FlyTheNest

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@yahyah - thank you. @Roger/TGS - Re. the Conservative manifesto doublespeak.......it means (I think) that if legislation pertaining to, say, Wales only is to be introduced, that can only be legitimate if MPs representing constituencies in Wales agree the to that legislation being introduced. Doesn'...

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Bizarre situation this morning seeing Labour being kicked on Twitter by some prominent left-wingers (Artist Taxi Driver for example) for pledging to increase the minimum wage to something close to the Living Wage (accounting for inflation) by 2020. Reaction is "£8? Is that all? We want £10! NO...

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My user name came from a book I'd read 'The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya sisterhood' but I spelled it wrongly. Some people on Cif think I'm a fan of Yaya Toure, and have since found out it can also be a slang word for female parts :shock: Think it also resonated for me as it sounded like jaw-jaw, me...

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I think Toby is very disappointed in some of the rhetoric coming from Byrne, and more recently, Reeves. I don't blame him either - I feel the same way; but there was no real excuse for how he treated PF at the time. I thought he'd apologised but perhaps I'm mistaken. I think the others - who talk a ...

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I have always loved mayflies and damsel flies - genus ephemeridae. I am also a person in 12-step recovery, and take my life a day at a time. Mayflies are reputed to live for just 24 hours - a bit like me, but I get another go and they don't. I had a tattoo of of one done on my ankle on my second so...

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I have always loved mayflies and damsel flies - genus ephemeridae. I am also a person in 12-step recovery, and take my life a day at a time. Mayflies are reputed to live for just 24 hours - a bit like me, but I get another go and they don't. I had a tattoo of of one done on my ankle on my second sob...

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So why are those same Scottish Yes voters now accepting the spin of the MSM so readily? They know they lie, yet now they are eagerly & obediently lapping it up. It's the blame culture. If something goes tits up no-one says, oh well it was one of those things. Or: My fault, I didn't do that righ...

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The "fucking stupid" reference is because I have been called that by people I considered friends, and thought sensible, for offering opinions no different from the ones I have offered here. And it shows that Cameron (or Crosby) has won. We're beaten. The SNP paved the way for Thatcher, the...

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This is just a paltry excuse for delaying any action on the pledges made to Scotland - pledges which seem to be evaporating by the day. Nobody has asked him if he has asked England if it wants devolution - but this, seemingly, is the excuse he intends to use so that he can do nothing, and any "...

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letsskiptotheleft wrote:Has anyone read Irvine Welsh's bleating in the Guardian?

What a

I think it's an excellent article - if a bit too long.

He's right.

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Nasty scenes in Glasgow last night. Idiot right wing unionists looking for trouble, no surprise there. But what were the reported group of Yes supporters doing there last night ? Hoping George Square would be the place to start a Scottish Spring to try and push for their dream again ? http://www.mi...

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New poster on the G's thread about Ed Miliband - "Ronnie Reason" and another slightly different Mondian avatar........hellooooooo Hugo!

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What I am wondering now is what, if any, of the promises made in The Vow will be kept - or, indeed, possible. Some of the promises are not going to be do-able without the agreement of the Secretaries of State currently responsible for them. The devolved administrations have some say in some areas, b...

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Cameron will do nothing about this until after the election - if he's still in place by then. He is a liar, a bully, and the weakest PM in living memory. He'll find a way to avoid doing what he "vowed" to do - whether that will be because of the run-up to the election, a nice new war for h...

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Morning all. Genuine commiserations to those of our FTN family who supported independence. I hope the Westminster parties uphold the promise of more devolution, and that any divisions in Scottish society can be quickly healed. Gutted. Hey ho, that's democracy...... My prediction - Cameron will take...

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Good morning all. How nice it would be if there was no more nonsense here about how the Yes campaigners are "violent" (to quote one poster from the other day) now that the Scottish police have (for the second time) censured the No campaign for indulging in inflammatory language and wastin...

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Good morning all. How nice it would be if there was no more nonsense here about how the Yes campaigners are "violent" (to quote one poster from the other day) now that the Scottish police have (for the second time) censured the No campaign for indulging in inflammatory language and wasting...

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Last thing I'll say on the subject of Scottish Independence here - it comes from a young man in the audience at the last Darling/Salmond debate. "If we are all better together, why aren't we better together now"? The answer, IMHO, is that decades of neglect by successive governments have l...

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I see that twit Craig Murray has been blaming it all on Ed & the media, and proudly saying he shouted 'war criminal' at Ed :toss: And of course all the Yes frothers grisling about it too. One complaining that Ed Miliband dared to turn up at a shopping centre and block the way. :roll: The same t...

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If you have 10 minutes to spare, read this, explains a lot about the mind-set within the ''Yes'' brigade, not everyone obviously, but there are recognisable traits that we have all seen in this campaign. http://wakeupscotland.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/ewan-morrison-yes-why-i-joined-yes-and-why-i-cha...

