am. You ...

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Dear PorFavor -
We are all - all of us I tell you! - unworthy of these magisterial visitations.
What we must do now is wallow in our unworthiness and know our place.

Dear HindleA -
Upon my soul, Sir! You have been promoted, haven't you?
Your Agent Number has gone up by 25,000. Impressed, I am.

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I am sorry, and I appreciate the nice sentiment, but there is no indication of that being true at all. You'd have to not have read this forum for over a year to think that. In an ideal world it would be true, but that is not this one. Oh, well. I tried. I'm a little bewildered by this. Attempting t...

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Conor McGinn is married to a lady called Kate Groucott. Kate Groucott was a Labour councillor for Mildmay ward in Islington. While doing that job, she campaigned to be the Labour candidate for Cardiff/Penarth (she didn't get the nomination, it went to Stephen Doughty) She also worked for Owen Smith ...

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Good afternoon fellow cultists. I smell heretic. Burn the witch! Corbyn is right to single out research as practised by big pharma. The usual academic processes of objectivity and evidence base are not the priorities of the drug companies, which are interested solely in selling drugs. As they shoul...

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