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Who needs facts when you get by with belief and prejudice? :wall: Some of us down there in the BTL murk have been fighting back - what bothers me most about many of the posts there and elsewhere is the level of ignorance about social security, and the hatred/resentment of some people who have no id...

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For ephemerid Sorry to do a re post but the format has gone bonkers on the first. Tried to fix it 4 times but no can do. Please don't keep your views to yourself ephemerid, I meant no disrespect to you, I hold a different view that's all. When you say "I don't think there was any direction of ...

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Sorry but I just see this scenario as the road to total chaos. This country is only so disunited because of Crosby and his divide and rule politics. Pre-Crosby we knew the direction of travel we were taking and I don't see why - post Crosby - we cannot get back on track.[/quote] Labour is already lo...

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I see CIFers have been quick to pick up and pour scorn on John Humphry's inevitable introduction of the concept of a 'politics of envy' when he was 'interviewing' Frances O'Grady about the growing wage and living standards inequality that the TUC are rightly highlighting. So real hardship and not b...

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I've always liked Tea & Chocolate who posts on Cif, but her post this morning epitomises the madness some on the left seem to be suffering from. I saw that. Doesn't trust Labour but does trust Salmond? Wow. She has been very anti-Labour for a while now, regrettably. It's odd, isn't it? Salmond ...

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The Libbing Dead have announced they are now going to get very very annoyed about.....sanctions. Oh yes. They think - or have only just noticed - that they are very unfair on poor people on benefits. They are also not very happy with the government's whole policy on benefits. Not happy at all. So - ...

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Bit of a palaver Eric. I'd be starving by the time they were ready. :D Just make sure you've got loads of bread and butter ready. Well you won't like Heston Blumenthal's recipe then (AAW's link seems to be the quick version :lol: ) http://www.insearchofheston.com/2013/10/how-to-make-heston-blumenth...

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@ Ephemerid Just to clarify that I also think Carwyn Jones is a very canny politician. My post about him not needing to do much wasn't a criticism - more saying that the waters seem to be parting for Wales to benefit from what is going on re Scotland and, yes, he's not slow off the mark to point th...

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BBC Politics ‏@BBCPolitics 5m Any further devolution offered to Scotland must also be offered to Wales, First Minister Carwyn Jones says. http://bbc.in/1oTX3Kn" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Carwyn doesn't really have to do very much at the mo, does he? Scotland is changin...

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I have just re-read the Telegraph article from yesterday on "attitude tests" (I was so cross yesterday I couldn't comment on it for fear of resorting to excessive profanity) Fester McVile has shown yet again that she is utterly incapable of stringing a coherent sentence together. The woman...

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Eight months from today we will be voting in the General Election!

(Unless Our Glorious Ronsealed Fish-pointer General finds a way (Scottish Independence, war anywhere he can pretend is necessary, etc) to avoid facing the electorate.)

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Has anyone any idea how the LibDems, who attended voted? Going to find an old saucepan and that can be used as a spittoon as I read the list. Not seen a full list but, according to the BBC, Vince Cable and Simon Hughes voted for the Bill!! I wonder if that's time called on the coalition. Funny how ...

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Happy Birthday Roger,enjoy your trip. Andrew George's Bill being debated now on Parliament channel.Tories have already attempted to have the debate in private. I was watching ITV last night and when I put the telly on just now it came on to Jeremy Kyle. Having switched to BBC Parliament, I'm not su...

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RogerOThornhill wrote:Morning all.

My birthday today so have a virtual piece of cake on me. I'm off to Sicily tomorrow so won't be around next week.

Buon Compleanno!

Mine's an espresso and lemon polenta cake, please.

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Scottish Independence: Nigel Farage accuses Alex Salmond of ‘stirring up excessive nationalism’ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/scottish-independence/scottish-independence-nigel-farage-accuses-alex-salmond-of-stirring-up-excessive-nationalism-9711666.html It feels increasingly like living in L...

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yahyah - please don't apologise for holding a perfectly reasonable view. It's not necessary. One of the reasons why I am now supporting the Yes people is because I am hearing from my Glaswegian pals what is happening at the grass roots - whatever people believe and whatever camp they are in, whateve...

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The longer the shenanigans north of the border carry on, the more I support the Yes campaign. I've had a lot of sympathy for it since Cameron refused to consider Devo Max; a close friend (left Labour) has been out campaigning for Yes, and she thinks they could win. She's knocking on doors in Glasgow...

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I've just one of those not-real-poll-thingies on YouGov. The question - if you could vote in the Clacton bye-election how would you vote? So far - LDs/other/wouldn't vote/don't knows - all at 5% UKIP - 20%, Tory 21%, Labour 25% Obviously the responses come from anywhere and do not reflect what the C...

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So I'm not the only one to have noted how quickly any criticism of him, however reasonable and factual, gets deleted! It is a reliable indication that somebody has defeated his argument, when their post vanishes. I do hope, though, that yesterday was a "tipping point" and he won't be allo...

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pk1 wrote:Thank you all so much - I'm genuinely touched

I've just done it too - how do I know when you get your points?

There's nothing in the email from YouGov about it.....

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